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Phase One 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kmdenton3  Phase Two 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States 2. The rapid expansion of the cotton industry in the Deep South after the invention of the cotton gin greatly increased demand for slave labor, and the Southern states continued as slave societies. (“Slavery in the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Oct. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States.) 3. Firor, Nicholas. "Plantation Energy: From Slave Labor to Machine Discipline." American Quarterly. vol. 72. no. 3, 2020, pp. 559-579. 4. DOI: 10.1353/aq.2020.0035 5. "Early on in the plantation zone, black slaves were used for their metabolic energy alongside mules and horses, but by the turn of the nineteenth century, plantations fashioned as industrial operations and steam engines began to replace pack animals."

Phase Three 1. Slavery as a Positive Good in the United States Tushnet, Mark. The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanities and Interest. Princeton University Press, 2019. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/64806. This article provides insight into what the socioeconomic standpoint was for slaves in America. They were “workers labor power” and looked at as “economic gain”, rather than humans. This article details cases that were held in American courts, with the goal of defining a line between inhumane slavery and lawfulness. Welcome to Stanford InfoLab Publication Server - Stanford ... dbpubs.stanford.edu:8091/~testbed/doc2/WebBase/site_lists/2002MarchCrawl.tx. The chapter “The Record of African Americans”, details how slaves were looked at by whites in America. This chapter begins by acknowledging the discrimination against African Americans solely because of their skin color. African Americans were looked at and treated as lesser. They were put into jobs with no choice, that came with violent consequences.  Phase Four 1. "In an examination of Southern slave law between 1810 and 1860, Mark Tushnet reveals a structured dichotomy between slave labor systems and bourgeois systems of production. Whereas the former rest on the total dominion of the master over the slave and necessitate a concern for the slave's humanity, the latter rest of the purchase by the capitalist of a worker's labor power only and are concerned primarily with economic interest. Focusing on a wide range of issues that include contract and accident law as well as criminal law and the law of manumission, he shows how Southern slave law had to respond to the competing pressures of humanity and interest." 2. Slaves were “workers labor power” and looked at as “economic gain”, rather than humans. 3. 4. This chapter begins by acknowledging the discrimination against African Americans solely because of their skin color; African Americans were looked at and treated as lesser and they were put into jobs with no choice, that came with violent consequences. 5. "On a plantation with more than 100 slaves, the capital value of the slaves was greater than the capital value of the land and farming implements"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_economy) Slaves were “workers labor power” and looked at as “economic gain”, rather than humans. (Tushnet, Mark. The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanities and Interest. Princeton University Press, 2019. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/64806.) 6. "Discrimination based on skin or hair color, also known as colorism, or shadeism, is a form of prejudice and/or discrimination in which people who share similar ethnicity traits or perceived race are treated differently based on the social implications that come with the cultural meanings that are attached to skin color.[1]"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color) This chapter begins by acknowledging the discrimination against African Americans solely because of their skin color; African Americans were looked at and treated as lesser and they were put into jobs with no choice, that came with violent consequences.