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âWe chilluns, long wid her, wuz lak de udder slavesâ: free black families and quasi-slavery in the pre-Civil War US South.
This article shows how and why some free black families ended up living among the enslaved in the late antebellum era. Enslavers brought free people of colour into forms of informal quasi-slavery that differed little from enslavement despite their free legal status. Despite a lack of evidence, piecing together free blacksâ experiences through surviving sources reveals much about the porous boundary between slavery and freedom where enslavers manipulated marginality for financial gain. There was no sharp delineation between slavery and freedom but instead a continuum of oppression characterized by varying degrees of persecution and fragile freedoms
The IWW in Turin: âMilitant History,â Workersâ Struggle, and the Crisis of Fordism in 1970s Italy
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Reflections on the 'History and Historians' of the black woman's role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence
Taking as points of inspiration Peter Parishâs 1989 book, Slavery: History and Historians, and Angela Davisâs seminal 1971 article, âReflections on the black womanâs role in the community of slaves,â this probes both historiographically and methodologically some of the challenges faced by historians writing about the lives of enslaved women through a case study of intimate partner violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South. Because rape and sexual assault have been defined in the past as non-consensual sexual acts supported by surviving legal evidence (generally testimony from court trials), it is hard for historians to research rape and sexual violence under slavery (especially marital rape) as there was no legal standing for the rape of enslaved women or the rape of any woman within marriage. This article suggests enslaved women recognized that black men could both be perpetrators of sexual violence and simultaneously be victims of the system of slavery. It also argues women stoically tolerated being forced into intimate relationships, sometimes even staying with âhusbandsâ imposed upon them after emancipation
Marxism and American intellectuals in the nineteen-thirties : a chapter in the history of American liberalism
1 v. (various pagings) ; 29 cm
The problem of scholarly predisposition: G. Bailey, N. Maynor, & P. Cukor-Avila, eds., The emergence of Black English: Text and commentary
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