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"This short introduction to American slavery begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and, drawing upon the scholarship of numerous historians as well as the analysis of primary documents, explores the development of slavery in the American colonies and later, the United States of America. It analyzes early legislation in Virginia that differentiated Indians and Africans from Europeans and began the process of stratifying society based on racial categories. Unlike some recent scholarship, it is attentive to the actual labor that enslaved people performed, reminding us that more than anything else, slavery was a system of forced labor that produced wealth for a new nation. And, it considers the tensions that arose between enslaved and enslavers as they interacted with one another, exerting control and undermining efforts at domination. Throughout, it explores slavery within the context of moral contradiction that included the development of an ideology that valorized freedom alongside a practice and justification of slavery that deemed inferior and denied freedom to a large swath of the population. The book explores conflicts between abolitionists who worked to eliminate slavery and pro-slavery advocates who worked doggedly to sustain the power and wealth they derived from the institution. It ends with the abolition of slavery in America following the Civil War"--
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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
African Americans --- Education --- Freedmen --- Literacy --- Self-culture --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- History. --- Social aspects --- handboeken en inleidingen. --- Southern States --- Race relations. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Illiteracy --- General education --- Culture, Self --- -Home education --- Home study courses --- Self-development --- Self-directed learning --- Self-education --- Self-improvement --- Self-instruction --- "Teach yourself" courses --- Gap years --- Open learning --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Freedpersons --- Black people --- Freed persons --- Ex-enslaved persons --- Freed enslaved persons
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After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant ""information wanted"" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslave
Slaves --- African American families --- Slavery --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Afro-American families --- Families, African American --- Negro families --- Families --- Family relationships --- History. --- Social aspects
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