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What, then, is American slavery, as we have seen it exhibited by law, and by the decision of Courts? Let us begin by stating what it is not: 1. It is not apprenticeship. 2. It is not guardianship. 3. It is in no sense a system for the education of a weaker race by a stronger. 4. The happiness of the governed is in no sense its object. 5.
In the collection's third essay, Sowell reviews the history of slavery. Contrary to popular impression, which blames Western society and white people as the culprits, Sowell argues that slavery was a universal institution accepted and embraced by nearly all human societies.
Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War, An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-3863-5. Smith, Clint (2021). How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316492935. National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2021 [5]
The work then examines the Haitian Revolution, and the effect it had on U.S. slave owners in the American South. Du Bois concludes his work by analyzing the blockade of Africa and the role of slave-produced cotton in the U.S. economy prior to the American Civil War. In 2014 the work was re-introduced with a new introduction by Henry Louis Gates ...
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.
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia is a 1975 history text [1] by American historian Edmund Morgan. [2] The work was first published in September 1975 through W W Norton & Co Inc and is considered to be one of Morgan's seminal works.
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips wrote the first major historical study of the 20th century dealing with slavery. In American Negro Slavery (1918), Phillips refers to slaves as "negroes, who for the most part were by racial quality submissive rather than defiant, light-hearted instead of gloomy, amiable and ingratiating instead of sullen, and whose very defects invited paternalism rather than repression."