Download or read book Supreme Servitude written by Barbara A. Rainey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia a Study of the System of Indentured Labor in the American Colonies 1895 written by James Ballagh and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ballagh characterized these labor agreements as nothing short of slavery." -Escaping Servitude (2014) "Ballagh went on to explain...black slavery replaced white servitude as the preferred labor system." -An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology (2008) "Ballagh, a pioneer historian of slavery in Virginia...contends servitude of Africans preceded their subjection." -America's Forgotten Caste (2013) "Ballagh recognized there were no laws or customs establishing the institution of slavery." -Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States (2012) Full justice has not yet been done to the great class of English servants, who came to America in the colonial age. To them, more, perhaps, than to any other distinct class is due the broad foundation upon which our American civilization was laid. These were honest and industrious people who were too poor to pay their own way to America, and so bound themselves out for a term of years in order to obtain transportation. As noted by James Curtis Ballagh in his 1895 book "White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia," in the formative period--the seventeenth century--white servants were of supreme importance, negroes not yet having been brought over in great numbers from their native country. The indentured servant of the colonial age is deserving of lasting honor as one who was ready to abandon his native soil to contend with the strange conditions beyond the sea, and with the axe in the forest and the hoe in the field, to lead the van in the first stage of that majestic march of the nation, which did not halt until the shores of the Pacific had been reached. In introducing his book , Ballagh writes: " The object of the present paper, then, is to show: First, the purely colonial development of an institution which both legally and socially was distinct from the institution of slavery, which grew up independently by its side, though the two institutions mutually affected and modified each other to some degree. "Second, that it proved an important factor in the social and economic development of the colonies, and conferred a great benefit on England and other portions of Europe in offering a partial solution of their problem of the unemployed." In concluding his work, Ballagh writes: "In conclusion an important political effect on the American colonies should be noted. The infusion of such large numbers of the lower and middle classes into colonial society could only result in a marked increase of democratic sentiment, which, together with a spirit of rebellion against the unjust importation of convicts and slaves, increased under British tyranny the growing restlessness which finally led to the separation of the colonies from the mother country." About the author: James Curtis Ballagh (1866-1944) wrote "White Servitude" as a dissertation while a Ph.D. student at John Hopkins. He became an associate professor of American history at the University of Alabama in 1906. Other books by the author include: *The South in the Building of the Nation *A history of slavery in Virginia *America's international diplomacy Ballaugh's "White Servitude" is a well-regarded historical source, cited by the following modern works: *A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster *The Many Legalities of Early America *The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 *Servants and Servitude in Colonial America *Labor, Job Growth and the Workplace of the Future *Creating Black Americans: African-American History *Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery *Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness *Our American Adventure: The History of a Pioneer East Texas Family
Download or read book The Wheel of Servitude written by Daniel A. Novak and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emancipation brought an end to many of the evils of slavery, but it did not do away with involuntary servitude in the South. Even during Reconstruction, state legislatures passed laws that bound laborers to the landowner with a nearly unbreakable tie—which still chains many a rural black to what a 1914 Supreme Court ruling called an "ever-turning wheel of servitude." Daniel Novak shows how federal, state, and local regulations combined in an undisguised effort to keep southern agriculture supplied with black labor. A freedman who did not immediately enter into a labor contract was subject to arrest as a vagrant. Once a contract was agreed upon, it was a criminal offense for a laborer to fail to carry it out, no matter how unfair the terms might be. If, as was almost inevitable, the freedman fell into debt to the landowner, he could be kept in service until repayment-and exorbitant interest rates and judicious bookkeeping could often postpone that day indefinitely. Novak traces the sporadic efforts of the federal government to do away with this kind of peonage. In studying the details of the legal basis for peonage in the South, he breaks new ground. The institution has aroused surprisingly little interest in the past; this compelling account should do much to establish that peonage is one of the most severe and widespread violations of civil rights in the nation.
Download or read book The Shadow of Slavery written by Pete Daniel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death. Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery. It is in part "the record of an American failure, the inability of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers to end peonage." In a series of case studies and histories, Daniel re-creates the neglected and frightening world of peonage, demanding, "If a form of slavery yet exists in the United States, as so much evidence suggests, then the relevant questions are why, and by whose irresponsibility?" Peonage grew out of labor settlements following emancipation, when employers forbade croppers to leave plantations because of debt (often less than $30). At the turn of the century the federal government acknowledged that the "labyrinth of local customs and laws" binding men in debt was peonage. They outlawed debt servitude and slowly moved against it, but with no large success. Disappearing witnesses and acquitted employers characterized the cases that did go to court. Daniel holds that peonage persists for many reasons: the corruption and apathy of law-enforcement, racist traditions in the South, and the impotence of the Justice Department in prosecuting this violation of federal law. He draws extensively on complaints and trial transcripts from the peonage records of the Justice Department.
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana and in the Superior Court of the Territory of Louisiana 1809 1896 written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana and in the Superior Court of the Territory of Louisiana written by Louisiana (State) Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Supreme Court of North Carolina and Slavery written by Bryce Roswell Holt and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dred Scott Case written by Roger Brooke Taney and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Download or read book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery written by Lysander SPOONER and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ebony and Ivy written by Craig Steven Wilder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Download or read book An Analytical Digest of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigational Servitudes written by Ralph J. Gillis and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a new perspective on the role of States as reciprocal trustees for the Oceans Public Trust. The concept of the oceans and navigable waters as held in public trust is examined from its origins in the 17th century North Sea fisheries controversy with particular regard to the arguments by Selden and Grotius pertaining to State jurisdiction over oceans and marginal sea areas. Those arguments manifest an underlying common principle of navigational freedom reflected in the parallel public trust development of public rights to fishing and navigation as protected and preserved within the Royal Prerogative "jus publicum," The significance for the modern context is that the 1958 Geneva Conventions on the Law of the Sea, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and a myriad of other conventions now evidence an unstated but patent public trust in the communal responsibility of States within both the conventional and customary regime of the high seas, as well as in regimes for territorial seas and marginal sea areas as shared with extended coastal State jurisdictions. This book is intended to serve as a reference work for this somewhat arcane source of the Oceans Public Trust, and should prove a useful research source for those who study law of the sea.
Download or read book An Analytical Digest of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in that State 1719 1864 written by Norman Dwight Harris and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Supreme Court of the United States written by William Henry Seward and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland written by John Condie Stewart Sandeman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bound Over written by John Van der Zee and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1985 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1609 until well after the founding of the Republic, half of all the colonists who came to America did so under some form of involuntary labor. Author John van der Zee draws on original memoirs, newspapers, and pamphlets to re-create the life stories of a number of the remarkable men and women whose enshacklement and destitution paved the way for American freedom. From the narratives of convicts, redemptioners (who accepted servitude in exchange for transportation to America), and those who were "spirited away" (snatched against their will), van der Zee weaves a colorful "people's history" of colonial and Revolutionary times. In their own words and through their own eyes, we meet such men and women as the first labor organizer in America; the young nobleman whose memoirs inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped; and a real-life Moll Flanders. The book also offers a surprising new interpretation of the Revolution as growing out of this widespread practice of servitude.--From publisher description.
