Slavery and abolition of slavery

In Beyond Constraint, Shona N.

This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery.

Deep in the American South, 'land of the hunted and the haunted,' three young slaves have broken free.

This book explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy.

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology.

Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after.

Manuel Jala: un afrocampechano, cuenta la inspiradora historia de un novohispano afrodescendiente, engarzado en la eterna pasión humana: la búsqueda de la libertad y la autodeterminación.

The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery (1850-1888) offers a compelling exploration of how one of the world's most entrenched systems of forced labor unraveled over the course of decades.

Die Landesgeschichte Nordwestdeutschlands hat vielfältige koloniale Bezüge aufzuweisen, die in diesem Band vorgestellt und diskutiert werden.

In Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art, Caroline Fowler examines the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production and evolution of seventeenth-century Dutch art.

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

The history of the phrase "e;pride and prejudice"e; before it became the title of Jane Austen's most famous novel is largely forgotten today.

This text studies the attitudes of the founding "e;fathers"e; toward slavery.

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays.

This book explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy.

The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most charismatic, irascible, and radical intellectuals of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule.

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays.

This book examines slavery in India from the Turkish conquest of North India to the centuries of Mughal rule.

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

Solomon Northup's 12 Years A Slave: A True Story is a memoir of gripping intensity that recounts his kidnapping and enslavement in 19th-century America.

"e;The Underground Railroad"e; chronicles the stories and methods of some 649 slaves who escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

Despite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final years of the antebellum period.

In einer Zeit des Umbruchs und der kolonialen Eroberung erhebt sich Túpac Amaru als letzter König der Inkas, um das Erbe seines Volkes gegen die übermächtige spanische Kolonialherrschaft zu verteidigen.

"e;Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver"e; is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer.

History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, insurrections of slaves, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, together with a history of the southern confederacy.

"e;Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave"e; is a self-published autobiography by an American abolitionist and former slave, Henry Walton Bibb.