Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, Part II
The following is Politics Daily's second excerpt from "Ten Hills Farm" (Princeton University Press, January 20, 1010.) When Massachusetts became the first colony in North America to formally endorse the ownership and sale of human property, it made legal what was already true. Black and Indian slavery, though not the norm, was well established. Now it would be sanctioned, too. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641 defined slavery in a way that satisfied Puritan pieties; yet the language made it clear that slavery would be welcome at more than a ship's distance. There should never be ...
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
It is impossible for our country to make real progress in a discussion of race if we continue to ignore half our nation's history. Yet few Americans understand the troubling realities of slavery in the North -- its extent, its violence, its pervasive grip. Instead, a comfortable amnesia has its hold. "Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North," (Princeton University Press, January 20, 2010) fills this gap, telling the powerful story of five generations of slave owners and slave traders who owned a 600-acre farm first settled by the famous Puritan John Winthrop in 1631. ...
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Haiti weeps. The world reacts. We try to grasp the numbers: as many as 50,000 dead, a population roughly the size of Iowa's (plus several hundred thousand more) rendered homeless in under an hour. Tragedy on an unimaginable scale. Behind all this, from time to time, there emerges a fatigue and incomprehension set so deep as almost to be audible: Haiti. Again. "One thing after another," says a frowning CBS reporter standing in the rubble during a morning newscast. Back in New York, someone asks if he has been able to find any Americans affected by the tragedy, as though that matters more, ...
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