Although overlooked, slavery had not been unknown in the North, flourishing through much of the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries and persisting in New Jersey until 1846, but involved relatively few blacks and had slight effect on Northern life and thought. ...
It is a somber truth that marginalized groups have often been ignored when illuminating events of the past, since white hegemony has sought to suppress the voices of and injustices committed upon the "inferior" for many centuries. ... " For instance, in the mid-seventeenth century Englishman Richard Ligon wrote of the black women he encountered on his travels as having monstrous bodies, with breasts that "[hung] down below their navels, so that when they [stooped] at their common work or weeding, they [hung] almost to the ground, that at a distance you would think they had ...
