Investigate the history of slavery and discuss the ways in which this history impacts contemporary society

Investigate the history of slavery and discuss the ways in which this history impacts contemporary society
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Salafia, M. (2017). Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage along the Ohio River. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Salafia highlights the importance of the Ohio Valley in understanding slavery in the U.S. the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky in the Ohio Valley were united by economic and cultural factors, but were divided on the issue of slavery. There were no radical antislavery movements in borderlands, but there were disagreements about slavery with the elites in Ohio most in support of ablution.
Salafia teaches history programs mainly at North Dakota State University and the book emphasizes the Ohio River as a dividing the Ohio Valley region between areas with slavery and freedom. There was greater mobility in the legion in the 19th century at a time when there were steamboats, but surprisingly there was a blurred line between freedom and slavery was blurred since even free Africans were considered unfit for freedom. Salafia draws on literature from abolitionism slave narratives, travel accounts and census records.
Hammond, J. C. (2012). Slavery, settlement, and empire: The expansion and growth of slavery in the interior of the North American continent, 1770-1820. Journal of the Early Republic, 32(2), 175-206.
To Hammond (2012), the demand for slaves in America interior like Missouri County reflected patterns established by the Spanish in 18th century. Americans in Missouri increasingly called for the protection of whites against potentially rebellious slaves as had been established by the Spanish in the early 19th century. Nonetheless, as the Native Americans still controlled large territories, this inhibited the expansion of slavery in some areas, while the British and Spanish still lay claims to some of these lands.
The spread of continental slavery in the U.S interior had an international component as France, Britain, and Spain participated in slavery in the US and France even established plantations. The article is relevant in understanding how the imperial powers influences the spread of slavery in the U.S. the profitable plantation economy influences European American settlers to support the economically viable activity, and proslavery suppose wanted slaves to be recognized as property to justify the practice of protecting property.
Zeuske, M. (2012). Historiography and research problems of slavery and the slave trade in a global-historical perspective. International Review of Social History, 57(1), 87-111. doi. 10.1017/S0020859011000770
Zeuske (2012) use a global historical perspective to show that slavery and bondage went on beyond the imperial borders and while many were commodified especially slaves from West Africa, there were other enslavable subjects. Slavery is like free labor as capitalist expansion in the 18th and 19th century occurred at a time when there was greater demand for cheap labor. Prod...