i talk to chenger cumanika, a communications and media studies professor at clemson university. He's helping me flesh out what we're discovering in the seeing white series. i tell changer how important it was for me to learn about the step by step creation of american slavery and of whiteness in colonial times. The virginia slave codes mark like a crucial turning point on with those laws,. I mean, one thing is that you know when a slave is resisting his master, if the slave is killed in that process they wouldn't be counted as a felony? Then it wouldn’t be counted as an accusation. And every other person accused of giving such correction shall
Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the construction of Whiteness as we know it today. By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Key sources for this episode:
The Racial Equity Institute
Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People