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Book SynopsisCommercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called ‘legitimate commerce’ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.Table of Contents List of Figures, Maps and Tables  List of Appendices  Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition  1 From Slaves to ‘legitimate commerce’: Different Places, Different Times  2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World  3 Accounting for Regional Differences  4 Organisation Part 1 Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century  1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century  2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century  2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680–1800  1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?  2 Main Results  3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks  4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681–1807  5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?  3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade  2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa’s Commodity Trade  3 Regional Trade  4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade Part 2 The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies  4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans  1 Long-term Trade Contacts  2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition  3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808  4 Gold and the Asante State  5 Household Labour Decisions  5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production  1 External Trade  2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and ‘comey’  3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading  4 Institutional Development in Biafra  5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade  6 Household Production of Palm Oil  6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery  1 Long-term Trends in Dahomey’s Trade  2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades  3 Trading Partners  4 Dahomean Militarism  5 Militarism and Labour  Conclusion  1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade  2 Diverging Trajectories  3 The Real Impact of Britain’s Abolition Campaign  4 Implications and Future Research  Bibliography   Published Contemporary Sources   Secondary Sources   Online Sources  Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Maps and Table Notes on Contributors Introduction: Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studies in Asia  Richard B. Allen Part 1: Conceptualizing Slave Status 1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis  Anthony Reid 2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia  Jessica Hinchy 3 Gender and Slavery in Asia  Shawna Herzog Part 2: Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia 4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire  Don J. Wyatt 5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550–1644): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us  Harriet T. Zurndorfer 6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China  Claude Chevaleyre 7 Korea: A Slave Society  Christopher Lovins 8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China  Bonny Ling Part 3: Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism 9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660–1730  Michael D. Bennett 10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines  Stephanie Mawson 11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882–1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes  James Francis Warren 12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century  Hans Hägerdal 13 Indebtedness, Socio-Cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations  Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena Part 4: Reflections 14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery  Jeff Fynn-Paul Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Roșu, and Ehud R. Toledano.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface  Ehud R. Toledano Introduction  Felicia Roșu Part I: The Italian Phase 1. Black Sea Slavery in Genoese Notarial Sources, 13th–15th Centuries  Michel Balard 2. Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian Notarial Sources, 14th–15th Centuries  Sergei Karpov Part II: Slavery and Christianity 3. The Role of Slaves in the Byzantine Economy, 10th–11th Centuries: Legal Aspects  Daphne Penna 4. Christian Slave Traders, Slave Owners, and Slaves in the 13th–15th Centuries  Sandra Origone 5. The Orthodox Church and the Emancipation of Gypsy Slaves in the Romanian Principalities in the 19th Century  Viorel Achim Part III: Raiders and Captives on the Northern Shore 6. “It Was the Poles that Gave Me Most Pain”: Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea, 1475–1774  Mikhail Kizilov 7. How Captives Were Taken: The Making of Tatar Slaving Raids in the Early Modern Period  Andrzej Gliwa 8. Captive-Taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and Unfreedom in the Northern Countries  Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk Part IV: The Circassian Question 9. What Caused the 14th-Century Tatar–Circassian Shift?  Hannah Barker 10. Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim Warriors? The Status of Circassians in the Early Modern Period  Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska Part V: The Black Sea and Global Slavery 11. People-Taking across the Mediterranean Maritime Frontier, 1675–1714  Colin Heywood 12. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea: A Comparative View  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended in the nineteenth century, slave raiding and dealing and the extensive use of slave labor continued into the twentieth century in many parts of Africa. Using primary oral sources such as songs, proverbs, names, and everyday sayings as a basis for critical reflection, the overriding aim of this book is to shift emphasis from conventional historical methodology by exploring previously neglected oral sources. Bringing such sources into the academic conversation proffers new insights relating to victims’ responses and adjustments to slave raiding and trafficking in the late nineteenth century northern Ghana.Trade Review"In this important and well-researched book, Emmanuel Saboro draws from original oral sources to show us how communities in northern Ghana are bearers of a collective memory of the transatlantic and internal trades." - Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard UniversityTable of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Transcriptions and Translations Introduction: Envisioning the Past in the Present: Hearing the Unsaid  1 Northern Ghana and the Historiography of the Slave Trade  2 Reconfiguring Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Africa: the Place of Oral Tradition  3 Memory/Remembering  4 Sources and Methods  5 Structure of the Book 1 Remembering a Fractured Past: Historicizing Violence, Captivity, and Enslavement in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  1 Introduction  2 The Gold Coast and the Trans-Atlantic Connection  3 Navigating Histories, Constructing Identities: Geography and People of Northern Ghana, the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 Post-abolition Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century  5 Asante and the Slave Trade in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  6 The Zabarima Slave Raiding Hegemony in Northern Ghana  7 “Babatu Has Really Dealt with Me and I Know”: the Portrait of a Ruthless Leader  8 ‘Places, Places Are Still There’: Salaga, a Bloodied Landscape of Captivity, Enslavement, and Dispossession  9 Conclusion 2 The Song as a Cultural and Historical Archive for Reconstructing the Past  1 Introduction  2 The African Song Tradition: a Brief Overview  3 Song Traditions in Northern Ghana: the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 “They Have Killed Me, Killing of a Different Kind”: Dirges/Laments/Sorrow Songs  5 War and Victory Songs  6 The Bulsa Battle Cry  7 The War Flute  8 Performing Pain: Song, Ritual Dance, and Performance  9 “Singing Rocks”: The Pikworo Slave Camp Songs  10 Conclusion 3 ‘Unspeakable Things Spoken’: Cultural Constructions of Trauma, Mourning Loss  1 Introduction  2 Framing Violence: Metaphorizing the Kanbong (Foreign Enslaver) as the Other  3 Sexual Violence  4 Of Mothering and Motherhood  5 Of Place, Belonging and Home  6 Where There Are No Graves: Metaphorizing Death and Mourning Loss 4 “Sins of Our Fathers”: Re-reading Indigenous Complicity Narratives  1 Notions of Betrayal: the Insider Motif  2 The Politics of Silence: Survival or Complicity?  