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“The theory of laboring class unity rests upon the assumption that laborers, despite internal jealousies, will unite because of their opposition to exploitation by the capitalists…Most persons do not realize how far this failed to work in the South, and it failed to work because the theory of race was supplemented by a carefully planned and slowly evolved method, which drove such a wedge between the white and black workers that there are probably not today in the world two groups of workers with practically identical interests who hate and fear each other so deeply and persistently and who are kept so far apart that neither sees anything of common interest.”–W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction (1935)Listen to Episode 1 of The History of American Slavery from SlatePlease listen to the following podcast about how slavery in America became inheritable and racialized and take notes. As you listen apply sociological imagination to the life of Anthony Johnson. This podcast episode explores the process through which slavery became racialized in North America but also shows us how history could have gone in different directions than it did.here (Links to an external site.)