A more devastating critique of American ... social mobility within the slave system (for example, the ability to rise from field hand to driver). Other historians argued that antebellum North and ...

1990. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Lakwete, Angela 2003. Inventing the ...

The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. _____. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: ...

Yet from the European "conquest" of Native America ... especially that slavery's sexual injustices receive equal attention. Wilma King: "He said he would give us some flowers": Sexual Violations, ...

And while the price of slaves has gone down, the return on the slaveholder's investment has skyrocketed. In the antebellum South, slaves brought an average return of about 5 percent. Now bonded ...

It began rolling off American ... Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping slavery — went straight ...