3 Conclusion 5 “We Are Free at Last”: Local Adaptations and Indigenous Resistance Strategies against Captivity and Enslavement in the Hinterland  1 Introduction  2 “We Have Fled, Fled a Lot”: Flight as a Survival and Resistance Strategy  3 The Landscape and Hollow Trees as “Refuge Sites”  4 Hiding in Hollow Trees  5 Drums of War: Contestations and Deconstructing Notions of Victimhood  6 Animistic Metaphors as Counter Representation Strategies  7 The Lion  8 The Elephant  9 Celebrating Triumph over Tragedy  10 Conclusion Conclusion: Freedom beyond the Wound and the Silences Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOnce the Maroons escaped from slavery and established their communities in the remote interior of Suriname, attention shifted from military threat to internal danger. As they faced these dangers in an unknown rainforest, they sought refuge in prophetic movements directed by charismatic religious leaders. This book charts the history of Okanisi religious movements from their escape to the present day. It is based on sixty years of fieldwork by the late Bonno Thoden van Velzen and Ineke van Wetering, archival research and oral histories. Prophets of Doom is a tribute to Okanisi society and reflects decades of research and dedication.Table of ContentsForeword: Two anthropologists at Work: An Insider’s Perspective Acknowledgements Glossary List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1 The Construction of History in Maroon Society 2 The Lost Homeland and the Years of Suffering 3 Loweten: The Great Trek 4 In a Forest Sanctuary 5 The Fight for Supremacy and the Exploration of the Hinterland 6 Peace 7 Dangerous Newcomers 8 A War Like No Other 9 Great Events 10 Saka in Command of the Tribal Obiya 11 New Movements 12 At the Oracle of Gaan Tata 13 A Fury Unleashed 14 The Jungle Commando’s Obiya 15 Demons 16 Hard Facts and the Stories Archival Sources and References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert explores the notion of community in conjunction with literary works concerned with the transatlantic slave trade. The recent surge of interest in both slave trade and community studies concurs with the return of free-market ideology, which once justified and facilitated the exponential growth of the slave trade. The motif of unbridled capitalism recurs in all the works discussed herein; however, community, whether racial, political, utopian, or conceptual, emerges as a fitting frame of reference to reveal unsuspected facets of the relationships between all involved parties, and expose the ramifications of the trade across time and space. Ultimately, this book calls for a complete reevaluation of what it means to live together.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  Introduction  1 The Slave Trade and Racial Community: Tamango and Roots  2 Patriotism and Political Communities: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage  3 Community as Utopia: Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger  4 Rethinking the Slave Trade/Rethinking Community: Édouard Glissant’s “Relation” and Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Being-with”  Conclusion  Works Cited  Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 Free Soil and Spaces of Freedom in the Age of the Second Slavery  2 Historiographies and Insights  3 Sources and Outline Part 1: Fleeing Slavery 1 Experiencing Slavery, Imagining Freedom  1 Introduction  2 “A Spirit of Great Insubordination”: Mexico as Imagined Land of Freedom for African Americans  3 Relatives and Loved Ones  4 “Por maltrato”: The Second Slavery’s Violence and Serial Runaways  5 “Más mal que lo corriente”: Paternalism, (Broken) Compromises and Conflicts  6 The Intersection of Gender, Age and Qualifications  7 Conclusion 2 Geography, Mobility and Networks: Escaping through the US-Mexico Borderlands  1 Introduction  2 Easing Mobility: Spatial and Material Strategies  3 Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats  4 Cracking Down on Mobility: Legal and Extra-Legal Violence in the Borderlands  5 Conclusion Part 2: Crafting Freedom 3 Self-Liberated Slaves and Asylum in Northeastern Mexico, 1803–1836  1 Introduction  2 Slave Refugees in Late Colonial New Spain (1803–1821)  3 Self-Liberated Slaves in Early Independent Mexico (1821–1836)  4 Conclusion 4 “Mexico Was Free! No Slave Clanked His Chains under Its Government”: Contests over Mexico’s Free Soil, 1836–1861  1 Introduction: The Texas Revolution and the Political Landscape of Slavery and Freedom  2 The Disputed Making of Mexico’s Free Soil after 1836  3 US Refugees from Slavery and Their Contested Settlement in Mexico  4 Free Soil and Escaped Slaves in-between Conflicting States and Allegiances  5 Conclusion Conclusion: “Mexico Will Assuredly Be Overrun by the Slaves from the Southern States”: The Making of Free Soil, The Unmaking of the Second Slavery  1 The Making of Free Soil  2 The Unmaking of the Second Slavery Appendix 1: The Process of Abolition of Slavery in Early Independent Mexico following the Federalist Constitution of 1824 Appendix 2: José Joaquín Ugarte to Señor Brigadier Marqués de Casa Calvo [Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O’Farrill], Nacogdoches, 11 September 1804 Glossary of Spanish Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250–1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Hägerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Maps and Table Notes on Contributors Introduction: Slavery, Slave Trading, and Bonded Labor Studies in Asia  Richard B. Allen Part 1: Conceptualizing Slave Status 1 Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia: Status Quaestionis  Anthony Reid 2 Between Slave and Disciple in South Asia  Jessica Hinchy 3 Gender and Slavery in Asia  Shawna Herzog Part 2: Slavery, the State, and Society in East Asia 4 Slavery and the Mongol Empire  Don J. Wyatt 5 Economic, Social, and Legal Aspects of Slavery and Indentured Labor in Late Ming China (1550–1644): What the Huizhou Documents Tell Us  Harriet T. Zurndorfer 6 Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China  Claude Chevaleyre 7 Korea: A Slave Society  Christopher Lovins 8 The Abolition of Slavery, Constitutional Reforms, and Modernity in Late Qing China  Bonny Ling Part 3: Slavery, Servitude, and European Colonialism 9 Slaves, Weavers, and the Peopling of East India Company Colonies, 1660–1730  Michael D. Bennett 10 Slavery, Conflict, and Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines  Stephanie Mawson 11 Pearling and Slavery in the Sulu Zone, 1882–1884: The Letters and Diary of Thomas Henry Haynes  James Francis Warren 12 Slavery through Missionary Lenses: Timor in the Nineteenth Century  Hans Hägerdal 13 Indebtedness, Socio-Cultural Hierarchies, and Unfree Labor on Nineteenth-Century Ceylonese Plantations  Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena Part 4: Reflections 14 Slavery in Asia and Global Slavery  Jeff Fynn-Paul Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Roșu, and Ehud R. Toledano.