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Cambridge University Press Slavery Atlantic Trade Brit Economy 42 New Studies in Economic and Social History Series Number 42
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Cambridge University Press Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Cambridge University Press The Bondsmans Burden
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Cambridge University Press Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Colonization and British AntiSlavery 61 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 61
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Cambridge University Press From Bondage to Contract
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
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Cambridge University Press Final Freedom The Civil War the Abolition of Slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
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Cambridge University Press Versions of Blackness
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Cambridge University Press The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil Cuba and the United States
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Cambridge University Press Chica Da Silva
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Cambridge University Press Slavery in White and Black
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Cambridge University Press Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
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Cambridge University Press From Africa to Brazil
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Cambridge University Press The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Trauma
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Cambridge University Press Slavery in the American Mountain South
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Cambridge University Press Slavery in the Roman World
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Cambridge University Press Slavery in the Development of the Americas
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume 3 AD 1420AD 1804
Book SynopsisVolume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti.Trade Review'An absolutely excellent volume.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Dependence, servility and coerced labor in time and space David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman; Part I. Slavery in Africa and Asia Minor: 2. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire in the early modern era Ehud R. Toledano; 3. Slavery in Islamic Africa Rudolph T. Ware III; 4. Slavery in non-Islamic West Africa, 1420–1820 G. Ugo Nwokeji; 5. Slaving and resistance to slaving in west central Africa Roquinaldo Ferreira; 6. White slavery in the early modern era William G. Clarence-Smith and David Eltis; Part II. Slavery in Asia: 7. Slavery in Southeast Asia, 1420–1804 Kerry Ward; 8. Slavery in early modern China Pamela Kyle Crossley; Part III. Slavery among the Indigenous Americans: 9. Slavery in indigenous North America Leland Donald; 10. Indigenous slavery in South America, 1492–1820 Neil L. Whitehead; Part IV. Slavery and Serfdom in Eastern Europe: 11. Slavery and the rise of serfdom in Russia Richard Hellie; 12. Manorialism and rural subjection in east central Europe, 1500–1800 Edgar Melton; Part V. Slavery in the Americas: 13. Slavery in the Atlantic islands and the early modern Spanish Atlantic world William D. Phillips, Jr; 14. Slavery and politics in colonial Portuguese America: the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries João Fragoso and Ana Rios; 15. Slavery in the British Caribbean Philip D. Morgan; 16. Slavery on the colonial North American mainland Lorena S. Walsh; 17. Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1635–1804 Laurent Dubois; 18. Slavery and the slave trade of the minor Atlantic powers Pieter Emmer; Part VI. Cultural and Demographic Patterns in the Americas: 19. Demography and family structures B. W. Higman; 20. The concept of creolization Richard Price; 21. Black women in the early Americas Betty Wood; Part VII. Legal Structures, Economics and the Movement of Coerced Peoples in the Atlantic World: 22. Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500–1800 David Richardson; 23. Slavery, freedom and the law in the Atlantic world, 1420–1807 Sue Peabody; 24. European forced labor in the early modern era Timothy Coates; 25. Transatlantic slavery and economic development in the Atlantic world: West Africa, 1450–1850 Joseph E. Inikori; Part VIII. Slavery and Resistance: 26. Slave worker rebellions and revolution in the Americas to 1804 Mary Turner; 27. Runaways and quilombolas in the Americas Manolo Florentino and Márcia Amantino.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume 4 AD 1804AD 2016
Book SynopsisThis volume is aimed at both scholars and general readers who have an interest in how coerced labor operated in many different parts of the world, how it affected enslaved peoples, how it came to be abolished, and what forms of labor control followed in its aftermath.Trade Review'This excellent collection treats slavery as the truly global phenomenon that it was, and still is, and it looks at slavery within a broad range of forms of labor coercion. The editors have pulled together a team of outstanding authors, most of whom are established authorities on the subjects they discuss.