Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
Thesis Advisor: Adam Rothman, Ph.D. ABSTRACT This senior thesis explores a topic that has garnered little attention in current scholarship on U.S. slavery: slave disability. This thesis analyzes how social and legal assumptions about race, gender, and disability influenced the examination and treatment of enslaved persons
divergent paths into American slavery and ultimately faced very different seasoning regimes. This dissertation argues, therefore, that the individual processes that comprised the Long Middle Passage powerfully shaped the forced migration of enslaved Africans in the Americas.
in the Americas, its impact is still being felt up until present-day. Some former slave colonies are currently underdeveloped, and some are among the world’s poorest nations, such as Haiti. Thus, understanding the long term impacts of historical events such as slavery on American societies is an important area of research. Over
In this paper, we show that the local prevalence of slavery—an institution that was abolished 150 years ago. — has a detectable effect on present-day political attitudes in the American South.
interest lines have dominated literatures on both the rise and fall of American slavery. Elites in Europe and Africa cooperated to ensure a supply of labor for the American plantations, and the shifting perceptions of a European elite-driven by protest from below in either the dominant or the slave society, according to
Phillips’ principal thesis was that slavery had become an economic burden to the last generation of antebellum planters. Based on his prejudice rather than evidence, Phillips believed that black people were inherently “unintelligent” and were incompetent laborers except under strict guidance and close supervision.
Over the past six decades, the historiography of Atlantic slavery and the slave trade has shown remarkable growth and sophistication. Historians have marshalled a vast array of sources and offered rich and compelling explanations for these two great tragedies in human history.
