Slavery and abolition of slavery

In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers, Edward Pearson offers a sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War.

Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and 'enslavebility'.

Appalled and paralyzed.

A Second Appeal: A Consideration of Freedom and Social Justice engages in an analysis of the ideals of freedom and social justice.

This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War.

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.

Examines the experiences of runaway slaves in North America, conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct ''spaces of freedom''.

Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons-white and black, men and women, from all walks of life-to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era.

This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries.

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

This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War.

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.

This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad.

By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas.

Romantic Reformers is an intellectual history of the American antislavery movement in the 1850s and early 1860s.

Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969 (1970) continues the sequence begun in Colonial Sequence 1930 to 1949 and presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.

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The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade.

Provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War, and into the lives of the newly emancipated African Americans.

This book asks to what extent Southern slaveholders believed the doctrine that enslavement was the best possible condition for all labor.

Government in West Africa (1968) examines the practical working of modern government and the constitutional history of West Africa.

This book explores how political debates and legal reforms on criminalization of racial violence have shaped American racial history.

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both.

American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallaces The Liquid Plainby which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed.

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening.

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World.

Ghana-for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years-remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading.

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "e;cargo.

Africa's Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa.

In Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal records and archival documents to investigate how bound labor contributed to the establishment and subsequent control of imperial outposts in colonial North America.

Since 1776, the Founding generation has been portrayed as creators of a new world where liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples.

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.

In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, M.

Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves.

This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history.

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America.

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

The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1894) is an important work of in-depth research into one of the principal indigenous communities of West Africa.

Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons-white and black, men and women, from all walks of life-to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War.

A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

This book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this analysis with the experiences of people who have been colonized or enslaved.

British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell (1930) examines British colonial administration during the administrations of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell.

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life.