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Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (Harvard UP, 2007); on 20th century construed white memories of happy times with slave women. West, Emily. "Reflections on the History and Historians of the black woman's role in the community of slaves: enslaved women and intimate partner sexual violence."
Sarah Grimké's pamphlet, The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, has been called one of the most prominent discussions of women's rights by an American woman. [5]: 277 The sisters grew up in a slave-owning family in South Carolina and became part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's substantial Quaker society in their
[4]: 600 The legal condition of fugitive slaves in the United States was a major hot-button political issue in antebellum America. In the years immediately prior to the American Civil War, collective escape actions called stampedes became increasingly common. [37
Prior to 1870’s post-emancipation census, enslaved individuals were often listed only by their first names, gender and age. “To put it in a nutshell, you’re looking for people listed as ...
As slavery began to displace indentured servitude as the principal supply of labor in the plantation systems of the South, the economic nature of the institution of slavery aided in the increased inequality of wealth seen in the antebellum South. The demand for slave labor and the U.S. ban on importing more slaves from Africa drove up prices ...
The American Anti-Slavery Society welcomed women. Garrison along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were so appalled that women were not allowed to participate at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London that they called for a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York .
It was founded by eighteen women, including Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock, [1] Margaretta Forten, her mother Charlotte, and Forten's sisters Sarah and Harriet. [2] [3] The society was a local chapter affiliated with the American Anti-Slavery Society created the same year by William Lloyd Garrison and other leading male abolitionists. The ...
Atlantic slave trade; Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power ...