Supremacy and the Origins of American Slavery
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640719001872
Abstract: Katharine Gerbner has provided readers a much-needed treatment of the relationship between Protestant Christianity and the emergence of White Supremacist racial ideology in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Scholars have long perceived the general… read more here.
Keywords: american slavery; origins american; supremacy origins; ideology ... See more keywords
The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise
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DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2020.1840728
Abstract: Laura Sandy’s new book aims to upend the stereotype of the overseer on southern plantations, one of a violent and largely unskilled man drawn from the lowest white social class. Instead, Sandy pres... read more here.
Keywords: enslaved labourers; american slavery; overseers early; supervisors enslaved ... See more keywords
American slavery and labour market power
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DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2020.1734312
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this article I discuss the micro-economics of American slavery in light of recent research on monopsonistic labour markets. I argue that the defining characteristic of coerced labour, the threat of violence to prevent… read more here.
Keywords: labour market; american slavery; labour markets; labour ... See more keywords