Slavery and abolition of slavery

Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies.

When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared thirty years ago, it marked a revolution in our understanding of African American history.

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II.

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II.

A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson.

This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence.

Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America's dark history.

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R.

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.

From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape.

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.

Lincoln is the single most compelling figure in our history, but also one of the most enigmatic.

Attempts to show what happened to slavery in an urban environment and to reconstruct the texture of life of the Negroes who lived in bondage in the cities.

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World.

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night.

With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865.

A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson.

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.

When newly-liberated African American slaves attempted to enter the marketplace and exercise their rights as citizens of the United States in 1865, few, if any, Americans expected that, a century and a half later, the class divide between black and white Americans would be as wide as it is today.

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R.

Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "e;until death or distance do us part.

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As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "e;citty upon a hill.

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history.

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "e;carpetbagger,"e; best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice.

In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.

Making Slavery History focuses on how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution set the course for antislavery politics in the nineteenth century.

In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America.

In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian America.

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.

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The Dred Scott case is the most notorious example of slaves suing for freedom.