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James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792 – November 18, 1857) [2] was an American abolitionist, politician, and attorney born in Danville, Kentucky.He changed from being a planter and slave owner to abolitionism, publishing the abolitionist weekly The Philanthropist.
Liberal elite, [1] also referred to as the metropolitan elite or progressive elite, [2] [3] [4] is a term used to describe politically liberal people whose education has traditionally opened the doors to affluence, wealth and power and who form a managerial elite.
Lexington was a central city in the state for the slave trade. [3] 12 percent of Kentucky's slave owners enslaved 20 or more people, 70 white families enslaved 50 or more people. Fluctuating markets, seasonal needs and widely varying geographical conditions characterized Kentucky slavery. [1]
The new insights into the political elite’s ancestral links to slavery come at a time of renewed and intense debate about the meaning of the institution’s legacy and what, if anything ...
George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based social theories in the antebellum era.He argued that the negro was "but a grown up child" [2] [3] needing the economic and social protections of slavery.
The couple waited two years before marrying in 1851. Upon marriage, he made a declaration to repudiate the rights conferred upon him over her by virtue of the marriage under Victorian law. [24] Accomplished in her own right, Taylor was a significant influence on Mill's work and ideas during both friendship and marriage.
"The History of Slave Marriage in the United States". The John Marshall Law Review (262). Louisiana State University. Gutman, Herbert (1977). The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-72451-8. Hunter, Tera W. (2017). Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century. Harvard ...
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