In order to find the actual figures of runaway slaves in colonial Maryland and Georgia, advertisements written by their masters in the Annapolis Maryland Gazette from 1745 through 1769 and the Savannah Georgia Gazette from 1763 through 1769 are analyzed in this paper. Applying such statistical methods as regression, correlation, etc. to the data derived from the advertisements, we describe a ty...

In this paper we discussed Ursula Le Guin's story "A Woman's Liberation. science fiction the author chronicles a slave society on far-away planet in distant future. She describes relationships between slaves and owners but also position of women such an unjust which female are inferior to everyone, including male slaves. Since aim is make us think about our present, draws parallels fictional fr...

(ABSTRACT) Scholarship on slave families has focused on the nuclear family unit as the primary socializing institution among slaves. Such a paradigm ignores the extended family, which was the primary form of family organization among peoples in western and central Africa. By exploring slave trade data, I argue that 85% of slave imports to Virginia in the 18 th century were from only four region...

The article aims to assess the contribution of slavery in the socio-economic structure of the Delhi Sultanate. It delineates the socio-economic life of the slaves and attempts to address a fundamental question pertaining to nature of the Sultanate society. It takes into account the classical debate about the distinction between ‘slave society’ and a ‘society with slaves’ and applies it on the D...

Although plantation records indicate that many slaves in the southern United States were artisans and craftsmen, relatively few slaves were recorded as such on the New Orleans sales invoices. Robert Fogel (1989, p.57, 162) assumes that the slaves without recorded occupations were unskilled workers, concluding that skilled slaves were “less than half as likely to have been sold as were ordinary ...

Starting from the 15 century in the Atlantic slave trade, black people have been treated by lighter-skinned counterparts as commodities to be sold and bought. The effects of the trade and the resulting dehumanization can still be seen in subsequent historical events and in today’s society. Analyzing the Haitian Revolution in the late 18 century through literature such as The Grateful Negro by M...