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The Federal 1860 slave schedule regarding D.W. Burnley enumerated four months later on August 16, 1860, documents 10 slaves owned, six of which are males of the ages of 1, 3, 7, 8, 15, and 44 (no names given), [17] possibly indicating years of birth of 1859, 1857, 1853, and 1852. Given the 1870 census documents Hughes at 11 years of age, the ...
William Dorsey Swann (1860–1925), born into slavery in Maryland, later became an LGBT activist and the first known person to self-identify as a drag queen. [204] William Jones was an enslaved man who was acquired by Ulysses S. Grant from his father-in-law in 1858. Jones was thirty-five years old at the time.
Peter departed for freedom on March 24, 1863, at midnight. [8] Peter had been the legal property of Capt. John Lyons of Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana; Lyons owned a 3,000-acre (12 km 2) plantation and was recorded as being owner of 38 slaves at the time of the 1860 census.
Sexual exploitation of slaves by their masters, master's sons, overseers, or other powerful white men was common in the United States. (See Children of the plantation.) By the 1860 Census, mixed-race slaves constituted about 10% of the 4 million slaves enumerated; they were more numerous in the Upper South. Slavery had existed for a longer time ...
The history of slavery in the United States has always been a major research topic among white scholars, but until the 1950s, they generally focused on the political and constitutional themes of slavery which were debated over by white politicians; they did not study the lives of the enslaved black people.
Prior to 1870’s post-emancipation census, enslaved individuals were often listed only by their first names, gender and age. “To put it in a nutshell, you’re looking for people listed as ...
Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh. Because of the power relationships at work, slave women in the United States were at high risk for rape and sexual abuse. [6] [7] Their children were repeatedly taken away from them and sold as farm animals; usually they never saw each other again. Many slaves fought ...
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]