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[2] Slave traders who fathered biracial children were part of a widespread "racial and sexual double standard...in the slaveholding states [that] gave elite white men a free pass for their sexual relationships with black women, as long as the men neither flaunted nor legitimated such unions." [3] Tarleton Arterburn [1] Rice C. Ballard [4]: 1816
The 1847 edition of White Slavery in the Barbary States at Google Books. Don Jordan; Michael Walsh (2018). White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-4296-9. Donovan, Brian. White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917. United States: University of Illinois Press ...
More than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been digitized and compiled for a collection that is now The post ‘Born in Slavery’ shares stories of formerly enslaved people.
Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
White slave propaganda was a kind of publicity, especially photograph and woodcuts, and also novels, articles, and popular lectures, about slaves who were biracial or white in appearance. [1] Their examples were used during and prior to the American Civil War to further the abolitionist cause and to raise money for the education of former slaves.
Slave women were often raped by white overseers, planter's younger sons before they married, and other white men associated with the slaveholders. Some were sold into brothels outright. Plaçage, a formalized system of concubinage among slave women or free people of color, developed in Louisiana and particularly New Orleans by the 18th century.
A sub-genre of abolitionist fiction was the 'white abduction story', wherein the reader was encouraged to ‘put themselves in the shoes’ of an enslaved person of colour. [24] White abduction stories would typically have the reader imagine themselves in the place of a Black slave character or have a white character enslaved.
“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said. “He was a man far beyond his time.”