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The confluence of racism, imperialism, transnational migration flows, and plain old greed combined to make the Southwest Pacific Ocean an often terrifying place
With U.S. independence, London lost this huge land as a dumping ground for the indigent and the island continent emerged as a substitute. Strikingly, the use of New South Wales as a convict colony was suggested by the North American loyalist James Matra.
13 Μαρ 2018 · Anticipating the shift of piracy cases and slavery to the Pacific towards the end of the nineteenth century, it both recalls a black Atlantic and predicts a bleak Pacific of violent imperial scenarios that would come to characterize US–Pacific relations.
Southerners feared that without slavery’s expansion, the abolitionist faction would come to dominate national politics and an increasingly dense population of enslaved people would lead to bloody insurrection and race war. Constant resistance from enslaved men and women required a strong pro-slavery government to maintain order.
Shall we meet the enemy upon the ocean, with men trained and disci- plined for the contest, or suffer him to land upon our shores, trusting to a scattered and harassed people to expel him from their farms and their
He discusses the internal slave trade that moved thousands of slaves from the eastern seaboard to the cotton states of the Southwest between 1820 and 1860. Professor Blight then sketches the contents of the pro-slavery argument, including its biblical, historical, economic, cynical, and utopian aspects.
18 Αυγ 2016 · The academics’ proslavery arguments often built a political theory of hierarchy. It emphasized the inequality of enslaved people and argued that enslaved people were not fit for freedom.
