Slavery and abolition of slavery

What is slavery?

The Harpers Ferry raid confirmed for many Southerners the existence of a widespread Northern plot against slavery.

A vivid examination of slave life in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.

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.

This book explores the relationship between freedom and slavery in the antebellum American South, studying authors who spoke for the Southwest''s educated classes.

In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization?

The gripping story of Afro-Argentine celebrity Raúl Grigera that also tells the untold history of Black Argentina.

University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery.

This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants and other builders of empire, but rather from the point-of-view of common people whose labors made that world possible-sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates and other outlaws, whose formative experiences at sea are brought together for the first time.

This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country's first general labor strikes in the 1910s.

Freedom''s Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.

Free Soil in the Atlantic World examines the principle that slaves who crossed particular territorial frontiers- from European medieval cities to the Atlantic nation states of the nineteenth century- achieved their freedom.

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.

A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.

The important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 21st century.

'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched.

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.

This book focuses on slave ownership in Virginia as it was practiced by a variety of institutions.

An engaging and informative overview of the life and works of Frederick Douglass.

In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, M.

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of 'Creolization' in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that are typically included and excluded from consideration.

The amazing story of one illegally enslaved Virginia family's dauntless legal appeal for freedom Before the Civil War brought emancipation to the South, some enslaved people managed to use the legal systemthe same one that had concocted and long perpetuated their bondageto sue for their freedom from owners who unlawfully held them in slavery.

A powerful account of the coexistence of exploitation and loving familial relationships in the lives of ''adoptive daughters'' in Brazil.

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.

This volume considers texts produced between 1800 and 1830, exploring themes such as print culture, Illustration and the narrative form.

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.

Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery?

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.

Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery.

A history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

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This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.

The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe).

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.

This book examines the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada.

Seymour Drescher's regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself.

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.

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

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts.

A Slave's Place, A Master's World, based on original field research, evaluates the transition from slave to free labour in rural Brazil, highlighting the ways in which slaves, free farmers, freedmen and planters shaped the labour markets of an agrarian economy.

By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers.

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