Masters and Mistresses

Question 1

Alan Gallay - Indian Slavery

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Racism towards Africans and Native people are intimately intertwined. Indians had slaves before Europeans arrived

Question 2

Rebecca Anne Goetz - Indian Slavery: An atlantic and Hemispheric Problem

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Indian Slavery was ubiquitous in the Americas and the Atlantic World

Question 3

Inge Dornan - Masterful Women

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Urban women slave holders found themselves caught between two cross currents - they performed a vital and visible role in Colonial Low Country

Question 4

Barbara Krauthamer

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Black Slaves, Indian Masters

Question 5

Krauthamer argues that

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Choctaw and Chicasaw men and women embraced the idea of acquiring black people as property

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Krauthamer suggests that

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Native American conflicts were present due to the living in a Christian society

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Stephanie Rogers - They were her property

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While slaving-owning women recognised the importance in reproduction of slaves for money

Question 8

Katie Smart ‘De old Devil’

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Plantation mistresses used violence on a daily basis to manage and control enslaved people on their plantations - they were comfortable with their role as enforcers

Question 9

Rethinking the Unthink - Goetz

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Indigenous slavery did not have the capitalistic content of European slavery - served as a sign of status

Question 10

How many Native Americans were slaves

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30,000 to 50,000 or more in Virginia before 1720

Question 11

Slaving of native people….

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declines after the Yamasee War 1715-1717

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Indian Slavery Before European Arrival

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Character varied from place to place - Spain Official Outlawed in New Laws (1542)

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Native American Slavers

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Securing alliance and trade goods, danger of their own enslavement

Question 14

In Rethinking the Unthinking Decision, Rebecca Goetz states

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when viewed from the vantage point of New Mexico, Virginia slavery begins to look increasingly exceptional

Question 15

Krauthamer analyses that Indians…

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refined their own ideologies of racial identification and differentiation that reflected the particular social econimc and political conditions

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Africans held by Choctaws

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endured physical harship and violence that rivalled others

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The right to property of slaves…

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seen as the cornerstone of indians concept of citizenship

Question 18

By prohibiting their slaves from worshipping at the missions…

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slaveholders used them to strike back against the religious brance of the larger federal project of cultural assimilation

Question 19

Katie Smart argues that Louisiana

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Was exceptional and pose a significant challenge to the study of Female slaveholders

Question 20

Under articles 172 and 3522 of Louisiana Civil Code of 1825…

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it was illegal for slaveholders of any gender to brutally beat or kill their slaves and women were given the right to own and manage a plantation

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Historian Eugene Genovese argued

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Believed that slaveholding women were a central and humanising force in the lives of slaves

Question 22

Tryphena Fox a female slaveholder

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Embraced life of the southern planter elite and emitted strong racial prejudices and comments on the role of slaves in southern society

Question 23

Women…

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used their experience and knowledge of discipline, violence to manage plantations in civil war

Question 24

Dornan states that

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the very presence and role of properties widows underscores the fact that Low Country patriarchy was very much an ideal

Question 25

Name an example of a female slave holder

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Abigail Minis had entrepreneurial skills and industry knowledge and amassed a fortune for her family by the time of death

Question 26

Georgia Gazette and South Carolina Gazette…

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Contained numerous advertisements and notices placed by women throughout the colonial era

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Women comprised between

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7 and 10 percent of all slaveholders

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Some women preferred to hire out…

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their slaves on a more permanent basis - meant they could get money for work and not have to deal with management

Question 29

Children growing up would…

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observe the environment of extreme violence and mutilation

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Often women when they came of age

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would be gifted a slave which was important to identity and stable financial futures

Question 31

Rose Bud

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Weekly Journal by which daughters could learn about proper slave management

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Important journals for women slave holders

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Rose Bud, The Southern Rose, learned how to be effective mistresses

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50% of slaveholders

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possess less than 5 slaves

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3000 slaveholders

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who hold more than 100

Question 35

Great Planters of USA

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Edward Lloyd V
Tilghman Family
Christopher Hughes
Elizabeth Pinckney

Question 36

Former slaves..

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25.3% (1830 Census) freeblacks who are slaveholders

Question 37

William Ellison

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1816/17 2 slaves
1861 had 60 slaves listed against his name
Extremely cruel in his treatment - repuatation as slave breader