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The Historical Archaeology of the Black Radical Tradition
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[...] “The general opinion seems to have been that the negroes were worked too hard, and … that this was often deliberately done, as many masters considered it cheaper to buy slaves than to breed them.”166 As a consequence, the colony was forced to import Africans at a rate, which, by the time of the revolution, had grown to at least 40,000 each year. In turn, Stoddard recognized, “One of the most important considerations for the history of the Revolution in San Domingo is the fact that a majority of the negro population was African-born.”
[...] “The general opinion seems to have been that the negroes were worked too hard, and … that this was often deliberately done, as many masters considered it cheaper to buy slaves than to breed them.”166 As a consequence, the colony was forced to import Africans at a rate, which, by the time of the revolution, had grown to at least 40,000 each year. In turn, Stoddard recognized, “One of the most important considerations for the history of the Revolution in San Domingo is the fact that a majority of the negro population was African-born.”
integument
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(noun) something that covers or encloses / (noun) an enveloping layer (as a skin, membrane, or cuticle) of an organism or one of its parts
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that form the integument for both the recovery and the reconstruction of these events
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that form the integument for both the recovery and the reconstruction of these events
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In other words, those peoples who had in the most early era of the colony’s development as a plantation and mining economy served as the source of labor were seen as pliable and naturally agrarian; those whose recruitment coincided with the region’s beginning of urbanization and secondary manufacturing were also naturally inclined to those niches to which they were disposed. And, as we have already suggested, the collective myth denied the possibility of African resistance to slavery through its reliance on manageable characteristics: “docility” and “enterprising.” [...]
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In other words, those peoples who had in the most early era of the colony’s development as a plantation and mining economy served as the source of labor were seen as pliable and naturally agrarian; those whose recruitment coincided with the region’s beginning of urbanization and secondary manufacturing were also naturally inclined to those niches to which they were disposed. And, as we have already suggested, the collective myth denied the possibility of African resistance to slavery through its reliance on manageable characteristics: “docility” and “enterprising.” [...]
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