They may have been poor, but they were not slaves, and they were not black. They gained a sense of power simply by being white. In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton ...

Gallay, Alan, ed. 2009. Indian Slavery in Colonial America. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Gallman, Robert. E. 1970. "Self-Sufficiency in the Cotton Economy of the Antebellum South." In ...

Antebellum South: Slavery, Cotton, and the Mississippi River Posted: March 22, 2025 | Last updated: March 22, 2025 The film discusses the historical context of slavery in Mississippi, beginning ...

American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery By Richard Kreitner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32 The ...

Slavery in the United States depended on segregationist ... Wilma King: "He said he would give us some flowers": Sexual Violations, Girls, and the Law in the Antebellum South Antebellum court cases ...

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 ...

Like a slave escaped from a plantation in the antebellum South--only 150 years later--Tony Cohen tested his fate on the Underground Railroad. He began his odyssey at the Library of Congress ...

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

Educational center dedicated to Richmond's role in the slave trade to open in Main Street Station early next year.

In the swampy, coastal rice regions of South Carolina and Georgia, the prevalence of malaria led to high rates of child mortality. Slave women had to endure sexual exploitation, often bearing the ...