Slavery and abolition of slavery

Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement, and interracial marriage before the Civil War.

In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A.

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

This is the first major English-language and scholarly biography of Bartolomé de las Casas'' life in a generation.

Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Reunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "e;Okah Tubbee.

Manumission-the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues-has received relatively little scholarly attention as compared to other aspects of slavery and emancipation.

Anna Kingsley's life story adds a dramatic chapter to histories of the South, the state of Florida, and the African diaspora.

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On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation.

Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period.

This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented.

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

*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X.

In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question of human bondage.

The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery.

An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines.

This concise biography of Harriet Tubman, the African American abolitionist, explores her various roles as an Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, and women's rights advocate.

Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help.

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history.

For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country's history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall to the Black British intellectuals who made London a hub of radical, Pan-African ideas.

This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film.

Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has.

Christa Dierksheide argues that "e;enlightened"e; slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world.

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology.

From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as their material basis.

City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina.

A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom.

This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey's ground-breaking study, Slave Culture.

Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807.

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James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics.

Beyond the Rope tells the story of African Americans'' evolving attitudes towards lynching from the 1880s to the present.

This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination.

David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation.

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery.

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North's destructive relationship with the natural world.

This study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time-travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of "e;bodily epistemology.

The Material Life of Roman Slaves retrieves and represents the physical environment and lives of Roman slaves.

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.

Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804).

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era.

Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts in an accessible format for high school and college readers.

A new interpretation of Brazilian anti-slavery history, placing Brazil in the global network of nineteenth-century abolitionist activism.

Moving between Britain and Jamaica this book reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery.

Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians' understanding of the problem of slavery in American politics.