Slavery – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 26 May 2026 14:21:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Slavery – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Slavery and Families in the Ancient World: Kinship, Property, and Survival https://brewminate.com/slavery-families-ancient-world/ Tue, 26 May 2026 14:02:44 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=273509 Ancient slavery did not erase family life among the enslaved; it made kinship conditional, fragile, and vulnerable to

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]]> Shattering Families in the Transatlantic Slave Trade https://brewminate.com/shattering-families-slave-trade/ Tue, 26 May 2026 14:01:29 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=273516 The transatlantic and domestic slave trades shattered enslaved families through capture, sale, forced migration, and law, yet kinship

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]]> The Brothers of Jane Austen Who Engaged in Antislavery Activism https://brewminate.com/jane-austen-brothers-antislavery-activism/ Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=240393 Jane Austen’s brothers moved within Britain’s abolition-era world, where naval service, empire, reform, and moral politics shaped antislavery

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]]> The Shaping of the Myth That Hebrew Slaves Built the Egyptian Pyramids https://brewminate.com/hebrew-slaves-built-pyramids-myth/ Fri, 22 May 2026 14:02:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=273407 The myth that Hebrew slaves built the pyramids fused Exodus, Herodotus, medieval legend, and Hollywood into one powerful

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]]> Harmful Friends and Deadly Frenemies during American Slavery https://brewminate.com/harmful-friends-american-slavery/ Tue, 12 May 2026 14:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=273078 Under slavery, trust could become deadly, as kidnappers, false allies, paternalists, and conditional reformers turned “help” into danger.

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]]> Using Slaves to Avoid the Draft: The Confederate Draft Law of 1862 https://brewminate.com/twenty-negro-law-confederate-conscription/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:01:00 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=271139 Confederate conscription exposed deep class divisions, as the “Twenty Negro Law” exempted slaveholders, fueling resentment among soldiers who

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]]> “You Shall Not Buy from Us”: Abolitionist Boycotts and Moral Power https://brewminate.com/you-shall-not-buy-from-us-abolitionist-boycotts-and-moral-power/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:58:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=269671 Slavery was sustained not only by violence on plantations or decisions in Parliament, but by the routine flow

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]]> Hopes and Actions: Photographing Abolitionist John Brown in 1846 https://brewminate.com/hopes-and-actions-photographing-abolitionist-john-brown-in-1846/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:44:10 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=237532 The pose is fascinating for all it suggests about Brown’s hopes for the country and the actions he

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]]> Remembering the History of Our Abolitionist Ancestors https://brewminate.com/remembering-the-history-of-our-abolitionist-ancestors/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:39:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=190532 George and his wife, Caroline, secretly—and dangerously—used their home as a stop on the Underground Railroad. What do

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]]> Traditional African Religions, Christianity, and the Syncretic Struggle for Spiritual Survival https://brewminate.com/traditional-african-religions-christianity-and-the-syncretic-struggle-for-spiritual-survival/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:07:09 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266994 The encounter between African religions and Christianity in the Americas produced spiritual systems that were neither simple adaptations

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