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Sex Slavery is an anarcha-feminist essay written by Voltairine de Cleyre in 1890. A reaction to the imprisonment of Moses Harman for criticizing marital rape , de Cleyre developed her concept of "sexual slavery", exploring the role of sexual and reproductive rights within patriarchy , among other topics.
"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" is an essay by the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle. It was first published anonymously in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December 1849, [ 1 ] and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled " Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question ". [ 2 ]
This bibliography of slavery in the United States is a guide to books documenting the history of slavery in the U.S., from its colonial origins in the 17th century through the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which officially abolished the practice in 1865. In addition, links are provided to related bibliographies and ...
The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the culture of Scotch-Irish Americans in the Antebellum South. The second essay, "Are Jews Generic?", discusses middleman minorities. The third essay, "The Real History of Slavery," discusses the timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom.
To a Southern Slaveholder" was a 1848 anti-slavery essay written by the Unitarian minister Theodore Parker, as the abolition movement was developing in the United States. [ 1 ] The essay's tone was akin to someone correcting someone else about a fact they got wrong.
The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the same time to avoid superficiality on the one hand, and unscientific narrowness of view on the other.
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. ISBN 0-394-72451-8 Full text online free; Power & Culture: Essays. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. Edited and with an Introduction by Ira Berlin. ISBN 0-394-56026-4 full text online free; Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of 'Time on the Cross'.
Slavery in Massachusetts is an 1854 essay by Henry David Thoreau based on a speech he gave at an anti-slavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.