It cannot be argued that this is benevolent treatment, to hold a man against his will, though they undoubtedly were living under better conditions than even a prisoner of war might today. ... The Africans, who were most likely kidnapped from their homeland, were cramped below the deck of the ship where they were afforded not even enough room to turn over. ...
He began to think "of the United States as a biracial society" which would make whites living with blacks tough. ... Striner quibbles how when Lincoln was offered to have the seceded states return but have slavery "spread in all federal territories and future territories below the line of 36 degrees, [as well as prevent] Congress from interfering with the interstate slave trade," he declined the offer. ...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...
It also depicted a mental line over the rest of the Louisiana Purchase regions at Missouri's southern border, controlling slavery north of that line but tolerating it below. ... A newspaper author's retort to one particularly ferocious kidnapping spoke to how these performs insulted Mid-Atlantic whites' pride in living in the Free states. ...
Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides i...
