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The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2019. Kiple, Kenneth F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Mustakeem, Sowande' M. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage.
The internal slave trade in the United States, also known as the domestic slave trade, the Second Middle Passage [1] and the interregional slave trade, [2] was the mercantile trade of enslaved people within the United States. It was most significant after 1808, when the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited by federal law.
The History of White People is a 2010 book by Nell Irvin Painter, in which the author explores the idea of whiteness throughout history, beginning with ancient Greece and continuing through the beginning of scientific racism in early modern Europe to 19th- through 21st-century America. [citation needed]
Over a quarter of Southern White men of military age—the backbone of the White workforce—died during the war, leaving their families destitute, [26] and per capita income for White Southerners declined from $125 in 1857 to a low of $80 in 1879. By the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th century, the South was locked into a system ...
The post Black History/White Lies: The 10 biggest myths about the Civil Rights Movement appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths ...
Abramitzky, Ran; Braggion, Fabio. "Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas," Journal of Economic History, (2006) 66#4 pp. 882–905, in JSTOR; Ballagh, James Curtis. White Servitude In The Colony Of Virginia: A Study Of The System Of Indentured Labor In The American Colonies (1895) excerpt and text search
“The history of 12-step came out of white, middle-class, Protestant people who want to be respectable,” said historian Nancy Campbell, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “It offers a form of community and a form of belonging that is predicated upon you wanting to be normal, you wanting to be respectable, you wanting to have ...