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health and economic conditions kidnapping, 23
of African Americans currently,
58–59, 59 Lee, Arthur, 35
precedents exist, 61–62 Lee, Robert E., 54
racism has roots in slavery, 57–59 Lincoln, Abraham, 47–48
Dick (slave fisherman), 34 London Advertiser, 26
Douglas, Stephen, 48
MacKenzie, John, 68
English plantations, 10 Madeira Islands, Portuguese
Enlightenment, 22 plantations on, 10
Equiano, Olaudah manufacturing, 35, 40
on being kidnapped by slavers, Masonen, Pekka, 9
23–24 Middle Passage
on brutal treatment of slaves, 26 described by ex-slave, 12
on conditions during Middle described by historians, 24–25, 25,
Passage, 12 43–44
on slave scrambles, 44 described by Norris, 21
Europe and slave trade, 9–11 mortality rate, 60–61
See also Britain Mississippi, slaves as percentage of
population, 32
Falconbridge, Alexander, 12–13
Fifth Amendment (US Constitution), 50 Newton, John, 13–14, 47
French plantations, 10–11 New York, 41
Norris, Sir John, 21
Gates, Henry L., 57–58 Northern economy, compared to
Genoese Mediterranean plantations, economy of South, 40–41
9–10 Northup, Solomon, 44, 46–47
Germany, reparations paid for
Holocaust, 61–62 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 39
Gholson, James H., 50
Gobineau, Arthur de, 20 padlocks, 26
Grant, James, 33 Perry, James D., 66
Greeks, ancient, 18 Person-Lynn, Kwaku, 64, 65
Phillips, Thomas, 23
Hammond, James, 31–32 plantations
Helper, Hinton Rowan, 37, 38, 40, 41 as agricultural system created by
Hispaniola, Spanish plantations on, 10 God, 19
European, in Americas, 10–11
Impending Crisis of the South, The Genoese Mediterranean, 9–10
(Helper), 37, 40, 41 percentage of Southerners owning
iron muzzles, 26 slaves, 37–38
Islam, 9 Portuguese, 10
treatment of slaves on, 26–27, 45
Jamaica, 61 Portuguese plantations, 10
Jefferson, Thomas, 53–54 Postma, Johannes, 10
Journeys and Explorations in the
Cotton Kingdom (Olmsted), 39 racism, 57–59, 66
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