Slavery and abolition of slavery

Reveals that slavery has remained embedded in private law well after its ostensible demise.

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources

Interrogates the traditional binary ''slave societies''/''societies with slaves'' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.

Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.

Examines the creation of ''sporting plantations'' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.

An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.

The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America''s efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.

Elizabeth Heyrick fought fiercely for the rights of oppressed people.

En 1782, en una ciudad de los Andes del Virreinato del Perú, un español pobre inicia un juicio contra un comerciante del lugar para obligarlo a venderle su esclava mulata.

"e;A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 1/2 centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World.

Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong?

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists.

Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, Larry E.

The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion.

The end of slavery left millions of former slaves destitute in a South as unsettled as they were.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

As a young man, John B.

Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave.