Investigate the history of slavery and discuss the ways in which this history impacts contemporary society

MY topic is:

• Investigate the history of slavery and discuss the ways in which this history impacts contemporary society
• Investigate the history of slavery and discuss the ways in which this history impacts contemporary society

IMPORTANT: It is extremely important that your essay meets the minimum required length of five pages.  Please note that this minimum requirement is for five full pages and this total is not to include your cover or reference pages.  (Keep in mind that a “full page” is a page entirely covered in text; therefore, a paper with four and one half pages of text would not meet the five page minimum requirement.  Similarly, an essay that occupies five full pages but includes charts, tables, and/or images within the body of the paper would not meet the five page minimum requirement.  Finally, I encourage everyone to take full advantage of the seven page limit to fully develop and detail his or her essay.)
Failure to meet the minimum length requirement will result (at minimum) in a 50% reduction in grade.
In addition, please note that your final essay must be accompanied by a properly formatted APA reference page–NOT an Annotated Bibliography.
Here are some additional reminders:
–Your essay must be written in third person–NOT first person.
–Your thesis statement should be posited as the final sentence of your introductory paragraph.
–Five pages is the minimum length requirement for this assignment; however, essays of only five pages often lack depth and development.  I suggest that you take full advantage of the seven page limit to fully detail and develop your essay and fully explore your topic.
–This is not an expository essay, therefore you must do more than simply provide information–you must argue in support of your thesis.
–This is a college level essay.  It must be properly formatted in accordance with APA guidelines; it must be free from errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.  It must be fully documented in accordance with APA requirements for documenting research–including appropriate in-text citations and reference page.
Impact of Slavery
(John W Blassingame, 1972)
This book establishes the presence of an African-American culture influenced by
African culture and that also influenced white culture. It describes African survivals such as foodways, musical instruments, and tools. It discusses the institution of slavery in terms of valuable for the interpreter in that it provides evidence for the presence of African-American culture and the significant influence of that culture on white society. It is often said that slavery was a long time ago; that surely the freedom and opportunity granted to the Negro people by emancipation has been sufficient to overcome the ravages of slavery; and that surely, contemporary white people and reap no benefit from this dark chapter in human history (John W Blassingame, 1972).
(Elkins, 1959)
This book provides a discussion of the historiography of slavery up until the 1950s. It presents an argument that the institution was so terrible that it can only be compared to Nazi concentration camps and psychologically destroyed enslaved peoples’ ability to resist and made them dependent on their masters. These ideas have repeatedly been refuted by later scholars but made a large contribution by provoking a larger examination of the culture of enslaved people as well as by describing slavery as a harsh and negative experience—at that time a largely unrecognized view. This book is helpful interpretively as it helps the reader understand the relatively recent departure from an interpretation that slavery was an unprofitable and necessary evil in which African-Americans were usually treated well and benefited from their relationships with whites. Such traditions and interpretations have educated many visitors (Elkins, 1959).
(Avidit Acharya, 2016)
This article shows that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South trace their origins to slavery’s prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action policies, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks. These results cannot be explained by existing theories, including the theory of racial threat. To explain the results, we offer evidence for a new theory involving the historical persistence of racial attitudes. We argue that, following the Civil War, Southern whites faced political and economic incentives to reinforce racist norms and institutions. This produced racially conservative political attitudes, which in turn have been passed down locally across generations. Our results challenge the interpretation of a vast literature on racial attitudes in the American South (Avidit Acharya, 2016).
(Robert Fogel, 1974)
This book used quantitative analysis to analyse the economic aspects of the institution of slavery. While many historians disagree with both its conclusions and methodology, the authors concluded that slave-owners made an ideological and economical choice when investing in slaves. They also make the argument that slavery was a profitable system for many. The book is valuable interpretively because it has been commonly read by audiences who are interested in the subject. It also addresses, to the satisfaction of many, the argument that slavery was unprofitable (Robert Fogel, 1974).
(Stampp, 1956).
This book encouraged later historians to consider the origins of the institution of slavery, the profitability of the institution, the motives of slave owners, the harshness of the system, and ways in which enslaved African-Americans affected the institution. This book uses descriptions of specific events that illustrate the broader workings, behaviors, attitudes, practices, relationships, and evolution of the institution of slavery throughout the southern United States. For example, Stamp discusses: strategies slave-owners used to try and control those they enslaved; the diet and workloads of enslaved people; the role, opportunities. 
And limitations to freedom experienced by free African-Americans: and ways in which enslaved people resisted their owners and the institution in general. This book is extremely valuable to the interpreter because it provides, baseline and critical information as to the workings of the institution of slavery (Stampp, 1956).