History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1690 short lesson, about 20 seconds
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The idea
Slaveholders forced enslaved men and women together, and routinely raped enslaved women, and the anchor says the resulting births significantly expanded slavery.
In practice
Frederick Douglass recording that enslavers sold their own children by enslaved women to appease White wives who despised the offspring.
Where people slip
Douglass escaped Maryland in eighteen thirty-eight and published his narrative in eighteen forty-five. Unit 13 covers his abolitionist career.
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