Slavery and abolition of slavery

New research on the long, shared struggle for freedom by people of African descent in the Detroit River borderland from a uniquely bi-national perspective.

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An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery.

Known today as the other speaker at Gettysburg, Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War.

This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion.

Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America's dark history.

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Focusing on the Thirteenth Amendment, this book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B.

A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartacion, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century.

This book explores the relationship between freedom and slavery in the antebellum American South, studying authors who spoke for the Southwest''s educated classes.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to freedom in what is now Canada.

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.

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

In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captivesand, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Moroccoin the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels.

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion?

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

Rich with historical sketches of the life and experiences of slaves in Africa, on slave ships, and in Jamaica, this volume illustrates the way enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade.

In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality.

A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thoughtAugustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context.

Slavery, first published in 1958, examines four main types of modern slavery: chattel slavery; the sale of women into marriage; the sale of children into work and prostitution; serfdom.

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada.

This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s but only given its first, and last, performance in Paris in 1850.

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.

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.

Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.

The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life the key events, leading figures, and socioeconomic forces in the history of American antislavery, abolition, and emancipation.

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 History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana.

This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world.

All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South.

The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade.

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory.

Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions.

This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social, and environmental human rights.

The enthralling story of an eighteenth-century family and their extraordinary achievements.

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Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc.

"e;Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was an American novelist, women's rights activist, abolitionist, journalist, and activist for Native American rights.

In the Peninsula Campaign of spring 1862, Union general George B.

An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book contains perspectives from prominent historians of slavery in the Americas.

There have been few more remarkable events than the European colonisation and decolonisation of Africa.

In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship.

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.