HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cotton Gin, Domestic Worker, Light Work
3 Dec 2015
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Marie jenkins schwarz: born in bondage (2000) If childhood is a distinct life stage, then slave children did have a childhood". King: children see the brutality of slavery. Fictive kin" other adults who protected and nurtured a child when the parents are not present. Slavery ended in british colonies as well. Brazil abolishes slavery, 1888 some argued that slavery died out after the invention of the cotton gin, industrial revolution. Economy: canada ended slavery because there were no places to grow tobacco and cotton (weather) th c. ) Slaves= minority of population, even in south (contrast to caribbean) Most us slaves born in the usa. Most us slaves had contact with whites. Slave experience in usa= experience of growing up. Traveled through europe as a civil rights activist. 1850: arrested in nyc for sitting in a white carriage, sued city and won. A house slave who was sexually harassed by her owner.
