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K, Chellapandian. "Impact of slavery System in America with Reference to Colson Whitehead’s the Underground Railroad." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (2020): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10402.

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This article tells you that how the slavery system flourished in America and the impact of slavery system in America. Slavery system in America started when Christopher Columbus discovered America in the year 1492. In 1508 the first colony settlement was established by Ponce de Leon in Samjuan. The first African slaves arrived in South Carolina in 1526. During the 16th and 17th century the city St. Augustine was the Hub of the slave trade. Once Britishers established colonies in America, they started importing slaves from Africa. At one point Mary land and Virginia full of African slaves. Afte

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Aware, Rupali, and Swapnil Satish Alhat. "Pau Lawrence Dunbar’s Harriet Beecher Stowe and We Wear the Masks Represent the Life of Slaves Post Abolishment of Slavery." Shanlax International Journal of English 11, no. 2 (2023): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v11i2.6079.

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In all the civilizations there has existed slavery of one or the other form and it had acceptance from the contemporary society. If you are a slave then there is nothing you can do about it you will have to bear it meekly. The American slaves were different, they were brought there from some other continent and their look and physique were also different than the Europeans settled in America, thereof their rights were ignored and assumed that they did not have any rights. Nonetheless when the slavery was abolished from America there was revolt and civil war took place. But no one thought about

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Stephen, Whitman. "Diverse Good Causes." Social Science History 19, no. 3 (1995): 333–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200017405.

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In many slave societies manumission coexisted with perpetual bondage, often featured by self-purchase by slave artisans, a practice that some societies monitored through recognition of the slave's legal personality as a contracting party. Manumission played a comparatively minor role in shaping North American slavery, with debatable exceptions in the mid-Atlantic region; historians of slavery there have portrayed manumitters as individuals of conscience and/or economic maximizers seeking profitable exits from a locally declining labor institution. This contrast was first noted by Frank Tannenb

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Lymar, Marharyta. "Thorny Evolution Path of the US Society: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement." American History & Politics Scientific edition, no. 9 (2020): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2521-1706.2020.09.9.

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The article focuses on studying the evolution of the U.S. society and exploring phenomena of racism and slavery. Given the fact that the modern American society is considered as the field of numerous opportunities for every person, it is worth to track its transformation and to identify the key milestones or turning points of the U.S. history in this regard. The author identifies racism as one of the slavery’s reasons, condemning the both phenomena and exploring the ways of resisting them among Americans in the first years of the United States of America as a new independent and single state.

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Waqas Ahmad and Syed Mansoor Arif. "Narratives of Race and Resistance: A New Historicist Analysis of the Underground Railroad." Social Science Review Archives 3, no. 2 (2025): 1589–97. https://doi.org/10.70670/sra.v3i2.781.

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The paper deals with The Underground Railroad, a novel written by an American author, Colson Whitehead. The novel deals with the atrocities perpetrated on black slaves at the slave plantations of Southern States of America before the Civil War. The paper examines slave discourse from the commercial perspective. It questions the economic interests behind the institution of chattel enslavement at the time of transatlantic slave trade. It also highlights the suppressed narrative of transatlantic slave trade that the institution of slavery is not the product of racial prejudice rather economic int

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Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. "Still Continents (and an Island) with Two Histories?" Law and History Review 22, no. 2 (2004): 377–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4141651.

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Historians of Latin American slavery will find de la Fuente's article to be a particularly trenchant and learned essay on familiar historiographic controversies. The archival research awakens anticipation for the author's in-depth study of the earlier period of Cuban slavery, much neglected in favor of the heyday of the sugar complex of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Concentrating on the law and “slaves' claims-making” (341) allows for an important entry into the subject, complementing recent studies of slavery in Spanish America that have focused on how slaves used the institut

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KOMBIENI, Didier, Raoul S. AHOUANGANSI, and Abdou Wahaed SIME. "Religion and slavery in America through Claude Fohlen’s Histoire de l'esclavage aux Etats-Unis1." Cahiers Africains de rhétorique 2, no. 4 (2023): 126–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.55595/dkaws2023.

