Historicity

A Brief History of U.S. Slavery

Was U.S. slavery different from other forms of slavery? Some commentators try to minimize the slavery’s impact on the United States. This is a brief history of slavery in the United States.

Citations:

Painter, Nell Irvin. “How We Think about the Term ‘Enslaved’ Matters.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 14 Aug. 2019.

Hudson, Nicholas. “‘Nation to ‘Race’: The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 247–264. Spring, 1996.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Tenth Anniversary Edition. New Press, 2020. Buy here!

Davis, Adrienne. “‘Don’t Let Nobody Bother Yo’ Principle’: The Sexual Economy of American Slavery.” Sister Circle: Black Women and Work, edited by Sharon Harley, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2002. Buy here!

Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. Buy here!

Lewis, Bernard. Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry. Oxford University Press, 1992. Buy here!

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