“Social and institutional legacies of slavery”

Social legacies

These are social consequences or patterns inherited from the period of slavery.

Examples:

• ideas of Black inferiority;
• racial prejudice;
• established social expectations concerning Black labor;
• patterns of racial interaction.

Institutional legacies

These are patterns within institutions that were shaped by slavery and could influence later institutions.

For example:

• labor arrangements;
• property distribution;
• political structures;
• legal practices;
• local systems of racial control.

Again, this does not mean that the institution of slavery itself legally continued.

It means:

its effects could outlast its legal existence.