Slavery and abolition of slavery

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects.

This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night.

This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas.

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

Introduces the essential history of slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction in twelve thematic chapters.

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America''s greatest historical tragedy.

This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans.

Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books, this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil War.

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

Traces and Memories deals with the foundation, mechanisms and scope of slavery-related memorial processes, interrogating how descendants of enslaved populations reconstruct the history of their ancestors when transatlantic slavery is one of the variables of the memorial process.

Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.

In her new book, well-known Africanist Suzanne Miers places modern slavery in its historical context, tracing the phenomenal development of the international anti-slavery movement over the last hundred years.

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.

Cape of Torments, first published in 1983, is a detailed examination of slavery in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

Frederick Douglass was born enslaved in February 1818, but from this most humble of beginnings, he rose to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans.

Warum Krankheiten, Seuchen und Pandemien nicht alle gleich treffen ‒ eine Reise durch die Weltgeschichte AIDS, Cholera, die Spanische Grippe – die Folgen von Epidemien werden auch durch menschliches Handeln bestimmt.

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M.

In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive.

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century.

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

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation.

Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South.

The period of the "e;second slavery"e; was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.

This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, showing how enslaved and free African Americans resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort in a borderland that changed hands frequently during the Civil War.

This book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas.

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery.

An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children''s roles in slavery''s machinations.

Offering an up-to-date and comprehensive resource for students and general readers investigating human trafficking, this book examines the phenomenon in its many forms, the factors contributing to its existence, the victims it affects, and those who perpetrate this horrific crime.

This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

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

A rich, pathbreaking study on nineteenth-century rural Cuba, and how Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom through litigation and land occupation.

Mit über 700 000 gefallenen Soldaten war der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg blutiger und verlustreicher als alle Kriege zusammen, die die USA seither geführt haben.

Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "e;What shall we do with the negro?

This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus's first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history.

Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial thought: the promotion of a 'people's imperialism', or the support of the working classes for the imperialist system.

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

An analysis of slave and slaveholder understanding and manipulation of formal legal systems in the region known as the American Confluence during the antebellum era.

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancipation Caribbean.

First published in 1909, W.

University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery.

A fresh reassessment of the Emancipation Proclamation that looks beyond the Lincoln mythos and sees the decision as Lincoln's last resort after his failure to persuade a divided country.

Translated into English for the first time, Andres Avelino de Orihuela's El Sol de Jesus del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel.

How is the state produced?

A succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War.

Gender, family and sexual relations defined human slavery from its classical origins in Europe to the rise and fall of race-based slavery in the Americas.

They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery.