Slavery and abolition of slavery

The elites saw the city's markets and streets as dirty, filled with dangerous non-white crowds.

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.

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.

Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina.

From the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, Georgia's racial order shifted from the somewhat fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to the harsher understanding of racial difference prevalent in the antebellum era.

South Asia is the region with the highest number of slaves globally according to the Global Slavery Index.

From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France's Atlantic empire.

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings.

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

"e;The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community.

This book investigates one of the most pervasive forms of modern slavery: bonded labour, whereby labour is linked with a credit agreement, leaving a debtor bound to repay their debt through long-term servitude.

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt.

This volume unpacks the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves.

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.

This book traces the lives of slaves before, during, and after the largest slave auction in US history in 1859.

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

The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the fifteenth century and would not be dissolved until 1975.

The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work.

Race, Power and Social Segmentation in Colonial Society (1987) studies Guyanese society after slavery and specifically examines the area of social classes and ethnic groups.

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.

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In the mid-1800s, Saint, an enigmatic and powerful conjure woman, always flanked by a silent companion, travels the South annihilating plantations and liberating the enslaved by means of purposeful violence and powerful magic.

For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color.

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

Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South.

The concept of the "e;free press"e; is often celebrated as the vehicle which finally brought freedom of speech and democracy to post-apartheid South Africa, but historically, the position of the press was more complicated.

In October of 1756 Sarah Folkes wrote home to her children in London from Jamaica.

"e;A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Focusing on U.

On the night of August 17, 1823, the distinctly African sounds of blaring shell-horns and beating drums signalled the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana).

The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South.

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "e;founding fathers"e; such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

'A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic.

Appalled and paralyzed.

Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order.

The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history.

The World Today (1974) examines the world of the late twentieth century and its roots - the disintegration of the old world is analysed in the expansion and subsequent decline of nineteenth-century imperialism, and the attempts by the League of Nations and United Nations to bring about a new order on international cooperation.

Winner of the Casa de las Amrica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century.

Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families.

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Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade.

Lincoln's significance in the history of slavery and emancipation, the Union's preservation and the formation of a new national vision is crucial to comprehending the antebellum and Civil War periods in American history.

From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times).

By exploring the role of Oberlin--the college and the community--in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J.

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