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface  Ehud R. Toledano Introduction  Felicia Roșu Part I: The Italian Phase 1. Black Sea Slavery in Genoese Notarial Sources, 13th–15th Centuries  Michel Balard 2. Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian Notarial Sources, 14th–15th Centuries  Sergei Karpov Part II: Slavery and Christianity 3. The Role of Slaves in the Byzantine Economy, 10th–11th Centuries: Legal Aspects  Daphne Penna 4. Christian Slave Traders, Slave Owners, and Slaves in the 13th–15th Centuries  Sandra Origone 5. The Orthodox Church and the Emancipation of Gypsy Slaves in the Romanian Principalities in the 19th Century  Viorel Achim Part III: Raiders and Captives on the Northern Shore 6. “It Was the Poles that Gave Me Most Pain”: Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea, 1475–1774  Mikhail Kizilov 7. How Captives Were Taken: The Making of Tatar Slaving Raids in the Early Modern Period  Andrzej Gliwa 8. Captive-Taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and Unfreedom in the Northern Countries  Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk Part IV: The Circassian Question 9. What Caused the 14th-Century Tatar–Circassian Shift?  Hannah Barker 10. Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim Warriors? The Status of Circassians in the Early Modern Period  Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska Part V: The Black Sea and Global Slavery 11. People-Taking across the Mediterranean Maritime Frontier, 1675–1714  Colin Heywood 12. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea: A Comparative View  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended in the nineteenth century, slave raiding and dealing and the extensive use of slave labor continued into the twentieth century in many parts of Africa. Using primary oral sources such as songs, proverbs, names, and everyday sayings as a basis for critical reflection, the overriding aim of this book is to shift emphasis from conventional historical methodology by exploring previously neglected oral sources. Bringing such sources into the academic conversation proffers new insights relating to victims’ responses and adjustments to slave raiding and trafficking in the late nineteenth century northern Ghana.Trade Review"In this important and well-researched book, Emmanuel Saboro draws from original oral sources to show us how communities in northern Ghana are bearers of a collective memory of the transatlantic and internal trades." - Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard UniversityTable of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Transcriptions and Translations Introduction: Envisioning the Past in the Present: Hearing the Unsaid  1 Northern Ghana and the Historiography of the Slave Trade  2 Reconfiguring Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Africa: the Place of Oral Tradition  3 Memory/Remembering  4 Sources and Methods  5 Structure of the Book 1 Remembering a Fractured Past: Historicizing Violence, Captivity, and Enslavement in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  1 Introduction  2 The Gold Coast and the Trans-Atlantic Connection  3 Navigating Histories, Constructing Identities: Geography and People of Northern Ghana, the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 Post-abolition Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century  5 Asante and the Slave Trade in Northern Ghana in the Nineteenth Century  6 The Zabarima Slave Raiding Hegemony in Northern Ghana  7 “Babatu Has Really Dealt with Me and I Know”: the Portrait of a Ruthless Leader  8 ‘Places, Places Are Still There’: Salaga, a Bloodied Landscape of Captivity, Enslavement, and Dispossession  9 Conclusion 2 The Song as a Cultural and Historical Archive for Reconstructing the Past  1 Introduction  2 The African Song Tradition: a Brief Overview  3 Song Traditions in Northern Ghana: the Bulsa and Kasena in Perspective  4 “They Have Killed Me, Killing of a Different Kind”: Dirges/Laments/Sorrow Songs  5 War and Victory Songs  6 The Bulsa Battle Cry  7 The War Flute  8 Performing Pain: Song, Ritual Dance, and Performance  9 “Singing Rocks”: The Pikworo Slave Camp Songs  10 Conclusion 3 ‘Unspeakable Things Spoken’: Cultural Constructions of Trauma, Mourning Loss  1 Introduction  2 Framing Violence: Metaphorizing the Kanbong (Foreign Enslaver) as the Other  3 Sexual Violence  4 Of Mothering and Motherhood  5 Of Place, Belonging and Home  6 Where There Are No Graves: Metaphorizing Death and Mourning Loss 4 “Sins of Our Fathers”: Re-reading Indigenous Complicity Narratives  1 Notions of Betrayal: the Insider Motif  2 The Politics of Silence: Survival or Complicity?  3 Conclusion 5 “We Are Free at Last”: Local Adaptations and Indigenous Resistance Strategies against Captivity and Enslavement in the Hinterland  1 Introduction  2 “We Have Fled, Fled a Lot”: Flight as a Survival and Resistance Strategy  3 The Landscape and Hollow Trees as “Refuge Sites”  4 Hiding in Hollow Trees  5 Drums of War: Contestations and Deconstructing Notions of Victimhood  6 Animistic Metaphors as Counter Representation Strategies  7 The Lion  8 The Elephant  9 Celebrating Triumph over Tragedy  10 Conclusion Conclusion: Freedom beyond the Wound and the Silences Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Prologue: Understanding the Voice of the Enslaved in the Iberian World  João José Reis Introduction: Slave Subjectivities—Studying Absences?   ngela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and Michel Cahen Part 1: Slave Subjectivities in Asia 1 ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’  Identity, Resistance, and Dissonant Perceptions about the Enslavement of Japanese in the Iberian World (16th–17th Centuries)  Rômulo da Silva Ehalt 2 The Concubine Slaves of the Portuguese in the China Sea Region  James Fujitani 3 From Asia to Lisbon  Fragments of Lives and Subjectivities of the Enslaved (16th–17th Centuries)  Patricia Souza de Faria Part 2: Subjectivities in the Context of Labour and Religion 4 Work and Identity in the Case of Elena/o de Céspedes  Sophia Blea Nuñez 5 “Pública Notícia”  Black Brotherhoods and Corporate Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Brazil  Lisa Voigt 6 Creolizing Death  Afro-Catholic Deathways in the Early Modern Iberian World  Miguel A. Valerio 7 Black Masters  A Study on Slave-Owning Slaves, 1790–1850, Pernambuco, Brazil  Robson Pedrosa Costa 8 The Qurʾan in My Notebook  Slavery, Revolt and the Teaching of Arabic in the 1830s Bahia, Brazil  Michel Kabalan Part 3: Social Mobility and Emancipation 9 Central African Echoes in the Wilds of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)  Silvia Hunold Lara 10 Henrique Dias and the Portuguese Empire: Narrative, Subjectivity and Memory  Hebe Mattos 11 Against ‘Unjust Captivity’  Lisbon’s Brotherhoods of Black and ‘Pardo’ Men’s Litigious Action and the Struggle for the End of Slavery in the Kingdom of Portugal  Fernanda Domingos Pinheiro 12 Negotiating Emancipation and Social Mobility  Crosscrossed Biographies of Africans and Afrodescendants in the Río de la Plata (1810–1840)  Magdalena Candioti 13 Petitioning from the Body: Cuba and Spain in 1873  Lisa Surwillo 14 Displacement, Work and Confinement: Plantation Workers in São Tomé  Marta Macedo Postface: Enslavement, Race, Liberty and Emotion  Michelle A. McKinley Index

