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Title: American Negro Slavery
A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

Author: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Release Date: March 7, 2004 [EBook #11490]

Language: English

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ULRICH BONNELL PHILLIPS

AMERICAN

NEGRO SLAVERY

A Survey of the Supply,
Employment and Control
Of Negro Labor
As Determined by the Plantation Regime

TO

MY WIFE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. THE EARLY EXPLOITATION OF GUINEA
II. THE MARITIME SLAVE TRADE
III. THE SUGAR ISLANDS
IV. THE TOBACCO COLONIES
V. THE RICE COAST
VI. THE NORTHERN COLONIES
VII. REVOLUTION AND REACTION
VIII. THE CLOSING OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE
IX. THE INTRODUCTION OF COTTON AND SUGAR
X. THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
XI. THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE
XII. THE COTTON REGIME
XIII. TYPES OF LARGE PLANTATIONS
XIV. PLANTATION MANAGEMENT
XV. PLANTATION LABOR
XVI. PLANTATION LIFE
XVII. PLANTATION TENDENCIES
XVIII. ECONOMIC VIEWS OF SLAVERY: A SURVEY OF THE
LITERATURE
XIX. BUSINESS ASPECTS OF SLAVERY
XX. TOWN SLAVES
XXI. FREE NEGROES
XXII. SLAVE CRIME
XXIII. THE FORCE OF THE LAW
INDEX

AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY

CHAPTER I

THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF GUINEA

The Portuguese began exploring the west coast of Africa shortly before
Christopher Columbus was born; and no sooner did they encounter negroes
than they began to seize and carry them in captivity to Lisbon. The court
chronicler Azurara set himself in 1452, at the command of Prince Henry, to
record the valiant exploits of the negro-catchers. Reflecting the spirit
of the time, he praised them as crusaders bringing savage heathen for
conversion to civilization and christianity. He gently lamented the
massacre and sufferings involved, but thought them infinitely outweighed by
the salvation of souls. This cheerful spirit of solace was destined long to
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