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. ... In the Chesapeake, the Plantation generation sprang into existence around the mass cultivation of tobacco and insured a stability of workforce, held together by a rigid social order with planters on top. Masters' generated a monopoly spreading power throughout whole societies, maintaining social order through violence and allowing them to earn political power. The Planters- the elite of th...

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Northerners cited the differential in population growth as evidence for the superiority of the free-labor system: Southerners perceived it with alarm as evidence of their declining minority status in the nation. ... Folk Culture mixed with Southern Exceptionalism were two one of the most social contributing factors towards the secession of the south. This gemeinschaft society, with its emphasis on traditional, rural life, close kinship ties, a hierarchical social structure, ascribed status, patterns of defense, and masculine codes of honor and chivalry, persisted in the South long after the No...

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In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. ... Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more arduous, "manly" tasks. ... Here, slaves were able to "take pleasure in their own bodies" through social interaction and various forms of entertainment. ... Accustomed to wearing tattered, p...

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