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.

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Book SynopsisOnce the Maroons escaped from slavery and established their communities in the remote interior of Suriname, attention shifted from military threat to internal danger. As they faced these dangers in an unknown rainforest, they sought refuge in prophetic movements directed by charismatic religious leaders. This book charts the history of Okanisi religious movements from their escape to the present day. It is based on sixty years of fieldwork by the late Bonno Thoden van Velzen and Ineke van Wetering, archival research and oral histories. Prophets of Doom is a tribute to Okanisi society and reflects decades of research and dedication.Table of ContentsForeword: Two anthropologists at Work: An Insider’s Perspective Acknowledgements Glossary List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction 1 The Construction of History in Maroon Society 2 The Lost Homeland and the Years of Suffering 3 Loweten: The Great Trek 4 In a Forest Sanctuary 5 The Fight for Supremacy and the Exploration of the Hinterland 6 Peace 7 Dangerous Newcomers 8 A War Like No Other 9 Great Events 10 Saka in Command of the Tribal Obiya 11 New Movements 12 At the Oracle of Gaan Tata 13 A Fury Unleashed 14 The Jungle Commando’s Obiya 15 Demons 16 Hard Facts and the Stories Archival Sources and References Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 Free Soil and Spaces of Freedom in the Age of the Second Slavery  2 Historiographies and Insights  3 Sources and Outline Part 1: Fleeing Slavery 1 Experiencing Slavery, Imagining Freedom  1 Introduction  2 “A Spirit of Great Insubordination”: Mexico as Imagined Land of Freedom for African Americans  3 Relatives and Loved Ones  4 “Por maltrato”: The Second Slavery’s Violence and Serial Runaways  5 “Más mal que lo corriente”: Paternalism, (Broken) Compromises and Conflicts  6 The Intersection of Gender, Age and Qualifications  7 Conclusion 2 Geography, Mobility and Networks: Escaping through the US-Mexico Borderlands  1 Introduction  2 Easing Mobility: Spatial and Material Strategies  3 Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats  4 Cracking Down on Mobility: Legal and Extra-Legal Violence in the Borderlands  5 Conclusion Part 2: Crafting Freedom 3 Self-Liberated Slaves and Asylum in Northeastern Mexico, 1803–1836  1 Introduction  2 Slave Refugees in Late Colonial New Spain (1803–1821)  3 Self-Liberated Slaves in Early Independent Mexico (1821–1836)  4 Conclusion 4 “Mexico Was Free! No Slave Clanked His Chains under Its Government”: Contests over Mexico’s Free Soil, 1836–1861  1 Introduction: The Texas Revolution and the Political Landscape of Slavery and Freedom  2 The Disputed Making of Mexico’s Free Soil after 1836  3 US Refugees from Slavery and Their Contested Settlement in Mexico  4 Free Soil and Escaped Slaves in-between Conflicting States and Allegiances  5 Conclusion Conclusion: “Mexico Will Assuredly Be Overrun by the Slaves from the Southern States”: The Making of Free Soil, The Unmaking of the Second Slavery  1 The Making of Free Soil  2 The Unmaking of the Second Slavery Appendix 1: The Process of Abolition of Slavery in Early Independent Mexico following the Federalist Constitution of 1824 Appendix 2: José Joaquín Ugarte to Señor Brigadier Marqués de Casa Calvo [Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O’Farrill], Nacogdoches, 11 September 1804 Glossary of Spanish Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 1680-1834 is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a contemporary historian. Having adeptly mined the existing archival data and statistics on Bridgetown, Pedro Welch shares with readers these nuggets of information that contribute immensely to our understanding of the way slave societies functioned in the Caribbean. The book shows how life in the urban slave society departed significantly from that of the rural plantation. There is considerable evidence indicating that slaves and freed persons found and utilised 'room-to-manoeuvre options' in that urban context which allowed some of them to amass small fortunes and landholdings, act relatively freely and independently and occasionally be acknowledged almost as the equal of their white counterparts. Several areas of urban social formation are analysed in the study. Demographic issues, trade and commerce, gender issues, social and economic issues in the white enslaved and free coloured communities receive detailed treatment in this volume. Slave Society in the City is a highly original and substantial work on Caribbean historiography, whose original publication coincided with the 375th anniversary of the founding of Bridgetown, Barbados.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Uncovering the urban matrix - Urban ecology in colonial Barbados: the emergence & growth of Bridgetown - Bridgetown as port town: the maritime economy - Bridgetown as port town: interface with urban society - Demographic characteristics of the urban population - White life in an urban slave community - Life & leisure in the urban slave community - In search of the Ostrehans & their contemporaries - Reflections - Appendices - Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had long resisted its operation, abolition has traditionally been presented as a benevolent act by the British state acting under pressure from the intellectual classes and humanitarian activists. But the campaign to end the TTA cannot be separated from the resistance struggle of the Africans themselves.In Saving Souls: The Struggle to end the Transatlantic Trade in Africans, the companion volume to Trading Souls, noted Caribbean historians Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd trace the African experience from capture, the horrors of the Middle Passage to liberation. Their story emphasises the contributions of the victims of the enslaved even while acknowledging the critical role of the British abolitionists. Readers will learn about: The structure and conduct of the trade in African people, Details of the resistance of Africans to capture, sale and transportation, The abolition movement – involving black and white, enslaved and free, male and female, Christian and non-Christian activists, Legacies of the 1807 Act, The final Abolition Acts, namely the 1805–1806 Order-in-Council and the 1807 Act are included as appendices for easy reference.

