Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books
Indiana University Press Slave Owners of West Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSlave Owners of West Africa is a welcome and timely addition to the historiography of slavery and abolition in West Africa. . . . It is a must-read book for anyone in the field. * African Studies Quarterly *Overall, this book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship about an extremely complicated and sensitive subject by bringing to light the biographies of three individuals who represent a transformative turning point in African history. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Amegashie Afeku of Keta: Priest and Political Advisor, Businessman and Slave Owner2. Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: Of Chieftaincy and Slavery, of Politics and the Personal3. Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: The Faith Journey of a Slave Owner4. Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Slave Owners of West Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSlave Owners of West Africa is a welcome and timely addition to the historiography of slavery and abolition in West Africa. . . . It is a must-read book for anyone in the field. * African Studies Quarterly *Overall, this book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship about an extremely complicated and sensitive subject by bringing to light the biographies of three individuals who represent a transformative turning point in African history. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Amegashie Afeku of Keta: Priest and Political Advisor, Businessman and Slave Owner2. Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: Of Chieftaincy and Slavery, of Politics and the Personal3. Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: The Faith Journey of a Slave Owner4. Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press Africans in Exile
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies that complicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa.Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies thatcomplicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa. * H-Africa *This book contributes significantly to African Studies as a field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to better understand exile as a diverse yet defining feature of our age. -- Christian A Williams - University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsCONTENTSForeword: Holger Bernt HansenAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett ShadlePart Two: Geographies of Exile7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith TerrettaPart Three: Remembering and Performing Exile12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. LawranceEpilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh JallowAfterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. BurrillNotes on ContributorsIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Africans in Exile
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies that complicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa.Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies thatcomplicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa. * H-Africa *This book contributes significantly to African Studies as a field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to better understand exile as a diverse yet defining feature of our age. -- Christian A Williams - University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsCONTENTSForeword: Holger Bernt HansenAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett ShadlePart Two: Geographies of Exile7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith TerrettaPart Three: Remembering and Performing Exile12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. LawranceEpilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh JallowAfterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. BurrillNotes on ContributorsIndex
£25.19
Pennsylvania State University Press Temperance and Cosmopolitanism African American
Book SynopsisA study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom. Trade Review“This book speaks softly and carries a big wallop. Through precise readings and meticulous historical research, Stewart demonstrates that there was a common transnational epistemology uniting black reformers. Highly recommended.”—Kathryn Lofton,author of Consuming Religion“Exploring a world torn by the foundational fractures forced by the system of slavery and racial control, Stewart uncovers a history of reform that challenges our understanding of place and mobility in African American history. She considers such writers as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith, finding in their works a cosmopolitan determination to reorient American culture from the ground up. Anyone interested in African American literary and cultural history will want to read this important book.”—John Ernest,author of Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History“An original, nuanced, and theoretically robust work of scholarship that will quickly prove to be a tremendous addition to our understanding of race, religion, politics, and public life. Stewart critically reads the multiple languages and expressions of freedom as amalgams that form and inform the multiple meanings of the world and human experience. By deeply probing the complex contours of the temperance movement against the backdrop of the Atlantic world, Stewart adds rich texture and offers fresh perspectives on this protean international movement.”—Corey D. B. Walker,author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America“In this study Carole Lynn Stewart shows how a group of enslaved, ex-enslaved, or fugitive African American women and men, through international travel, imaginative vision, and intellectual insight, critically expanded the practice and ideal of temperance from an individualistic, inner purity blind to the corruption of a civic order that tolerated slavery and enabled temperance to a serve as the vital basis for both the inward and societal meanings of freedom.”—Charles H. Long,author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion“Stewart offers readers a theoretically rich, at times dizzying, account of the various ways Black creative writers, evangelists, and political activists connected cosmopolitanism to innovative practices of resistance and liberation.”—Stefan M. Wheelock American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Slave Travels and the Beginnings of a Temperate Cosmopolitanism 1. William Wells Brown and Martin Delany: Civil and Geographic Spaces of Temperate Cosmopolitanism 2. Brown’s Temperate Cosmopolitan “Home”: Creole Civilization and Temperate Manners 3. George Moses Horton’s Freedom: A Temperate Republicanism and a Critical Cosmopolitanism 4. Frances E. W. Harper’s Black Cosmopolitan Creoles: A Temperate Transnationalism 5. “The Quintessence of Sanctifying Grace”: Amanda Smith’s Religious Experience, Freedom, and a Temperate Cosmopolitanism Epilogue: Tempering and Conjuring the Roots of Cosmopolitan Recovery Notes Bibliography Index
£91.96
University of Washington Press Slavery and the PostBlack Imagination
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited CollectionInterrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine the past of American slaveryFrom Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead's literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele's body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging alternate takes on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the postCivil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and BlTrade Review"[A]n academic and culturally relevant feast for the reader." * Journal of Popular Culture *"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination manages to clarify and convincingly advance the discourse of post-Blackness in conversation with contemporary representations of slavery." * American and English Studies *"[A] formidable collection." * Amerikastudien / American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe 1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker Derek Conrad Murray 2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing Derek C. Maus 3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout Cameron Leader-Picone 4. Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement Mollie Godfrey 5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out Kimerly Nichele Brown 6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe 7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment Ilka saal 8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art Malin Pereira 9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon Woman Bertram D. Ashe 10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal List of Contributors Index
£29.66
University of Washington Press Slavery and the PostBlack Imagination
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n academic and culturally relevant feast for the reader." * Journal of Popular Culture *"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination manages to clarify and convincingly advance the discourse of post-Blackness in conversation with contemporary representations of slavery." * American and English Studies *"[A] formidable collection." * Amerikastudien / American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe 1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker Derek Conrad Murray 2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing Derek C. Maus 3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout Cameron Leader-Picone 4. Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement Mollie Godfrey 5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out Kimerly Nichele Brown 6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe 7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment Ilka saal 8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art Malin Pereira 9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon Woman Bertram D. Ashe 10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal List of Contributors Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Mapping Water in Dominica
Book SynopsisHow sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as Nature's Island, was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological recordwhich preserves traces of slave households, waterwaysTrade Review"This book is an excellent example of the application of archaeological research to a larger anthropological problem, in this case the anthropology of slavery and plantation economies in the Caribbean." * Choice *"This is a well-written book that has the added advantage of demonstrating the value of archaeology for the study of history, environmental history not least." * H-Net *"In this fine study of colonial Dominica, Mark W. Hauser brings together the history of slavery, the environment, and the growing field of histories of water. His interdisciplinary approach unveils new perspectives on known events and provides fresh insights into largely forgotten histories." * The Middle Ground Journal *
£110.48
University of Wisconsin Press Slave Trade and Abolition Gender Commerce and
Book SynopsisTraces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers, acting as intermediaries between foreign and local people.
£21.56
University of Wisconsin Press Fugitive Texts Slave Narratives in Antebellum
Book SynopsisOffers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Michael Roy reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture.Table of Contents Prologue — Runaway Bestsellers? Chapter 1 — “The general diffusion of abolition light”: The Institutional Origins of the Antebellum Slave Narrative Raindrops, Autumn Leaves, and Snowflakes: Publishing and Circulating Antislavery Literature in the 1830s The Narrative of James Williams as Antislavery Propaganda Faithful Portrait, Lawful Weapon: Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States Paradoxical Presences: The Narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Chloe Spear Chapter 2 — “My Narrative is just published”: Agency, Itinerancy, and the Slave Narrative Marginality, Itinerancy, and Reform in Antebellum America The Transatlantic Journeys of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Reprinting and Recycling the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave Other Narratives, Other Trajectories: Henry Bibb, Leonard Black, Sojourner Truth Chapter 3 — “Quite a sensation”: Slave Narratives in the Age of Uncle Tom “The servile publishers of that day”: Antislavery and the Book Trade The Business of Twelve Years a Slave Old Friends, New Names: Frederick Douglass and Charles Ball Redux Incidents in the Life of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Epilogue — The Slave Narrative Unbound
£60.00
Yale University Press My Bondage and My Freedom
Book SynopsisBorn into slavery in 1818, the author escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. This book recounts his remarkable life.Trade Review"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."—Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan University"With scorching rhetoric, my heroic ancestor rails against the inhumanity of slavery while upholding the tenets of liberty with poetic elegance. In this new edition, David Blight offers a fresh perspective on my great-great-great grandfather's life from his enslavement on the eastern shore of Maryland to his emergence as a revolutionary leader at the center of a national crisis over the future of slavery."—Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives"David Blight's graceful introduction provides the essential historical context, public as well as private, and helps us appreciate how Douglass's great book managed to be at once a piercing polemic, an extraordinary act of memory, and a masterpiece of American prose."—James Oakes, City University of New York
£15.79
Yale University Press Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
