In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War.
Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.
Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation.
British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, an issue of intense contemporary concern but almost wholly overlooked in modern histories of Britain.
British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, an issue of intense contemporary concern but almost wholly overlooked in modern histories of Britain.
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garca Rodrguezs study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World.
In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war.
Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.
Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation.
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War.
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned.
A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East.
In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war.
Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garca Rodrguezs study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World.
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, , language: English, abstract: The research question of this paper focuses on the relation between power and resistance within McQueen's movie by incorporating Foucault's notion that power is reversible and always brings along resistance.
Voices of Liberty argues that Black revolutionaries fight for freedom directly challenged the ideological architects of British imperialism, whose narratives of liberty endeavored to silence Black people by defining abolitionism as a white enterprise.
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.
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.
The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent recounts the origins of "e;America"e; and how it came to birth the United States.
This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America.
This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America.
The newest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of the United States series, Contested Continent recounts the origins of "e;America"e; and how it came to birth the United States.
The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.
The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history.
Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine.
Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizePublishers Weekly Starred ReviewLibrary Journal Starred ReviewBooklist Top Ten History Books of 2024The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine.
Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizePublishers Weekly Starred ReviewLibrary Journal Starred ReviewBooklist Top Ten History Books of 2024The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
This engaging history overturns the conventional wisdom about the Second Amendment--showing that the right to bear arms was not about protecting liberty but about preserving slavery.
A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction.
A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction.
