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Glossary of American slavery

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19: 27: 222:: Grading system for agricultural laborers based on age and capacity for work, re-evaluated annually as child workers aged and grew, or as older workers became less productive and slower. Work assignments for quarter-hands were a quarter of the amount of work, weight, or distance expected from a full hand, etc. 1009:
Rhodes Tavern (preservation and Restoration): Hearing and Markup Before the Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 532 ... November 30 and December 16,
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came into use in the 1840s to describe "serial escapes by individuals or pairs, sometimes to describe either spontaneous or planned small group escapes of 3 or more people, and yet most often to define a special type of mass escape involving a dozen or more, often armed, bands of enslaved people
142:, a color/race descriptor most commonly used in Louisiana, usually describing someone who was one-quarter white and three-quarters black; for other examples of the detailed race-mixture vocabulary developed in Louisiana, see 112:: Enslaved women sold for sexual exploitation, usually young, usually with light skin color, usually at price points significantly above that for field hands or even skilled mechanics. 1023:
Fiske, David A.., Brown, Clifford Waters., Seligman, Rachel. Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave. United States: Praeger, 2013. Pages 182–183
236:: Form of torture where brine was applied to the wounds of a whipped slave. Other substances were used, including turpentine, hot-pepper juice, and dripping candle wax, et al. 293:: Slave traders who used locals taverns as a place of business, and/or owners of taverns, hotels, or inns who did part-time slave trading as a side business have been called 264:: Legal term used to distinguish between chattel slaves and indentured servants or apprentices, who were held in bondage for a limited term under certain conditions. 297:. Some of these taverns and hotels had their own slave pens, in part so guests could incarcerate their body servants and coachmen overnight while traveling. 230:: Essentially a state-mandated warranty on enslaved people found to be "defective" or in some way misrepresented by slave dealers; specific to Louisiana. 1167: 1145: 945: 689: 562: 420: 390: 365: 1007: 178:: Slave traders' classification for healthy enslaved males aged 19 to 25. An enslaved person expected to draw high bids might be tagged 1045: 786: 204:: Enslaved individuals between the ages of 15 and 25, considered the peak years for purchasing long-term productivity and fertility. 854: 182:; less-marketable human beings for sale at auction were described as "fair, No. 2, 3rd rate, scrubs, and boys too small to plough." 410: 1135: 270:: Per the Slave Stampedes on the Missouri Borderlands project of Dickinson College and the U.S. National Park Service, the term 1172: 461: 935: 26: 1085: 39: 829: 154:: Not sawing off a human hand, but a form of torture wherein an enslaved person was beaten with the toothed edge of a 962: 552: 1137:
Stroud's Slave Laws: A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America
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Broadside advertising "acclimated" slaves separately from other people for sale, in New Orleans in 1858
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U.S. House District of Columbia Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs (1983).
307:: Female enslaved person, usually of reproductive age and often with a sexually suggestive connotation. 903: 80:: Male enslaved person, usually of reproductive age and often with a sexually suggestive connotation. 254: 695: 651: 643: 830:"Number Thirty: Visit to a Rice Plantation continued by Yeoman [Frederick Law Olmstead]" 1141: 1059: 1051: 1041: 941: 800: 792: 782: 711: 703: 685: 635: 558: 509: 416: 386: 361: 49: 598: 86:: Transportation of enslaved people by ocean-going ship between the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. 986: 885: 753: 677: 627: 501: 18: 1067: 808: 747: 74:; spouse of an enslaved person who lived on another plantation or in another settlement. 1086:"The Last of His Kind: Talk with an Old Slave-Seller Who Lags Superfluous on the Stage" 1033: 774: 907: 164:: Used adjectivally; according to historian Calvin Schermerhorn, "Likely was code for 1161: 655: 527: 116: 61: 1110: 676:. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. pp. 36 (likely), 38–39 (tavern). 284: 279: 226: 129: 124: 106:: An inheritance of enslaved people bequeathed from one white person to another. 889: 612:
Gutman, Herbert G. (1975). Fogel, Robert William; Engerman, Stanley L. (eds.).
528:"Bill of sale for a girl named Clary purchased by Robert Jardine for 50 pounds" 250:: A "first come, first served" supermarket-sweep-style sale of enslaved people. 881:
Honor, Control, and Powerlessness: Plantation Whipping in the Antebellum South
505: 194: 186: 1063: 804: 715: 639: 513: 258:: Period of adjustment for newly trafficked Africans brought to the Americas. 1071: 812: 736:. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press., doi:10.1353/book.3447. Page 61 699: 681: 38:, terminology specific to the cultural, economic, and political history of 879: 487:"Start-up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland" 100:: Slaves brought into a family unit through the wife's previous ownership. 579: 155: 94:: Group of enslaved people in a chain gang for overland shipment on foot. 57: 486: 242:: An enslaved person who was born in Africa rather than in the Americas. 22:
Broadside advertising bucks, wenches and a "picaninny" in Kentucky, 1855
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
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Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
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Necropolis: disease, power, and capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
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was especially common in the first quarter of the 19th century.
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Index



slavery in the United States
acquired immunity
cholera
smallpox
yellow fever
Coffle
Field holler
Gang system
task system
Mulatto § Louisiana
hand saw
Pan toting
Pickaninny
Redhibition
Scramble
Seasoning
Task system
gang system
Mulatto § Louisiana
Negro
Nigger
Partus sequitur ventrem
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