bondage

Examples of bondage in the following topics:

• Slave Labor

  • The highly developed and knowledgeable skills concerning rice planting possessed by slaves led to their successful ability to use these skills as a bargaining chip in determining the length and conditions of their bondage in the Americas.

• Black and White Abolitionism

  • Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), a former slave whose memoirs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) and My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), became bestsellers which aided the cause of abolition.

• Slave Families

  • Since slave parents were primarily responsible for training their children, they could cushion the shock of bondage for them, help them to understand their situation, teach them values different from those their masters tried to instill in them, and give them a referent for self-esteem other than the master.”

• Forming a Slave Community

  • Since slave parents were primarily responsible for training their children, they could cushion the shock of bondage for them, help them to understand their situation, teach them values different from those their masters tried to instill in them, and give them a referent for self-esteem other than the master. "

• Slavery and Politics

  • Most slave owners also believed that a domestic slave population was less dangerous than an imported one; captured Africans appeared more openly rebellious than African Americans who were born in American bondage and molded from birth in the Southern plantation slave system.

• Indentured Servants

  • Unlike slaves, servants could look forward to a release from bondage.

• Early American Slavery

  • This led to a race-based slavery system in the New World unlike any bondage system that had come before.

• The Muckrakers

  • Edwin Markham (1852–1940) - published an exposé of child labor in Children in Bondage (1914) Frank Norris (1870–1902) The Octopus Mrs.