Calvin Schermerhorn
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300192001
- eISBN:
- 9780300213898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300192001.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter details the economic geography of the United States domestic slave market of the 1810s. It examines small slave traders’ business strategies as part of a knowledge economy, focusing on ...
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This chapter details the economic geography of the United States domestic slave market of the 1810s. It examines small slave traders’ business strategies as part of a knowledge economy, focusing on the firm of Peyton Mason and Company. That partnership drove coffles or caravans of enslaved Virginians to Mississippi and Alabama in 1818 through the Appalachian Mountains, river valleys, and through Indian nations. In a time in which money was regional and geographic obstacles to the interstate trade abounded, Peyton Mason and Company economized through overland transport and self-financing. Enslaved people viewed that business strategy and their commoditization differently, as the theft and disappearance of loved ones. But that interstate commerce joined the interests of Virginians and Mississippians, creating in the process an American South.Less
This chapter details the economic geography of the United States domestic slave market of the 1810s. It examines small slave traders’ business strategies as part of a knowledge economy, focusing on the firm of Peyton Mason and Company. That partnership drove coffles or caravans of enslaved Virginians to Mississippi and Alabama in 1818 through the Appalachian Mountains, river valleys, and through Indian nations. In a time in which money was regional and geographic obstacles to the interstate trade abounded, Peyton Mason and Company economized through overland transport and self-financing. Enslaved people viewed that business strategy and their commoditization differently, as the theft and disappearance of loved ones. But that interstate commerce joined the interests of Virginians and Mississippians, creating in the process an American South.
Peter Irons
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- November 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190914943
- eISBN:
- 9780197582923
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190914943.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
White Men’s Law recounts and explores the legal and extralegal means by which systemic White racism has kept Black Americans “in their place” from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black ...
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White Men’s Law recounts and explores the legal and extralegal means by which systemic White racism has kept Black Americans “in their place” from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present. The book argues that African Americans have always been held back by systemic racism in all major institutions—especially the legal and educational systems—that hold power over them. Based on a wide range of sources, from the painful words of former slaves to Supreme Court decisions and test scores that reveal how our education system has failed Black children, the book examines the various ways White racists justify and perpetuate their superior position in American society. The book is framed around the lynching of Rubin Stacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1935. An illiterate Black farmhand, Stacy was accused of assaulting a White woman and was lynched by a deputy sheriff and a mob that fired seventeen bullets into his lifeless body. White Men’s Law poses a critical question: What historical forces preceded and followed this and thousands more lynchings that show the damaging—and often deadly—impact of systemic racism on Black Americans? After recounting struggles over racism from the first shipment of slaves to colonial Virginia until the present, it concludes with a look at efforts by President Joe Biden to “root out systemic racism” in both public and private institutions and the barriers those efforts face from entrenched racism in those institutions.Less
White Men’s Law recounts and explores the legal and extralegal means by which systemic White racism has kept Black Americans “in their place” from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present. The book argues that African Americans have always been held back by systemic racism in all major institutions—especially the legal and educational systems—that hold power over them. Based on a wide range of sources, from the painful words of former slaves to Supreme Court decisions and test scores that reveal how our education system has failed Black children, the book examines the various ways White racists justify and perpetuate their superior position in American society. The book is framed around the lynching of Rubin Stacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1935. An illiterate Black farmhand, Stacy was accused of assaulting a White woman and was lynched by a deputy sheriff and a mob that fired seventeen bullets into his lifeless body. White Men’s Law poses a critical question: What historical forces preceded and followed this and thousands more lynchings that show the damaging—and often deadly—impact of systemic racism on Black Americans? After recounting struggles over racism from the first shipment of slaves to colonial Virginia until the present, it concludes with a look at efforts by President Joe Biden to “root out systemic racism” in both public and private institutions and the barriers those efforts face from entrenched racism in those institutions.
