ABSTRACT
The resurgence of interest in the role chattel slavery has played in US capital growth has been marked by an abiding emphasis on the Cotton Kingdom. It is worth noting that the same period that witnessed tremendous brutality in the service of greater productivity in the US Cotton Kingdom witnessed unprecedented mobility and enhanced working conditions for enslaved workers in other industries, namely those operating in hazardous enterprises, artisanal professions, and those working as bureaucrats. John Maples court case against Mitty and Sarah ultimately failed. The courts noted that his parents Nathan and Mary Maples had already passed away. Phillip and Jenny Broxton were also deceased. The problem with identity politics is not that it fails to transcend difference, as some critics charge, but rather the opposite—that it frequently flattens or ignores intragroup differences. The Combahee River Collective made this point forcefully in 1977, and Crenshaw elaborated it in 1991.