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto'With revisionary interpretations, this distinguished team of historians has produced an original, compelling and persuasive argument for the centrality of slavery in the shaping of modern history.' James Walvin, University of York'This book is a thought-provoking intervention into the history and practices of slavery and other forms of coerced labor since the nineteenth century to the present, covering all parts of the world as well as major topics. It surely will spark a series of significant interdisciplinary debates, while future scholarship will rest on this thoughtful and expansive tome.' Toyin Falola, Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, the Library of Congress'This volume is brilliantly constructed with contributions from all parts of the world. It draws together the finest work on the history of forced labor between the Haitian Revolution and abolition. It is authoritatively researched, brilliantly presented, and clearly written - a welcome addition in every library.' Ira Berlin, University of Maryland'This is a must-read for those interested in a comprehensive survey of nineteenth-century global slavery, its rise, decline, and aftermath. Not just an investigation of 'Second Slavery' in Africa, Asia and the Americas, this formidable volume examines a stunning range of coerced labor systems from a variety of rich perspectives, varying from the demographic to the cultural.' Philip Morgan, The Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Overview: 1. Introduction David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher and David Richardson; 2. Demographic trends among coerced populations Barry W. Higman; 3. Overseas movements of slaves and indentured workers David Northrup; Part II. Slavery: 4. Slavery in the non-Hispanic West Indies to 1863 Pieter C. Emmer and Stanley L. Engerman; 5. Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1804 to abolition Laird Bergad; 6. Slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil João Reis; 7. US slavery and its aftermath, 1804–2000 Stanley L. Engerman; 8. Slavery in Africa, 1804–1936 Gareth Austen; 9. Ottoman slavery and abolition in the nineteenth century Michael Ferguson and Ehud Toledano; 10. Slavery and bondage in the Indian Ocean world, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani; 11. Slavery in India Alessandro Stanziani; 12. Slave resistance Robert L. Paquette; 13. Black culture in the nineteenth century Alex Borucki and Jessica Millward; Part III. Abolition: 14. Slavery and the Haitian revolution David Geggus; 15. Slavery and abolition in Islamic Africa, 1776–1905 Rudolph T. Ware, III; 16. European antislavery: from empires of slavery to global prohibition Seymour Drescher; 17. Antislavery and abolitionism in the United States, 1776–1870 James Brewer Stewart; 18. The emancipation of the serfs in Europe Shane O'Rourke; 19. British abolitionism from the vantage of pre-colonial South Asian regimes Indrani Chatterjee; 20. The transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas after 1804 Christopher Schmidt-Nowara; 21. Abolition and its aftermath in Brazil Celso Thomas Castilho; Part IV. Aftermath: 22. The American Civil War and its aftermath Peter A. Coclanis; 23. Dependency and coercion in East Asian labor, 1800–1949 Pamela Crossley; 24. Gender and coerced labor Pamela Scully and Kerry Ward; 25. Coerced labor in twentieth-century Africa Richard Roberts; 26. Indenture in the long nineteenth century Rosemarijn Hoefte; 27. Forced labor in Nazi Germany and the Stalinist USSR Alan Barenberg; 28. Contemporary coercive labor practices - slavery today Kevin Bales.
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Cambridge University Press Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes 17301807
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Cambridge University Press Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil
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Cambridge University Press CrossCultural Exchange in the Atlantic World Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade 121 African Studies Series Number 121
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Cambridge University Press Versions of Blackness Key Texts on Slavery from the Seventeenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Comp Hist Slavery Brazil Cuba US
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Cambridge University Press Slave Systems
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Cambridge University Press Slavery in White and Black Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders New World Order
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Cambridge University Press Wealth Land and Property in Angola
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Cambridge University Press Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Cambridge University Press Slave Systems
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Monotheism and Slavery
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Resistance and Identity in Early Modern West Africa
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Monotheism and Slavery
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Cambridge University Press Harriet Jacobs
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Cambridge University Press Exquisite Slaves
Book SynopsisExquisite Slavesexamines how slaves in Lima, Peru used elegant clothing to express attitudes about gender and status. Drawing on a diverse range of sources and analyses, Walker demonstrates that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima clothing signified both the reach and limits of slaveholders' power and racial domination.Trade Review'Exquisite Slaves represents a unique and distinctive contribution to the history of racial formation in Spanish America which will command the attention of the scholarly community. This book considerably deepens our understanding of colonial racial formation.' Herman Bennett, City University of New York'Walker's invigorating analysis of enslaved and freed cultural agency is a welcome contribution to the history of slavery. Her unique focus on manners of dress and gendered public presentation underlines how slavery was rooted not just in daily events, but in intimate senses of self and others. Informed by an Atlantic vision, Walker's close reading of imagery and text charts a new path