The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most charismatic, irascible, and radical intellectuals of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
Solomon Northup's 12 Years A Slave: A True Story is a memoir of gripping intensity that recounts his kidnapping and enslavement in 19th-century America.
Despite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final years of the antebellum period.
In einer Zeit des Umbruchs und der kolonialen Eroberung erhebt sich Túpac Amaru als letzter König der Inkas, um das Erbe seines Volkes gegen die übermächtige spanische Kolonialherrschaft zu verteidigen.
"e;Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver"e; is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer.
History of American abolitionism; its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, insurrections of slaves, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, together with a history of the southern confederacy.
"e;Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave"e; is a self-published autobiography by an American abolitionist and former slave, Henry Walton Bibb.
"e;The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament "e; contains a unique contemporary account of the abolition movement in the Great Britain from one of its major leaders, Thomas Clarkson.
A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a "e;dread perversion"e; of nature?
The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe).
How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkersThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World.
"e;The Life of Olaudah Equiano"e; is one of the earliest-known examples of published writing by an African writer and the first influential slave narrative of what became a large literary genre.
How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkersThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World.
"e;Fifty Years in Chains"e; is an autobiography of a fugitive slave,Charles Ball, where he describes his life as a slave under various masters and his service in the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla of the U.
"e;The History of Mary Prince"e;, a life narrative written by Mary Prince, is the first account published in Great Britain of a black woman's life; at a time when anti-slavery agitation was growing, her first-person account touched many people.
Geigenvirtuose, gerühmter Komponist, Fechtgenie, Athlet und sagenumwobener Liebhaber: Joseph Boulogne, Sohn eines weißen Plantagenbesitzers und einer schwarzen Sklavin.
From the critically acclaimed Andrea Levy, Orange Prize winning author of SMALL ISLAND, comes this breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize.
"e;Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman"e; is a biography of Harriet Tubman, written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War.
While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times).
Dieses Buch vereint unglaubliche Geschichten aus zwei Jahrtausenden, die sich tatsächlich zugetragen haben, aber kaum den Weg in die Öffentlichkeit fanden.
'Absorbing' - The Guardian'Illuminating' - Vogue'Fascinating' - Pandora SykesIn Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies).
Cuando los esclavos negros comprendieron que al lado de las ciudades de la colonia estaban las selvas, que al lado de la servidumbre y del látigo estaban Dios, la naturaleza y la libertad, comenzaron a huir a los bosques.
