Slavery and abolition of slavery

As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation.

This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.

Toby Green describes the rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the aftermath of the Spanish conquest.

Award-winning historian Tamika Y.

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 volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home.

For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race.

Pugliese's More Than Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more than human diasporic entities-such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles-have functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that pre existed and then coincided with the Atlantic slave trade.

Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire.

Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between.

How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent upon it?

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.

Colonial Planning (1958) breaks new ground in its study of colonial development plans on a comparative basis.

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancipation Caribbean.

Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this book examines how slavery is represented in contemporary children's picture books.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times.

In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania.

Both the North and the South viewed the Civil War in Christian terms.

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "e;Great Emancipator.

Rethinks the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution in Latin America.

This book covers the full spectrum of daily life among slaves in the Antebellum South, giving readers a more complete picture of slaves' experiences in the decades before emancipation.

Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) was an American journalist, political activist, and poet.

In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world.

In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive.

The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade.

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

This volume draws together richly textured and deeply empirical accounts of rice and how its cultivation in the Carolina low country stitch together a globe that maps colonial economies, displacement, and the creative solutions of enslaved people conscripted to cultivate its grain.

British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period.

Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969 (1970) continues the sequence begun in Colonial Sequence 1930 to 1949 and presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.

A groundbreaking work, this book provides a theory of antiracism and a history of discourses against slavery, racism and antisemitism.

In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.

Die Geschichte der Schwarzen grundlegend erklärtWarum nannte man Ghana das Land des Goldes?

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.

Aphra, »die Einzigartige«, wie Vita Sackville-West sie nennt, war die erste Berufsschriftstellerin Englands, und während ihrer kurzen Karriere – von der englischen Restauration 1660 bis zur sogenannten Glorious Revolution 1688/9 – schrieb sie über alles, was ihre Zeit bewegte: Sklaverei, Politik, Geld sowie sexuelle und kulturelle Gegensätze.

Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor.

This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.

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.

This book compares features of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the modern Atlantic world.

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them.

A global cultural and intellectual history of African-descended Mexicans who gained social and demographic visibility after the Revolution of 1910.

Beyond the Rope tells the story of African Americans'' evolving attitudes towards lynching from the 1880s to the present.

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "e;masters"e; not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family.

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean (1986) is a comparative and systematic study of the legacies bequeathed by British and French colonial rule in the Caribbean.