The Ruthless Methods White Enslavers Used to Shape Enslaved Africans into the “Perfect Slave”
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In his 1956 classic The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South, historian Kenneth M. Stampp shattered the myth of slavery as a gentle system. Using plantation records, letters, and slave narratives, he revealed that white enslavers deliberately sought to create the “ideal” or “perfect slave”, obedient, submissive, and dependent. To achieve this, they enforced […]
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