351 Nicole Maskiell, Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland
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English - February 14, 2023 06:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsHistory Society & Culture americanrevolution benfranklin benjaminfranklin colonialamerica earlyamericanhistory earlyamericanrepublic earlyrepublic education history ushistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
African chattel slavery, the predominant type of slavery practiced in colonial North America and the early United States, did not represent one monolithic practice of slavery. Practices of slavery varied by region, labor systems, legal codes, and empire.
Slavery also wasn’t just about enslavers enslaving people for their labor. Enslavers used enslaved people to make statements about their social status, as areas of economic investment that built generational wealth, and as a form of currency.
Nicole Maskiell, an associate professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of Bound By Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of the Northern Gentry, joins us to investigate the practice of slavery in Dutch New Netherland and how the colony’s elite families built their wealth and power on the labor, skills, and bodies of enslaved Africans and African Americans.
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