Edward Ball Quotes
There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.
Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
He was the last Pope to hold temporal power. This defense of slavery was all the more surprising because America was fighting about the issue in the Civil War and nations like England had abolished slavery. 99 years later Vatican II altered Pius IX’s statement forever. See {612715}.
The perception of the necessity of slavery was evident very early in the South.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. Although critical of the behavior of Africans involvement in the slave trade, Person-Lynn maintains that there was a qualitative difference between African concepts of slavery where the enslavement was conceptually of human beings whereas the chattel slavery of the Atlantic trade considered the slaves as sub-human property. It is arguable as to which of the two views is the greater moral failure, but many regard it as a difference not worth much in that both views were grossly immoral and had devastating consequences for a large number of people.
See the Vermont Constitution for another variant of how slavery was abolished: {616994}
The cotton industry and slavery were a very important part of the economy of Providence, RI. The Rhode Island cotton mills were supplied by Southern cotton produced by slaves and carried from the South on Rhode Island ships. Many of the southern slaves were kidnapped from Africa from Rhode Island slave trading ships. When the slave trade was made illegal, Brown was the first slave trader prosecuted. His brother, Moses Brown, a vehement abolitionist was one of the men who brought the prosecution.
This license was issued for Spain in 1517 shortly after he was crowned. This was the beginning of the Slave Trade where Spain shipped kidnapped Africans as slaves to the West Indies.
In contrast to Massachusetts with had passed a law in 1641 banning slavery (Quote 643567), Maryland 22 years later became to first state to pass a law to formally recognize and allow Negro slavery.
In the early days of the Civil War slaves who escaped and reached the Northern lines were routinely returned to their Southern owners as the Fugitive Slave Act required. The first actual emancipation of the Civil war was not the President’s proclamation but was Butler who as a Union General ordered that the slaves escaping from Virginia no longer be returned. He was accused of violating the then existing law, however he had a legal rationale which hoisted Virginia on its own petard.
Edward Ball is an American author with six books of history and biography. The Ball Family Slaveholder Index (BFSI) reports that between 1698 and 1865, six generations of Ball family "owned more than twenty rice plantations in Lowcountry South Carolina and enslaved nearly 4,000 Africans and African Americans." Edward Ball, who completed his MA in 1984, began research into his family complex history and a series of books including Slaves in the Family in 1998 and the Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy in 2020. In Slaves in the Family he described his great-great grandfather, Isaac Ball (1785-1825)—a fifth generation of the Ball family slaveholders—who had inherited the Comingtee plantation, near Charleston, and owned 571 enslaved people. In the Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, he told the story of his maternal great-great-grandfather, Constant Lecorgne (1832 - ), who had been officially classified as "colored", had changed his name, passed as white, and became an "embittered racist".
