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Slavery, Family Separation, and the Ransom Case of John Weems During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people. As historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor has demonstrated in Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War, these laws restricted the movement of Black people, making it more difficult for those who were enslaved as well as free.
Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery *This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians have been exploring connections between slavery, race, and economic policy. Williams was the first to establish the centrality of the transatlantic slave trade in European economic development.
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