... pertaining to history and memory". These breakthroughs in academia have contributed especially to the inclusion and representation of black women who took part in slavery. In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. Initial literature on enslaved black women analyzes stereotypes constructed of African women ... more laborers. Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiority to further legitimize African subjugation. The first c...

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... "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 "non-calculating individuals not concerned with money." With this one similarity being noted I would like ... ...

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... debates to counter Douglas's argument that he was favoring the social equality of black people. "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of white and black races and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black ... slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own" (Gienapp, 42). These contradictions would be involved in Lincoln's evolving thoughts on how to come about stopping the expansion of the slavery in America as he thought them...

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