Book SynopsisA critical edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American historyTrade Review“This is the most thoughtful collection of materials to accompany a major primary text that I have seen. The editors deserve particular commendation for including a section on teaching Douglass’ narrative.”—Craig Kaplowitz, Judson University“The primary document sections are especially valuable as teaching aids. They supplement the narrative and allow readers the opportunity to explore for themselves Douglass’s influences and challenges.”—Jennifer Helgren, University of the Pacific“Carefully selected to provide diverse perspectives on distinct aspects of Douglass’ life and story, the primary sources offer a fascinating window into the early nineteenth century worlds in which he lived. This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today. It is exceptional.”—Nancy Hewitt, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
£10.97
Yale University Press California a Slave State
Book SynopsisThe untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern traffickingTrade Review“A devastatingly detailed, urgent, and somewhat regretful confirmation of an inconvenient truth: Far from being the place where everyone got an equal chance, California embraced slavery from the outset. . . . That boosterish tale of California’s endless possibility turns out to have been built with sweat, oppression, coercion, and genocide. It was precisely California’s openness, Pfaelzer posits, that allowed greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy to run amok, and it is this bitter irony—not the orange groves or Mediterranean climate—that makes us (that fraught word) exceptional.”—Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times“A historian explains how California ‘welcomed, honed and legalized’ human bondage for 250 years, from the legalized enslavement of Native Americans to forced labor in today’s prisons.”—New York Times Book ReviewHonored with the Heyday History Award, sponsored by Heyday Books “A powerful history of California’s varied systems of servitude, this book extends across three centuries, exploring bondage, resistance, and how servitude has shaped life in the golden state.”—Benjamin Madley, author of An American Genocide“California has long asserted a proud legacy as a ‘free state.’ Jean Pfaelzer exposes huge rifts in that glossy narrative, including contemporary practices. A stunning aggregation of evidence through extraordinary research.”—Franklin Odo, Amherst College“This capacious book excavates California’s brutal history of multi-racial bondage. After reading it, we will never see the Golden State’s celebrated diversity—or the stories the nation tells itself about its racial past—in the same way.”—P. Gabrielle Foreman, The Colored Conventions Project“Through prolific storytelling using a range of human characters, Jean Pfaelzer takes us through the long California story of slavery and unfreedom in its many forms, offering a powerful revision of the state’s history.”—Philip Deloria, author of Playing Indian
£23.75
Yale University Press A Question of Freedom The Families Who Challenged
Book SynopsisTrade Review"William Thomas casts a bright light into the period’s darkness. . . . He reveals a remarkable struggle for freedom, one buoyed at first by new aspirations in the broader culture and later doomed by rekindled fears. . . . Valuable and provocative. . . . Mr. Thomas brings a clear and sensitive eye to the tangled relationship of black and white Americans in the early 19th century."—Fergus Bordewich, Wall Street Journal"Gripping. . . . Profound and prodigiously researched."—Alison L. LaCroix, Washington PostSelected as a finalist for the 2021 PROSE Awards, sponsored by the Association of American PublishersFinalist for the George Washington Book Award, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center and Washington CollegeWinner of the SHEAR Best Book Prize, sponsored by The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner of the 2021 Nebraska Book Award, Nonfiction Legal History category, sponsored by Nebraska Center for the BookCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2021“Here is a strikingly original, eloquent, and humane book on an inhumane institution. The story restores the names and histories of people who fought for freedom for generations.”—Edward Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America“In A Question of Freedom, historian William Thomas brings to light the truly remarkable and largely forgotten efforts of people held in bondage to sue for their freedom in the courts of the early United States. A genuine contribution to the social, legal, and political history of American slavery, this is a book of great depth and insight.”—Adam Rothman, historian and curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive“With its vivid narration, revelatory research, careful contextualization, and bracing honesty, A Question of Freedom demonstrates that freedom suits were not isolated episodes but instead a major form of slave resistance, with far-reaching and ongoing effects in the long freedom struggle. This book is essential reading for understanding the history of slavery and the modern debate over reparations.”—Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War"William Thomas has produced an important and astonishing chronicle of the legal battles waged by enslaved people for their own freedom. Braiding white-knuckle courtroom drama together with a searing exploration of his own family history, he redefines slavery’s place in early American law—not an inherent feature, but a dubious institution whose contradictions were exploited by the enslaved to protect themselves and their families.”—Yoni Appelbaum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic"A Question of Freedom is an essential book that details the extraordinary efforts of enslaved people to challenge both the legitimacy and absoluteness of slavery in courts of law. It is a work of remarkable honesty and humanity that should inform any conversation on the legacy of slavery. Please read it."—Lauret Savoy, author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the America Landscape
£27.50
Yale University Press Principles and Agents
Book SynopsisA new history of the abolition of the British slave tradeTrade Review“Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that dominance was at its peak.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade“David Richardson’s meticulous exploration of the rise and fall of the British slave trade offers a brilliant synthesis of the history and historiography of a pivotal development in world history.”—Seymour Drescher, author of Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery“The most important recent single volume study of the slave trade, this is a book that commands attention. Richardson confronts a topic of great historical importance. It is a study conceived and executed with an intellectual verve and confidence.”—James Walvin, University of York“An important and timely book that will appeal to the general reader interested in the history of the British slave trade and the abolition movement.”—Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge
£23.75
WW Norton & Co William Wells Brown
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African American writer of the nineteenth century.Trade Review"Ezra Greenspan's painstaking historical research and artful insights of literary analysis have returned William Wells Brown to his rightful place...The very soul of this talented and complex man is laid bare by Greenspan's rich contextualization of Brown's abolitionist success, his remarkably prolific writing, and his legal statelessness in America yet cosmopolitan status as world citizen." -- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University "An informative and often moving account." "A compelling life of one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century-a boon to our understanding of African American and American culture." -- Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University "A scholarly tour de force. Drawing from an astonishing range of primary materials, Greenspan renders Brown's life in a gripping, elegant narrative that opens up many new vistas on Brown and his world." -- David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center "Rich and fascinating...Ezra Greenspan has accomplished a remarkable feat of innovative research and has lucidly brought Brown, the self-taught former slave, to life as a person and as a writer who repeatedly reinvented himself in several genres while producing a brilliant critique of America's dilemma with race." -- David W. Blight, Yale University "In his day, Brown rivaled Frederick Douglass as a prominent black abolitionist and exceeded him as an author of important histories and biographies of African Americans. Ezra Greenspan's definitive biography rescues Brown from undeserved obscurity." -- James M. McPherson, Princeton University "William Wells Brown not only was the first African American novelist; he was a master at bringing his contemporaries, the heroic black men and women of the Civil War generation, into full view with his pen. Now, at last, biographer Ezra Greenspan has done the same for Brown. The result is an "experimental voyage," beautifully written and exhaustively researched, that enthralls the reader while illuminating the improvisational genius of one of the nation's most influential fugitive slaves. In reconstructing the fullness of his story, long obscured by the Jim Crow era that followed, William Wells Brown: An African American Life, ensures that Brown's rightful place in the constellation of leading black men and women of letters will remain fixed for future generations." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University "A fascinating read and an excellent piece of historical detective work." -- Annette Gordon Reed, Harvard University "Greenspan's detailed study of this life of constant growth should win Brown his proper place in American history."
£23.75
WW Norton & Co sojournertruth
Book SynopsisA monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the nineteenth century.
£21.53
WW Norton & Co American Slavery American Freedom Rei
Book SynopsisThoughtful, suggestive and highly readable.New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Profoundly important.... Every page of Morgan's book speaks of a sensitive understanding of human nature, as well as of a scrupulous attention to scholarly exactitude." -- J.H. Plumb - New York Review of Books
£14.24
WW Norton & Co Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisA masterpiece.[W]ill rightfully assume its place as the standard biography of a truly great figure in the nation's past. New York NewsdayTrade Review"A detailed, finely written portrait of the imposing 19th-century leader." -- David Levering Lewis - The New York Times Book Review"Stunning... This illuminating portrait dispenses with the myths." -- Financial Times"Absolutely nonpareil…" -- Nell Irvin Painter - The Boston Globe"Compelling... Suggests that the Age of Douglass was this nation’s greatest epoch... What a time. What a book." -- Los Angeles Times
£15.19
WW Norton & Co Antislavery Appeal American Abolitionism After
Book Synopsis"A fresh and provocative contribution . . . . the clearest, most penetrating, and best-informed study of the post-1830 antislavery movement that exists." —Richard Bardolph, North Carolina Historical Review
£18.00
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Captive Stage Performance and the Proslavery
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£25.60
LUP - University of Michigan Press A Colored Man Round the World
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£17.95
University of California Press The Antislavery Debate
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The centre of controversy is the emergence of the anti-slavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to the development.Table of ContentsPreface Contributors Introduction / Thomas Bender PART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1823 /DAVID BRION DAVIS 1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against 2. The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery International 3. The Preservation of English Liberty, I PART 2: THE AHR DEBATE 4. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 1 / Thomas L. Haskell 5. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 2 / Thomas L. Haskell 6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony / David Brion Davis 7. The Relationship between Capitalism and Humanitarianism / John Ashworth 8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debate over Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth / Thomas L. Haskell PART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED 9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery / John Ashworth 10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction: A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply / David Brion Davis Index
£24.30
University of California Press Ending Slavery
Book SynopsisPresents ideas and insights that can lead to slavery's extinction. This book recounts the author's personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery.
£20.70
University of California Press Pirates Merchants Settlers and Slaves
Book SynopsisIn the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. This book explores the resulting global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods.Trade Review"Extremely well researched." American Historical Review "McDonald succeeds in sketching a new geography of the British Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." Humanities and Social Science "McDonald uses his case study to great effect, demonstrating the ways that pirates connected colonial America to a much wider world... [he] introduces a new category of analysis: the Indo-Atlantic world... [and] identifies a key facet of the history of piracy that has received too little attention from previous scholars... perhaps the most important contribution is [it shines] light on the neglected but critical last decades of the seventeenth century." The William and Mary Quarterly "[It will] change how scholars of seventeenth-century colonial America make sense of the relationship between law, commerce, and culture in the Atlantic world and beyond ... breaks new ground by establishing that piratical activity was diverse, widespread, and seasonal ... McDonald has done a remarkable job marshaling primary sources from archives in the United Kingdom and the United States in support of his ambitious argument ... McDonald has written an important and powerful book that will make a substantial impact on the historiography of early American commerce." Journal of American History "McDonald's book is the most global-minded of the three [books reviewed], and his explicit intellectual engagement with world history as a way of understanding free and unfree migration patterns as well as maritime and trade circuits is refreshing... an excellent teaching resource... the whole book is ideal for classroom use." Reviews in American History "McDonald's carefully researched and crisply-written book makes a number of important interventions in its field: enhancing our appreciation of the vital connections between the colonial Atlantic and the emerging company state in India; by demonstrating the scope of colonial autonomy, and the corresponding limits of the British imperial state; and by revealing the extent to which imperial rivalry shaped and disrupted a set of global frontiers and zones of interaction. Pirates did not merely act as plunderers and despoilers, but were as vital in shaping a series of economic and cultural peripheries, and integrating them into an emerging global order." International Journal of Maritime History "The book is well written and tells a captivating story." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "McDonald succeeds in sketching a new geography of the British Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that extends-through Madagascar-to the Indian Ocean. He demonstrates that contemporary Englishmen's horizons were broader than those of most historians of the British Atlantic. This is an eye-opening and enlightening contribution, which requires other scholars to reframe their histories and periodizations (including such concepts as "First" and "Second" British Empires)." H-War "A thought-provoking book that will register with both scholars and students of early-modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean studies... McDonald's analysis of ... the 'pirate-slave trade nexus' contributes to the growing body of literature that argues piracy contributed to the emergence of seventeenth-century merchant capitalism rather than undermined it... a fascinating work of history that uncovers how diverse pursuits... served to interlock distant and relatively small maritime communities across the globe at the end of the seventeenth century... a wonderful addition and... a sophisticated analysis." International Review of Social History "A highly readable and important contribution to our understanding of pirates' role in colonial projects in both the Americas and Madagascar... sheds much needed light on the Madagascar slave trade and the subsequent Malagasy diaspora... deserves high praise for providing a fresh perspective on Indian Ocean pirates, their settlement of St. Mary's on Madagascar, and their participation in the Malagasy slave trade." Journal of World History
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University of California Press Ties That Bind
Book SynopsisShoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, experienced key events in American history.Trade Review"Tiya Miles' thorough research methodology is apparent in the crafting of this book. The end notes alone are valuable reading. In framing the story of Doll and Shoeboots in the historical account of the Cherokee Nation, Miles makes it impossible for rational people to deny the ties that bind the people that are descended from both African and Indian peoples to their nations. She has written into the historical silence that has shrouded the lives of these people and given them voice. She has also given them documentation." * American Studies *"An engaging and readable narrative . . . Tiya Miles uses [the] relationship and the lives of the descendants of Shoe Boots and Doll to illuminate larger political and social changes occurring in the Cherokee Nation throughout the nineteenth century." * Journal of Southern History *"Ties That Bind makes important contributions to Native American, African American, Southern, and Western histories. Miles exposes complicated conceptions of race in early America, encouraging readers to look beyond simple notions of Black, White, and Indian. She shifts with ease among history, anthropology, literature, and law to describe a nuanced world, charting the changing place of both Africans in the Cherokee Nation and the Cherokee Nation in America. * Journal of Social History *"The book vividly conveys how precarious were the lives of Native and African people caught up in the whirlwind of slavery, colonialism, and discourses and practices of race." * American Quarterly *"Ties That Bind is an excellent work that will be useful to students in African American studies, Native American studies, and early nineteenth century United States history." * Journal of African American Studies *"In crafting her argument, Miles draws skillfully on scholarly work in disciplines including history, anthropology, women's studies, and literature. She also taps a range of published and unpublished archival documents, such as missionary records and newspapers. In this way, she provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of a fascinating family and their place in American and Native American History." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SHOEBOOTS FAMILY TREE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE BONE OF MY BONE: SLAVERY, RACE, AND NATION--EAST 1. CAPTIVITY 2. SLAVERY 3. MOTHERHOOD 4. PROPERTY 5. CHRISTIANITY 6. NATIONHOOD 7. GOLD RUSH PART TWO OF BLOOD AND BONE: FREEDOM, KINSHIP, AND CITIZENSHIP--WEST 8. REMOVAL 9. CAPTURE 10. FREEDOM EPILOGUE: CITIZENSHIP CODA: THE SHOEBOOTS FAMILY TODAY APPENDIX 1. RESEARCH METHODS AND CHALLENGES APPENDIX 2. DEFINITION AND USE OF TERMS APPENDIX 3. CHEROKEE NAMES AND MISTAKEN IDENTITIES APPENDIX 4. PRIMARY SOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press Preaching Bondage
Book SynopsisIntroduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom, the late fourth-century priest and bishop. This book explores the impact of doulology, brings to light the pervasive fissures between ancient Roman slave holding and early Christianity.Trade Review"De Wet's study is an essential contribution to understanding slavery in antiquity." Journal of Global Slavery "Offers a major contribution to the history of ideas in western thought, delineating how a core set of ideas, transformed through a Christian lens, led to the passive acceptance of the (gendered) oppression of other human beings... This is a book to be read by scholars across a wide range of interests and disciplines." Acta Classica "Highly refreshing and a great contribution to the study of Chrysostom." Relegere "de Wet's outstanding monograph is a major contribution to the cultural history of late antiquity." Journal of Early Christian Studies "Comprehensive, reliable and informative...I predict it will become a reference or even a compulsory reading material for early Christian approaches to slavery." AugustinianaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introducing Doulology 2. Divine Bondage: Slavery between Metaphor and Theology 3. Little Churches: The Pastoralization of the Household and Its Slaves 4. The Didactics of Kyriarchy: Slavery, Education, and the Formation of Masculinity 5. Whips and Scriptures: On the Discipline and Punishment of Slaves 6. Exploitation, Regulation, and Restructuring: Managing Slave Sexuality 7. Conclusion: Preaching Bondage and the Legacy of Christian Doulology Glossary Bibliography Abbreviations Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index of Ancient Authors Index of Ancient Terms Index of Subjects
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Old South
Book SynopsisThis edited collection of primary documents and previously published essays introduces students to the principal themes in recent scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South.Trade ReviewThis is an exceptionally well-conceived and well-executed collection of documents and scholarly essays. Mark Smith deserves high marks for at once presenting and recasting the antebellum South in bold and original ways. The Old South is absolutely first-rate." Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "This book provides an excellent introduction to the study of the antebellum South, covering the salient topics in the region's economic, political, and cultural history. Mark Smith's essay on the historiography is elegant and informative, and his choice of readings is judicious. Undergraduates will learn a great deal from this volume, and it is perfectly suited for course adoption." Joan E. Cashin, author of Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Map: The Old South in 1860. Chronology. Introduction. Part I: A Modern Old South. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 1. An "Old" Old South. Sketches of the South Santee, 1797-1798. A Georgia Planter on the Classical South, 1835. A Georgia Planter Bemoans the Cost of Slavery, 1846. An "Old" Old South. (Raimondo Luraghi). 2. An Old South by the Clock. The Importance of "Early Rising," 1851. Clock Time and Southern Railroads, 1834. Plantation Time, 1851. Timing Slave Labor by the Watch, 1843. Plantation Time from a Slave's Perspective, 1847. An Old South by the Clock. (Mark M. Smith). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part II: Southern Honor, Southern Violence. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 3. The Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance. Affronts to Honor in a Southern Newspaper, 1843. Public Accusations of Falsehood, 1833. Codes of Honor and Dueling, 1858. The Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance. (Kenneth S. Greenberg). 4. Poor, Violent Men in a Premodern World. A Traveller's Comments on the "Barbarity" of the Southern Frontier, 1816. A Traveller Observes Techniques of Fighting. 1807. "Tall talk" Among Ruffians, 1843. Poor, Violent Men in a Premodern World. (Elliot J. Gorn). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part III: Constructing And Defending Slavery. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 5. Slavery Ordained of God. Frederick Law Olmstead Recounts Impressions of a Religious Meeting, 1856. James Henley Thornwell's Defense of Slavery, 1860. Slavery Ordained of God. (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese). 6. Proslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen. James Henley Thornwell Associates Slavery and Gender Relations, 1852. John L. Manning's Letter to his Wife, 1860. George Howe Justifies the Subordination of Women, 1850. Proslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen. (Stephanie McCurry). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part IV: Communities, Cultures, and Economies: Lives of the Enslaved. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 7. Benefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy. Charles Manigault's Plantation Journal, 1844. A South Carolina Rice Planter on the Slaves' Economy, 1858. Petition and Deposition of Former Slaves, 1873. Benefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy. (Philip D. Morgan). 8. Ambiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy. Former Slaves Recall Independent Production. A Foreign Traveller Observes Wage-earning Slaves, 1860. Slaves on Trial, 1846. Ambiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy. (Lawrence T. McDonnell). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part V: Selling Southern Bodies. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 9. The Slave Trader in Image and Reality. A Boston Minister on Slave Traders, 1855. A Slaveholder Comments on Traders and Prices, 1846. A Trader Notes Market Prices for Slaves, 1859. The Slave Trader in Image and Reality. (Michael Tadman). 10. Reading Bodies, Answering Questions. A Southern Physician on "Unsoundness in the Negro," 1858-1859. A Trader Notes How Slaves Affect Their Sales, 1856. A Former Slave Notes Buyers Reading Bodies, 1855. A Slave Reads a Buyer, 1858. Asking Questions and Reading Bodies. (Walter Johnson). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part VI: Womanhood in Black and White. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 11. Breast-Feeding and Elite White Womanhood. Southern Medical Opinions on Wet Nursing and Breast Feeding, 1850. Newspaper Advertisements for Wet Nurses, 1859. A Southern Mother on Child-Rearing, 1844. Breast-Feeding and Elite White Motherhood. (Sally McMillen). 12. Slave Women and Definitions of Womanhood. Defining a "Good Wife" and "Good Woman," 1835. Testimony of Three former Virginia Female Slaves. Elizabeth Keckley Resists Bondage. Slave Women and Definitions of Womanhood. (Brenda Stevenson). Study Questions and Further Reading. Index.
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Harvard University Press Many Thousands Gone The First Two Centuries of
Book SynopsisA leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early 17th century through the American Revolution. Berlin reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king.Trade ReviewThe American Constitution chose slavery...and the nation justified the choice by formulating an ideology that made blacks into something less than human beings. The result, as historian Ira Berlin argues in a new book on slavery, Many Thousands Gone, is that African slavery became "no longer just one of many forms of subordination—a common enough circumstance in a world ruled by hierarchies—but the foundation on which the social order rested." -- Ellis Cose * Newsweek *Ira Berlin's magisterial [book] is a story of slavery in evolutionary perspective...As a comprehensive study of early North American slavery the work is unexcelled and will be a boon to students and scholars alike. -- Daniel C. Littlefield * Slavery and Abolition *In [Many Thousands Gone], Berlin emphasises that slavery, too often treated by historians as a static institution, was in fact constantly changing. The range of subjects is impressive—from work patterns to family life, naming practices, religions, race relations and modes of resistance. But by organising his account along the axes of space and time, Berlin gives coherence to what would otherwise have been an account overwhelming by its detail and complexity...Many Thousands Gone is likely to remain for years to come the standard account of the first two centuries of slavery in the area that became the United States. -- Eric Foner * London Review of Books *Berlin's study is the best account we have of the beginnings of servitude in America. It is also a reminder of slavery's adaptability. The notion that it was necessarily tied to the production of export staples is false. -- Howard Temperley * Times Literary Supplement *Occasionally we are rewarded with a brave soul willing to impose shape and direction on what has become, for many, a prodigiously confusing historiography. Ira Berlin, like the very best historians who have tackled the problem, brings to the task a formidable record as a researcher and writer in more specialised areas of slave and post-slave studies. The result of Berlin's labours is a vital book, not simply in making sense of historical complexity, but in advancing a new and distinctive argument about the shaping of North America...[Many Thousands Gone has] a sophisticated argument that imposes shape on historical diversity without in the least riding roughshod over the specific local and regional differences that fragment the American slave experience. This is a deceptive book, for it is not simply a general account of slavery in North America. It is a subtle—and beautifully written—argument about the phases of slave history and of that sharp differentiation across time and place that makes slavery so hard to contain within a more generalised format...What emerges is the most original and most persuasive overall study of North American slavery for a very long time...[Many Thousands Gone] is moreover a book with powerful implications for anyone interested in the wider history of America. It is, quite simply, a book of major importance for all historians of North America. -- James Walvin * Times Higher Education Supplement *Many Thousands Gone will challenge just about everything you thought you knew about slavery, especially its dawning...Through this honest and responsible work, perhaps we can begin decoding our Pavlovian responses to the buried racial and experiential triggers we dare not analyze. -- Debra Dickerson * Village Voice *Ira Berlin provides a sweeping survey of slavery and black life in North America...from the early 17th into the early 19th centuries. The result is the best general history we now have of the "peculiar institution" during its first 200 years. Many Thousands Gone is a remarkable book, one that beautifully integrates two centuries of history over a wide geographical area. It is a benchmark study from which students will learn and with which scholars will grapple for many years to come. -- Peter Kolchin * Los Angeles Times *Many Thousands Gone is an imaginatively conceived, brilliantly executed academic history of the experience of African-Americans, from their arrival in Jamestown in 1619, through the early decades of the nineteenth century. With clarity and sympathetic attention, Berlin depicts how, with regional and historical variations, blacks in North America employed a variety of stratagems to confront modify, ameliorate, and even surmount their degraded condition as slaves...Berlin's knowledge of slave life in America is little short of encyclopedic. On virtually every page he illuminates how and to what extent African-Americans in different times and places strove "to negotiate" the terms of their servitude with their masters...This book seems destined to define the terms of discussion for many years to come. -- Haim Chertok * Jerusalem Post *When Americans think about slavery—and try to work through its legacy—they're operating from a misleadingly narrow image: the cotton plantations of the deep South. So says Berlin, who chronicles the slave experience in the 200 years—1619 to 1819—that preceded the antebellum period. It's a horrific picture, but a complex one too, including the dramatically different lives of the first Creole slaves, the long northern enthusiasm for slavery, and ever-present patterns of resistance and renegotiation. * Globe and Mail *In Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin tells the complex and neglected story of American slavery from 1619 through about 1810. It is a story most Americans do not know...Berlin has written a sweeping history that builds upon the pioneering work of John Hope Franklin, John Blassingame, Eugene Genovese, Herbert Gutman and Edmund Morgan, and shines as both a comprehensive and astute synthesis of current scholarship and as an original contribution to the field. -- James L. Swanson * Chicago Tribune *In his pathbreaking book on slavery's first two centuries in America, Ira Berlin argues that our historical memory is incomplete, based almost entirely on 19th-century portraits of the "peculiar institution." Underscoring differences within the North American slave experience over time and place, Berlin paints a much more complex picture of slavery's origins and formative years...[and] skillfully unravels slavery's complex evolution. Berlin's foremost contribution is his nuanced analysis of the creolization process. His book is the best study of black life before the "plantation revolution" and its mainspring, slavery, which locked African Americans into an inferior class defined by color...Race, then, as Berlin reminds us, like class, is the product of a particular kind of social construction. It required major demolition—the Civil War—to begin to renovate the structure that slavery and racism built. -- John David Smith * News and Observer *As Ira Berlin makes abundantly clear, racism was an ideology crucial for creating an intellectual and emotional climate that would allow slavery to exist. It gave an institution, albeit a "peculiar" one, the required veneer of "reason"...Berlin explodes several myths and sets in their place a history that honors the complexity of the American past with an unswerving, unsentimental gaze. One myth that Berlin seizes is that of the Old South, the common belief that slavery was for the most part situated below the Mason-Dixon Line. Slavery became a southern phenomenon only after 200 years of American history. These 200 years are Berlin's subject, as he tracks the black presence throughout early America, emphasizing in vivid detail the diversity of slave existence, urban and rural. He underscores the fact that as America was being constructed by slave labor, slaves were living their own lives and creating their own culture, a syncretic mix of African origins...Berlin's argument, and it is brilliantly posed, is that slavery, with all its resonance, haunts America even as the new century is about to begin. -- Michelle Cliff * San Jose Mercury News *Berlin offers a complex picture of how slaves etched out small freedoms under dire circumstances in early America. Their existence was defined by religion, family structure and African inheritance—not just the fact that they were slaves. Many Thousands Gone is not an apology for slavery, but a testament to the willpower of a people to define their own lives under the most dismal conditions. -- Ronald D. Lankford * Roanoke Times *Rather than focus on slavery in the antebellum South, Berlin provides a revealing look at the diverse lives and cultures of the early slaves. * Washington Post Book World *In this masterly work, Ira Berlin has demonstrated that earlier North American slavery had many different forms and meanings that varied over time and from place to place. Slavery and race did not have a fixed character that endured for centuries but were constantly being constructed or reconstructed in response to changing historical circumstances. Many Thousands Gone illuminates the first 200 years of African-American history more effectively than any previous study. -- George M. Fredrickson * New York Times Book Review *This meticulous scholarly study demonstrates how and why slavery took different forms at different times in different colonies and states, and describes the kinds of autonomy that slaves were able to wrest from their masters under each variant of the system. Berlin also stresses slaves' skills and acumen, not to palliate the evil of slavery but to show slaves as something other than victims--as competent, often exceptionally able, men and women. * New Yorker *Ira Berlin, one of this nation's foremost scholars on the slave era...presents a thorough and extensive examination of early slavery...[He] considers the evolution of slavery, and the changing nature of how slaves were treated. Though he never understates the violence and domination practiced by slaveholders, Berlin introduces the notion that slavery during its first two centuries was a "negotiated relationship," even if that relationship was "so profoundly asymmetrical" that most discount even the "notion of negotiation" between the owner and the owned. -- Renée Graham * Boston Sunday Globe *In Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin has produced an intriguing and compelling new interpretation that is one of the most significant books about slavery in several years...Berlin's work is an impressive and masterfully written narrative. He provides a clearer picture of slavery, which has often been clouded by imprecise accounts. As he astutely concludes, slavery's effects still persist as an unwelcome guest in American society. -- John A. Hardin * Lexington Herald Leader *By concentrating on slavery in North America from the early years of settlement through the Revolution, Ira Berlin restores historical depth and a human face to a field usually mired in angry polemic and narrow quanitification. This rich and well-written narrative—the best book on American slavery since Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll—challenges traditional accounts...Many Thousands Gone shows how we must place American history and the contemporary American dilemma of race and cultural heritage in the hemispheric and Atlantic context to comprehend fully America's peculiarities and uniqueness. * Foreign Affairs *Today's correct historian can be as guilty of over simplification as yesterday's apologist for slavery, but Berlin scrupulously resists any such temptations. His emphasis is on subtlety and complexity...According to Berlin the history of the first two of slavery's three centuries in North America reveals nothing so much as change, ambiguity and "messy, inchoate reality." For this reason alone his book has great value and importance; it is also lucid, measured and entirely persuasive...Indeed, for all the oppression it documents, Many Thousands Gone can be read not as a chronicle of denial and enslavement but as evidence of the irresistible impulse for freedom. In this sense Berlin's book is an affirmation, not merely of the fortitude and dignity of the slaves (a matter of grave concern to many of today's historians) but of the capacity of American democracy--despite its shortcomings--to live up to its promises. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post *[Top 10 Pick for 1998, Nonfiction Category, Christian Science Monitor][This is] a monumental, sweeping study of the evolution of America's "peculiar institution" from the earliest white settlement through the early Republic period. Berlin, one of the foremost historians of American slavery, has written an addition to the canon of essential works on the subject...Many Thousands Gone makes clear that slavery at no point achieved the "stable maturity" that many historians have ascribed to the 19th century period. -- Neal M. Rosendorf * Christian Science Monitor *Ira Berlin has helped to shape the recent literature on slavery in the United States...Many Thousands Gone represents Mr. Berlin's most ambitious undertaking to date and a sharp temporal departure from his previous books, for he has backtracked from the 19th century to write a 200-year history of slavery on the North American mainland that begins with the African background to England's settlement of the colonial Chesapeake in the early 17th century...[He] has written a major synthesis that will surely draw praise from the academy. -- Robert L. Paquette * Washington Times *In each society and in each generation slaves adjusted and adapted to their conditions. Blacks never were exclusively the hapless victims of the "white devil" of history or the obsequious Sambos of the "Gone With The Wind" model. Berlin's greatest achievement is finally correcting the misconceptions black and white Americans have about how slavery operated in this nation. -- Gregory Kane * Baltimore Sun *Berlin, who has already contributed significantly to the literature, here brings together in a magisterial synthesis much of what has now been learned about slave life during its first two centuries within the present United States...Berlin's achievement is to order the resulting variety by identifying four different regions with four different economies (the Chesapeake, the eastern tidewater from South Carolina to Florida, the Mississippi Valley, and the North) and by dividing the social developments of two centuries in each region into three periods, which he designates as the charter generations, the plantation generations, and the Revolutionary generations, stopping short of the heyday of slavery in the antebellum decades of the nineteenth century. -- Edmund S. Morgan * New York Review of Books *Synthesizing a generation of scholarship, Berlin provides a sweeping survey of slavery and black life in North America (the European colonies that became the United States) from the early 17th into the early 19th centuries. The result is the best general history we now have of the 'peculiar institution' during its first 200 years...Many Thousands Gone is a remarkable book, one that beautifully integrates two centuries of history over a wide geographical area. It is a benchmark study from which students will learn and with which scholars will grapple for many years to come. -- Peter Kolchin * Los Angeles Times Book Review *An original, eye-opening study in which Berlin most persuasively argues that slavery was no monolithic institution but one that evolved in different ways in different places, and did not become the 'slave society' so well known to students of American history until relatively late in its long, painful development. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post Book World *No general synthesis existed to pull all of [the] fragments of scholarship together and present a coherent narrative of the first two centuries of North American slavery—until now. Ira Berlin's splendid study tells us what we need to know about how the peculiar institution of antebellum America got that way over the previous 200 years. The scholarship of this study is astonishing. Berlin appears to have read every secondary source and every published primary source—not all of this in English—relevant to the subject. Yet this burden of scholarship does not weigh down the text with dull, heavy prose. Quite the contrary; Berlin has accomplished a small miracle of organization, compression, and skillful exposition...Many Thousands Gone is essential reading for all those interested in the history of African Americans and of race relations in this country. Berlin writes this history more from the viewpoint of the slaves than that of the master. This is all to the good, for it helps redress the balance of most studies of slavery. Black people herein are not merely victims; they help make their own history, a history in which many of them gained freedom and formed a distinctive culture long before the Emancipation Proclamation. Indeed, this is as much a history of freedom as of slavery, a story of success against the odds as well as a story of exploitation and cruelty. -- James M. McPherson * Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *[Berlin] draws on recent scholarship to sketch in the contours of the slave experience in colonial Florida and Louisiana, reminding us that the ancestors of many black Americans learned to speak Spanish or French long before they ever heard English. Berlin paints deftly with a broad brush, and his trim narrative is informed and gripping...Berlin documents the high hopes for freedom, the desperate attempts to gain liberty, and the deep sense of disappointment and betrayal that led slaves to form conspiracies from Richmond, Virginia to Pointe Coupee, Louisiana. -- Peter H. Wood * Brightleaf *Berlin crafts a deft synthesis of the many regional studies that have slowly been changing our understanding of slavery...No one before Berlin has made sense of these works altogether, as a unified field of inquiry. There is originality in Berlin's synthesis, as historical events and cultural tendencies take on new and fresh meanings. Further, his distillation of the burgeoning field is highly valuable. It is a brilliant summary for general readers and newcomers to the field; it will be a standard work for graduate students preparing for exams, and many a burdened faculty member who needs a quick overview in order to prepare lectures will dog-ear its pages. -- Joyce E. Chaplin * Reviews in American History *Many Thousands Gone is an investigation of the ways in which freedom and slavery were negotiated between slaves and slave owners, making the point that no matter how powerful the slave owner became, the culture and the actions of the slave were never completely in his power. Thus, the history of slavery becomes, in part, a history of strategies--some partial failures, some partial successes--for establishing African American self-determination in a time of slavery...By beginning with the assumption that slavery was not one thing but was instituted and experienced in a variety of distinct ways, Many Thousands Gone allows readers to glimpse a more nuanced picture of the strivings and accomplishments of the souls and bodies caught in slavery's meshes, enriching rather than compromising the understanding of the institution's true harmful nature. -- Thomas Cassidy * Magill's Literary Annual *In his pathbreaking book on slavery's first two centuries in America, Ira Berlin argues that our historical memory is incomplete, based almost entirely on 19th-century portraits of the 'peculiar institution.' Underscoring differences within the North America slave experience over time and place, Berlin paints a much more complex picture of slavery's origins and formative years. -- John David Smith * Raleigh News & Observer *This important study successfully synthesizes insights of the past 40 years while advancing new scholarship which emphasizes the shifting definition of both race and slavery in North America...Many Thousands Gone is a well-written, provocative reappraisal of the first 200 years of North American slavery. -- Marion Lucas * Bowling Green News *[Many Thousands Gone] is a serious study that the general public will find interesting and useful...As an introduction to the new history of slavery in North America, especially in the long era prior to the 'Old South,' one could do little better than to buy this book. -- Douglas B. Chambers * The Commercial Appeal *A noted historian with other books on slavery, Mr. Berlin focuses in this latest work on what slavery meant during the 1600s and 1700s. And one of his major points, carefully documented and argued, is that slavery and race then were not always what we think of them as being now...What's refreshing about his analysis is how many layers of African-American life he is able to penetrate. Drawing upon Dutch, French, Spanish and English documents, he looks globally at how the African diaspora of slaves shaped North American communities. -- Meta G. Carstarphen * Dallas Morning News *Berlin has written an imaginative, detailed account of American slavery from its origins at the beginning of the 17th century through the Revolution...A major contribution to the study of slavery in the United States. -- Anthony O. Edmonds * Library Journal *Many Thousands Gone...is a sweeping scholarly study of four kinds of slave society...those in the Northern colonies, the Chesapeake Bay area, the Carolina low country, and the lower Mississippi valley...One of Mr. Berlin's most striking realizations....[was how] slaves had had such different experiences of slavery. Some had been skilled laborers, others small farmers, still others plantation workers...'What Ira has done is to etch the patterns,' says Ronald Hoffman, director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in Williamsburg, Virginia. 'He's developed a model of how slavery changed that's going to be enormously important'...More than just highlighting diversity, the patterns that Mr. Berlin draws in his scholarship also throw into relief changes in the nature of slavery...Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University, says, 'In a way that no one else has done, Berlin takes the entire area of what became the United States and gives us a genuine transcontinental perspective. That has tremendous force in driving home the point that slavery was never static, but an evolving institution...The field today is ripe for broad debate and Berlin's superb synthesis is just the work to spark it.' -- Karen J. Winkler * Chronicle of Higher Education *Through his scholarship and leadership, Ira Berlin has recast the way we conceive of the history of African Americans and their relationship to other Americans...Covering a vast terrain and chronological span, the author gives us a fuller portrayal of slavery's formative stages in this country than we have ever possessed. The book is a work of synthesis, harvesting the research and insights of hundreds of historians who have focused on one place, time, or issue. Though the book contains no original archival research, it is a rare student of the American past who will not be surprised by something in virtually every chapter. It is the pattern of slavery that is significant here, the variations and consistencies across the continent and across the centuries. Berlin follows no one historiographical tradition, but weaves among several, taking the best of each...[The] combination of context and change, as well as negotiation and material grounding, gives Berlin a nuanced, yet powerful way of understanding slavery. The keys for Berlin's interpretation are not simple and familiar ones such as 'race' or 'capitalism,' but distinctly complicated conceptions with which we have become familiar in this decade: negotiation, complexity, agency, multiplicity, indeterminacy, and interaction. Berlin manages to portray slavery as both fundamentally important and highly contingent, an analytical juggling act that would have failed in less skillful hands. -- Edward L. Ayers * The Historian *The history of slavery in North America is not as simple, clear-cut or tidy as is often believed. That is the message of this impeccably presented history of American slavery from 1619, when John Rolfe brought 'twenty Negars' to the Jamestown colony, to the 1820s, when the spirit of emancipation began to take hold in the North...[Berlin's] distinctions have continuing resonance, as [he] shows that once a society with slaves became a slave society, all blacks--free or not--could come to be regarded as slaves: in short, how an economic system became racism...The book holds many surprises gleaned from the facts, whether in its portrait of New York as a major slave city or its descriptions of free enterprise at work among slaves. The economic and historical research presented here is impressive. But what gives the book an additional dimension is its deftly employed social insights. * Publishers Weekly *Rather than focus on the much studied slavery of the antebellum South, Berlin examines the earlier history of slavery throughout North America and how it affected the consequent nature and evolution of the peculiar institution...He traces the first African presence in the Americas to a 'charter generation' that was multilingual and multicultural, through the 'plantation generation' that adjusted its African culture to the various regions of the U.S., and, finally, the 'revolutionary generation' that began to challenge U.S. ideals of liberty and freedom in the face of slavery. Throughout this fascinating book, Berlin deftly outlines the human negotiations that went on even in so unequal a relationship as master-slave. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *In a real contribution to the literature of American slavery, Berlin sketches the complex evolution of that institution in the American colonies and the early US...[He] traces the development of a 'society with slaves'—that is, in which slavery was a marginal institution that represented only one among many labor sources—into a 'slave society' in which slavery was not only central to the economy but formed the basis of all social institutions...A cogently argued, well-researched narrative that points to the complex nature of American slavery, the falsity of many of our stereotypes, and the unique world wrought by the slaves themselves. * Kirkus Reviews *Berlin's adept mixture of economic and social history enlarges our understanding of colonial slavery and contributes fascinating new insights...[N]ovel insights permeate nearly every page...Authoritative, original, beautifully organized and composed, Many Thousands Gone is a striking combination of black history and the study of the evolution of slavery. Any reader intrigued by the tumultuous, shifting account of early American slavery and the people who made it need look no further than this state-of-the-art achievement by a masterful historian. -- Graham Russell Hodges * America *Berlin repeatedly recalibrates the received story of slavery, all the while revising the record with numerous therapeutic reinterpretations...To see enslaved people as Berlin does, that is sequentially as the charter generations, the plantation generations, and the revolutionary generations, is to see them as different populations facing different concerns at different times. In this way he restores to millions of black people a degree of personhood that is finally profoundly liberating. For if enslaved people are seen as participating actively in their own social formation, they are then granted fundamental humanity that the proponents of chattel slavery tried so hard to eradicate. * American Studies International *[Berlin presents] a full-scale interpretation of the complexity and diversity of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century African-American slave life and work. His five-hundred-page book,Many Thousands Gone, is the most comprehensive study yet produced of the first two centuries of slavery in North America. Berlin is, of course, well qualified for his ambitious task, for he has spent his entire career studying American slavery and facilitating the work of other scholars in this field...Berlin has his own distinctive argument, which endows the book with originality and power. -- Richard S. Dunn * William and Mary Quarterly *In this book, Berlin, has produced a masterly synthesis of the vast body of research hundreds of scholars have done on the first two centuries of slavery in British, French, and Spanish North America, a portrait of highly fortuitous change that should leave a telltale stamp on all future treatments of New World slavery. -- David Brion Davis * American Historical Review *Table of Contents* Prologue: Making Slavery, Making Race * Societies with Slaves: The Charter Generations * Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake * Expansion of Creole Society in the North * Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry * Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Slave Societies: The Plantation Generations * The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake * The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry * Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North * Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Slave and Free: The Revolutionary Generations * The Slow Death of Slavery in the North * The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South * Fragmentation in the Lower South * Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Epilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery * Tables * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Abolitionists Abroad American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa
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Harvard University Press Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisNo book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Douglass's Narrative. In his Introduction, Robert B. Stepto reexamines the extraordinary life and achievement of a man who escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist and one of America's most important writers.Table of Contents* Introduction Robert B. Stepto * Note on the Text * Chronology of Frederick Douglass's Life Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass * Selected Bibliography
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Harvard University Press Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by
Book SynopsisThis enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet A. Jacobs’s autobiography.
