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9 Αυγ 2022 · Students will write an essay (approximately 400-500 words), explaining how the legacy of slavery can be seen in Chicago. Students will focus their research on the following areas of inquiry with a focus on the Chicago community: labor/employment, infrastructure, healthcare, and music.
31 Δεκ 2015 · The African American community in Chicago was active in the anti-slavery movement. In response to the Fugitive Slave Law and its implications for free Blacks in the north, the African American community met at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in order to respond and organize themselves.
With LaRoche’s methodological insights, the involvement of free blacks and whites in the Underground Railroad network in southern Illinois and Indiana is revealed more fully. Study of a much beter documented region, southern Ohio, also beneits from LaRoche’s work.
Excerpt “Slavery leapt out of the East and into the interior lands of the Old Southwest in the 1820s and 1830s.” “As new lands in the Old Southwest were pried open, white enslavers back east realized their most profitable export was no longer tobacco or rice. A complex interstate slave trade became an industry of its own.
And in time, race and slavery were interwoven (notwithstanding African participation in the trade), and slavery became a powerful ideological factor in the rapidly emerging modern racial worldview that linked slavery (unfreedom) to a general Blackness, and freedom to (European) Whiteness.
Evidence of this virtuousness was readily available to the abolition societies of early national America. A year after the NYMS penned its report, Peter Williams, Jr., a former pupil of the NYMS school for free blacks, presented the Convention with a learned report of his own.
The civil rights movement, the emergence of social history, and the profession's insistence on revisionist histories, especially in the area of slavery, led to a proliferation of ground-breaking Black urban history studies on colonial/antebellum slaves, free Blacks, and African American communities following the Civil War.
