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Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924 [1]) was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory.
From the 15th to the 19th century, at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported by mostly European merchants and sold into slavery. Proponents of reparations say slavery's ...
The Slave Compensation Commission established a sum equivalent in today's money to about 17 billion pounds, the largest payout until the bailout of the banks in 2008. [9] As Hall has stated, beneficiaries of slavery were not only people who owned slaves, but also those whose business dealings derived benefit from slavery. [10]
In the early Middle Ages, the city of Verdun was the centre of the thriving European slave trade in young boys who were sold to the Islamic emirates of Iberia where they were enslaved as eunuchs. [313] The Italian ambassador Liutprand of Cremona, as one example in the 10th century, presented a gift of four eunuchs to Emperor Constantine VII. [314]
The Atlantic slave trade and British abolition, 1760–1810 (1975) Chakravarty, Urvashi (2022). Fictions of Consent. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9826-0. Devine, Tom M. Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past. (Edinburgh U, 2015). Drescher, Seymour. Econocide: British slavery in the era of abolition (U of North Carolina Press ...
The push is part of a larger discussion on forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city’s role in […] The post Boston councilmember wants hearing to consider renaming Faneuil Hall due ...
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) is a book by the economists Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.Fogel and Engerman argued that slavery was an economically rational institution and that the economic exploitation of slaves was not as catastrophic as presumed, because there were financial incentives for slaveholders to maintain a basic level of material support ...
Arguments in favor of slavery include deference to the Bible and thus to God, some people being natural slaves in need of supervision, slaves often being better off than the poorest non-slaves, practical social benefit for the society as a whole, and slavery being a time-proven practice by multiple great civilizations.