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Slave marriages in the United States were typically illegal before the American Civil War abolished slavery in the US. Enslaved African Americans were legally considered chattel, and they were denied civil and political rights until the United States abolished slavery with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution .
As a slave owner, he received compensation when slavery was abolished in Grenada. [235] William Penn (1644–1718), founder of Pennsylvania, he owned many slaves. [236] Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737–1808), owned six sugar plantations in Jamaica and was an outspoken anti-abolitionist. [237]
Rosengarten, Theodore et al eds, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life (2002) Turitz, Leo E., and Evelyn Turitz, Jews in Early Mississippi. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1995) online. Southern Jewish Historical Society, Various Articles of Southern Jewish History (1998-2020).
Jewish slave owners were found mostly in business or domestic settings, rather than on plantations, so most of the slave ownership was in an urban context—running a business or as domestic servants. [159] [160] Jewish slave owners freed their black slaves at about the same rate as non-Jewish slave owners. [13]
Before the Civil War, Jewish slave ownership practices in the Southern United States were governed by regional practices, rather than Judaic law. [190] [191] [192] Many Southern Jews held the view that Black people were subhumans fit only for slavery, which was also the predominant view held by many of their non-Jewish Southern Christian ...
"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
Phillips addressed the unprofitability of slave labor and slavery's ill effects on the Southern economy. An example of pioneering comparative work was A Jamaica Slave Plantation (1914). [ 10 ] [ non-primary source needed ] His methods inspired the "Phillips school" of slavery studies, between 1900 and 1950.
In the Journal of Southern History, Leonard Dinnerstein, a professor of history at the University of Arizona, praised the book for its academic rigor. [2] Similarly, in a review for the South Carolina Historical Magazine, Gordon C. Rhea called the book "a thoughtful and readable narrative packed with information and insights" as well as "a fine piece of scholarship and a fascinating read."