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The role of gender in interracial divorce dynamics, found in social studies by Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King, was highlighted when examining marital instability among Black/White unions. [25] White wife/Black husband marriages show twice the divorce rate of White wife/White husband couples by the 10th year of marriage, [25] whereas ...
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a nonfiction history book by Stephanie Jones-Rogers. They Were Her Property is "the first extensive study of the role of Southern white women in the plantation economy and slave-market system" and disputes conventional wisdom that white women played a passive or minimal role in slaveholding.
Interracial marriage. A multiracial European family walking in the park. Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities . In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid -era South Africa as miscegenation.
The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [ 1][ 2] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment ...
By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South. [ 5] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. However, The first "documented slave ...
Sally Hemings. Sarah " Sally " Hemings ( c. 1773 – 1835) was a female enslaved person with one-quarter African ancestry who was enslaved by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings, [ 1] the daughter of an enslaved woman and an English ...
Jackson traded in enslaved people between 1788 and 1844, both for "personal use" on his property and for-profit through slave arbitrage. [1]Jackson's "negro speculation" slave sales took place in the Natchez District of Spanish West Florida, a North American colony of Spain bounded by the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, and the Chattahoochee River, in what is now the U.S. states of ...
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