Slavery and abolition of slavery

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The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "e;African"e; but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban.

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy.

The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States.

Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families.

In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer.

In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia.

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.

"e;A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Many leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document.

Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States.

Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed.

Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own.

Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent.

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

NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative.

David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation.

By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas.

In this groundbreaking book, Dusinberre conducts an intense investigation of slavery in the rice swamps of South Carolina and Georgia.

Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "e;one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history"e; in the New York Times Book Review.

On the night of August 17, 1823, the distinctly African sounds of blaring shell-horns and beating drums signalled the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana).

During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves.

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.

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion.

After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions?

Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees.

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees.

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history.

Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many.

Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy religious conversion, his entry into the world of reform, and finally, his rejection of public life.

There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution.

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage.

American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America.

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.

James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics.

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.

This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement.

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement.

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society.

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society.

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.

The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power.

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