Slavery and abolition of slavery

In einer Zeit des Umbruchs und der kolonialen Eroberung erhebt sich Túpac Amaru als letzter König der Inkas, um das Erbe seines Volkes gegen die übermächtige spanische Kolonialherrschaft zu verteidigen.

From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change.

Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom; slavery in Africa; the development of the slave trade; the demographic situation in Latin America; and European attitudes to slavery as an institution.

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked to pay off debts or legal fines.

It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century.

In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African - a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613 - to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863.

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

British India's Relations with the Kingdom of Nepal (1970) uses original documents and confidential papers never before available to examine the relations between Nepal and British India from 1857 to 1947.

When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom.

The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity.

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.

Leading social scientists and historians debate key controversies in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking studies.

Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South.

Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War.

The British West Indies (1960) examines the islands and two mainland colonies of the West Indies as they approached self-government.

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world.

Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively.

In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa.

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world.

Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through former enslaved people's own words.

What does it mean to be an American?

Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period.

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839.

';Demonstrates that the ';emancipation generation' bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political organizations.

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.

The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth.

This text studies the attitudes of the founding "e;fathers"e; toward slavery.

How is the state produced?

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

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures.

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition.

"e;When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's follow-up to her popular yet controversial book, Uncle Tom's Cabin that features critical information supporting the brutally honest portrayal of institutional slavery.

What is the nature of slavery as practiced and at times reintroduced over the past two centuries in the Middle East and North Africa?

From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyondOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves.

In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders.

Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece.

"e;Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave"e; is a 1873 account by American slave James Williams, describing his early life, abuse, and eventual escape to New York City.

Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders.

A timely and provocative account of the Bible's role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina.

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.

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.

For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean.