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16 Jun 2008, 10:14 pm
  Yes, what this book documents in great detail are the complicated family relationships between white masters and their African slaves during the colonial and early federal period of American history. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
In managing unfree laborers, the colonial state extended its authority over supposedly private relations between master and slave and increasingly recast slavery in racial terms. [read post]
13 Sep 2018, 5:32 am by Steve Lubet
He condemned the slave hunters as “lying hidden and skulking about” and he praised the fugitives “who had become free … by the exercise of their own God-given powers – by escaping from the plantations of their masters. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum AmericaSETH ROCKMAN7. [read post]
22 May 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
[The South had a different definition of “Underground Railroad” – one North Carolina newspaper called it “An Association of abolitionists whose first business is to steal, or cause to be stolen, educed or inveigled . . . slaves from southern plantations; . . . to steal him from an indulgent and provident master; to carry him to a cold, strange, and uncongenial country, and there leave him . . . to starve, freeze, and die, in glorious freedom. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 8:28 am by Steve Lubet
He condemned the slave hunters as “lying hidden and skulking about” and he praised the fugitives “who had become free … by the exercise of their own God-given powers – by escaping from the plantations of their masters. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 8:28 am by Steve Lubet
He condemned the slave hunters as “lying hidden and skulking about” and he praised the fugitives “who had become free … by the exercise of their own God-given powers – by escaping from the plantations of their masters. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 2:16 pm by Anders Walker
  One of her most arresting examples is the case of Jesse Ruffin, a slave who leaves his plantation for days on end, makes his own money, buys liquor, and visits friends – all in violation of both his master’s wishes and written law. [read post]
2 Sep 2016, 4:32 am by SHG
” The University has chosen to name the building “Isaac Hall,” rather than Isaac Hawkins Hall, to recognize that slaves were denied a surname by their masters. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 3:51 pm by Dan
Sharp become interested in ending slavery when he met Jonathon Slave, a slave who had been badly beaten by his master. [read post]
10 Oct 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
One was the Declaration of Independence, with its noble sentiments expressing the belief that all men are created equal. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Still, you object, weren’t there quite lovable slaves on Scarlett’s plantation? [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Still, you object, weren’t there quite lovable slaves on Scarlett’s plantation? [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 4:55 pm by Alexis Hancock
They’d create tight networks of communication from plantation to plantation. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 1:03 pm by NCC Staff
” Newspaper accounts of General Order 3 indicated the words “all slaves” were emphasized in italics. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
By mechanically separating the cotton fiber from the sticky seeds, which formerly had to be done by hand, the plantation farming of cotton using slave labor became enormously profitable. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 10:47 am by Alfred Brophy
 The plantation became a marketplace. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 8:27 am by Michael Froomkin
For example, Fort Polk is named after a plantation master of several hundred slaves. [read post]
18 Sep 2017, 4:13 am by Steve Lubet
Mann, holding that a master could not be prosecuted for shooting a recalcitrant slave. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
(Here Foner laments the irony of that canard, when so many slave women were sexually assaulted by their white masters. [read post]