Through a rather impartial social order, slaves filled no vital and unique economic niche, and there was relatively easy socializing between the races, free and enslaved, among the laboring classes. ... Fortunately, masters were conditioned by English custom to provide food and shelter for their servants, thus slaves were adequately supplied necessities. ... Between 1620-1670 people of African descent never accounted for more then 5 percent of the population, people of various races existed together during the charter generation; thus, the rigid social distinctions that segregated people on t...

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It is no surprise then that the study of the most marginalized group to date, black enslaved women, had little to no influence in informing historical perspectives on slavery for many years. ... Since women were distinctively valued by slaveholders for their reproductive capacities, childcare and childbearing were inevitable responsibilities of the the female slave. ... "In an age when women's diseases were still shrouded in mystery, getting the maximum amount of work from [slave] women of childbearing age while remaining confident that no damage was done to her reproductive organs w...

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Lincoln believed that whites were fundamentally superior to blacks and was opposed to them holding office, the right to vote, and the right to serve on a jury in the years before the Civil War. ... "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of white and black races and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality" (Gienapp, 57). ... They believ...

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