75
Note: Boldface page numbers indicate
illustrations.
abolitionist movement
beginning and spread of, 13–14, 43
frightens South, 51
reasons for
breakup of families, 47
brutality of slavery, 24–27,
25
,
43–46,
45
threat to national unity, 47–48
success of
would be harmful to ex-slaves,
53–54
would destroy civilization, 50,
51–53,
52
would lead to financial ruin of
South, 34, 50–51
would result in war between North
and South, 48
African Negroes
are better off as slaves than free in
Africa, 21, 54
are human beings, 23
descendants of slaves are better off
than, 63
as inferior to whites, 16, 19–21
as lacking feelings and not human,
13
practiced slavery and were important
link in slave trade, 63–66,
65
treatment during Middle Passage is
brutal, 24–25, 43–44
treatment on plantations is brutal,
26–27
American blacks.
See
descendants of
slaves
apprenticeships, 33
Aristotle, 18
artisans, 32–34, 38–40
Atlantic crossings,
11
, 11–13, 21
auctions, 44
Barbados, 10
Benning, Henry, 53
black codes, 44–46,
45
Black Sandy (slave hunter), 34
Brazil, 10, 14
Britain
abolition, 14
reparations and, 58, 60–61
slavery as economic necessity,
18–19
trade to American colonies, 11,
11
brutality of slavery, 24–27,
25
, 43–46,
45
Byrd, William, II, 32–33
Cameron, David, 61
Campbell, Alexander, 19
Canary Islands, Portuguese plantations
on, 10
Cape Verde Islands, Portuguese
plantations on, 10
Caribbean nations, conditions in,
60–61
Constitutional Rights Foundation, 57
cotton gin, 31
cotton production,
31
conditions, 46
slavery is essential for, 29, 30–32
Craemer, Thomas, 67
descendants of slaves
should not receive reparations, 55
Africans were important link in
slave trade, 63–66,
65
are much better off than Africans,
63
is not economically feasible, 67
would set a bad precedent, 68
should receive reparations, 55
economic success of US and
Britain is partially due to slavery,
60
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