Signs of Grace: Protestant Pro-slavery Rhetoric of Disability in the 19th Century by Calli Micale

“…This archival analysis of 19th-century Protestant pro-slavery rhetoric shows that positive evaluations of disability concealed debilitation practices on plantations. …”
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'Shrewd Sirens of Humanity': the changing shape of pro-slavery arguments in the Netherlands (1789-1814) by Pepjin Brandon

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Abolición y persistencia de la esclavitud indígena en Chile Colonial: Estrategias esclavistas en la frontera Araucano-Mapuche Abolition and persistence of indigenous slavery in Colonial Chile: pro-Slavery strategies at de the Araucano-Mapuche border area by Jimena Paz Obregón Iturra, José Manuel Zavala Cepeda

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Perbudakan dalam Perjanjian Lama: Sebuah Kajian Tekstual dan Intertekstual atas Teks-teks Perbudakan dalam Perjanjian Lama by Yohanes Rahdianto Suprandono, Robert Setio

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‘Not that of mere accident, but of humane treatment’: natural increase and ‘amelioration’ on Grand Sable Estate, St Vincent by Smith, S

“…Exceptionally for a Caribbean plantation, Grand Sable’s enslaved population achieved natural increase (a surplus of births over deaths). Pro-slavery campaigners seized on this achievement to support the cause of gradualist amelioration and to oppose metropolitan regulation of slavery, especially emancipation. …”

Staging a Different Kind of Rebellion: Fighting Racial Stereotypes as Resistance in Slave Narratives by Marie-Pierre Baduel

“…They questioned the concept of race itself through a network of images involving skin color and blood as vectors of ethnicity and identity, and they blurred the color line in many ways. Dehumanization by pro-slavery activists – and even abolitionists – was indeed the main issue black people faced and resisted against. …”
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Jean-Jacques et Hippolyte, deux commandeurs meneurs de grève, ou comment sonner l’alarme à la sucrerie des Manquets (Saint-Domingue, 1782) by Jean-Louis Donnadieu

“…Studying family papers and plantation estates may be useful to discover new items about the former pro-slavery colonial society in the Americas. For instance, in 1782 on the Manquets sugar estate (in l’Acul, northern Saint-Domingue), a slaves’ strike led by two drivers, Jean-Jacques and Hippolyte, occured. …”
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Thomas Carlyle and the Politics of Race in John Mitchel’s Jail Journal by Edward Molloy

“…This double reading will expose some of the ambiguities and ambivalences in Mitchel’s thinking in contrast to the strident pro-slavery position that he later embraced, whilst also allowing for an uncovering of his modus cogitandi that may help to explain apparent contradictions within his thought.…”
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De l’inévitable retour de la légende du vieux Sud : 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2014), vers une revision du film de plantation hollywoodien ? by Maureen Lepers

“…Told from a black slave’s point of view, 12 Years a Slave clearly disengages itself from the idealistic hollywoodian pro-slavery Old South. Still, the relationship it shares with the southern cinematic imagery might very well inder its political impact. …”
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Speaking for the slave: Britain and the Cape, 1751-1838 by M. Lenta

“…To present the slave as one whose inferiority rendered him incapable of pleading his cause was a device of the pro-slavery group; to pretend that consultation was impossible was another, though people who offered this defence were often surrounded by slaves. …”
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Assemblage Point: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the American Racial / Cultural Identity Model by Olga Yu. Panova

“…The analysis of The Planter’s Northern Bride (1854) by Caroline Lee Hentz, a typical example of anti-Tom novels, gives an idea of the pro-slavery response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The final part of the paper is a survey of the main stages in African American response since the 1853 argument between Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass that became a matrix for the further polemic, and up to Henry Louis Gates’s subversive “double-voiced” interpretation of the novel which is in full agreement with the tendency to revise the role of white Abolitionists in the antislavery movement and African American history, typical for African American studies in the 1990s–2000s.…”
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AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR REPARATIONISTS by Michael Conklin

“…And what if a particular pro-slavery reparations argument was presented by a White person instead of an African American, would that change the way it was received?  …”
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