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| American Negro Slavery (1918) |
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| American Negro Slavery (1918) |
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slavery was basically a benign insitution
slavery was not economically efficent
slavery was based on social inferiority |
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| The Peculiar Institution (1956) |
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| slavery was NOT benign, slavery was brutal. tried to demythologize slavery |
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| Slavery: A problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959) |
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| Slavery: A problem in American Instiutional and Intellectual Life |
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compares slavery with latin american slavery, explores personality by comparing to concentration camps, explores slave behavior through outsiders accounts,
SAMBO stereotype: behavior was docile, irresponsible, loyal, but humble, lazy, unreliable, child-like |
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| The Slave Community (1972) |
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Sid elkins ignored the testimony of enslaved people
used WPA narratives
Smabo stereotype worked, but mostly through white eyes. also a Nat stereotype
slaves created a community of their own, based on nuclear family and christianity within the confines of a while domination |
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| Roll Jordan Roll (Paternalism Thesis) |
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| Paternalism Thesis (Roll Jordan Roll) |
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slavery = paternalism, binds two people together. slaves and owners need eachother.
there is a RELATIONSHIP with each other.
a mutual obligation is implicitly recognized. |
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A series of interviews with the U.S. gov and former slaves. provide good historical information on how slaves interacted.
ROLL JORDAN ROLL, and SLAVE COMMUNITY based on them |
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| Robert Fogel & Stanley Engeman |
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| Time on a cross; the economics of american negro slave (1974) |
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| Time on a cross; the economics of an american negro slave |
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slavery was more efficent by 35% than white free labor
the family was the basic unit under slavery
material conditions of slaves compared to that of white northern workers, recieved 90% of the income they made.
slavery was a growing and profitable institution, adapting to industrialization and urbanization with success. |
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| A nation under our feet (2003) |
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the sotry of african americans in 19th century is about how people did the best the could with the most difficult circumstances and in the process transformed themselves and the world they lived in
slaves worked in slavery to turn a system based on the absolute power and personal dominations of the master into one based on reciprocities
slaves first transformed the slave system and then used the civil war to destroy slavery - joining ranks to fight force-- |
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