Now, on American History tv, university of maryland professor Christopher Bonn or teaches a class about the concept of power and breach civil war slaves societies. He also discusses how the invention of the cotton gin resulted in the expansion of slavery. Okay, i want to get into. Its good morning, welcome back. Great to see you all today. What we are going to do is think through some Big Questions about Power Dynamics in american slave societies today. So, part of this is like a building on what we talked about last thursday. Last thursday we talked about gabriels conspiracy, richmond 1800. We talked in conspicuous about how it reflects the complexity of slavery. Slavery was relationship doing individuals, a person and another person. As an experience, slavery was endlessly complex. With gabriel, we saw some of the ways and enslaved person could enjoy some kinds of freedom within their bondage. So, different practices of power influence the ways different people experienced slavery. S
Conspiracy and it was endlessly complex. With gabriel we saw some of the ways that an enslaved person could enjoy some kinds of freedom within their bondage. So different practices of power influenced the ways different people experienced slavery. Today well talk through some of those practices of power. Our Big Questions today are broadly about this. So well come back to these questions at the end of class, questions about the ways that labor influenced the lives of enslaved people in the south and the particular tools to enslaved people and slave owners in struggles over power. In the early 19th century slave owners moved massive numbers of enslaved people into cotton producing territories. Through physical force, slave owners compelled enslaved people to work, and they made massive amounts of money based on the violent extraction of labor. Enslaved people worked and cultivated their own kinds of power through relationships with one another. So slaves did a number of things that enab
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The Manning Times is retelling a historical story each week during Black History Month. This week, the story is about the Macedonia Baptist Church, that suffered a horrible tragedy due to …