Search Results for: slavery

Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 Christopher D. E. Willoughby antebellum, book review, disability, Gender, slavery

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

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Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey

March 27, 2023March 26, 2023 Rann Miller Resistance, slavery

Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled

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An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat

March 7, 2023March 5, 2023 Adam McNeil slavery, South

In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book,

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George Washington, Slavery, and Farming

February 16, 2023January 30, 2023 Rebecca Dudley antebellum, book review, George Washington, slavery, Vast Early America

In Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, Bruce A. Ragsdale meticulously examines Washington’s activities

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The Life of Louis Fatio: American Slavery and Indigenous Sovereignty

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Caroline Wood Newhall race, slavery, South

In 1892 a reporter for the Missouri-based Daily Globe-Democrat interviewed an elderly Black man by the name of Louis Fatio living near

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