Slavery and abolition of slavery

This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one of its most charismatic and influential characters: Sojourner Truth.

This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery.

On Human Bondage a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies.

Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation?

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days.

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

This simple narrative of an extraordinary life explores the power of a disinterested commitment to right and truth.

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

The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work.

The Root and the Branch examines the relationship between the early labor movement and the crusade to abolish slavery between the early national period and the Civil War.

The Material Life of Roman Slaves retrieves and represents the physical environment and lives of Roman slaves.

Ron Eyerman explores the formation of African American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery.

By exploring the role of Oberlin--the college and the community--in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J.

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "e;Okah Tubbee.

"e;A catalog of the most important and influential media depictions of slavery as a resource for cinema scholars and media historians in particular.

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.

The powerful stories of enslaved women who waged lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance.

A chronicle one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American historyIn his seminal study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War South, Matthew J.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.

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

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

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.

Lincoln's significance in the history of slavery and emancipation, the Union's preservation and the formation of a new national vision is crucial to comprehending the antebellum and Civil War periods in American history.

Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century.

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.

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R.

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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.

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865.

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This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries.

This is the first major English-language and scholarly biography of Bartolomé de las Casas'' life in a generation.

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.

An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War   While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade’s impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas.

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.

This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange.

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

Preaching Bondage introduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom, the late fourth-century priest and bishop.

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

Trafficking, which involves the buying and selling of human beings to profit from their labor or sexual degrading, is a crime with life-shattering effects for many of the victims.

Studies the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred while slaves in Haiti successfully overthrew the institution.

This Companion provides the essential background to the defining fate of the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean from the 15th to the 20th centuries.