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4 Σεπ 2019 · Joe William Trotter Jr’s Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America describes how, because of their violent uprooting from agrarian communities, African persons brought to America to serve as slaves had to adapt to industrial work under extreme conditions. They succeeded.
16 Αυγ 2023 · Tocqueville on the abolition of slavery as social change. The leading goal in all of Tocqueville’s writings was to understand the causes, modalities and consequences of social change, most of all the transition from aristocratic to democratic social and political relations.
29 Ιουλ 2010 · The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers authoritative articles on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With articles on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Indies, and South America, this book has impressive geographic and temporal coverage.
Black Americans quickly took full advantage of their newfound freedom in a myriad of ways. Alfred Islay Walden’s story is a particularly remarkable example of this. Born a slave in Randolph County, North Carolina, he only gained freedom after Emancipation.
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.
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.
They sent elaborate surveys to military leaders, clergy, and other White people who interfaced with large numbers of people who had escaped slavery. Through this work, the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission made Black people into subjects of the United States’ scientific gaze.
