They resisted slavery through everyday acts, while also occasionally plotting larger-scale revolts.Įnslaved men and women created their own unique religious culture in the US South, combining elements of Christianity and West African traditions and spiritual beliefs. Life for enslaved men and women was brutal they were subject to repression, harsh punishments, and strict racial policing.Įnslaved people adopted a variety of mechanisms to cope with the degrading realities of life on the plantation. In the early 19th century, most enslaved men and women worked on large agricultural plantations as house servants or field hands. Oh, but then in Texas a San Antonio teacher in a charter school literally asked 8th grade students to list 'positive aspects' of slavery in 2018! because the educational system in this country does not allow for truth in their history.ĭaina Ramey Berry wrote an excellent book called "The Price for Their Pound of Flesh" (2017, Beacon Press) that took 10 years of research but uses all primary sources and documents the economic value of a slave from birth to death and even a ghost price after death.ĭuring the nineteenth century, enslaved African Americans worked on large plantations in the US South under brutal conditions. Notice that none of this is in curriculum to address this major component of the USA's development.
I also ask this: Why would an enslaver who was raised to believe the Bible supported their superiority over anything of color even think to feel empathy of something they think is less than an animal.and look at today and see how the uneven attendance to this in law is left up to each individual state, just like voting is today. Look at how Wall Street made their profit and slave owners used slaves as collateral for bank loans in JP Morgan Chase, NYLife/Aetna/USLife, and Wells Fargo ( Wachovia, which was WF's predecessor). NYLife (AIG now) Insurance sold over 500 policies. I know that I might sound abrupt, but in a hemisphere that was built off the survivors of the Middle Passage where close to 100 million bones are lying on the floor of the Atlantic, someone ask if there is a book that documents the act? Go to the insurance companies that underwrote the ships. Why would Nate Turner kill his owner? Does primal rage for being subjected to a culture that looks at you as less than an animal have anything to do with the human condition? Look at the slave laws in the precious Confederate States that had to keep adding addendums to keep generations after generations of human stock docile so they will remain orally and mentally illiterate and stripped of anything close to self-esteem. Go look at the slave records of plantations and see how they documented the enslaved. That is why his autobiographical book was so groundbreaking. Nobody even had literacy skill or word of mouth eloquence of Alex Haley's family to document their entire genealogy. I cannot get past 1875 or so myself on the black American ancestry line, but everything else in me goes back to creation. If that was the case, little black children in this country would not whisper to each other that they don't know what to do when teachers like to assign that fabulous timeline sometime in the first half of the K12 experience on family history. that ancestry was documented in the United States. I am first and foremost, flabbergasted that some people think there is documentation of Africans that were bartered and captured due to European promotion of tribalism in Africa to aid in finding human commodity.
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