Add to ORKGAfrican American slaves with disabilities (broadly defined as physical, mental or aesthetic conditions seen as unfavorable or impairing) performed a variety of duties on antebellum southern plantations. However, tensions between goals of production, profit, control, and planters’ expectations often created contradictory assessments of disability in slaves. Slaves with disabilities were also at risk of abuse—including corporeal punishment, neglect, and murder—from masters
The occupational structure of slave labor on plantations yields valuable insights to the economic or...
This article shows how and why some free black families ended up living among the enslaved in the la...
The objective of this paper is to make the case that the United States became an economic super-powe...
Concepts of race and disability were mutually constituted in nineteenth-century American culture. An...
Enslaved overseers have largely been neglected in the extant historiography of plantation slavery. A...
This article examines the underrepresented world of enslaved artisans in the American south. In the ...
While the majority of enslaved people lived on large plantations, there were a significant minority ...
Slavery, in and of itself, is a despicable institution. It degraded the enslaved and inflated the po...
This article re-examines the 1860 census for Savannah Georgia. It melds the free and slave census to...
The Contours of Slavery in Georgia Forced labor lay at the heart of the institution of slavery; ...
How did British-American planters forcibly integrate newly purchased Africans into existing slave co...
This brochure describes slave labor in general and in particular in building the railroad in St. Mat...
The period of Reconstruction after the American Civil War introduced arguably more discrimination ag...
A Fresh Perspective on Slavery There has long been debate among historians of American slavery about...
From the middle of the eighteenth century until the late 1830s, the idea of enslaved people as “peas...
The occupational structure of slave labor on plantations yields valuable insights to the economic or...
This article shows how and why some free black families ended up living among the enslaved in the la...
The objective of this paper is to make the case that the United States became an economic super-powe...
Concepts of race and disability were mutually constituted in nineteenth-century American culture. An...
Enslaved overseers have largely been neglected in the extant historiography of plantation slavery. A...
This article examines the underrepresented world of enslaved artisans in the American south. In the ...
While the majority of enslaved people lived on large plantations, there were a significant minority ...
Slavery, in and of itself, is a despicable institution. It degraded the enslaved and inflated the po...
This article re-examines the 1860 census for Savannah Georgia. It melds the free and slave census to...
The Contours of Slavery in Georgia Forced labor lay at the heart of the institution of slavery; ...
How did British-American planters forcibly integrate newly purchased Africans into existing slave co...
This brochure describes slave labor in general and in particular in building the railroad in St. Mat...
The period of Reconstruction after the American Civil War introduced arguably more discrimination ag...
A Fresh Perspective on Slavery There has long been debate among historians of American slavery about...
From the middle of the eighteenth century until the late 1830s, the idea of enslaved people as “peas...
The occupational structure of slave labor on plantations yields valuable insights to the economic or...
This article shows how and why some free black families ended up living among the enslaved in the la...
The objective of this paper is to make the case that the United States became an economic super-powe...