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The history of America at large and that of slavery in particular cannot be told without sound reference to religion. Indeed, the practice of Christianity imposed by the masters was a key tool for to get the slaves busy when they were not at work, on Sundays mainly, and white pastors resorted to interpretation of the bible aiming at getting the black slaves to accept and adapt to their condition. Yet, from adaptation to the white man’s religion, the black slaves found motives for fight and resistance. Claude Fohlen’s L’Histoire de l’Esclavage en Amérique has explored the functioning of slavery

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Menard, Russell R. "Making a “Popular Slave Society” in Colonial British America." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 43, no. 3 (2012): 377–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00423.

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Evidence from probate inventories in St. Mary's County, Maryland, suggests that the transition from servants to slaves in colonial British America was not the sole mechanism by which the Chesapeake transformed into a fully developed slave society. Rather, this transition was only the first step in a century-long process by which slavery gradually took root, until, by the eve of the Revolution, the Chesapeake finally bore the imprint of slavery in every avenue of its activity.

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Murtini, Anugrah. "Act of Resistance against Government Policies in Slavery as Reflected in Uncle Tom’s Cabin." LETS 1, no. 2 (2020): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.46870/lets.v1i2.27.

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The aims of this research were to find the implementation of government policies toward the African-American slaves in America and act of resistance against slavery system as reflected in the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The research employs a descriptive qualitative method by applying sociological approach in analyzing Uncle Tom’s Cabin with reference to Wellek and Warren on the relationship between literary work and social context in which it was written. Data sources are primary and supporting data. The primary data are taken from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and supporting data are taken from the books,

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LEE, Yong-Jae. "In the Shadow of Democracy : Alexis de Tocqueville on Race and Slavery." Korean Society of the History of Historiography 45 (June 30, 2022): 209–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.29186/kjhh.2022.45.209.

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Tocqueville's masterpiece, Democracy in America analyzes the institutions and moeurs of American democratic society. In America, Tocqueville saw not only white man’s democratic culture and politics, but also the shadows of democracy, such as racial conflict and slavery. Tocqueville said that slavery was the most serious evil that threatened the future of the United States. Nevertheless, as long as the white stubbornly refuse to abolish slavery, it is impossible to legally achieve emancipation in the South, where democratic self-government is established. Pessimistic about America's future, Toc

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MORGAN, KENNETH. "George Washington and the Problem of Slavery." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 2 (2000): 279–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875899006398.

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Slavery was not the most important issue for which George Washington is remembered; nor were his views on the institution as revealing as those of some of his fellow Founding Fathers. But Washington was a slaveowner for all of his adult life and he lived in Virginia, which was dominated by tobacco plantations based on slave labour. Slavery was central to the socio-economic life of the Old Dominion: after 1750 40 per cent of the North American slave population lived there and the first United States census of 1790 showed 300,000 slaves in Virginia. The tobacco they produced was the most valuabl

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Taves, Ann. "Spiritual Purity and Sexual Shame: Religious Themes in the Writings of Harriet Jacobs." Church History 56, no. 1 (1987): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3165304.

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In a review published in 1849, Ephraim Peabody observed that “America has the mournful honor of adding a new department to the literature of civilization,—the autobiographies of escaped slaves.” As Peabody went on to point out, “these narratives show how it [slavery] looks as seen from the side of the slave. They contain the victim's account of the workings of this great institution.” As such, they have proved an invaluable resource for examining the religious life of Afro-Americans under slavery. Yet despite the fact that Peabody and others recognized “the peculiar hardships to which the fema

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Marty, William R. "Three Hypotheses About America: Helper, Lincoln, Douglass, and King." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 36, no. 1 (2024): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2024361/22.