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Harvard University Press Supreme Injustice
Book SynopsisIn ruling after ruling, the three most important preCivil War justicesMarshall, Taney, and Storyupheld slavery. Paul Finkelman establishes an authoritative account of each justice's proslavery position, the reasoning behind his opposition to black freedom, and the personal incentives that embedded racism ever deeper in American civic life.Trade Review[Supreme Injustice] tells the story of three United States Supreme Court Justices…and their ‘slavery jurisprudence.’ Each of these men, Finkelman argues…shared the belief that antislavery agitation undermined the legal and political structures instituted by the Constitution… Finkelman insists that the legacy of Marshall, Story, and Taney had enormous implications…strengthening the institutions of slavery and embedding in the law a systemic hostility to fundamental freedom and basic justice. These are strong allegations… Yet the evidence adds up… Finkelman remains an important voice in legal education and has pushed scholarly conversations about slavery in new directions. -- Allen Mendenhall * Los Angeles Review of Books *Taken together, Finkelman’s accounts of the troubling underbellies of the Marshall, Story and Taney careers offer an unsettling meal…This book is a useful contribution toward a fleshing out of the lives of three men who shaped the bulk of American law in the formative years between our independence and our descent into civil war. -- David Wecht * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *Supreme Injustice contains no call to topple monuments or to rewrite history books. [Finkelman] simply lays out a convincing case that we must in thinking about our national heritage grapple with the unsettling truths about the humanity we denied slaves and the legal protections we gave their owners. -- Daniel B. Moskowitz * Washington Times *Paul Finkelman is by any account one of our leading historians of American slavery and the law. His incontrovertible and startling findings about the involvement of Justice Marshall in slave owning and selling, and Justice Story’s pro-slavery decision in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, are essential reading for anyone interested in American constitutional development in the antebellum era and its enduring influence on American law and society. -- Sanford Levinson, author of An Argument Open to All: Reading ‘The Federalist’ in the 21st CenturyScholarly, hard-hitting and relevant. Finkelman’s book is a must-read for those who seek to understand the permeating influence of slavery in the development of antebellum law. -- R. Kent Newmyer, author of The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New NationSheds new light on John Marshall’s activities outside the courtroom and his jurisprudence on slavery…Using census data and other sources, Finkelman established that Marshall frequently bought and sold slaves during his lifetime, an uncomfortable reality glossed over or ignored by earlier Marshall biographers. -- Karen Sloane * Law.com *
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Harvard University Press The Lives of Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisFrederick Douglass’s changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in his many conflicting accounts of events during his journey from slavery to freedom. Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject—revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.Trade Review[A] thoughtful, ground-setting book… Levine scrutinizes not merely the times and the life-circumstances surrounding the generation of [the] three very different accounts Douglass wrote of himself but also the texts themselves, the tectonic changes running underneath them. It’s a sustained performance of first-rate literary analysis on Levine’s part. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *Over the course of his life (1818–1895), Douglass published three autobiographies, continually revising and restructuring his life story as an ex-slave. Yet he is read and celebrated mostly for his first, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, published in 1845 under the aegis of William Lloyd Garrison’s Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In this finely delineated look at Douglass’ writing, Levine urges new readings of his subject’s other autobiographical works, as well as his 1853 novella, The Heroic Slave, in order to grasp a fuller understanding of how Douglass came into his own and began to move away from Garrison’s ‘moral suasion’ to an advocacy of black militancy and beyond… Levine’s exploration of the character of Madison Washington in The Heroic Slave as Douglass’ alter ego and his views of John Brown and President Abraham Lincoln are especially elucidating. An astute, thorough literary study that will invite fresh readings of Douglass’ writing. * Kirkus Reviews *Levine offers a fascinating study of the most famous African American of the mid-19th century. -- Patricia Ann Owens * Library Journal *A groundbreaking work of revisionary biography that reveals Douglass as a canny writer far ahead of his time. -- John Stauffer, Harvard UniversityThis is a richly detailed and nuanced portrait of the artist and social reformer as a ‘compulsive revisionist.’ Impressive in its reach and scope. -- Robert Stepto, Yale UniversityLevine is very good at showing how Douglass modulated the stories he told about his life and times in order to serve his political and personal purpose of the moment. -- Andrew Delbanco * New York Review of Books *Show[s] how Douglass’ attention to his self-representation predates our modern malleability, and was part and parcel to his becoming one of the most famous and influential Americans of the 19th Century…Levine clearly shows how Douglass amplified some parts of his life and de-emphasized others in his writings and speeches as his views and purposes evolved over time. -- Mark Reynolds * PopMatters *Levine successfully avoids the trap of reading Douglass’s three autobiographies as discrete texts; instead, he considers them ‘as part of a larger autobiographical project that encompasses a wide range of Douglass’s writings.’ Levine’s briskly written book also considers Douglass’s relationships with figures such as John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith. By focusing on his subject’s ‘evolving and sometimes contradictory positions on race, violence, nation, and black diasporic community,’ Levine portrays Douglass as an ambitious and fallible character. -- Douglas Field * Times Literary Supplement *The Lives of Frederick Douglass offers us welcome insights into Douglass’s powers of combination and a compelling reason to refocus some of our attention from the first Narrative to the rest of his remarkable and remarkably embattled career. -- John Michael * American Literary History *Pay[s] tribute to Douglass’s immense literary talents…His was one of the most remarkable and revolutionary lives of the 19th century, and he did not shy from writing about it…Levine’s book, which takes [his] autobiographies as its primary subject, retraces Douglass’s lifelong effort to tell and retell his own astonishing story…As Levine shows, even his autobiographies were chiefly political documents. They were less concerned with exploring his private identity in formation than with exposing public crimes and inspiring a mass movement against them. -- Matt Karp * The Nation *A nuanced and careful analysis of Frederick Douglass’s iconic autobiographies…A book that explodes conventional wisdom on not just Douglass but also his fraught relationships with [William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and his erstwhile master, Thomas Auld.] -- Manisha Sinha * Civil War History *Levine has been a major scholar of nineteenth century American literature and African American literature for over thirty years…The Lives of Fredrick Douglass benefits from his wide ranging knowledge of American literature and history…Levine balances his analysis of Douglass as a skilled practitioner of the art of autobiography with analysis of Douglass as a canny social reformer who sought to advance causes and his own career…His analysis of Douglass’s depictions of his relationships to Brown, Lincoln, Thomas Auld, Douglass’s wives, associates, and others are revelatory, bold, and illuminating. -- Ernest Suarez * Literary Matters *[An] inspirational study…Levine’s approach is groundbreaking…Breaking new and difficult ground, he examines the ‘productive role’ played by William Lloyd Garrison ‘and his antislavery society’ in the construction of Douglass’s Narrative. Adopting a scholarly decision that is not without risk, Levine succeeds in extrapolating the tangled skeins of black–white influence and exchange that were in evidence during the abolitionist era. He meticulously navigates this complex and unequal terrain with the result that he does a powerful job not of detracting from but of reinforcing Douglass’s agency and artistry. More particularly, Levine’s exemplary close readings trace Douglass’s ‘skill in negotiating his situation’ and ‘new ways of telling his life story’ in invaluable ways. He provides an indispensable blueprint for scholars by newly mapping the indivisible yet under-researched power dynamics at work within antislavery networks as characterized by competing forms of oratorical performance, epistolary prowess, political proselytizing, and authorial self-construction. Levine’s indefatigable examination of Douglass’s syntax and spelling in his private writings adds grist to his mill that figures such as Garrison had an important, if repeatedly misconstrued, role to play in Douglass’s formative stages as a writer. As he is careful to argue, this was a role that in no way minimizes Douglass’s own virtuosity as an orator, performer, and author…[A] pioneering volume. -- Celeste-Marie Bernier * Slavery & Abolition *Through his critical analysis of what Levine describes as Douglass’s autobiographical project, Levine looks to Douglass’s evolving ideas of race, violence, and abolitionism and advances insights into Douglass as a writer and as a social reformer…Levine’s The Lives of Frederick Douglass provides a detailed look at the choices Douglass made when he sat down to write, yielding a clearer picture of the man as a writer and reformer while also evoking questions that invite further scholarship on Douglass. Levine’s book will interest those seeking to understand the intellectual life of Douglass and more fully appreciate Douglass’s political acumen. -- Jonathan Lande * Civil War Book Review *
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Harvard University Press Beyond Freedoms Reach
Book SynopsisAfter Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Herera’s owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Herera’s quest to rescue her children from bondage after the war. As the kidnapping case made its way through the courts, it revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction.Trade Review[A] riveting narrative… Rothman’s theme is the moral logic of slavery as embedded in law and social custom. -- Jason Berry * Daily Beast *The book’s major novelty is its focus on individual personal suffering as opposed to a typical slavery history which is concerned with the quantity of suffering… The informal and engaging tone succeeds in lending Beyond Freedom’s Reach an accessibility to introduce non-specialists to the field of study, whilst aptly adding a human touch to an emotional subject. -- Michael Warren * LSE Review of Books *Meticulously researched, well-written and thoughtfully argued, this work should attract not only students of African-American history; those who study southern and Civil War history will enhance their knowledge of 1850–1860s Deep South culture. -- Carol Wilson * Civil War Book Review *The extraordinary odyssey of Rose Herera to recover her kidnapped children from slavery illuminates the impact of the Civil War on the enslavers and the enslaved and reminds us of the precariousness of freedom during the Reconstruction era. An impressive and compelling history. -- Randy J. Sparks, author of Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave TradeAmidst slavery’s unraveling in New Orleans, Rose Herera fought to prevent her owner from taking her children to Havana, ‘beyond freedom’s reach.’ Rothman’s recovery of Herera’s remarkable story, her incarceration and journey through the legal system to rescue her children, marks an important contribution to the history of emancipation and the contingency of wartime freedom. -- Thavolia Glymph, author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation HouseholdAdam Rothman weaves together an incisive narrative of slavery, freedom, and family in wartime Louisiana. -- Karen Cook Bell * Journal of Southern History *Adam Rothman has contributed a gem to our understanding of the end of slavery. -- Minoa Uffleman * Arkansas Review *A riveting chronicle. -- Wilma King * American Historical Review *This is microhistory at its best. -- Lawrence N. Powell * Journal of American History *In this gem of social history, Rothman recovers the lives of Rose Herera and her family. -- Alfred L. Brophy * The Historian *Ideally suited to the undergraduate classroom. -- Richard Bell * Journal of the Civil War Era *Besides being a truly engaging story, Rothman’s work is a model of how the historian sleuth can imaginatively explore large issues by following clues and tracing leads at the personal and local level, cues often unseen at first glance. -- Joyce Broussard * Civil War History *I have said before that we are in a renaissance of excellent historical writing for a general public that wants to read something more than hagiographic narratives. Add Adam Rothman’s Beyond Freedom’s Reach to the list. Rothman tells the story of Rose Herera, a New Orleans slave whose children were spirited away to Cuba by her master during the Civil War. Centering kidnapping in the slave experience, Rothman takes what could be a fairly slender story based upon a relative paucity of evidence to build a tale of great bravery and persistence within a rapidly changing world where African-Americans had relatively little power even in the immediate aftermath of the war. -- Erik Loomis * Lawyers, Guns, and Money *Rothman’s narrative is punctuated by expert analysis, and as such is a useful work for students, scholars, and a general public alike. It is particularly valuable as a book that seeks to shed light on kidnapping, a difficult phenomenon for historians to study given that its scope (in any era) is never accurately reflected in the records. For this reason alone, one could call Rothman’s study masterful, because he demonstrates how historians can bring a variety of research techniques to bear on an elusive topic. It stands as a model for how we might reconstruct the subaltern history of kidnapping and connect it with the world of military might and political intrigue within the legal thicket inhabited by both kidnappers and their victims. -- H. Robert Baker * American Nineteenth Century History *
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Harvard University Press Being Property Once Myself Blackness and the End
Book SynopsisThroughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and other black writers, delving into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that emerge from being viewed as a subgenre of the human.Trade ReviewThis trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways 20th- and 21st-century African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’…An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought. -- Ron Charles * Washington Post *A gripping work…Bennett’s lyrical lilt in his sharp analyses makes for a thorough yet accessible read…Adds to a growing body of critical work that tackles social issues in relation to the realm of ‘nature,’ pushing back simultaneously against the whiteness of both literary studies and ecocriticism. -- Lydia Ayame Hiraide * LSE Review of Books *By turns leading-edge and unaffected, revelatory and understated, Bennett appears much less concerned to prove that his chops as a critic and theorist are equal to his poetic abilities…By way of close readings of some well-established, and a few wholly unnoticed, scenes of black/Animal apposition or relationality, Bennett’s Being Property shares in the ensemblic turn toward black ecological criticism and theory exploring blackness, animality, ground-life, and philosophical posthumanism…Bennett stands to add many more fans to the crowd of us who’ve relished his poetic talents over many years. -- Maurice Wallace * S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History *A tremendously illuminating study of how black writers wrestle with black precarity. Bennett’s refreshing and field-defining approach shows how both classic and contemporary African American authors undo long-held assumptions of the animal–human divide. -- Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights ImaginationBennett writes so beautifully that it hurts. Imagine a world of animals—rats, cocks, mules, and dogs—that prompt renewed ways of seeing, thinking, and living beyond cages or chains. These absorbing, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics, and black feeling beyond the claims of property or propriety. -- Colin Dayan, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White DogBeing Property Once Myself is destined to be an event. Exhilarating and original, it is as much a work of literary history as it is of literary theory, as much a poetic invocation as it is critical intervention, and as much about animals as it is about people, elegantly uniting the many singularities that constitute, collectively, black literary culture. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of WildlifeBennett makes an important contribution to the fields of Black studies and critical animal studies while offering a uniquely lyrical voice of literary criticism. -- Bénédicte Boisseron * American Literary History *
