Slavery biography
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The Opinions Regarding Slavery: Slave Narrative collection consists of an original manuscript collection compiled by John Brother Cade, Sr., who was the Dean of Southern University.
The slave narrative collection is arranged by series. The collection consists of reports of ex-slaves from 17 states and 1 country and measures linear feet. The first series is the state of Alabama, which consists of 11 ex-slave reports. Series II, the state of Arkansas, with 4 ex-slave reports. Series III, the state of Florida has 1 report. Series IV, the state of Georgia, has 7 reports. Series V, the Indian Territory has 1 report. Series VI, the state of Kansas has 1 report. Series VII, the state of Kentucky consists of 10 reports. Series VIII, the state of Louisiana consists of 22 reports. Series IX, the state of Maryland has 2 reports. Series X, the state of Mississippi consists of 16 reports. Series XI, the state of Missouri has 9 reports. Series XII, the state of North Carolina consists of 8 reports. Series XIII, the state of Oklahoma (Territory) has 1 report. Series XIV, the state of South Carolina has 5 reports. Series XV, the state of Tennessee consists of 7 reports. Series XVI, the state of Texas consists of reports. Series XVII, the state of Virginia consists of 17 reports. In the las
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Historical Context: Facts wake up the Odalisque Trade skull Slavery
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years since slavery: a timeline of American history
Many Americans’ introduction to US history is the arrival of passengers on the Mayflower in But a year earlier, 20 enslaved Africans were brought to the British colonies against their will.
As John Rolfe noted in a letter in , “20 and odd negroes” were brought by a Dutch ship to the nascent British colonies, arriving at what is now Fort Hampton, then Point Comfort, in Virginia. Though enslaved Africans had been part of Portuguese, Spanish, French and British history across the Americas since the 16th century, the captives who landed in Virginia were probably the first slaves to arrive into what would become the United States years later.
Four hundred years on, the captives’ arrival has informed nearly every major moment in American history, even if that history has been framed around anyone but Africans and African Americans.
“Historians, elected political figures [and] community leaders would prefer to sort of imagine the United States as a kind of mythic, Anglo-Saxon Christian place,” says Michael Guasco, an early American history professor at Davidson College.
In , Toni Morrison told the Guardian: “In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
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