SOC 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Manumission
31 Mar 2018
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02. 21. 18: announcement: there is a speaker coming to the 4:30-6:00 class on. Monday to talk about how data on race is collected and going to be discussing the census as well: reading discussed the founding of the united states. How colonies were founded on economic status. First contact between white settlers & indigenous people who were already living there. The slave trade & how it enriched the us economically basically built the. Westward expansion & related removable of people who were already there. Manifest destiny: americans had the god-given right to take what they wanted as long as it expanded western civilization: ny slavery records index reading: A database that allows you to look up info on census records from the period when slavery still existed. Contains a lot of info about how many slaves there were living in the ny state. Have details about the ship manifests that carried the slaves over.
