White Slavery In The North Summary

Before reading Slavery in the North by Shane White I was not familiar with the slavery that took place in the north. Shane White talks about northern slaves by stating “we would expect them to be well acculturated to white society. Yet evidence from an archaeological dig at Parting Ways hints at a more complex picture.” Shane’s point of view is believing that the blacks had a harder time adapting to white society than we thought. However, I believe slaves in the north were able to acculturate into white society unlike Shane. The reasons why I believe this are the north's beliefs, slaves fighting in the civil war alongside white soldiers and they were valuable workers.
The first way freed northern slaves were able to acculturate into the north