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Book SynopsisDaddy Sharpe is a unique work of Caribbean fiction. It is the result of five years of historical research, details of which have been used to recreate a narrative of the life of one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, Samuel Sharpe. Locked in prison, awaiting a sentence of certain execution, Samuel Sharpe retells the story of his life in the first person narrative, beginning with his boyhood days at Cooper’s Hill in St James and ending with his surrender to the authorities after his defeat in the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831. These flashbacks are interwoven with present time musings while he is in prison. The reader becomes immediately engaged in the character of the hero and his struggles for spiritual and physical freedom but is also fascinated by the descriptions and historical details of life in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.

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Book Synopsis''A must-read graphic history. . . an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future'' Guardian''Not only a riveting tale of Black women''s leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery'' Angela Y. DavisWomen warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. With in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom on slave ships bound to America, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Beneath both is Hall''s own tale: of a life lTrade ReviewA must-read graphic history. . . an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future -- Rosemary Bray McNatt * Guardian *Stunning. . . With its remarkable blend of passion and fact, action and reflection, Wake sets a new standard for illustrating history * NPR *Powerful.... Wake is operating in the wake of slavery, and in a state of being awake to the past, a process Hall frames as both devastating and grounding * New York Times Book Review *Hall and Martinez deserve tremendous credit for their work in making this research accessible. . . a superb accomplishment on every level * Popmatters *Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery -- Angela DavisAn urgent, brilliant work of historical excavation * Kirkus *Wake is a revelation. Rebecca Hall's sparse and perfectly chosen prose intersects with Hugo Martinez's beautiful woodcut-styled illustrations that uses the power of visual narratives that hearkens back to graphic masters like Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel. Hall's writing cleverly flows between the reality of her research on black women-led slave revolts and speculative ideas that uncover the spectrum of human experience and resilience -- John Jennings, Eisner Award-winning illustrator of Octavia Butler's Kindred and Parable of the Sower graphic novelsA lot of Black history is uncelebrated narratives, but even within that history there are narratives that are especially overlooked; these tend to be the stories of Black women. Rebecca Hall's diligent research and intelligent storytelling has flipped that script to celebrate the brave enslaved Black women who fought and died for their freedom with dignity. Hugo Martinez's expressive art brings these women to vivid life on the page -- Joel Christian Gill, author of Strange FruitHall and Martínez connect the past and the present in a moving and exciting narrative that brings to light the history of slavery in the United States. Showing how enslaved women resisted slavery, even though their participation in rebellions remain largely absent from written records, Wake will be a crucial tool to introduce students to the problematic nature of slavery primary sources. -- Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History, Howard UniversityIn this beautiful and moving graphic novel, historian Rebecca Hall unearths a history so often overlooked: the significant role Black women played in leading slave revolts. Through Hugo Martinez's vivid graphics, combined with Hall's brilliant insights and powerful storytelling, Wake transports the reader to a moment in time when a group of Black women set out to overturn the institution of slavery in British North America. Their courageous story, told with remarkable skill and elegance, offers hope and inspiration for us all. -- Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on FireIn Wake, Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez use the graphic medium to stunning effect. More than just a history, Wake is a meaningful engagement with a living past. Read this book slowly. Savor the visual metaphors. Let them take you back in time while Hall's narration pins you to the uncomfortable present. Make your reading a shared journey with friends or classmates who can help you uncover the deep meanings and cope with the emotions it raises. This book will haunt you the way that the legacies of slavery haunt this country. -- Trevor Getz, author of Abina and the Important MenRebecca Hall makes accessible the historians' craft in the service of telling the powerful stories of women-led slave revolts. Mincing no words, Hall captures the fierceness of Black women's resistance. Infusing the text with her personal story and a sharp historical imagination, Hall never waivers in giving life to this history. She brings into the present stories that must be read and passed on. -- Rose M. Brewer, Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesWake's text is spare, informed, tuned to vibrating feeling and thought about historical and contemporary Black women's agency and actions in resistance and rebellion. As powerful as the text, are the astonishing graphics. Reading, I was drawn into frame after frame of graphic action and evocative description. These drawings brought me to tears, recognition, fury, gratitude, solidarity. -- Donna Haraway, Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department, UCSCKnowing differently is key to the movement as we newly reckon with what has been memorialized in our past. We are lucky to be in Rebecca Hall's wake as we look again toward the future, with fresh eyes from visualizing a deeper relationship to the revolutionary black feminist spirit that brought us here. -- Gina Dent, Associate Professor in Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz

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Book SynopsisThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations.

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Book SynopsisA textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.Trade ReviewClive Webb and David Brown have written an admirably extensive and useful survey of the racial experience of the American South since colonial times. Judicious, up-to-date, and alert to the wider context, it will win many friends for its welcome synthesis of a daunting historiography -- Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University A stunning achievement. Clive Webb and David Brown have written easily the best overview that we have of race in the American South from the origins of slavery to the present day. Their book is informed by all the latest scholarship and characterized by consistently authoritative conclusions. Indispensable for any course on southern history. -- Tony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge David Brown and Clive Webb have accomplished the nearly impossible by writing a well researched and highly readable synthesis of the broad history of race in the American South. Anyone who wants to understand the links as well as the discontinuities of race in the region should begin by reading this book and consulting the superb bibliographical essay of sources the authors have assembled. -- Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina Race in the American South takes us on a sweeping synthetic analysis of an issue central to an understanding of American history. Little that is relevant seems to have escaped the attention of the authors. -- Richard J. M. Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University In this splendid synthesis of southern history using race as the orgnaizing principle, David Brown and Clive Webb argue that race has been determinative in southern history, even as it interacted with class, gender, ethnicity and religion. Combining five maps, a chronology and a bibliographical essay, this highly accessible book is a fine overview of the literature and will prove useful in courses on race relations, African Americans and the South. -- Anthony S. Parent Jr, Wake Forest Uniervsity Journal of Southern History Anyone who has used a textbook designed for an undergraduate survey course in history knows that broad chronological syntheses often tend towards generalizations and certitude. Remarkably, this is not the case here. Instead Brown and Webb illuminate various historical debates, largely leaving it up to their readers to evaluate the merits of various arguments! deserves a place of prominence on the bookshelf of any serious student of the American South. -- Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Georgia College & State University Journal of Social History A first-rate work by two British specialists in American studies! Race in the American South can be highly recommended as a well-written, accurate and concise review of a tragic American history. -- Tom Pettigrew, University of California Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies A comprehensive account of the way that race has shaped the history of the United States. Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World Clive Webb and David Brown have written an admirably extensive and useful survey of the racial experience of the American South since colonial times. Judicious, up-to-date, and alert to the wider context, it will win many friends for its welcome synthesis of a daunting historiography A stunning achievement. Clive Webb and David Brown have written easily the best overview that we have of race in the American South from the origins of slavery to the present day. Their book is informed by all the latest scholarship and characterized by consistently authoritative conclusions. Indispensable for any course on southern history. David Brown and Clive Webb have accomplished the nearly impossible by writing a well researched and highly readable synthesis of the broad history of race in the American South. Anyone who wants to understand the links as well as the discontinuities of race in the region should begin by reading this book and consulting the superb bibliographical essay of sources the authors have assembled. Race in the American South takes us on a sweeping synthetic analysis of an issue central to an understanding of American history. Little that is relevant seems to have escaped the attention of the authors. In this splendid synthesis of southern history using race as the orgnaizing principle, David Brown and Clive Webb argue that race has been determinative in southern history, even as it interacted with class, gender, ethnicity and religion. Combining five maps, a chronology and a bibliographical essay, this highly accessible book is a fine overview of the literature and will prove useful in courses on race relations, African Americans and the South. Anyone who has used a textbook designed for an undergraduate survey course in history knows that broad chronological syntheses often tend towards generalizations and certitude. Remarkably, this is not the case here. Instead Brown and Webb illuminate various historical debates, largely leaving it up to their readers to evaluate the merits of various arguments! deserves a place of prominence on the bookshelf of any serious student of the American South. A first-rate work by two British specialists in American studies! Race in the American South can be highly recommended as a well-written, accurate and concise review of a tragic American history. A comprehensive account of the way that race has shaped the history of the United States.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Red, White and Black? Native Americans, Europeans and Africans Meet in the Chesapeake; 2. Systematising Slavery: The Making of the Plantation System in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution; 4. A White Man's Republic in the Antebellum South; 5. The Paradoxical Institution: Antebellum Slavery; 6. A Fragile Freedom: The Civil War and the Collapse of Slavery; 7. 'The White Supreme': Race Relations in the Jim Crow South; 8. A World of Their Own: Black Culture and Resistance; 9. The Challenge of Reform: The South in the Era of the World Wars; 10. Moderates and Militants: The Struggle for the White South; 11. We Shall Overcome: The Civil Rights Movement; Conclusion: The Enduring Legacy of Race; Index.

