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17 Feb 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On Sundays, he and the other slaves listened to sermons about doing their master’s will. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 10:56 am by Rebecca Tushnet
  Article on the invention of the slave: cotton gin etc. had many contributions from slaves but masters took the credit.Mark Lemley: This maps to all US history: all the trends you describe look like trends in the economy generally/patents aren’t actually different than the economy but move in lockstep with it, e.g. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” But as O’Connell observes, the Indians were doomed whether Sherman were involved or not; “Sherman’s masterful planning only made it more sudden. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 2:53 pm by Chris Castle
The owners of the platform giants consider themselves the masters of the universe, but in fact they are slaves to preserving their dominant position. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 7:41 am by Zietlow, Rebecca E.
  Above all, slaves were denied the right to free contracts. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 8:16 am by Brett Trout
On March 3, 1821, forty-four years before the end of slavery, at a time when the inventions of slaves were owned by their masters, the United States granted Jennings Patent No. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The result was The Drinking Gourd, a television play that focused on the effects that slavery had on the families of the slave master and the poor whites as well as the slaves. [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 12:55 pm by Zietlow, Rebecca E.
  The Civil Rights Act superseded southern Black laws, which forced former slaves to enter into long-term contracts with their former masters, essentially replacing chattel slavery with indentured servitude. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 9:01 am by Alfred Brophy
 Between 1865 and 1950, in almost a thousand civil cases across eight southern states, former slaves took their former masters to court, black sharecroppers litigated disputes against white landowners, and African Americans with little formal education brought disputes against wealthy white members of their communities. [read post]
31 Dec 2017, 12:06 pm
  It is only when employees are understood not as the providers of labor but as the servants of a  master that one can understand the ordinariness of the premise that any act of the servant affects the reputation of the master and thus can be controlled by the master. [read post]
27 Dec 2017, 2:30 pm
[The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves? [read post]
17 Dec 2017, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
Slaves were treated as equals, allowed to wear their masters' clothing, and be waited on at meal time in remembrance of an earlier golden age thought to have been ushered in by the god. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 5:48 am by Steve Lubet
  During the Harper’s Ferry raid – which began on Sunday, October 16 and lasted for three days – Green had been assigned to guard Brown’s white hostages, which drew the special ire of slave masters. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 4:54 am by Zietlow, Rebecca E.
  Like slaves, indentured servants and apprentices could not leave masters without facing criminal sanctions. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 4:30 am by Melissa Milewski
When his former master filed a civil suit to regain the mule, the former slave responded by hiring his own lawyer and fighting his former master’s claim in the local county court and then in the state supreme court. [read post]