Slavery and abolition of slavery

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.

An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.

In Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal records and archival documents to investigate how bound labor contributed to the establishment and subsequent control of imperial outposts in colonial North America.

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.

Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.

In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state.

Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help.

What is the nature of slavery as practiced and at times reintroduced over the past two centuries in the Middle East and North Africa?

Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians' understanding of the problem of slavery in American politics.

For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days.

Award-winning historian Tamika Y.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade.

Die Russische Revolution von 1917 war ein Wendepunkt in der Geschichte des Landes, der nicht nur politische und gesellschaftliche Strukturen, sondern auch tief verwurzelte religiöse Institutionen erschütterte.

In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America.

The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition.

The Root and the Branch examines the relationship between the early labor movement and the crusade to abolish slavery between the early national period and the Civil War.

In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M.

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.

This book examines political responses to the problem of human trafficking, including proposals, actions (legislative and executive), and statements made by politicians, government agencies, and civil society organizations to solve or mitigate the crime of human trafficking.

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Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux.

Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers.

This book examines the many ways in which African Americans made the Civil War about ending slavery.

Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history.

Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship on unfree labour in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds during the past two decades.

Examining the slave trade between Angola and Brazil, Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural ties between the two countries.

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce-the book trade and the slave trade.

Sexual exploitation was and is a critical feature of enslavement.

"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.

This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience.

Out of the House of Bondage, first published in 1986, focuses not on slave rebellions, which were of crucial importance but not common occurrences, but on the day-to-day patterns of resistance that directly affected the lives of slaves.

Award-winning historian Tamika Y.

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency.

This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange.

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.

As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1666-1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, discovered by Roberto Zaugg and Craig Koslofsky in a Berlin archive.

This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.

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Warum wurden in Zeiten von Krisen und Umbrüchen immer wieder unschuldige Menschen zu Sündenböcken gemacht?

What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?

On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which black bodies were turned into things in the marketplace and persons into property on plantations.

Examines the experiences of runaway slaves in North America, conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct ''spaces of freedom''.

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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'.