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Book SynopsisA textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.Trade ReviewClive Webb and David Brown have written an admirably extensive and useful survey of the racial experience of the American South since colonial times. Judicious, up-to-date, and alert to the wider context, it will win many friends for its welcome synthesis of a daunting historiography -- Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University A stunning achievement. Clive Webb and David Brown have written easily the best overview that we have of race in the American South from the origins of slavery to the present day. Their book is informed by all the latest scholarship and characterized by consistently authoritative conclusions. Indispensable for any course on southern history. -- Tony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge David Brown and Clive Webb have accomplished the nearly impossible by writing a well researched and highly readable synthesis of the broad history of race in the American South. Anyone who wants to understand the links as well as the discontinuities of race in the region should begin by reading this book and consulting the superb bibliographical essay of sources the authors have assembled. -- Dan T. Carter, University of South Carolina Race in the American South takes us on a sweeping synthetic analysis of an issue central to an understanding of American history. Little that is relevant seems to have escaped the attention of the authors. -- Richard J. M. Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Clive Webb and David Brown have written an admirably extensive and useful survey of the racial experience of the American South since colonial times. Judicious, up-to-date, and alert to the wider context, it will win many friends for its welcome synthesis of a daunting historiography A stunning achievement. Clive Webb and David Brown have written easily the best overview that we have of race in the American South from the origins of slavery to the present day. Their book is informed by all the latest scholarship and characterized by consistently authoritative conclusions. Indispensable for any course on southern history. David Brown and Clive Webb have accomplished the nearly impossible by writing a well researched and highly readable synthesis of the broad history of race in the American South. Anyone who wants to understand the links as well as the discontinuities of race in the region should begin by reading this book and consulting the superb bibliographical essay of sources the authors have assembled. Race in the American South takes us on a sweeping synthetic analysis of an issue central to an understanding of American history. Little that is relevant seems to have escaped the attention of the authors.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Red, White and Black? Native Americans, Europeans and Africans Meet in the Chesapeake; 2. Systematising Slavery: The Making of the Plantation System in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Slavery, Race and the American Revolution; 4. A White Man's Republic in the Antebellum South; 5. The Paradoxical Institution: Antebellum Slavery; 6. A Fragile Freedom: The Civil War and the Collapse of Slavery; 7. 'The White Supreme': Race Relations in the Jim Crow South; 8. A World of Their Own: Black Culture and Resistance; 9. The Challenge of Reform: The South in the Era of the World Wars; 10. Moderates and Militants: The Struggle for the White South; 11. We Shall Overcome: The Civil Rights Movement; Conclusion: The Enduring Legacy of Race; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first Reader and Guide on the subject of slavery in America. It combines both an introduction to the field and a selection of core primary and secondary readings, covering the period from the early seventeenth century to the American Civil War.Trade ReviewThe combination of secondary and primary extracts with substantial editorial pieces is particularly impressive. The overview, followed by essays for each section looks good. Often editorial pieces in other works are too brief. The coverage of the colonial period as well as later years is a significant strength, and the balance between thematic emphasis and chronological is good. -- Dr Michael Tadman, Department of History, University of Liverpool I am impressed by the organization, content and coverage of this reader. The author has blended most, if not all, of the latest developments in the field of slavery studies with appropriate documents. He has done so in a very organized and logical fashion, and I would not hesitate to assign this work in my undergraduate classes. -- Professor Christine Daniels, Michigan State University The combination of secondary and primary extracts with substantial editorial pieces is particularly impressive. The overview, followed by essays for each section looks good. Often editorial pieces in other works are too brief. The coverage of the colonial period as well as later years is a significant strength, and the balance between thematic emphasis and chronological is good. I am impressed by the organization, content and coverage of this reader. The author has blended most, if not all, of the latest developments in the field of slavery studies with appropriate documents. He has done so in a very organized and logical fashion, and I would not hesitate to assign this work in my undergraduate classes.Table of ContentsAnalytical Table of Contents; 1. The Origins of North American Slavery; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Transitions to African Slavery in British America, 1630-1730: Barbados, Virginia and South Carolina; (Russell R. Menard, from Indian Historical Review); Document 1 The Arrival of the First Blacks in Virginia; (from Susan Myra Kingsbury (ed.), The Records of the Virginia Company of London); Document 2 Maryland establishes Slavery for life; (from William Hand Browne (ed.), Archives of Maryland: Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, January 1637/8-September 1664); Document 3 Management of Slaves, 1672; (from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1900); 2. Slavery in Colonial North America; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670; (from Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia); Document 1 Anonymous testimony before Virginia magistrates about a sexual assault complaint made by a white woman against a mulatto man, 1681; (from Warren M. Billings (ed.), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689); Document 2 Repeal of the Act excluding Slaves from Georgia, 1750; (from Elizabeth Donnan (ed.), Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America); Document 3 Johann Martin Bolzius answers a Questionnaire on Carolina and Georgia; (from Klaus G. Loewald, Beverly Starika and Paul S. Taylor, 'Johann Martin Bolzius answers a Questionnaire on Carolina and Georgia,' William and Mary Quarterly); 3. Slavery and the American Revolution; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Liberty, Equality, and Slavery: The Paradox of the American Revolution; (Sylvia R. Frey, from The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits); Document 1 The Northwest Ordinance, 1787; (from Henry S. Commager (eds.), Documents of American History); Document 2 Slavery and the United States Constitution; (from www.nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); Document 3 Petition from the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to Congress, 1790; (from Gary B. Nash, Race and Revolution); 4. Slavery and the Founding Fathers; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay George Washington and the Problem of Slavery; (Kenneth Morgan, from Journal of American Studies); Document 1 Extract from Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia; (from William Peden (ed.), Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia); Document 2 George Washington, Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799; (from John P. Kaminski (ed.), A Necessary Evil? Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution); Document 3 DNA evidence on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings; (from Lander, Eric S. and Joseph J. Ellis, 'DNA Analysis: Founding Father' and Eugene A. Foster et al., 'Jefferson fathered slave's last child,' Nature); 5. Slave Life and Work; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay The Gospel in the Slave Quarters; (from Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made); Document 1 Slave Work and Life in Georgia; (from Emily P. Burke, Reminiscences of Georgia); Document 2 Cruel treatment of a slave girl; (from Jean F. Yellin (ed.), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl); Document 3 Slave testimonies; (from Robert Edgar Conrad (ed.), In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union); 6. The Business of Slavery; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Turning People into Products; (from Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market); Document 1 The New Orleans Slave Market; (from Fredrika Bremer, The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America); Document 2 A slave coffle; (from George W. Featherstonhaugh, Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico: with Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices); Document 3 Inventory of slaves on a Louisiana sugar plantation; (from Willie Lee Rose (ed.), A Documentary History of Slavery in North America); 7. Slavery and the Law; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Slave Property Crimes and the Law in the South; (from Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860); Document 1 The Louisiana Slave Code, 1824; (from James O. Fuqua (ed.), Civil Code of the State of Louisiana: with the Statutory Amendments from 1825 to 1866 inclusive); Document 2 Assault and battery on a slave woman; (from Thomas P. Devereaux (ed.), Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina from December Term, 1828, to December Term, 1830); Document 3 Extract from the Dred Scott decision, 1857; (from Henry S. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); 8. Slave Resistance; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Profile of a Runaway Slave; (from John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation); Document 1 Runaway slave advertisements; (from Lathan A. Windley, Runaway Slave Advertisements: a Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790); Document 2 Petition about a slave runaway; (from John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantations); Document 3 Affidavit of a Tennessee Fugitive Slave; (from Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland (eds), Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867, Series 1. Volume 1. The Destruction of Slavery); 9. Planters and Proslavery; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Proslavery Thought; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 1 Letter to an English abolitionist; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 2 George Fitzhugh and Proslavery Thought; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); Document 3 Justification for slavery; (from Drew Gilpin Faust (ed.), The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South); 10. The Antislavery Struggle; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Ordinary Women in the Antislavery movement; (from Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement); Document 1 The Germantown Protest, 1688; (from Henry S. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); Document 2 A Slave petition for freedom during the Revolutionary era; (from Herbert Aptheker (ed.), 'Slaves Petition for Freedom during the Revolution, 1773-1779' in A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States); Document 3 Extract from 'The Liberator,' 1831; (from William Lloyd Garrison, 'The Liberator, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1, 1831' in Henry S. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); 11. Slavery and Politics; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Politics, Ideology, and the Origins of the American Civil War; (from Eric Foner, Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War); Document 1 The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850; (from www.Nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); Document 2 Appeal of the Independent Democrats, 1854; (from Henry S. Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); Document 3 Abraham Lincoln's 'House Divided' speech; (from www.nationalcenter.org/HistoricalDocuments.html); 12. Emancipation and the Civil War; Introduction; Bibliography; Essay Lincoln and Slave Emancipation; (from Don E. Fehrenbacher, completed and edited by Ward M. McAfee, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery); Document 1 The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863; (from Henry Steele Commager (ed.), Documents of American History); Document 2 Kentucky, Unionism and Slavery; (from Extract from Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Thavolia Glymph, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland (eds), Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867. Series 1. Volume 1: The Destruction of Slavery); Document 3 The Civil War Amendments to the United States Constitution; (from Henry Steele Commager (ed.), Documents of American History).