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Princeton University Press Between Slavery and Capitalism
Book SynopsisAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late nineteenth century, as blacks and whites alike lTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association "[A] compelling analysis of the swiftly changing economic and social institutions in the American south after the Civil War."--Heather A. Haveman, Administrative Science Quarterly "The book excels in providing a comprehensive analytical framework for understanding large-scale social change... Ruef makes excellent use of a wide range of data, including both historical census data and interviews with former slaves conducted by the Federal Writers' Project, to consider patterns of intergenerational status attainment among those who lived through emancipation... A fine exemplar of a historical-comparative analysis of economic change."--Joseph O. Jewell, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1. Institutional Transformation and Uncertainty 1 2. Constructing a Free Labor Market 21 3. Status Attainment among Emancipated Slaves 50 4. Class Structure in the Old and New South 75 5. The Demise of the Plantation 103 6. Credit and Trade in the New South 131 7. Paths to Development 156 8. Emancipation in Comparative Perspective 181 Appendix A. Data Sources and Sampling 195 Appendix B. Idiosyncrasy 203 Notes 209 References 253 Index 277
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Princeton University Press American Mirror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations""Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations""Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association""Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award""Challenging traditional scholarship, Saba elucidates the US's role in fostering the rise of capitalism throughout the hemisphere in the decades prior to the embrace of imperialism in the late 19th century. . . . Recommended."---C. M. Snider, Choice
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Princeton University Press In the Matter of Nat Turner
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians""Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)""[An] expertly constructed work, one of the handful of books on Turner destined to become essential reading for understanding the events of August 1831."---Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne, American Historical Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] succeeds in challenging established assumptions about Turner’s intellectual world, and it is likely that, with its publication, historians will be much more inclined to pay more attention to the importance of religion in Turner’s rebellion."---Enrico Dal Iago, Journal of American History"A major achievement. Tomlins is a brilliant historian, and his study is full of many new insights that make significant contributions to our understanding. Most importantly, Tomlins is one of the only historians to pay careful attention to the mind of the rebel leader. . . . Tomlins has given us a well-researched, always interesting and intellectually stimulating new book on Nat Turner. We should be deeply grateful for this extraordinary, sparkling work of history."---Kenneth S. Greenberg, Journal of the Early Republic"You can peel off layers, break off pieces and grab chunks out of In the Matter of Nat Turner, A Speculative History by Christopher Tomlins and have what I call a good book chew. Indigestion only comes because it makes you think about what you’re chewing."---Arelya J. Mitchell, The Mid-South Tribune"In the Matter of Nat Turner offers a new reading of the well-known and much written-about document purporting to record the confession of the leader of an 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, set in the context of a thick reconstruction of the local legal and political debates about slavery and representation. Christopher Tomlins makes the argument that previous interpreters have failed to take Turner seriously as a religious thinker, reducing his visionary religious narrative to nothing more than a cover for his political objectives. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner is a very ambitious and complex book."---Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"An ambitious and deeply researched intellectual achievement…In the Matter of Nat Turner stands as an exemplar and benchmark of both the depth and imagination with which we ought to engage Nat Turner and the perils imposing our own facticity upon him in the process."---M. Cooper Harriss, Religious Studies Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] is a book about the Nat Turner revolt as much as it is about the craft of writing history. By framing his arguments in Benjaminian terms, Tomlins succeeds in addressing questions of subaltern voices, archival silences and the limits of historical narrative . . . Tomlins makes a compelling case."---Sebastian Jobs, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature"[A] remarkably interesting book…[In the Matter of Nat Turner is] endlessly fascinating . . . [Chris Tomlins] takes us on an illuminated mystery tour of this most mysterious of events and much else besides. . . . Enriching."---Paul Harvey, Church History"In the Matter of Nat Turner is a tour de force. . . . Tomlins’s book shows how historical speculation and conjecture can be done in a way that is nonetheless solidly grounded in biblical, philosophical, anthropological, and historical context."---Angela Fernandez, Legal History"For those looking for a provocative set of speculations about Turner’s religiosity, [In the Matter of Nat Turner] provides much about which to think and argue."---Vanessa M. Holden, Journal of Social History"[A] profound new book…In the Matter of Nat Turner is a book teeming with insight. Tomlins’ provocative analysis of Turner’s own ideas will no doubt generate fruitful debate and have to be reckoned with by scholars in a variety of fields. But beyond that, Tomlins provides us with a powerful model for how to write history that both links individual biography with broader structural analysis and that centers the perspective of those long excluded."---Aziz Rana, Legal Form"Christopher Tomlins’ In the Matter of Nat Turner offers new insights into the thinking of Nat Turner and then employs those insights to meditate upon the discipline of history itself. Through his searching study of the actors and events of 1831, Tomlins interrogates contemporary historians’ own thinking and practice, their blind spots and erasures, their commitment to a disciplinary machine that yields often crushingly familiar answers. For these reasons, In the Matter of Nat Turner deserves a readership not only among historians of the antebellum South, but also among all interested in history as a modern knowledge form."---Kunal Parker, Radical Philosophy"An important, 'speculative' work of intellectual history for all academic collections." * Choice Reviews *"This book is not only tremendously enjoyable, but also a very useful addition to the field of slavery and the history of resistance and rebellion in the Americas."---Laura Sandy, Slavery and Abolition"In the Matter of Nat Turner provides a master class in what it means to explore the unwritten, to engage with the fragmentary, and to expand the potentialities of historical research."---Honor Sachs, Law and History Review"[A] brilliant and challenging book. . . . Tomlins crafts a new major interpretation in this ‘intellectual history of Nat Turner,’ centered on a compelling account of Turner’s faith and its collision with the emerging political and economic order of antebellum Virginia. . . . A richly rewarding book."---Randolph Scully, Journal of Southern History"A skillful reading and imagining of the sources . . . [and] a compelling retelling of Nat Turnerʼs life, beliefs, and intellect as well as the political significance of his rebellion."---Tamika Nunley, William & Mary Quarterly"Tomlins has succeeded in writing a distinctive sort of intellectual history. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner offers much more than a new analysis of Turner’s Confessions."---Bradford J. Wood, North Carolina Historical Review"An incredibly complex, erudite, and thought provoking book."---Bruce E. Baker, Journal of Religious History
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Princeton University Press In the Matter of Nat Turner
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians""Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)""[An] expertly constructed work, one of the handful of books on Turner destined to become essential reading for understanding the events of August 1831."---Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne, American Historical Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] succeeds in challenging established assumptions about Turner’s intellectual world, and it is likely that, with its publication, historians will be much more inclined to pay more attention to the importance of religion in Turner’s rebellion."---Enrico Dal Iago, Journal of American History"A major achievement. Tomlins is a brilliant historian, and his study is full of many new insights that make significant contributions to our understanding. Most importantly, Tomlins is one of the only historians to pay careful attention to the mind of the rebel leader. . . . Tomlins has given us a well-researched, always interesting and intellectually stimulating new book on Nat Turner. We should be deeply grateful for this extraordinary, sparkling work of history."---Kenneth S. Greenberg, Journal of the Early Republic"You can peel off layers, break off pieces and grab chunks out of In the Matter of Nat Turner, A Speculative History by Christopher Tomlins and have what I call a good book chew. Indigestion only comes because it makes you think about what you’re chewing."---Arelya J. Mitchell, The Mid-South Tribune"In the Matter of Nat Turner offers a new reading of the well-known and much written-about document purporting to record the confession of the leader of an 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, set in the context of a thick reconstruction of the local legal and political debates about slavery and representation. Christopher Tomlins makes the argument that previous interpreters have failed to take Turner seriously as a religious thinker, reducing his visionary religious narrative to nothing more than a cover for his political objectives. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner is a very ambitious and complex book."---Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"An ambitious and deeply researched intellectual achievement…In the Matter of Nat Turner stands as an exemplar and benchmark of both the depth and imagination with which we ought to engage Nat Turner and the perils imposing our own facticity upon him in the process."---M. Cooper Harriss, Religious Studies Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] is a book about the Nat Turner revolt as much as it is about the craft of writing history. By framing his arguments in Benjaminian terms, Tomlins succeeds in addressing questions of subaltern voices, archival silences and the limits of historical narrative . . . Tomlins makes a compelling case."---Sebastian Jobs, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature"[A] remarkably interesting book…[In the Matter of Nat Turner is] endlessly fascinating . . . [Chris Tomlins] takes us on an illuminated mystery tour of this most mysterious of events and much else besides. . . . Enriching."---Paul Harvey, Church History"In the Matter of Nat Turner is a tour de force. . . . Tomlins’s book shows how historical speculation and conjecture can be done in a way that is nonetheless solidly grounded in biblical, philosophical, anthropological, and historical context."---Angela Fernandez, Legal History"For those looking for a provocative set of speculations about Turner’s religiosity, [In the Matter of Nat Turner] provides much about which to think and argue."---Vanessa M. Holden, Journal of Social History"[A] profound new book…In the Matter of Nat Turner is a book teeming with insight. Tomlins’ provocative analysis of Turner’s own ideas will no doubt generate fruitful debate and have to be reckoned with by scholars in a variety of fields. But beyond that, Tomlins provides us with a powerful model for how to write history that both links individual biography with broader structural analysis and that centers the perspective of those long excluded."---Aziz Rana, Legal Form"Christopher Tomlins’ In the Matter of Nat Turner offers new insights into the thinking of Nat Turner and then employs those insights to meditate upon the discipline of history itself. Through his searching study of the actors and events of 1831, Tomlins interrogates contemporary historians’ own thinking and practice, their blind spots and erasures, their commitment to a disciplinary machine that yields often crushingly familiar answers. For these reasons, In the Matter of Nat Turner deserves a readership not only among historians of the antebellum South, but also among all interested in history as a modern knowledge form."---Kunal Parker, Radical Philosophy"An important, 'speculative' work of intellectual history for all academic collections." * Choice Reviews *"This book is not only tremendously enjoyable, but also a very useful addition to the field of slavery and the history of resistance and rebellion in the Americas."---Laura Sandy, Slavery and Abolition"In the Matter of Nat Turner provides a master class in what it means to explore the unwritten, to engage with the fragmentary, and to expand the potentialities of historical research."---Honor Sachs, Law and History Review"[A] brilliant and challenging book. . . . Tomlins crafts a new major interpretation in this ‘intellectual history of Nat Turner,’ centered on a compelling account of Turner’s faith and its collision with the emerging political and economic order of antebellum Virginia. . . . A richly rewarding book."---Randolph Scully, Journal of Southern History"A skillful reading and imagining of the sources . . . [and] a compelling retelling of Nat Turnerʼs life, beliefs, and intellect as well as the political significance of his rebellion."---Tamika Nunley, William & Mary Quarterly"Tomlins has succeeded in writing a distinctive sort of intellectual history. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner offers much more than a new analysis of Turner’s Confessions."---Bradford J. Wood, North Carolina Historical Review"An incredibly complex, erudite, and thought provoking book."---Bruce E. Baker, Journal of Religious History
£18.00
Princeton University Press The Dialectic Is in the Sea
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Groundbreaking. . . . Radical and influential, Nascimento’s work is available here for the first time in English."---Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine
£71.40
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Confederacys Greatest Cavalryman Nathan
Book SynopsisNathan Bedford Forrest was a renowned cavalryman who fought during the American Civil War. This book presents an analysis of his life, from childhood in Mississippi, to wealth from the slave trade, his role as founder and Grand Wizard of the first Ku Klux Klan, and his death.
