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A house slave was a slave who worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially the same duties as all domestic workers throughout history, such as cooking, cleaning, serving meals, and caring for children; however, their slave status could expose them to more significant ...
Planters found it easy to force them into slavery by refusing to acknowledge the completion of their indentured contracts. [1] This is what happened in Johnson v. Parker. Although two white planters confirmed that Casor had completed his indentured contract with Johnson, the court still ruled in Johnson's favor. [28]
An American law passed in 1833 abolished the imprisonment of debtors, which made prosecuting runaway servants more difficult, increasing the risk of indenture contract purchases. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , passed in the wake of the American Civil War , made involuntary indentured servitude illegal in the United ...
Even slaves had slaves, really, it is true. Slaves of Fulbe lived in the same compound with the Fulbe. Slaves of smiths lived in the same compound with the smiths. Slaves lived in the same compound with the slaves (who owned them)... Everyone knew who was a slave of a free-born person, who was a slave of a smith, who was a slave of a slave." [143]
The home of the slave owner on the plantation or farm was typically called the big house. [5] Slave quarters were usually located near the big house but subsidiary in size and quality of construction, and subject to surveillance, inspection and regulation. In some cases the slave owner lived off-site but an overseer's house was built near the ...
This is a glossary of American slavery, terminology specific to the cultural, economic, and political history of slavery in the United States. Acclimated: Enslaved people with acquired immunity to infectious diseases such as cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, etc. [1]
The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...
Circa 1792, settlers were predominantly Anglo-American and two out of every three slaves in the Natchez District were African-born. [16] Slaves from overseas were often re-exported through the West Indies, in particular the British colony of Jamaica, [17] whose planters preferred to buy Igbo people abducted from "the Gold Coast and the Bight of ...