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Book SynopsisAlthough much has been written about Scottish involvement in slavery, the contribution of Scots to the abolition of black slavery has not yet been sufficiently recognised. This book starts with a Virginian slave seeking his freedomin Scotland in 1756 and ends with the abolition of the apprenticeship scheme in the West Indian colonies in 1838.Trade ReviewA tightly argued and illuminating history. The Herald A tightly argued and illuminating history.

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Book SynopsisDescribes the history of how the ''Africa Trade'' formed the backbone of the British Empire. This book retells the story of how the international commodity market in Africans operated, how transportation of millions of Africans over thousands of miles developed and how the experience affected slaves both in bondage and then in freedom.

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Book SynopsisExploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world. The first part examines more recent attempts to place slavery in a global context, touching on contexts such as religion, empire, and capitalism. In its second part, the book looks closely at the key themes and methods that emerge as historians reckon with the dynamics of historical slavery. These range from politics, economics and quantitative analyses, to race and gender, to pyschohistory, history from below, and many more. Throughout, examples of slavery and its impact are considered across time and place: in Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe, colonial Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and trades throughout the Atlantic and IndTrade ReviewThis is a fascinating volume on the historiography of slavery. It has interesting chapters on how historians have approached the global history of slavery and concepts such as empire, capitalism and antislavery. The book also deals with the methods and perspectives historians have used to explore slavery, including race, gender and memory. A valuable and important collection. * Prof. Gad Heuman, Emeritus University of Warwick, UK *This is the best collection of studies on the historiography, methodologies and theoretical approaches to the comparative and transnational histories of slavery. The approaches are discussed in general terms followed by excellent illustrative studies. Doddington and Dal Lago deserve high praise for the expertise and thoroughness of their selection, organization and editing of chapters that are all very informative. The authors cover their assigned areas thoroughly and accessibly, offering clear views of their specialties in styles that are often lively and inviting. The work will be indispensable for both specialists interested in alternate approaches, researchers new to the study of slavery, and teachers and students seeking context and greater depth in their study of the many cutting edge histories of the world’s slaveries. * Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA *Important reading for anyone interested in writing about slavery and its historiographical traditions, this is a hugely ambitious and multifaceted book featuring interpretations of slavery by a number of historians writing from diverse historiographical, intellectual and analytical perspectives. Deliberately spanning wide chronological and geographical contexts, the authors included reflect upon a variety of theoretical, thematic and methodological approaches for exploring slavery. * Emily West, Professor of American History, University of Reading, UK *Writing the History of Slavery is a must-read for students and specialists of the history of slavery. This important book provides an accessible examination of the methodological challenges historians of slavery have been and are still confronted to and how the multifarious methods implemented to overcome them have influenced the historiography of slavery. * Lawrence Aje, Associate Professor of American History, Paul Valéry University of Montpellier, France *Table of ContentsPart I: Global approaches 1 Defining slavery in global perspective (David Lewis, University of Edinburgh, UK) 2 Writing global histories of slavery (Michael Zeuske, University of Cologne, Germany, University of Bonn, Germany, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba) 3 Slavery and empire (Trevor Burnard, University of Hull, UK) 4 The ‘Great Divergence’: Slavery, capitalism and world-economy, (Dale Tomich, Binghamton University, USA) 5 Approaches to global antislavery (Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, USA) 6 Comparative and transnational histories of slavery (Enrico Dal Lago, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) Part II: Themes and methods 7 Political and legal histories of slavery (Sue Peabody, Washington State University, USA) 8 Writing national histories of slavery (Lewis Eliot, University of Oklahoma, USA) 9 Writing the religious history of the enslaved in the Atlantic World (Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina, USA) 10 What historians of slavery write about when we write about race, (Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin, USA) 11 Gender history and slavery (David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University, UK) 12 Dispossessed lives: Enslaved women, violence, and the archive, (Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University, USA with an introduction from Elizabeth Maeve Barnes, University of Reading, UK) 13 Slavery, postcolonialism and the colonial archive, (Andrea Major, University of Leeds, UK) 14 Imagining slavery in Roman antiquity (K.R. Bradley, University of Notre Dame, USA) 15 Quantitative histories of slavery, (Andrea Livesey, Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 16 Psychohistory and slavery, (Patrick H. Breen, Providence College, USA) 17 Material culture, archaeology and slavery, (Lydia Wilson Marshall, DePauw University, USA) 18 Slavery and the cultural turn, (Raquel Kennon, California State University, Northridge, USA) 19 Re-tooling memory and memory tools: America’s ongoing re-memory of slavery, (Marcus Wood, University of Sussex, UK)

