Slavery and abolition of slavery

From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slaverys expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with Americas violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change.

The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens.

The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights as subjects and citizens.

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

On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.

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

Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.

On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.

Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.

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

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

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

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

Die Sklaverei begleitet die Menschheitsgeschichte mindestens seit den frühen Hochkulturen.

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.

Esta obra ha recibido una ayuda a la edición de la Comunidad de Madrid.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them.

Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed.

Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

As the expanding United States grappled with the question of how to determine the boundaries of slavery, politicians proposed popular sovereignty as a means of entrusting the issue to citizens of new territories.

An important reckoning with Australias unspoken history of slavery.

Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book.

Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book.

Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R.

In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the British Empire and Black emancipation in the United States.

For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia the last British colony in what became the United States enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid.

Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children.

Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children.

Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed.

In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization?

Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world's most important free republic.

In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St.

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism.

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

Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R.

In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the British Empire and Black emancipation in the United States.

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

For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia the last British colony in what became the United States enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid.

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story"e;I love this research.

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story"e;I love this research.

The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a ';glorious liberty document' that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the role that slavery played in America's founding.