Teaching the Journal of American History
Second, because of the common humanity of master and slave, the day-to-day governance of a slave population should be conducted along the lines that male household heads followed in governing their white families, that is, with a combination of fairness and firmness, a balance of affection and discipline. They have looked at generational change and regional variation in the slave population and in slavery as an institution, highlighting patterns of slave demography, work, and culture
King James I attempted to formalise English interest in West Africa through granting a Royal Charter to The Company of Adventurers of London (Guinea Company). Attempts to police the Empire with a minimum of (British) bloodshed could be seen in the attempted technique of using the recently developed air power for the first time
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When a slave he learned to write with a charred stick, thus showing a burning desire for learning, even against the command of his master, and perhaps, the law of the state. In his last published speech, his charge to the African Lodge in June 1797, Hall spoke of mob violence against blacks: "Patience, I say; for were we not possessed of a great measure of it, we could not bear up under the daily insults we meet with in the streets of Boston, much more on public days of recreation
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His slave MARIA, all his furniture, horses, carriage, and cow were ordered sold at private sale or auction as well as the slaves LYDIA, CAROLINE, AND PHILIP. On March 4, 1862, Turner published his first issue of The Countryman, a unique venture that stands as probably the only newspaper ever published from a plantation
The 'Great Emancipator' and the Issue of Race
Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or, in some authoritative manner, direct the contrary. He was ready and willing at any time during the first years of his administration to deny, postpone, and sacrifice the rights of humanity in the colored people, to promote the welfare of the white people of this country
He made careful note of the peoples, the customs, and the natural resources of those areas he passed through, writing a published report of his journey. In time, however, some colonists objected strenuously to the authoritarian policies instituted by Jehudi Ashmun, a Methodist missionary who replaced Ayres as the ACS governing representative
In addition, Liberia faced political threats, chiefly from Britain, because it was neither a sovereign power nor a bona fide colony of any sovereign nation. Its thirty-two pages contained articles on the slave trade, African geography, the expedition of the Elizabeth (the ship that carried the first group of colonists to Liberia), and the ACS constitution
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