HI330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Inequality, Upland South, Individualism
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Hi330 lecture urban slavery and revolutionary stirrings. Less than 6% of the entire slave population. Douglass city slave is almost a free man compared with the slave on the plantation . Type of work would be different not plantation slavery. Methods of punishment would differ for urban slaves. He is much better fed and clothed and enjoys better treatment that is almost unknown for the plantation slaves. 1763 of the black population of louisiana resided on small pieces of land around new orleans. Workers who are working for money but they are still without legal rights. Still legally property and still subject to physical punishment. Do not get to keep most of their money. Doing work in ship years, brick yards, cotton presses, warehouses. Richmond, va iron works 1880s almost entirely run by slave labour. Also hire themselves out with the help of their owners. Leased property couldn"t be punished or hurt hired their labour and did not own them.