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien.Trade Review'Incisively critical and refreshingly good humored, this is highly recommended for students and scholars of all levels.' - R. A. Miller, emerita, University of Massachusetts Boston, CHOICE

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Book SynopsisThis book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner.

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Book SynopsisThis book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic.

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Book SynopsisThis critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture.

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fiction Prize judgesFreedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. No, child.You got to swing your freedom like a club.In 1859, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape enslavement, but an American bounty hunter tracked her down. Now she's in jail for killing him, and the fragile peace of Dunmore, a town settled by people fleeing the American south, hangs by a thread. Lensinda Martin, a smart young reporter, wants to gather the woman's testimony before she can be condemned, but the old woman has no time for confessions. Instead she proposes a barter: a story for a story. As the women swap stories - of family and first loves, of survival and freedom against all odds - Lensinda must face her past. And it seems the old woman may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny. Travelling along the path of the Underground Railroad from the American South to British Canada, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country is an unforgettable debut about the interwoven history of peoples in North America, slavery and resistance, and two women reckoning with the stories they've been given, and the ones they want to tell. Trade ReviewThe harshly real and the fantastic mingle in ways that recall Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer and Esi Edugyan's Washington Black. What's most impressive is Thomas's imaginative power; sure-handed, often lyrical prose; and strong, complex, resilient women. An exceptional work that mines a rich historical vein * Kirkus, starred review *In the Upper Country is not only fiction alive with history; it is historic. This masterful novel is the first to narrate the forging of the Afro-Métis - or Black & Indigenous - people out of European (or Indigenous) enslavement . . . practically every page turns up a sentence or a phrase that could have been penned by Toni Morrison or James Baldwin -- George Elliot Clarke, critically acclaimed poet and novelistA sweeping epic that imagines all the ways our ancestors tried to get free. This is an exciting voice in fiction, as interested in the complexities of land and belonging as in the vagaries of human love and connection -- Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of LibertieTremendous . . . In the Upper Country enlightens and empowers in a way few other literary sagas can, by humanizing people who have long been historical footnotes and bringing their stories to the centre. Kai Thomas is a visionary, an advocate, and overall a groundbreaking storytelling voice who has now contributed a classic to this country's canon. This novel will resonate for generations to come -- Waubgeshig Rice, bestselling author of Moon of the Crusted SnowStories within stories; until I read them, I hadn't realised these are ones I'd long been wanting, needing even. In this remarkable debut, Kai Thomas fills out the picture of a place, a time, peoples and their relationships, all previously neglected in the day-to-day unfolding of the nations. His immensely compelling details, and a host of voices so well-wrought you can see and hear the speakers long after you've finished reading, will leave you eager to see what he'll do next -- Shani Mootoo, author of Polar VortexMesmerizing . . . at once intimate and majestic, Thomas's ambitious work heralds a bright new voice * Publishers Weekly, starred review *The old woman will tell her story, if Lensinda shares one of her own. Thus begins an incredible exchange that reveals an interconnected history of love and survival for the Black and Indigenous peoples of North America. * Book Riot *A Gothic-tinged puzzle box of a novel . . . there's undeniable force to the embedded stories and the historical truths they bring to vivid life * Toronto Star *Groundbreaking . . . This fascinating series of stories within stories reflects the fragmentary history of African and Indigenous people experiencing the effects of enslavement. Engrossing and intensely readable, this book represents just the beginning of a larger narrative, with many chapters yet to be told; very highly recommended * Library Journal *Exceptional . . . Kai Thomas deftly and compassionately braids deeply engrossing stories within stories that explore a little-known aspect of Canadian history. In the Upper Country is a mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling, as this is among the protagonists' tools for survival in a harsh reality rife with violence and dehumanization. -- 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Jury (francescaekwuyasi, Alix Hawley, MG Vassanji)

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Book SynopsisIn The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American nation.Few slave traders were more successful than Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who ran Franklin and Armfield, and none were more influential. Drawing on source material from more than thirty archives in a dozen states, Rothman follows the three traders through their first meetings, the rise of their firm, and its eventual dissolution. Responsible for selling between 8,000 and 12,000 slaves from the Upper South to Deep South plantations over a period of eight years in the 1830s, they ran an extensive and innovative operation, with offices in New Orleans and Alexandria in Louisiana and Natchez in Mississippi. They advertised widely, borrowed heavily from bankers and other creditors, extended long term credit to their buyers, and had ships built to take slaves from Virginia down to New Orleans. Slavers are often misremembered as pariahs of more cultivated society, but as Rothman argues, the men who perpetrated the slave trade were respected members of prominent social and business communities and understood themselves as patriotic Americans.By tracing the lives and careers of the nation's most notorious slave traders, The Ledger and the Chain shows how their business skills and remorseless violence together made the malevolent entrepreneurialism of the slave trade. And it reveals how this horrific, ubiquitous trade in human beings shaped a growing nation and corrupted it in ways still powerfully felt today.

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Book SynopsisThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation's first HBCUs In The Devil's Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the "Devil's Half Acre." When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into "God's Half Acre," a school where Black men could fulfil their dreams. It still exists today as Virginia Union University, one of America's first Historically Black Colleges and Universities. A sweeping narrative of a life in the margins of the American slave trade, The Devil's Half Acre brings Mary Lumpkin into the light. This is the story of the resilience of a woman on the path to freedom, her historic contributions, and her enduring legacy.

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Book SynopsisAn investigation into the links between modern and historical slavery in Africa.

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