South” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) 294-300. According to Rabatoteau
slaves stressed the stores of Exodus and the Sermon on Mount thus providing them
with hope in the darkness of slavery.
Footnote16
Slave owners out special emphasis on sections of the Bible which justified
slavery, such as the Hamitic Hypothesis, the Apostle Paul’s letter to Phileon a
slave owner, and the Hebrew Slaves.
Footnote17
Eric Foner, Reconstruction America’s Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper &
Row Company, 1989) xxi-xxiv..
Footnote18
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Bantam Company, 1989) xxxi.
Footnote19
Ibid., 3.
Footnote20
Ibid., 147.
Footnote21
Ibid., 151.
Footnote22
Ibid., 153.
Footnote23
Ibid., xxxii.
Footnote24
Ibid., 187.
Footnote25
August Meier, Negro thought in America 1880-1915 (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1966) 230-232.
Footnote26
Paula Giddings, When and Where I Enter (New York: Quill William Morrow, 1984)
184. Paula Giddings points out how black women were stereotyped into three
categories, the sexless suffering Aunt Jamima, the seductive temptress Jezebel,
and the evil manipulative Sapphire. These are just some of the negative
stereotypes of Blacks that formed on the white side of the veil.
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