Slavery and abolition of slavery

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839.

In this historical novel, Yaw M.

Emergent Africa (1967) expertly compresses the story of European penetration into the Africa of 1800.

Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period.

This volume unpacks the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves.

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography - the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived.

Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period.

This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean.

In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality.

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

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

Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome.

Abigail L.

Jamaica Anansi Stories is a collection of folklore by Martha Warren Beckwith.

Before Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets, who put pen to paper during an era when speaking out against slavery could mean risking your life.

Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War.

Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best speeches and writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and 1860.

The first English translation of the field-defining work in Brazilian studies ethnohistory by the late John M.

Minutes after midnight on May 15, 1970, white members of the Jackson city police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened fire on young people in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi, discharging "e;buckshot, rifle slugs, a submachine gun, carbines with military ammunition, and two 30.

When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history.

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

The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history.

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

Lucy Terry was a devoted wife and mother, and the first known African-American poet.

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It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South.

This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War.

Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements (palenques) that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 to 1850, decades before the end of slavery on the island.

This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865.

Early Records of British India (1972) is an important collection of source material deriving from official documents which now form part of the India Office Records.

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

Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists.

Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819.

As historians have gradually come to recognize, the involvement of women was central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the United States.

Robert Pierce Forbes goes behind the scenes of the crucial Missouri Compromise, the most important sectional crisis before the Civil War, to reveal the high-level deal-making, diplomacy, and deception that defused the crisis, including the central, unexpected role of President James Monroe.

Surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, concentrating particularly on the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.

Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expose, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people-in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage.

This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country.

This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement.

African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the grim realities of the antebellum South; they also provide the foundation for this compelling and revealing work on African American history and experiences.

This book paints a vivid picture of daily life and rural economy in Russia before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.

Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.

'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty.

Slavery has existed since the origins of written history and probably long before.