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Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War, as opposed to seeing it as a crime against humanity or a necessary evil. They defended the legal enslavement of people for their labor as a benevolent, paternalistic institution with social and ...
All describe people with specialized training in the skills needed for a particular kind of work. Some of them produced goods that they sold from their own premises (e.g. bootmakers , saddlers, hatmakers , jewelers , glassblowers ); others (e.g. typesetters , bookbinders , wheelwrights ) were employed to do one part of the production in a ...
"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth...the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery." 200th anniversary of the British act of parliament abolishing slave trading, commemorated on a British two pound coin.
Chief Tomba was born in 1700 and his adopted father was a general from the Jalonke-speaking people who fought against the slave trade. Tomba became ruler of the Baga people in present-day Guinea Bissau in West Africa and made alliances with nearby African villages against African and European slave traders. His efforts were unsuccessful: Tomba ...
The enslaved people were treated as chattel assets, similar to the legal treatment of farm animals. Enslavers passed laws regulating slavery and the slave trade, designed to protect their financial investments. The enslaved workers had no more rights than a cow or a horse, or as infamously put by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v.
A trade deficit occurs when a country imports more than it exports — and that’s a good thing for a national economy.Or a terrible thing. Or it might not matter one way or the other. Trade ...
Jackson was most active in the interregional slave trade, which he euphemistically termed "the mercantile transactions," from the 1790s through the 1810s. Available evidence shows that speculator Jackson trafficked people between his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, and the slave markets of the lower Mississippi River valley.
While Wall Street is happily watching as the S&P 500 continues to trickle higher in 2025, billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen is concerned the good times won't last.