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Episodes tagged "Antebellum America": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Stripped by Humanity: Slavery in The Antebellum South
    date 1830 to 1850map WORCESTER, Marylandtags Antebellum America, Slavery, African American

    Imagine starvation. Imagine being permitted a single peck of corn each week to fill a gnawing stomach. Imagine having no food to fuel your weary body, but forced to work twelve-hour days in the Georgia fields under a hot, blistering, sun. Just imagine. The word is slavery: that “non-existence” of being owned by another human being without any chance of personal freedom. Charles Ball, a slave in...

  2. The Good Slave
    date October 28, 1846map GREENE, Alabamatags Slavery, Antebellum America, Paternalism

    Slavery is anathema, but it was not always so.  It was quite possible for well-meaning and rational people to practice and defend the “peculiar institution.”  Slaveholders sustained themselves with the firm conviction that they were doing right by the poor, benighted souls in their charge.  In this way, masters could claim they were compassionate angels of mercy--providing discipline, moral...