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This essay advances arguments and evidence for three hypotheses about America. First, that slavery was a burden to the South, and the nation, and that it degraded what it affected. Second, that, in the main, the Fathers of this nation meant it when they recognized slavery as a moral evil. And third, that the greatest American after Abraham Lincoln in effecting legal and attitudinal change in America for the betterment of relations between the races built his strategies for reform upon the Founders’ vision, and depended on its truth to achieve his successes. To support the hypothesis that slave

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Post, Charles. "The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights, Robin Blackburn, London: Verso, 2011." Historical Materialism 20, no. 4 (2012): 199–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-12341240.

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Abstract Plantation slavery in the New World, in particular its relationship to the emergence of capitalism in Europe and North America, has long been a subject of debate and discussion among historians and social scientists. While there are literally thousands of monographs studying various aspects of chattel slavery in the US South, the Caribbean and Brazil, only a handful of works attempt to provide a synthetic account of its rise and decline from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Few scholars, on the Left or Right, have made as profound a contribution to such a history as Robin B

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Bailey, Ronald. "The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England." Social Science History 14, no. 3 (1990): 373–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014555320002085x.

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The significance of the slave trade and slavery-related commerce—what I will call the slave(ry) trade—in contributing to the development of colonial America and the United States has been a persistent theme in the work of Afro-American scholars. Two scholars in particular should be cited in this regard. W. E. B. DuBois (1896: 27) pointed out that slave labor was not widely utilized because the climate and geography of New England precluded the extensive development of agriculture: “The significance of New England in the African slave-trade does not therefore lie in the fact that she early disc

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Engerman, Stanley. "Slavery without Racism, Racism without Slavery." Journal of Global Slavery 5, no. 3 (2020): 322–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00503005.

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Abstract This article surveys several problems related to the links between slavery and racism, and the frequency of both racism without slavery and slavery without racism. Slavery clearly existed prior to the emergence of racism, scientific or otherwis, and unlike in recent centuries, the enslaved were not always peoples of different color. The linking of race and slavery, with race as the defining characteristic of the enslaved, came mainly after the settlement of the Americas with the transatlantic slave trade from Africa. Indeed, the debate continues on whether racism led to slavery (as ar

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Mani, Manimangai. "Racial Awareness in Phillis Wheatley’s Selected Poems." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 56 (July 2015): 74–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.56.74.

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Slavery in America began when Africans were brought in as slaves to the North American Colony of Jamestown Virginia around 1619. Slavery in America lasted for almost four hundred years though the trade was legally abolished by Britain in March 1807 (Walvin 163). Although the trade ended, slavery itself continued to survive. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) is considered the first prominent Black writer in the United States to publish a book of imaginative writing. She is also the first to start the African-American literary tradition, as well as the African-American women literary tradition. Her w

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Rasiah, Rasiah, Ansor Putra, Fina Amalia Masri, Arman Arman, and Suci Rahmi Pardilla. "JUST LIKE BLACK, ONLY BETTER: POOR WHITE IN ANTEBELLUM SOUTH OF AMERICA DEPICTED IN SOLOMON NORTHUP’S NOVEL TWELVE YEARS AS A SLAVE." Diksi 29, no. 1 (2021): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/diksi.v29i1.33081.

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(Title: Just Like Black, Only Better: Poor White in Antebellum South of America Depicted in Solomon Northup’s Novel “Twelve Years as A Slave”). Antebellum era, the period before the Civil War occured, or before the year 1861, in the United States is used to relate to the enslavement of black American. In fact, the era was not merely about black, but also poor white. This study is purposed to describe the poor whites’ life in antebellum America as reflected in Twelve Years As A Slave (1855), a narrative biography novel written by Solomon Northup. Set up the story in New York, Washingotn DC, and

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Belmonte Postigo, José Luis. "A Caribbean Affair: The Liberalisation of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Caribbean, 1784-1791." Culture & History Digital Journal 8, no. 1 (2019): 014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2019.014.

