Slavery and abolition of slavery

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.

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

The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonisation has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in African slaves.

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor.

Replete now with its own scholarly traditions and controversies, Roman slavery as a field of study is no longer limited to the economic sphere, but is recognized as a fundamental social institution with multiple implications for Roman society and culture.

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.

Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former slaves the right to create family relationships that were sanctioned, recognized, and regulated by the laws that governed the families of all American citizens.

Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.

American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America.

Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861.

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

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement.

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D.

From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery.

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

After the American Revolution, enslaved and free blacks who had been loyal to the British cause arrived in the Bahamas, drawn by British promises of liberty and land.

This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective.

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

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related issues related to socioeconomic inequality, human rights, and international law.

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

Kananoja demonstrates how medical interaction in early modern Atlantic Africa was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange between Africans and Europeans.

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.

Children Enslaved, first published in 1988, reveals the full extent of child slavery throughout the world.

This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery.

William Still (1821-1902) was an African-American abolitionist, businessman, writer, historian, civil rights activist.

Chatham's Colonial Policy (1917) examines Britain's colonial plans and ambition in the mid-eighteenth century, under the leadership of the Earl of Chatham - William Pitt the Elder.

Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad.

"e;A catalog of the most important and influential media depictions of slavery as a resource for cinema scholars and media historians in particular.

Black Flags in Vietnam (1968) examines nineteenth-century conflict between China, Vietnam and France.

The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society.

An engaging and informative overview of the life and works of Frederick Douglass.

In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.

A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the powerful story of an enslaved youth coming into social and moral consciousness by disobeying his white slavemasters and secretly teaching himself to read.

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society.

Gus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman's March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864.

The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c.

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion.

The Harpers Ferry raid confirmed for many Southerners the existence of a widespread Northern plot against slavery.

Sojourner Truth, one of the most revered figures in American history, explains her road to liberation, spiritual enlightenment and the development of her feminist values.

Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.

Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States.

Explores the South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slaveryThe recipient of high praise-and considerable debate for its provocative thesis-William J.

At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return-not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself.

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.