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This thesis analyzes how social and legal assumptions about race, gender, and disability influenced the examination and treatment of enslaved persons perceived to be diseased or defective both within the internal slave market and courtrooms of the
29 Μαρ 2022 · Analyzing trajectories among average Southerners, this is perhaps the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America.
American experience of slavery in the hyper-partisan political discourse of today. This thesis refutes the Irish Slaves Myth by directly examining 17th century British state papers in order to make clear the difference between an enslaved person and an indentured servant.
5 Μαΐ 2022 · Over the past two decades researchers have identified direct quantitative links between slavery and a number of contemporary social and economic outcomes, including income, poverty, home ownership, school segregation, crime, educational inequality, and political polarization.
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.
This is exemplified by global economic disparities, the flight of African youth from the continent, the treatment of illegal African migrants across the world, their continued enslavement in the present, police brutality, and a racialized carceral system directed against Black bodies.
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.