£24.71
Pluto Press The Truth About Modern Slavery
Book SynopsisAn expert's guide to ending modern slaveryTrade Review'Her powerful treatise argues that modern slavery does not really exist as a clear phenomenon, but has been seized on to divert attention from the underlying causes of labour exploitation' -- Amelia Gentleman, Guardian'A horrifying exposé of how modern slavery is being used by elites against those most in need in our society - a must-read' -- Frankie Boyle, comedian'A brave, well-argued and thought-provoking intervention in a complex debate' -- Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of 'Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe' (Picador, 2019)'Electrifyingly good, thoughtful and deeply concerned with people at the sharp end of anti-trafficking and anti-migrant policies. A must-read for the entire left' -- Molly Smith, co-author, with Juno Mac, of 'Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights' (Verso, 2020)'A thought-provoking and essential read - especially if you believe great progress in tackling 'modern slavery' is imminent. Kenway forces us to reconsider how we even think and talk about exploitation' -- Stuart McDonald, Scottish National Party MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East'A much needed and well-researched book' -- The Justice Gap'Challenging political rhetoric, Kenway makes a convincing case for the need to separate immigration law enforcement from labour inspection and policing' -- Times Literary Supplement'Incredible' -- Red Handed podcastTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Rise of the New Abolitionists 2. At the Borders of Humanity 3. Sex, Slavery and Women Divided 4. Behind the Brands 5. Spotting the Signs Conclusion Notes Index
£72.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Servitude in Modern Times
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comparative analysis of the major systems of servitude present in the world since 1500. Slavery, serfdom, debt bondage, indentured service and convict labour all provided labour and service through the legal subjection of one person to another, but remained very different.Trade Review'Servitude in Modern Times explores and explains the great variety of unfree labour systems that have flourished in one or another part of the world under the influence of the rise of capitalism. The book's scope is exemplary, covering serfdom and debt bondage as well as chattel slavery, and ranging from Europe and the Americas to Africa and the Islamic world. The world of unfree labour and the movements of emancipation usually constitute two separate realms of study; here they are most fruitfully brought together. While condemning the essential cruelty of servitude, M. L. Bush conveys a historical understanding of systems of oppression that were regarded as perfectly civilized until very recently, and new forms of which survive into the present.' Robin Blackburn, University of Essex 'The author takes as his subject practically every form of labour, apart from freewage labour, that has existed between the sixteenth century and the present. His concern, however, is less with the persistence of archaic institutions than with the emergence of new commercially driven forms of bondage, among them the slave empires of the new World and the so-called new serfdom of Eastern Europe. Far from being a relic left over from earlier times, servitude is shown as playing a key role in the shaping of the modern world. The evidence for this is so overwhelming that one wonders why it has so frequently been overlooked...As a historian hitherto principally concerned with European social stratification, Bush has no time for handwringing over the injustices of the past, preferring to emphasize the positive contributions made to the shaping of the modern world by those who laboured under duress.' Howard Temperley, Times Literary Supplement 'A well researched and skillfully written book ... This work makes a significant contribution to the study of servitude. The depth to which Bush plumbs his subject exceeds most works. It can serve as an introductory work to the subject for interested readers, but it can also be profitably mined by professional historians, sociologists, psychologists and college students.' HistoryTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: The Forms of Legal Bondage:. 1. Servitude Comparatively Considered. 2. Modern Slavery. 3. Modern Serfdom. 4. Indentured Service. 5. Debt Bondage. 6. Penal Servitude. Part II: Emergence and Development:. 7. White Servitude in the Americas. 8. New World Slavery. 9. European Serfdom. 10. Islamic Slavery. Part III: Emancipation and After:. 11. Abolition in Europe and the Americas. 12. The Survival of Servitude. Conclusion: The Significance of Modern Servitude. A Bibliography Essay. Notes. Index.
£54.00
Lion Hudson The Clapham Sect
Book SynopsisThe story of the an influential group of social reformers in early 19th Century England.Table of ContentsContentsDramatis Personae: The Clapham Sect and SignificantSupporters 7Introduction 11PART ONE: FATHERS AND MOTHERS 151 The Thorntons 162 The Venns 283 Henry Thornton 364 William Wilberforce 43PART TWO: BROTHERS AND SISTERS 515 Schooling 526 The Proclamation 577 The Slave Trade 668 Mendip Schools 759 The Slave Trade Continued 8010 Sierra Leone: Exodus 9111 Sierra Leone: the Promised Land 10112 Coming to Clapham 11213 Sierra Leone: New Management 12514 The Pen 13315 Sons and Lovers: Macaulay and Stephen 14516 Husbands and Wives 15517 Sierra Leone and Ireland 16718 Church Missionary Society 17419 Vice 18520 Slaves of the Abolitionists 20021 East and West Indies 21222 Anti-Slavery 22323 Deliverance to the Captives 23424 Sons and Daughters 246Notes 251Select Bibliography 262Index 269
£11.39
University of British Columbia Press North to Bondage
Book SynopsisThe first history of black slavery in the Maritimes, North to Bondage is a startling corrective to the enduring myth of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.Trade ReviewNorth to Bondage provides a powerful interruption of the historical silencing of slavery in Canada, detailing the complex origins and intricate social relationships that formed the basis of slavery in the Maritimes. The book thus functions as an important corrective to Canadian narratives of slavery that have functioned largely to erase black presence and suffering in Canada by encouraging a belief that slavery was either non-existent, benevolent, or economically unimportant. * Canadian Literature *...North to Bondage is an important work that will become the standard text for understanding Maritime slavery...it not only challenges scholars of early Canada to think about the place and role of slavery but also Canada’s understanding of its national identity. For that reason, it has a place in many different classrooms, including courses on early Canadian history, multiculturalism in Canada, and Atlantic slavery. -- Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University * American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 46 No. 4, February 2017 *Whitfield’s book places the experiences of enslaved persons at the centre of this history. This is skilfully done given that there are few sources that contain the unmediated voices of enslaved people in Atlantic Canada …[Whitfield] achieves this by combining archival material and histories of slavery in what became the United States and Canada. He demonstrates that enslaved persons negotiated their experiences of enslavement and he shows that they were integral to bringing about the demise of slavery in the early nineteenth century. -- Eleanor Bird, The University of Sheffield * British Journal of Canadian Studies *Whitfield’s important and very readable study reinserts Maritimes slavery and black labour into the narrative of Canada’s many beginnings while also keeping the relevant black Atlantic connections in full view. -- Winfried Siemerling, University of Waterloo * Left History *Whitfield presents a new avenue for understanding the complexities of slavery in Maritime Canada and opens the door for future research. Rather than expanding on traditional research that stresses the freedoms found by enslaved or escaped African-Americans, Whitfield complicates the narratives and creates a more encompassing image of life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ... North to Freedom will be a welcomed addition to courses in both Canadian and American history, especially those looking to bring in new perspectives that challenge the history of slavery. -- Amy Mitchell-Cook, University of West Florida * Canadian Journal of History *North to Bondage is a significant contribution to several subfields of historical research, including African diasporic studies, the history of slavery, early American history, and early Canadian history. At just 118 pages of text and written in accessible prose, it is also very readable and ideally suited for the classroom. -- Christopher C. Jones, Brigham Young University * Early Canadian History *Amani Whitfield provides a nuanced and remarkably fulsome picture of the lives of enslaved people in the Maritimes by drawing on runaway advertisements, court documents, and personal papers. * Immigrants & Minorities *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Slavery in the Maritime Colonies1 Slavery and the American Context2 Maritime Slavery and Loyalist Settlement3 Slave Work4 The World of Maritime Slaves and Slaveholders5 Ending SlaveryConclusion: Legacies of SlaveryAppendix A: Possible Slave NumbersAppendix B: Slave ProfilesNotesBibliographic Essay
£61.50
University of British Columbia Press Contemporary Slavery
Book SynopsisContemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a source of both popular fascination and a spur to political mobilization. This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical and visual performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial; and therefore end up failing the crucial test of speaking truth to power. The widely held notion that anti-slavery is one of those rare issues that transcends politics or ideology is only sustainable because the underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and economic Trade ReviewContemporary Slavery is a must-read for every academic, practitioner, and activist working in the field of slavery and human trafficking… Each of the chapters provides a new perspective, and the strongest impact is gained by just this: the holistic, diverse representation of observations, analysis, and research ... this book is an invaluable compilation of thoughtful, nuanced chapters, which build a case for more careful academic engagement with the language of slavery. -- Journal of Human Trafficking * Nandor Kunst & Kurttuli Lingenfelter *
£63.00
Cornell University Press Brethren by Nature
Book SynopsisIn Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians.Trade ReviewLast fall, National Geographic and PBS touted their respective TV series about the first Thanksgiving as new and historically accurate interpretations of the European colonization of New England. But neither 'Saints and Strangers' nor 'American Experience: The Pilgrims' dared to go where Margaret Ellen Newell has gone in her most recent book, Brethren by Nature, a meticulously researched account of American Indian slavery during the Colonial period in New England. -- Tanya H. Lee * Indian Country Today Media Network *Newell has done an excellent job of combing through court recordscorrespondenceand other materials to reconstruct details large and small and to uncover the stories of enslaved people and their enslavers... [A] testament to her careful scholarship and indeed a central part of the story of Indian slavery in New England. -- Daniel K. Richter * New England Quarterly *Newell recovers the stories of individual Indian people caught up in a system of unfree labor that contributed to New England's prosperity, linked the region to slave economies in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and played an important role in the racialization of society. Brethren by Nature is an important book about Indians in New England; it is also an important book about New England. -- Colin G. Calloway * Media Reviews *Newell's achievement represents some of the best new research within the historiographies of Native America, slavery, and colonial New England. Never losing sight of the enslaved themselves, Brethren by Nature places the travails of indigenous nations and individuals at the heart of colonial slavery. With this outstanding work, Newell shakes the 'city on the hill' to its very core. -- Max Flomen * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of Indian Slavery in Early America1. "Davids warre": The Pequot War and the Origins of Slavery in New England2. "I doe not see how wee can thrive untill wee gett into a stock of slaves": Slavery in the Puritan Atlantic World3. "Indians we have received into our houses": Pequot War Captives in New England Households4. "Such a servant is part of her Master's estate": Acculturation, Resistance, and the Making of a Hybrid Society5. "An Indian to help in the work": The Importance of Indian Labor in the New England Economy6. "We sold...47 Indians, young and old for 80£. in money": Enslavement in King Philip’s War7. "As good if not better then the Moorish Slaves": Law, Slavery, and the Second Native Diaspora8. "Free men subjects to the king": The Search for Enslavable Indians in the Northeast and Southeast9. To be sold "in any part of ye kings Dominyons": Judicial Enslavement of New England IndiansEpilogue: Indians and the Origins of American Slavery—and AbolitionismAbbreviations Notes Index
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