The Wombs, The Market & The Cotton Kingdom: How Slavery Reproduced Itself After 1808
1808 & the Illusion of Progress HISTORY often presents the year 1808 as a moral turning point. That was the year the United States ended the legal importation of enslaved Africans. On paper, the decision appeared to place a limit on one of the most brutal systems in modern history. In reality, the institution remained […]
