In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "e;Stonewall of the West"e;) proposed that "e;the most courageous of our slaves"e; be trained as soldiers and that "e;every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war"e; be freed.
The Hanging of Arthur Hodge-A Caribbean Anti-Slavery Milestone - selected for the Best Non-Fiction Book Award by The Sacramento Publishers Association - is a study of slavery in the British West Indies during the half-century before Parliaments 1834 decision to emancipate the slaves.
Ranging over a quarter of a millennium and four continents, Captives uncovers the experiences and writings of those tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence, but who got caught and caught out.
Tells the story of the thousands of enslaved African Americans who fled to British forces during the war in what became the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Tells the story of the thousands of enslaved African Americans who fled to British forces during the war in what became the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the United States.
'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary YoungeThe iconic study of the Haitian revolution, by one of the most important historians of the twentieth centuryC.
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.
En 1550 comenzó un espectáculo insólito para el mundo: por primera vez en la historia, un emperador paraliza la expansión de su imperio para suscitar un debate: ¿es conforme a la justicia la civilización y conversión de los indios del Nuevo Mundo?
An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this dayby the journalist who discovered the ship's remains.
En 1550 comenzó un espectáculo insólito para el mundo: por primera vez en la historia, un emperador paraliza la expansión de su imperio para suscitar un debate: ¿es conforme a la justicia la civilización y conversión de los indios del Nuevo Mundo?
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History PrizeWinner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A gripping tale about the human need for freedom .
Durante las últimas décadas, el trabajo intelectual y la actividad política de Angela Davis se han centrado en lo que ella denomina el «abolicionismo de la prisión».
In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "e;the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed.
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "e;virtually free"e; slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage.
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
¿Qué lugar tienen los esclavos de origen africano en la narrativa identitaria argentina, más allá de las pintorescas estampas de la colonia y la independencia, con vendedoras ambulantes y abnegados soldados negros?
"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.
Estados Unidos es el país de las máscaras y de la doble personalidad del superhéroe de la cultura popular: la obsesión de la 'unión' enmascara sus profundas divisiones, así como el discurso sobre la expansión de la 'libertad' acompañó la permanente expansión del sistema esclavista en cada una de sus conquistas territoriales.
Although slavery was legally abolished in 1981 in Mauritania, its legacy lives on in the political, economic, and social discrimination against ex-slaves and their descendants.
Estados Unidos es el país de las máscaras y de la doble personalidad del superhéroe de la cultura popular: la obsesión de la 'unión' enmascara sus profundas divisiones, así como el discurso sobre la expansión de la 'libertad' acompañó la permanente expansión del sistema esclavista en cada una de sus conquistas territoriales.