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[2] Slave traders who fathered biracial children were part of a widespread "racial and sexual double standard...in the slaveholding states [that] gave elite white men a free pass for their sexual relationships with black women, as long as the men neither flaunted nor legitimated such unions." [3] Tarleton Arterburn [1] Rice C. Ballard [4]: 1816
During their escape, they traveled on first-class trains, stayed in the best hotels, and Ellen dined one evening with a steamboat captain. Ellen dyed her hair and bought appropriate clothes to pass as a young man, traveling in a jacket and trousers. William used his earnings as a cabinet-maker to buy clothes for Ellen to appear as a free white man.
The 1847 edition of White Slavery in the Barbary States at Google Books. Don Jordan; Michael Walsh (2018). White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-4296-9. Donovan, Brian. White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917. United States: University of Illinois Press ...
More than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been digitized and compiled for a collection that is now The post ‘Born in Slavery’ shares stories of formerly enslaved people.
Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
Black men accused of rape during the colonial period were often punished with castration, and the penalty was increased to death during the antebellum period; [46] however, white men could legally rape their female slaves. [46] Men and boys were also sexually abused by slaveholders, [47] which included forcing them to impregnate female slaves. [48]
OPINION: Part one of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of America’s slaveholding past. The post Black History/White Lies: The ...
The structure of the painting series is linear and consists of three parts (the slave, the fugitive, the free man) which offer an epic chronicle of Douglass's transformation from slave to leader in the struggle for the liberation of black people. [240] The Frederick Douglass series is currently in the Hampton University Museum.