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The liberalisation of the slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean ended with a series of political measures which aimed to revitalise the practice of slavery in the region. After granting a series of monopoly contracts (asientos) to merchant houses based in other western European nations to supply slaves to Spanish America, the Spanish monarchy decided to liberalise import mechanisms. These reforms turned Cuba, especially Havana, into the most important slave trade hub within the Spanish Caribbean. Havana was connected with both Atlantic and inter-colonial trade networks, while other authorised p

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Rabello Sodré, João Gabriel. "History and Historiography of Black Latin America." Estudos Ibero-Americanos 51, no. 1 (2025): e43813. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864x.2025.1.43813.

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This book review examines the piece Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction, an edited volume edited by historians Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews (2018). The book comprises fifteen chapters, which examine various aspects of Blackness in Latin America, ranging from the colonial times through more recent developments. As a survey of the region, it touches on issues of slavery, slave trade, rebellion, the afterlives of slavery, Black association and rebellion, organized social movements, public policy, cultural expression, the role of legal instruments, among other facets of

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Dutt, Rajeshwari. "Emancipation and Imperialism in a Borderland: The Challenge to Settler Sovereignty over Slavery in Belize in the 1820s." Americas 80, no. 1 (2023): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tam.2022.8.

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AbstractThis article points to the 1820s as a crucial period that saw a great reversal in the location of sovereignty in Belize. The article employs two inflection points—first, an 1822 case of ‘Indian’ slaves from Mosquito Shore, and second, slave desertion in 1825—to point to unprecedented challenges to settler sovereignty over slavery in Belize that arose during the 1820s. While British amelioration allowed the metropolitan government to bring frontier and borderland regions within its legal purview, thus challenging settler autonomy, the concurrent event of Central American emancipation pr

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Grant, Daragh. "“Civilizing” the Colonial Subject: The Co-Evolution of State and Slavery in South Carolina, 1670–1739." Comparative Studies in Society and History 57, no. 3 (2015): 606–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417515000225.

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AbstractSouth Carolina was a staggeringly weak polity from its founding in 1670 until the 1730s. Nevertheless, in that time, and while facing significant opposition from powerful indigenous neighbors, the colony constructed a robust plantation system that boasted the highest slave-to-freeman ratio in mainland North America. Taking this fact as a point of departure, I examine the early management of unfree labor in South Carolina as an exemplary moment of settler-colonial state formation. Departing from the treatment of state formation as a process of centralizing “legitimate violence,” I inves

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Bradley, Patricia. "The Boston Gazette and Slavery as Revolutionary Propaganda." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 72, no. 3 (1995): 581–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909507200309.

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Boston Gazette content in the six years prior to the Declaration of Independence revealed the slavery issue was used to unite patriot fervor under a proslavery position. Specifically, the Gazette misguided readers regarding the 1772 decision in which the American slave James Somerset was freed by a British court, chose not to reflect the debate on slavery under way in other colonial newspapers, selected items that promoted Southern patriarchy, and appropriated the word “slavery” as a metaphor representing colonial America vis-à-vis Great Britain. The author concludes such use was deliberate as

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Sanjad Azvi and Ashik Istiak. "Subjugation, Dehumanization, and Resistance:." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 15, no. 1 (2024): 42–61. https://doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v15i1.499.

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In Antebellum America, both male and female slaves were oppressed and subjugated. However, the forms of these oppressions varied based on the gender of the slave, as did the ways in which different genders resisted their oppressors. This paper studies the differences and similarities in subjugation and resistance between male and female slaves in antebellum America, using the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs as primary sources. Douglass in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, describes how slave-owners used violence to ‘brea

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Suparman, Suparman. "AMERICAN ENSLAVEMENT AS SEEN IN NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLAS & IN THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIAO." Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra 17, no. 2 (2017): 151–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.23917/kls.v17i2.4515.

