Slavery and abolition of slavery

In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "e;Great Emancipator.

The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy's 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the British Government's diplomatic pressure on other countries to discontinue the slave trade.

Out of Slavery, first published in 1985, is a series of articles commissioned on the 150 year anniversary of William Wilberforce's death and the Act of Parliament abolishing British slavery in 1833.

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.

By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery.

The first English translation of the field-defining work in Brazilian studies ethnohistory by the late John M.

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America''s greatest historical tragedy.

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By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers.

A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights.

This book addresses historical issues of colonialism and race, which influenced the formation of multicultural society in Mauritius.

In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South.

Explores the emergence of African Methodism within the black Atlantic and how it struggled to sustain its liberationist identity.

While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America.

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of 'mothering' that took place in Atlantic slave societies.

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

Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South.

The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field.

Making Slavery History focuses on how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution set the course for antislavery politics in the nineteenth century.

Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white.

Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "e;until death or distance do us part.

In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M.

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This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country's first general labor strikes in the 1910s.

Surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, concentrating particularly on the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.

This book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth centurythe very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence.

Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition.

The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of "e;Did they or didn't they?

Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first.

Free Soil in the Atlantic World examines the principle that slaves who crossed particular territorial frontiers- from European medieval cities to the Atlantic nation states of the nineteenth century- achieved their freedom.

Malta and the End of Empire (1971) examines the now-forgotten moment in 1956 when the people of Malta, Gozo and Comino were asked by the British and Maltese Governments to decide whether they wanted full integration with the United Kingdom - a remarkable proposal which ran quite contrary to colonial policy at the time.

This book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery, providing the most comprehensive account of a pre-modern slave system currently available.

In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania.

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History of the Conquest of Peru (1959) contains a detailed analysis of the political, religious and social organisation of the Incas prior to the arrival of the Spanish colonisers, and then moves on to look at the story of the conquest and subjugation of the Incan Empire, the largest in South America.

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition.

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.

The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina.

The new edition of this comprehensive survey of African history provides an accessible overview of the continent's narrative, focusing on the autonomy and achievements of the African people.

Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War.