Slave Market, ca. 1850-1860.
New Orleans and Lexington, Kentucky, had active markets in "fancy girls," beautiful young girls and women, often mulatto or quadroon, who were sold not as domestics but as concubines. They were presented at auction well dressed and coiffed, sometimes with jewelry. In the 1850s, beautiful teenage girls were valued at more than $1,500 (close to $30,000 in today's dollars), which made them as "expensive" as prime male field hands. Buying a "fancy girl" was a status symbol for traders, gamblers, and saloonkeepers. Because New Orleans attracted a large population of gamblers, debauchees and revelers for Carnival, it was the largest market for those girls and young women who were sent there from the Upper South.
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I feel for their suffering. This is an example of ska very that should be more publicized. Slavery was not the happy town black person. It was an evil, America will one day have to account for. I recommend to all Coursera's class on slavery. It is free and all Americans should be mandated to learn about slavery and our Forefathers who abetted this criminal activity.
ReplyDeleteAmerica has accounted for the sin of slavery. Ever heard of the civil war? The south was utterly destroyed and the north, which has very little slavery, lost tens of thousands of lives. It was a terrible war. I'd say this country has paid for that sin already, in blood.
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DeleteOnly 10% of Americans owned slaves. So GET OVER IT. My family was not Slave owners. 99% of the white people you come in contact with have no traces of owning slaves in their family.
ReplyDeleteWell, ____ (insert percentage) of Americans aren't gay, or pedophiles, or wife-beaters, or prostitutes -but we still have to hear about gay issues (because gays insist everyone does hear), pedophilia, domestic issues, and other moral issues. Demanding that folks "get over it" only exposes a person as one who prefers to remain ignorant, nicht wahr? No one has personally accused "your family" : they've simply invited a dialogue about the issue. It's a mistake to take it as a personal threat. (Besides, what American can claim to truly know ALL that their family was involved in, or not, generations ago?)
DeleteI'm a white Irish girl who is doing a masters in American slavery, having never been, I don't know how it is treated in the U.S, so forgive me for ignorance. However, I do think it is an extremely important thing for every one to learn. Modern white Americans should not be held accountable for what some of their ancestors did a hundred and fifty years ago, neither should modern black Americans be reimbursed for something they did not suffer. Slavery won't happen again. But that is not the point. Americans need to learn about slavery to realise where the roots of racism began and to correct it, because racism is a very real problem in America and real action needs to be taken against it. Modern black Americans are still suffering the consequences of a system which was abolished in 1860 and THAT is why we can't 'get over it'.
DeleteYou live in a dream world with Rosie glasses on. They couldn't possibly teach you to think outside of that box that you are in. Racism and oppression still exits. I'm a decedent of Fancy Girls and I have felt the suffering even in these days of what the mulatto slaves went through. Not black enough and not black enough but I have learned to create my own way in this world.
DeleteWhite Irish girl, if you think slavery won't happen again, you are blind. Human trafficking is slavery and is so very prevalent all over the world.
DeleteI think she needs to retake school in a black neighbor as a black person with no resources and hateful teachers. Duh whites havent paid yet the only reason they gave up slavery is beacause of others issuses whites where already having between other whites not beacause they all realized they were doing something evil mam im a black women and I give you an F for not understanding my culture and the effects your culture had on us. Good day
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ReplyDeleteHas anyone addressed the matter of who sold the slaves orginally?I believe africans sold the slaves to whites,so if reparations are sought, shouldn't the africans that sold the slaves be resposible?
DeleteThe United States' economic, political and social foundation was created from the sale of black bodies and the genocidal removal of red bodies. The wealth of this nation was predicated on the African, and later African American slave trade. Just as the scars of slavery continue to impact African Americans, so do the benefits of that system to varying degrees continue to inure to whites in this country.
ReplyDeleteCheck the origin of the slaves and who the original sellers were.I agree that slavery was a horrible horrible time.but lets at least bring the other Afrcans who were responsible for their selling them in the first place.
DeleteCan you cite any sources for me on this topic?
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ReplyDeleteSlavery still happens in the American privatized prison system where inmates work for mere cents. They do basic labor just like slaves and earn money for food etc. They can’t use this income to buy a house or better their lives in any way. Committing a crime should not be a life sentence to hard labor. They don’t offer education to inmates that won’t eventually be released so anyone with a life sentence is basically slave commercial labor. Plus lots of innocent people are in jail and the American prison system has the most people incarcerated in the world and is represented predominantly by black and other people of colour. This was the system America moved to when slavery ended to continue to enslave and take rights away from black people and continues to this day.
ReplyDeleteI have a serious question. You stated that "inmates work for mere cents" My question is what happens if they just say no. For example if one of them is told they have to dig ditches. Can't they just say no? After all what are they going to do put them in prison?
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ReplyDeleteI agree. I'm fed up being blamed for slavery just because I'm white and told that I benefited (not true). Blacks alive today never lived thru this horror and they need to stop talking about it and focus on today. Slavery hurts you because you keep thinking about it, talking about it and feeling hurt. The slaves and plantation owners are long dead and their bones turned to dust. Stop blaming whites alive today and calling all of us racist. This is not the way to move forward and stop asking for money (reparations). All blacks alive today benefited from slavery as much as any white and if there had been no slavery, you would not have been born here.
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