Enslaved people in the US South lived in a system designed to exploit their labor in pursuit of profit. This historiographical essay considers key questions about labor and power raised in the previous two decades of scholarship on antebellum slavery. What were the forms and meaning...
Bates:Monticello is one of the best-documented plantations in the United States. Because Jefferson left such clear records in his plantation book, in his farm book & his memorandum book, we've been able to trace the lives of the enslaved people. We know a lot; we know a good deal about...
one of the book’s “ecologists,” tests which cold-loving species might grow in a warming and historically treeless Greenland. “Healer” Joe Hamilton plants loblolly pines on a parcel of land heinheritedgotfrom his enslaved ancestors, with an...
But I want to view the matter, Thrasymachus, in a different way: You would not deny that a state may be unjust and may be unjustly attempting to enslave other states, or may have already enslaved them, and may be holding many of them in subjection? True, he replied; and I will ...
People are also trying to buy time. Anything that helps streamline our lives is a growth market. One example is what Americans call concierge services -- domestic help, childcare, gardening and decorating. And on-line retailers are seeing big increases in sales -- though not, as yet, profits...
Jesse Owens was the grandson of enslaved people and the son of Alabama sharecroppers. Luz Long studied law at the University of Leipzig and was the physical embodiment of Hitler’s nationalistic ideal. One would become a national hero. One would die in the upcoming war. Both would call out...
An estimated 25,000 to 30,000 enslaved people were sold and shipped out of Zanzibar as late as the 1880s, according to The Historian magazine. And the Sultan of Zanzibar, who ruled from the royal palace, grew rich from the slave trade, even as the British tried to end the practice by...
Even while enslaved, they participated and contributed to EVERY significant event in what became the United States of America. The facts are that the very economy of the fledgling new country was built on the backs of these enslaved people. ...
17. While some propose to combat widespread illegal copying of computer programs by attempting to change people’s attitudes toward pirating, others suggest reducing software prices to ___ for pirating, and still others are calling for the prosecution of those who copy software illegally. A. ...
This neighborhood, also referred to as Tin Cup, was established following the American Civil War by formerly enslaved African Americans. A view of South Fayetteville circa 1890. the Tin Cup neighborhood where Malindy lived is unseen but located just below the rolling hill in the foreground. Photo...