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Mimetic approach is used in this study to reveal the practice of slavery depicted in two novels "narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas" and "The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiao". The findings show that novels have common ground that is the practice of the slavery of blacks Africans by the whites in America. In some aspects, the slaveholders treated their slave inhumanly, savagely, and brutally. The slaves were really treated like animals in the ways of providing them food, shelter. clothes, and dispensation of rest. They were forbiden to learn of how to write and read.

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Sensbach, Jon. "FORUM ON KATHARINE GERBNER'S CHRISTIAN SLAVERY: CONVERSION AND RACE IN THE PROTESTANT ATLANTIC WORLD." Church History 88, no. 3 (2019): 751–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640719001835.

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Between roughly 1500 and nearly the end of the nineteenth century, slave traders sent more than twelve million enslaved Africans to the Americas. It is no secret that Christianity was deeply complicit with the rise of the plantation system that created the lethally voracious demand for forced labor. Two basic questions have preoccupied historians studying the links between religion and slavery: why did Christianity become an ideological bulwark for human bondage; and why did enslaved Africans and their descendants begin to embrace a religion so friendly to slavery, inverting it into a spiritua

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Armstrong, Thomas. "Wright, African Americans in the Colonial Era." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 16, no. 1 (1991): 50–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.16.1.50-51.

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Historians familiar with the Harlan Davidson American History Series have come to expect succinct summary statements and strong bibliographic essays. Donald Wright's book will thus be a welcome addition to the series. The series' editors identified a gap in the survey literature on African-American history. Colonial America has simply not been addressed in a meaningful fashion. The monographic literature is often too widely scattered to be of much value to the undergraduate reader, and when the subject of slavery is broached, it has all too often been the slavery of the cotton belt between 183

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Pestana (review), Carla Gardina, Pieter Emmer (review), James Robertson (review), and Trevor Burnard (response). "Trevor Burnard, Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820." Journal of Early American History 5, no. 3 (2015): 271–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00503001.

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This book forum focuses on Trevor Burnard’s book, Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 (University of Chicago Press, 2015). In his book, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic. While plantations required racial divisions to exist, their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North Ame

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Ayuningtyas, Novia Sekar, and Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi. "The Dilemma of Being American as a Consequence of Ethnic Segregation in Toni Morrison's Beloved." Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies 8, no. 2 (2019): 60–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v8i2.33918.

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Slavery was a central institution in American society and was accepted as normal and applauded as a positive thing by many white Americans. America was full of Negro slaves when there were many injustice actions done by white people to black people. Beloved is a novel written by Toni Morrison in 1987, explores the hardships endured by a former slave woman and her family during the slavery and the Reconstructions eras. This study aims to explain the dilemma experienced by the main character of being American and its correlation between the main character’s dilemma and ethnic segregation by the

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Jafri, Shadan. "Music of Survival: A Search for Identity in the Works of Richard Wright." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 8 (2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i8.11147.

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The complexly changing nature of American life and the vigorous versatility and all-encompassing spread of the written record are the marks of American literature. Social forces always make their imprint on literature. Especially in America where the democratic processes bring the people into immediate familiarity with and sensitive response to cultural forces, the literature has responded quickly to such pressures. African American literature consists of the literary work by the writers of Afro-origin settled in USA. The category“ slave narratives” were writings by people who had experienced

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Burnard, Trevor. "Slaves and Slavery in Kingston, 1770–1815." International Review of Social History 65, S28 (2020): 39–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859020000073.

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AbstractHistorians have mostly ignored Kingston and its enslaved population, despite it being the fourth largest town in the British Atlantic before the American Revolution and the town with the largest enslaved population in British America before emancipation. The result of such historiographical neglect is a lacuna in scholarship. In this article, I examine one period of the history of slavery in Kingston, from when the slave trade in Jamaica was at its height, from the early 1770s through to the early nineteenth century, and then after the slave trade was abolished but when slavery in the

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Datta, Y. "How America Became an Economic Powerhouse on the Backs of African-American Slaves and Native Americans." Journal of Economics and Public Finance 7, no. 5 (2021): p121. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jepf.v7n5p121.

