Resultado da Busca
Some 19th-century scientists, like Harvard’s Louis Agassiz, were proponents of “polygenism,” which posited that human races were distinct species. This theory was supported by pseudoscientific methods like craniometry, the measurement of human skulls, which supposedly proved that white people were biologically superior to Blacks.
The importance of art as propaganda cannot be omitted when discussing Antebellum America. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1858 in an effort to illuminate the horrors of slavery. Nearly two decades earlier; however, Edward William Clay’s 1841 drawing, America, was a response to the increased abolitionist movement in the North.
Davids, Achmat, “ The Revolt of the Malays: a Study of the Reaction of the Cape Muslims to the Smallpox Epidemics of the 19th Century,” Studies in the History of Cape Town, 5 (1983), 47 –79. Deacon , Harriet , “ Racial Segregation and Medical Discourse in Nineteenth Century Cape Town ,” Journal of Southern African Studies , 22 ( 1996 ), 287 –309.
15 de dez. de 2020 · U.S. Legislative Compromises Over Enslavement, 1820–1854. The institution of slavery was embedded in the U.S. Constitution, and by the early 19th century, it had become a critical problem that Americans needed to deal with but couldn't bring themselves to resolve. Whether the enslavement of people would be allowed to spread to new states and ...
In the 19 th Century, the greatest threat to Brazilian slavery came from abroad, in the form of pressure from the British anti-slavery lobby 29. Not surprisingly, the ideological response the British diplomatic and military action provoked from Brazilian slave owners and politicians appealed, among other things, to the very logic of the systemic functioning of Brazilian slavery.
African Americans - Slavery, Resistance, Abolition: Black slaves played a major, though unwilling and generally unrewarded, role in laying the economic foundations of the United States—especially in the South. Blacks also played a leading role in the development of Southern speech, folklore, music, dancing, and food, blending the cultural traits of their African homelands with those of ...
27f. The Southern Argument for Slavery. Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery. Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their arguments. Defenders of ...
