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Hace 1 día · Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. [1] Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person into slavery, and the person is called a slave or an enslaved person ...
Hace 3 días · Under slave society, slaveholders wrote enslaved Africans out of history, inscribing the emerging contributions of varied American regions into the archives as if Africans were virtually absent. The ambition of contemporary cultural historians is to write against this erasure, showing the historical contributions and perspectives of enslaved Africans.
Hace 5 días · North American Slave Narratives A collection of "approximately two hundred texts, including all known narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920."
Hace 3 días · Mary Reynolds, who was a slave in Louisiana, was interviewed in 1937 by the Federal Writers Project about her recollections of slavery. She was about 105 years old when she was interviewed: In the cabins it was nice and warm. They was built of pine boardin' and they was one long [row] of them up the hill back of the big house.
Hace 5 días · ISBN: 9781137584991. Publication Date: 2016-06-06. This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives, and creative explorations of black queer people seriously, Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of new, queer ethical methods that include ...
Hace 1 día · e. The Spanish Civil War ( Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, and consisted of various socialist, communist, separatist, anarchist, and ...
Hace 1 día · The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America.It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south.
