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Race has played a key role in American life-style from the early colonial days to the present. Thus, it is a more important determinant of political behavior than class, particularly for Black Americans. (Author/MC)

Describes the formation of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and the Congregation of the Holy Family, two orders of Black nuns founded in the American South prior to the Civil War for the purposes of educating Black children and caring for orphans and elderly, abandoned slaves. (GC)

Describes how Jean-Baptiste Belley-Mars, a former slave, influenced Haitian history through his role in arguing for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies at the 1794 Paris National Convention. (MJL)

John Brown's death did not cause the Civil War; it precipitated the conflict. Many ministers anticipated the war and hurried its outbreak by canonizing a fanatic. By 1859, the abolitionists needed a martyr to infuse new emotion into their cause and seized upon John Brown to fill this role. (Author/GC)

Discusses the slavery of African American women at Sea Islands in South Carolina. Slaves present in South Carolina and Georgia; Forms of slavery as related to sexual division of labor; Conditions of female slaves at Sea Island cotton plantation; Components of communal life in Sea Island.

Discusses the treatment of African American women in the Caribbean society. Approach used by white capitalists to analyzed the conditions of African women; Phases in the devaluation process of African women; Sex structure of the slave population in Barbados from 1801-1832.