000003283 001__ 3283 000003283 005__ 20240523053859.0 000003283 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.3283 000003283 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bThesis 000003283 041__ $$aeng 000003283 245__ $$aWhen The Family Feuds: Black Cross-Cultural Conflict and the Miseducation of Slavery in Contemporary America 000003283 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000003283 269__ $$a2021-08 000003283 336__ $$aThesis 000003283 502__ $$bM.A. 000003283 520__ $$aThis thesis examines the relationship between popular history and the misleading narratives about trans-Atlantic slavery, through an archival and ethnographic analysis of slavery history. Several generations of false textbook narratives and convenient whitewashing of historical accounts have given birth to a multitude of erroneous accounts of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery. Some narratives have been corrected in academic canon through rigorous archival investigation and ethnography; however, the widespread narrative that has had a pernicious life—not even an afterlife—in contemporary discourses is the notion that ‘Africans sold their own kinfolk into slavery.’ Neither textbook accounts nor academic scholarship have reached a consensus on the language or vocabulary necessary to address the African role in the Atlantic slave trade. Using archival investigation, semi-structured interviews, and online ethnography, I examine the relationship between academic scholarship, textbook history, and informal discourses on slavery and show that the narrative of wholesale African blame for the slave trade has negatively impacted Black intra-racial relations between Black diasporic groups in the United States. I also explain how textbook accounts gloss over essential facts about Atlantic slavery: (1) the chattelization of enslaved Africans of various ethnic and ethnoreligious differences; (2) U.S. and European implied allowances for slavery and slave trading long after abolition efforts were made; (3) the frequency of slave rebellions in the Americas; and (4) the logics of slaveholding societies in Brazil and the Caribbean that are deeply linked to the conditions of slavery in the United States. 000003283 542__ $$fCC BY-NC-SA 000003283 6531_ $$aslavery 000003283 6531_ $$aAtlantic slavery 000003283 6531_ $$aonline ethnography 000003283 6531_ $$atextbooks 000003283 6531_ $$aAfrican diaspora 000003283 6531_ $$aanti-blackness 000003283 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division 000003283 691__ $$aMA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) 000003283 7001_ $$aFasehun, Osa$$uUniversity of Chicago 000003283 72012 $$aRyan Cecil Jobson 000003283 72014 $$aMary Ella Wilhoit 000003283 8564_ $$92ed9b4a7-7e08-43df-89b4-9e4326b6d870$$s449663$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3283/files/Osa%20Fasehun_MA%20Thesis_2021-08.pdf$$ePublic 000003283 908__ $$aI agree 000003283 909CO $$ooai:uchicago.tind.io:3283$$pGLOBAL_SET$$pTheses 000003283 983__ $$aThesis