... , in slave societies, slavery existed at the center of the economy, with a tyrannical and patriarchal master-slave relationship playing as the model for social relationships as a whole, thus negatively effecting family structure (Berlin 9-10). Slavery, never reaching stable maturity, progressively degraded the lives of enslaved people in the Chesapeake region. The establishment of the Plantation generation in the Chesapeake region caused ... Creole predecessors. Masters had absolute sovereignty over slaves, stripping slaves of their history and identity. Slaves rarely had surnames and fa...

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... aside the lonely voices in their midst who urged the subordination of profits to the "long range needs of the soil," and their unsentimental readiness to dispose of "family land" so long as the price was right, what Stanley L. Engerman has said about Southern planters seems to apply equally well to Northern agriculturalists: they were certainly not " ... ...

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... directed toward them as women. African American enslaved women took leading role in organizing their community in order to lessen the hostile impact of the slave system on individual and family life. They engaged in physical retaliatory violence on an individual and group basis, systematically refused to carry unwanted children to term and helped others who were so inclined, became runaways ... ...

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