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The objective of this paper is to make the case that the United States became an economic super-power in the nineteenth century on the backs of African-American slaves and Native Americans.It was in 1619, when Jamestown colonists bought 20-30 slaves from English pirates. The paper starts with ‘The 1619 Project’ whose objective is to place the consequences of slavery--and the contributions of black Americans--at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a nation.Slavery was common in all thirteen colonies, and at-least twelve Presidents owned slaves. The enslaved people

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Shefveland, Kristalyn M. "American Slavery, American State: Rethinking Slavery and the Creation of British North America." Reviews in American History 47, no. 4 (2019): 534–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rah.2019.0074.

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Apriola, Pipin, Agustine Mamentu, and Tirza Kumayas. "CRUELTY OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA AS SEEN IN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE’S UNCLE TOM’S CABIN." KOMPETENSI 2, no. 01 (2022): 1039–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.53682/kompetensi.v2i01.4733.

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The purpose of this research is to examine the cruelty of slavery in America as shown inHarriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is done to show the many sorts ofenslavement cruelty present in the novel, as well as the causes of the brutality in thestory. The writers have decided to undertake this research using qualitative methods.The writers employ a socio-historical method to data analysis. In the discussion isdivided into several indicators, such as cruelty of slavery which is divided into slavetreat as thing or properties and object of physical violence. The other indicator is slaves

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Zafar, Sana, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saira Zaheer. "Slave Trade and Dehumanization of Afro-American Women in Gyasiâs Homegoing: A Black Feminist Study." Global Social Sciences Review VII, no. IV (2022): 39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(vii-iv).05.

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In this article, bell books' ground-breaking black feminist approach is adopted to examine the lingering impact of slave trade of Afro-American women in contemporary America. Slavery in the past stigmatized the present lives of Afro-American women. Even though slavery was abolished, the terrible effects of the slave trade continue to demean, degrade, and caricature black women in the western world of today. hooks' radical black feminist ideas reveal how racial discrimination and sexual orientation towards black women rob them of their social identity and place in white supremacist society. Thi

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Sirotinskaya, Mariya. "John Mitchel, the Irish Patriot: Paradoxes of Worldview." ISTORIYA 13, no. 5 (115) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840021595-3.

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Activities of John Mitchel, the Irish patriot, are traced in the article. Special attention is paid to his attitude toward slavery, his understanding of the role and significance of the “peculiar institution” in the U. S. political system. Author comes to the conclusion that the Irish patriot was in fact highly consistent in his outlook with regard to this problem. He supported slavery, denounced abolitionists, advocated the re-opening of the African slave trade, was explicitly racist in his reasoning. He championed the South in the American Civil War. Mitchel himself seems not to have seen an

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Schultz, Kara D. "Interwoven." Journal of Global Slavery 2, no. 3 (2017): 248–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00203003.

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This article explores the linkages between the slave trades to Spanish and Portuguese America during the Iberian Union (1580–1640). Drawing upon legal suits, it argues that Brazilian port cities were both destinations and hubs for the re-exportation of West Central African captives to Spanish colonies. Vessels frequently “stopped over” in Brazilian ports following the Atlantic crossing due to navigational exigencies and to avoid paying the higher duties on captives levied in Spanish American ports. This article demonstrates that the integration of the slave trades to Spanish and Portuguese Ame

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Blumrosen, Alfred W. "The Profound Influence in America of Lord Mansfield’s Decision in Somerset v. Stuart." Texas Wesleyan Law Review 13, no. 2 (2007): 645–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/twlr.v13.i2.14.

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Lord Mansfield's influence on slavery in America began on June 22, 1772, when he decided the case that freed James Somerset and declared slavery "so odious" that it could not be enforced in Britain by sending a slave out of the country against his will. It continues into the present through work such as the University of Michigan's successful defense of affirmative action before our Supreme Court. My focus today is on six episodes showing the influence of Mansfield's decision in Somerset v. Stuart in America.

