AAAD 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Port Royal Experiment, Serfdom In Russia, White Supremacy
27 Sep 2016
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Granted total authority of landowner to control peasant serfs. Purpose: to give landowners power and make them dependent on the czar. Serfs made legally free of their landlords. Buy land assigned them from their previous owner"s estates. Russia and ex-serfs didn"t have to deal with race like the united states had to. Period in which everyone had to grapple with what freedom meant. 1 in 3 every confederate soldiers died. Hope to return to pre-war social arrangements. Hope to use state rights to reassert white supremacy and control black labor. Illustration union was committed to integrating african americans. Union soldiers tried to organize ex-slaves into self sustaining labor force. General strike against the slave system - du bois. A. americans propositioned to come work for them. African americans want autonomy over their own labor. Economic foundation allows one to develop whole person. Most of the help by the freedmen"s bureau went to more poor whites than african.
