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...great show but wasn’t really expecting anything too Tupac-esque. “Harvard students usually write things in books, not like this,” said Anderson. But many would be surprised to find the dis, “You’re a slave, I’m a white girl, don’t look at me,” as freestyled by Darryl W. Finkton ’10 in any book checked out from Widener. Its retort, “On your face I might be forced to pee… like...
...there were two peculiar features of Jamestown's, and more broadly Virginia's, transition to a fully functioning slave society that were to have fateful consequences for black Americans. One was the presumption, by the end of the 17th century, that a black person was a slave. The second was the hostility toward manumission and freed blacks generally, leading to laws requiring freed persons to leave the colony. In all the other slave societies of the hemisphere, including those of the French and British, manumission was not uncommon and resulted in the growth of significant freed nonwhite populations, some...
...1660s, the labor equation changed: increased supplies made it cheaper to buy African slaves than white indentures, and the former were also considered less rebellious. The turn toward black slavery did not reduce the inflow of white immigrants, as happened in the sugar islands. Instead, a large white population developed of small and even midsize farmers who relied on their own or nonslave white labor. As the black population grew and increasingly became the labor force of lite whites, both attitudes and laws changed. By 1662 the children of all slave women were declared slaves in perpetuity. Five years...
...reason was the distinctive demographic pattern that began to take shape by the last quarter of the 17th century. Virginia and the other Southern states were the only large-scale slave regimes in which white settlers, committed to the creation of a new social order, remained in the majority and thus had no incentive to create alliances with free blacks or mixed populations. The second reason is offered by Yale historian Edmund Morgan in his celebrated study of Virginia: the lite, fearful of an insurrectionary union of white servants and slaves, actively promoted racism and a racially exclusive popular...
...many would be surprised to find the dis, “You’re a slave, I’m a white girl, don’t look at me,” as freestyled by Darryl W. Finkton ’10 in any book checked out from Widener. Its retort, “On your face I might be forced to pee… like R. Kelly” by Malcolm R. Rivers ’09 would also probably not please an Expos preceptor...