Slavery and abolition of slavery

Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders.

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.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom; slavery in Africa; the development of the slave trade; the demographic situation in Latin America; and European attitudes to slavery as an institution.

Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period.

'He writes history like nobody else.

Over the last decade, public, political, and scholarly attention has focused on human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery.

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

Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and 'enslavebility'.

Pese a que se suele considerar México un país con escasa presencia afroamericana, en pocas provincias del Nuevo Mundo como en la Nueva España tuvieron la oportunidad de manifestarse, entre los negros esclavos o libres, personalidades tan fuertes como las de Juan Galindo, compañero de los conquistadores, Estebanico, uno de los primeros descubridores del norte del virreinato, el actual sur de los Estados Unidos, o Gaspar Yanga, supuesto miembro de la familia real de Gabón y líder de una revuelta de esclavos en Veracruz acaecida alrededor de 1570; por no hablar del levantamiento protagonizado por las cofradías de negros y mulatos en 1612, sin parangón en las Indias y que infundió una profunda psicosis colectiva entre los españoles.

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

Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America's dark history.

An in-depth, comparative study of transatlantic abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die.

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era.

This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa.

The amazing story of one illegally enslaved Virginia family's dauntless legal appeal for freedom Before the Civil War brought emancipation to the South, some enslaved people managed to use the legal systemthe same one that had concocted and long perpetuated their bondageto sue for their freedom from owners who unlawfully held them in slavery.

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

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

Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively.

A timely and provocative account of the Bible's role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina.

This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use of humor and narratives as primary rhetorical strategies used by this illiterate ex-slave to create a powerful public persona.

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.

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

This engaging history presents the extraordinary lives of Patty Cannon, Anna Ella Carroll, and Harriet Tubman, three "e;dangerous"e; women who grew up in early-nineteenth-century Maryland and were vigorously enmeshed in the social and political maelstrom of antebellum America.

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "e;house divided against itself,"e; as Abraham Lincoln put it?

African slavery was pervasive in Spain s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet - particularly the rise of the sugar economy.

On the night of August 17, 1823, the distinctly African sounds of blaring shell-horns and beating drums signalled the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana).

Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families.

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of 'mothering' that took place in Atlantic slave societies.

Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies.

The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites.

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery.

This book destabilizes racialized and gendered assumptions about labour in Cuba and challenges traditional chronologies of 20th-century Cuban history.

This 2006 book offers an interpretation of the constitutional law and politics of slavery.

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.

Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas.

This book traces the lives of slaves before, during, and after the largest slave auction in US history in 1859.

Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation?

British Policy Towards the Indian States (1982) examines the concept of indirect rule in terms of both its application and consequences in the princely states of India during the first four decades of the twentieth century.