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Morris-Chapman, Daniel J. Pratt. "John Wesley and Methodist Responses to Slavery in America." Holiness 5, no. 1 (2020): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/holiness-2019-0003.

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AbstractJohn Wesley considered the slave trade to be a national disgrace. However, while the American Methodist Church had initially made bold declarations concerning the evils of slavery, the practical application of this principled opposition was seriously compromised, obstructed by the leviathan of the plantation economy prominent in this period of American history. This paper surveys a variety of Methodist responses to slavery and race, exploring the dialectical germination of ideas like holiness, liberty and equality within the realities of the Antebellum context.

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Chira, Adriana. "Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817–68." Law and History Review 36, no. 1 (2017): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248017000529.

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Drawing on thirty freedom suits from nineteenth-century eastern Cuba, this article explores how some slaves redefined slaveholders' oral promises of manumissions by grace from philanthropic acts into contracts providing a deferred wage payout. Manumissions by grace tended to reward affective labor (loyalty, affection) and to be granted to domestic slaves. Across Cuba, as in other slave societies of Spanish America, through self-purchase, slaves made sustained efforts to monetize the labor that they did by virtue of their ascribed status. The monetization of affective work stands out amongst su

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Iheme, Williams. "Black Bodies in America as the Metaphors for Oppression, Poverty, Violence, and Hate: Searching for Sustainable Solutions Beyond the Black-letter Law." Journal of Black Studies 53, no. 3 (2022): 290–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00219347221074060.

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Black people in America have often been labeled outlaws, deviants, and nonconformists who are disinterested in complying with the laid down rules. However, from a long range experience dating back to slavery, they recognize that rules in the American context whether the Slave Codes, Black Codes, Jim Crows, or the contemporary law, are machinations of the legal system to perpetuate oppression and violence against Blackness. Toward self-preservation, they have learned to radically resist acts of oppression such as wrongful arrests by the police and the functional denial of their rights to be pre

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Fe, Marina. "Los fantasmas de Beloved." Anuario de Letras Modernas 14 (July 31, 2009): 125–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ffyl.01860526p.2008.14.679.

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Tony Morrison’s novel is inspired in the real story of a fugitive slave, Margaret Garner, and can be considered a ghost story belonging to the African American oral tradition as well as a slave narrative. In it, Morrison wants to break the silence around the dreadful events that took place in the lives of millions of black slaves in The United States of America. Her characters must learn to "speak the unspeakable" in order to exorcise the demons of slavery through "rememory", the painful remembrance of the past that haunts not only the black community but the whole history of this nation. Morr

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Quan, Zhou. "Cultural Memory and Ethnic Identity Construction in Toni Morrison’sA Mercy." Journal of Black Studies 50, no. 6 (2019): 555–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934719861268.

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Through the lens of cultural memory, this article explores the relationships between the representation of cultural memory and the construction of ethnic cultural identity in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy. I argue that in the novel, Morrison highlights and manipulates three media of cultural memory: the architecture, the inscription, and the body, to interrogate and challenge the validity of numerous historical monuments and museums in America that are eviscerated of their complicity and function as tools in the atrocity of instituting slavery. To externalize his values, White colonizer Jacob builds

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González Groba, Constante. "Riding the Rails to (Un)Freedom: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad." Polish Journal for American Studies, no. 13 (Autumn 2019) (October 15, 2019): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/pjas.13/2/2019.07.

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This novel about US black slavery departs from realism, moving around in time and space as a means of dealing with different racial terrors in different historical periods. One of the author’s intentions is to make us think about slavery not just in the past but with reverberations for the present. Published in 2016, the novel resonates with a contemporary America characterized by acrimonious racial division. After escaping from a Georgia plantation through a literalized Underground Railroad, the adolescent female protagonist soon learns that freedom remains elusive in states further north, ev

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Resnitriwati, Christina. "The Agony of The Slaves as Described in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s The Slave Auction." Endogami: Jurnal Ilmiah Kajian Antropologi 4, no. 1 (2020): 133–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/endogami.4.1.133-138.

