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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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