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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 ...
During their escape, they traveled on first-class trains, stayed in the best hotels, and Ellen dined one evening with a steamboat captain. Ellen dyed her hair and bought appropriate clothes to pass as a young man, traveling in a jacket and trousers. William used his earnings as a cabinet-maker to buy clothes for Ellen to appear as a free white man.
[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
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 ...
Ad warning about white slavery. By the 19th century, most of America's cities had a designated, legally protected area of prostitution. Increased urbanization and young women entering the workforce led to greater flexibility in courtship without supervision. It is in this changing social sphere that a panic over "white slavery" began.
OPINION: Part one of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of America’s slaveholding past. The post Black History/White Lies: The ...
Black men accused of rape during the colonial period were often punished with castration, and the penalty was increased to death during the antebellum period; [46] however, white men could legally rape their female slaves. [46] Men and boys were also sexually abused by slaveholders, [47] which included forcing them to impregnate female slaves. [48]
Since slavery lasted almost 250 years in the United States, the only ex-slaves that “benefitted” from any skills they learned were the descendants of the original slaves.