Slavery and abolition of slavery

Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

In Frederick Douglass' autobiography 'My Bondage and My Freedom' we can see the power of literacy and belief.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner's confessions, published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series.

The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality.

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

Dark like the skies on a moonless night, this is the color of our skin.

Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper.

The Heroic Slave (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith.

Josephine Brown presents a detailed biography of her father, William Wells Brown, who was born on a plantation but escaped to become a successful abolitionist.

Originally published in 1847, William W.

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.

Born into slavery, Clotel is a white-passing woman who conceals her identity and uses a disguise to infiltrate a plantation to rescue her loved ones.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's follow-up to her popular yet controversial book, Uncle Tom's Cabin that features critical information supporting the brutally honest portrayal of institutional slavery.

"e;This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.

"e;A moving, vital testament.

The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies or the West Indies and who were taken to England by their masters.

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and statesman.

Anton de Kom s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism.

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history s most monstrous crimes: slavery.

Get the lowdown on America's Bloodiest Warthe Civil Warwith this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history.

The powerful stories of enslaved women who waged lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance.

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

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The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down.

Since thousands of years, slavery in every form has been the root cause of misery and crime in every society it has crept in.

During the first sixty years of the twentieth century the British West Indies were evolving, first from colonialism to self-government, and later to a short-lived federalism.

This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives.

This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives.

Pugliese's More Than Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more than human diasporic entities-such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles-have functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that pre existed and then coincided with the Atlantic slave trade.

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction SouthAfter the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked to pay off debts or legal fines.

In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism.

During the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for those fleeing expanding states and the violence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

This collection of essays surveys the practices, behaviors, and beliefs that developed during slavery in the Western Hemisphere, and the lingering psychological consequences that continue to impact the descendants of enslaved Africans today.

At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American.

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures.

A Slave's Place, A Master's World, based on original field research, evaluates the transition from slave to free labour in rural Brazil, highlighting the ways in which slaves, free farmers, freedmen and planters shaped the labour markets of an agrarian economy.

The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation and their colonial settlements in the Caribbean and North America absorbed vast numbers of Africans.

West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological data from Senegal to the Cameroon.

Slavery Obscured aims to assess how the slave trade affected the social life and cultural outlook of the citizens of a major English city, and contends that its impact was more profound than has previously been acknowledged.

Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world.

Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world.