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Black people were treated badly and cruelty by white people since the first time they were brought to America in between 1619 – 1865. In America most of them worked in huge plantation as slaves. Black people were considered as the second class citizens, and under the system of slavery. White people had the right to own, to buy and to sell them. The purpose of this paper is describe the sad and bitter experiences from the slaves when they were selling through the auction. The writer used tone and the historical background theories to understand the deep meaning of the poem and to feel the painf

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Parry, Tyler D., and Charlton W. Yingling. "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas*." Past & Present 246, no. 1 (2020): 69–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz020.

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Abstract The lash and shackles remain two primary symbols of material degradation fixed in the historical memory of slavery in the Americas. Yet as recounted by states, abolitionists, travellers, and most importantly slaves themselves, perhaps the most terrifying and effective tool for disciplining black bodies and dominating their space was the dog. This article draws upon archival research and the published materials of former slaves, novelists, slave owners, abolitionists, Atlantic travelers, and police reports to link the systems of slave hunting in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and the US South t

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Abbas, Abbas. "THE REALITY OF AMERICAN NATION SLAVERY IN THE NOVEL INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL BY HARRIET ANN JACOBS." JURNAL ILMU BUDAYA 8, no. 1 (2020): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/jib.v8i1.9672.

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This article discusses the social facts experienced by Americans in literature, especially novel. Literary work as a social documentation imagined by the author is a reflection of the values of a nation or ethnicity. The main objective of research is to trace the reality of slavery that occurred in America as a social fact in literary works. This research is useful in strengthening the sociological aspects of literary works as well as proving that literary works save a social reality at the time so that readers are able to judge literary works not merely as fiction, but also as social document

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Narváez, Benjamin N. "Abolition, Chinese Indentured Labor, and the State: Cuba, Peru, and the United States during the Mid Nineteenth Century." Americas 76, no. 1 (2019): 5–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tam.2018.43.

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Abolition forced planters in the post-Civil War US South to consider new sources and forms of labor. Some looked to Spanish America for answers. Cuba had long played a prominent role in the American imagination because of its proximity, geostrategic location, and potential as a slave state prior to the Civil War. Even as the United States embraced abolition and Cuba maintained slavery, the island presented Southern planters with potential labor solutions. Cuban elites had been using male Chinese indentured workers (“coolies” or colonos asiáticos) to supplement slave labor and delay the rise of

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Lonnquist Forward, Courtenay. "Dismantling Lost Cause Fables: A Content Analysis Examining Narrative and Visual Representations of Slavery in U.S. History Textbooks." Texas Journal for Multicultural Education 2, no. 1 (2025): 4–13. https://doi.org/10.70144/cf020102es.

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Lost Cause revisionism obscures racialized chattel slavery’s foundational position in antebellum society and its significance as the cause of the American Civil War. Misperceptions about enslavement and the social construction of race abound in modern classrooms due to vague coverage and Eurocentric perspectives in U.S. history textbooks. Thus, slavery is simultaneously decontextualized and normalized in narrative descriptions and visual imagery. Lost Cause fables embedded in the explicit curricula persuaded generations of students that slavery was an economic inevitability legally and politic

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HAMILTON, CYNTHIA S. "Dred: Intemperate Slavery." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 2 (2000): 257–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875899006362.

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In 1825, Harriet Beecher Stowe's father, Lyman Beecher, gave a series of six sermons which helped to launch the temperance movement. In these sermons, published in 1826 and much reprinted thereafter, Beecher used the slave trade as a moral yardstick for the evils of intemperance. In doing so, he built on the moral outrage which brought an end to the legal importation of African slaves in 1808, and further criminalized the trade in 1820 when it was declared piracy. Beecher concluded that, morally reprehensible as the slave trade had been, intemperance was the greater evil, for it did greater da

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