Slavery and abolition of slavery

"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.

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.

"e;Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom"e; is a written account by Ellen Craft and William Craft first published in 1860.

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Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup.

"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.

Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics.

In this groundbreaking work, Ismael Montana fully explicates the complexity of Tunisian society and culture and reveals how abolition was able to occur in an environment hostile to such change.

From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue.

Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, Larry E.

What is slavery?

The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists.

Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies.

For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries.

In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the "e;Arkansas morass"e; in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves.

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?

The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion.

On Slavery's Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Rio de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery.

In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty.

Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration.

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean.

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era.

The first biography to rescue the true story of Josiah Henson, restoring to history his role in the Underground RailroadJosiah Henson led a fascinating life-from the plantation fields of Maryland to the Georgetown Market to the plantations of Kentucky to escaping to freedom in Canada to being introduced to the Queen in England.

The end of slavery left millions of former slaves destitute in a South as unsettled as they were.

As seen in the award-winning feature film, Lady Bird.

Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children.

When Pueblo Indians say, "e;The first white man our people saw was a black man,"e; they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539.

The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade.

As a young man, John B.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics.

Over the course of more than twenty years, James D.

Finding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records.

My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

The politics of slavery and slave trade in nineteenth-century Cuba and Brazil is the subject of this acclaimed study, first published in Brazil in 2010 and now available for the first time in English.

A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War.

In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion.

One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s.

A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War.

Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons of Dominica and their allies through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 during the Second Maroon War.

This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.

An "e;excellent biography"e; of General Washington's aide-de-camp, a daring soldier who advocated freeing slaves who served in the Continental Army (Journal of Military History).

In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Eugene D.