Matt where do slave holders rank what were the slaves sources of information Joanna what strengthened
a slaves sense of kinship with their peers
with other slaves The American College of History and Legal Studies Invites you to an ACHLS Harkness Discussion Method History Class With Pulitzer Prize Nominated Historian and ACHLS Founding Dean Michael Chesson Discussing Leslie Howard Owens' The Species Of Property -Slave Life and Culture 0:00:37.350,0:00:39.700 Did you think earning your B.A. wouldn't be fun? 0:00:39.700,0:00:44.090 what's Owens' conclusion about the underlying purpose of these patrols
allusion of security
make it seem like there was actually something in place that you can get into a severe amount of trouble for if you try
and do something bad did you think of a modern parallel 0:00:55.550,0:00:56.300 what about those crack TSA agents at the airports
that screen you
nothing gets through them right no that's not true 0:01:05.880,0:01:10.710 wasn't there the underwear bomber clear subversive we'll have to keep an eye on Matt
they're running away because they're suffering from mental illness 0:01:13.390,0:01:19.560 what other reason could there be
why run away from something that you have that's so good some people may say so have a place there that your clothed you get food that's what Cartwright couldn't believe and that's what a lot of southern slave holders couldn't believe
especially if you believe that 1840 census which says that free blacks have this very high rate of insanity they can't take care of themselves etc. etc.
so it must have just been the run away slaves that.. that's a connection that i don't know they ever made
that's sort of they have to be crazy to run away
but run away slave were property
I like it
that's that's something Cartwright didn't think of or John Calhoun either for that matter I think that's pretty good
what if you have children were these slaves married? l arrangement what do you mean by marriage
they had different ideas of a
union union nichol is a much better word than marriage
they did until she was taken away I image it kept them continuing on if they didn't have it they would probably
just as Dan was saying just run away and not even turn back to me this is one of the more horrible aspects of a horrible thing 0:02:20.639,0:02:26.489 the fact that you might live with the same person sleep with the same person have children with the same person and even grandchildren
over a fifty year period
and at the drop of a hat be separated
did it happen as often as
as they
or is it the threat of I think it's more of a threat but on the other hand generalizing here over four million people
by eighteen sixty
you could expect to be sold
yeah you could expect to be sold
at least once in your lifetime set he says later on to that it was like
families
if they were separated it was like
a good thing if you were at least like two or three plantations over from your husband or wife you lucked out if that was the case 0:03:11.290,0:03:17.769 why nicole might it actually be a good thing not to be on the same plantation as your significant other
if you did something wrong couldn't they punish the other person too 0:03:23.730,0:03:26.829 but
yeah
it would drain the union
because he said that a lot of the times 0:03:39.909,0:03:42.019 the husband or the wife they would get whipped 0:03:42.019,0:03:45.369 and the other person would just have to sit there and you can't say anything
what if your woman is the property of a guy who sexually assaults his slave women or his son does it you wouldn't be able to do anything about it 0:03:45.980,0:03:48.779 there's absolutely nothing you can do
that's not going to cost you your own life again that might be some motivation to 0:03:53.459,0:03:57.399 run away
could the patrol's membership and efficiency be guaranteed?
I was reading my
sort of like a modern parallel
but like the opposite of this
he said in Malden and everet and medford there's a group
called the red berets that patrol the streets do any of you think that modern scholars ever read into or perhaps project their own opinions 0:04:35.809,0:04:38.210 they have in every single book we've got deeply they go into this research with preconceived thoughts often they do
you're looking for documentation for something that
you've already thought about
the primary sources of the era are also not going to have the knowledge of today
they're not going to b able to interpret suicide the same way scholars today would be able to
when he writes about dimension in this chapter
even religion too you could question that
concentration camp if you're going to work 'em you work 'em to death and then someone takes their place 0:05:13.879,0:05:14.759 huh
however sensational satellite cultural concentration camps were there a lot of concentration camp survivors
some
also too when the concentration camps were taken down the the society that created them was also taken away 0:05:26.859,0:05:32.479 where here the society here after the cicil war was restrained a little bit but it wasn't taken away