Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery: The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860

Jentz, John B.; Cunliffe, Marcus

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“…Black slaves, along with Native Americans, were pushed to the bottom of the racial hierarchy in the United States through a series of institutional means. In one pertinent example, chattel slavery worked to set forth the racial hierarchy system in the United States that persisted in a series of informal ways immediately following the eradication of the institution of slavery (Cunliffe 2008;Echols 2022). U.S. democracy has long been described as "The White Man's Republic," which Jardina and Mickey describe as being threatened by Black encroachment on white power: "Rather than rehearsing claims about Blacks' racial inferiority, adherents to this vision instead argued that Black political equality betrayed America's purpose at the expense of White group interests" (Jardina and Mickey 2022, 82).…”

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Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy

Thompson,

Beveridge,

McCabe

et al. 2024

Perspect. polit.

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Racial violence is central to the American polity. We argue that support for violence, specifically anti-Black violence, has a long historical arc in American politics dating back to chattel slavery. In this paper, we argue that the racial violence associated with the “great replacement” conspiracy is much more pervasive among the white American public because of the historical legacy of anti-Black violent sentiment. To investigate the prevalence of this idea, we conducted a preregistered simple priming experiment aimed to tap into top-of-mind ideas about racial demographic change. Our experimental design spans multiple data sources, including two probability samples, over the course of a year. We ultimately find that simply priming attitudes about racial demographic change through a single open-ended question consistently leads to increased support for political violence, increasing racial resentment, and expressed anti-Black views. Our approach allows us to test this question through variant methodological means, all of which confirm strong associations Americans have between racial demographic change, anti-Blackness, and violence. Our findings demonstrate that Black threat is an important driver of democratic backsliding in the realm of political violence that requires further attention.

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Section: The Historical Relationship Between Anti-black Sentiments An...mentioning

confidence: 99%