for how to write a history of the African Diaspora in Latin America.' Rachel Sarah O'Toole, University of California, Irvine'… Walker's book provides a novel account on the contradictory dressing practices of people of colour in colonial Lima as a tool that both submitted them to the colonial regime and allowed them to challenge the norms … the book is an important approximation for the advancement of fashion studies and dress history in Latin America.' Laura Beltran-Rubio, The Journal of Dress History'Students and experts interested in the African diaspora, material culture, racial identity, the formation of Blackness, and gender will surely benefit from this book.' Erika Denise Edwards, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Slavery and the aesthetic of mastery; 2. Legal status, gender, and self-fashioning; 3. Black bodies and boundary trouble; 4. Painting, print culture, and colonial ideation; 5. Ladies, gentlemen, slaves, and citizens; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition
Book SynopsisIn a series of case studies, Dyer reconstructs the arguments of prominent antislavery thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. What emerges is a convoluted understanding of American constitutional development that emphasizes the centrality of natural law to America's greatest constitutional crisis.Trade Review'In this provocative book, Justin Buckley Dyer makes a case for the US Constitution's natural law foundations. He does not divine the Constitution's meaning from the intent of the Founders or the understanding of the ratifiers, however. Rather, he argues that natural law informed constitutional thinking and that abolitionists who deployed natural law concepts in their subsequent reading of the Constitution were substantially right.' H. Robert Baker, The Journal of American History'Justin Buckley Dyer's heart seems to lie in theory, though his strongest contributions are historical … Dyer's first book is a worthwhile rejoinder to the prevailing trend of histories depicting the Constitution as neutral-at-best on slavery.' Aaron Keck, Political Theory'Justin Buckley Dyer does a wonderful job highlighting how the Declaration of Independence in particular and natural law principles more generally inspired the antislavery movement in the United States. Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition boldly defends the Lincolnian proposition that 'the Constitution drew aspirational content from the [natural law] principles in the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, 'and is the best extant account for how prominent antislavery activists employed those principles in their effort to place slavery on 'the course of ultimate extinction'. … The chapters on John Quincy Adams and Justice John McLean are particularly worth the price of admission.' Mark A. Graber, Tulsa Law Review'If the purpose of Dyer's book is to serve as a resource on the foundations and meanings of American antislavery constitutional rhetoric, then this is a fine contribution to the literature. It makes compelling links between past thought and more recent legal philosophers. In particular, it sheds clear light on the natural-law thinking of celebrated judges and statesmen, like Mansfield, Adams, and Lincoln.' Dominic DeBrincat, H-Net ReviewsTable of Contents1. Prologue: slavery and the laws and rights of nature; 2. Introduction: the apple of gold; 3. Somerset and the antislavery constitutional tradition; 4. Constitutional disharmony in The Antelope and La Amistad; 5. Constitutional construction in Prigg and Dred Scott; 6. Natural law, providence, and Lincoln's constitutional statesmanship; 7. Public reason and the wrong of slavery; 8. Conclusion: the heritage of the antislavery constitutional tradition.
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Cambridge University Press From Slavery to Aid
Book SynopsisFrom Slavery to Aid takes two major themes of African historiography - the death of slavery and the birth of aid - and constructs a social history of the Ader region, an understudied region of the West African Sahel in today's Republic of Niger.Trade Review'Benedetta Rossi connects the specificities of place with the importance of connections across space, and she connects the continuities of a former slave society with the development initiatives of a colonial and post-colonial state. She uses her rich ethnographic and historical material to analyse insightfully the meaning of unequal social and economic relations, within a region, within an African state, and in relation to the external world.' Frederick Cooper, New York University'A magisterial study of how a desert-side slave labor system in Niger is transformed by French conquest into a forced-labour system, and then by modern development agendas. It is also a story of how people survive under difficult circumstances.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto'In this pathbreaking application of historical anthropology, Benedetta Rossi explores the shifting boundaries of social relationships in the West African Sahel. The politics of labour on the margins of desert and savanna marked the northern frontier of the Islamic Sokoto Caliphate and determined the impact of the colonial and post-colonial state. From Slavery to Aid unpacks the transformations of society on the ecological edge.' Paul E. Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, York University, Toronto'… well-organized, clearly written, and easily digested … From Slavery to Aid successfully blends archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, making it an exceptional specimen of historical anthropology.' D. Dmitri Hurlbut, African Studies QuarterlyTable of Contents1. At the desert's edge; 2. Between Sokoto and Agadez: inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century; 3. Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899–1917; 4. Governing labour – slave, forced and migrant, 1918–45; 5. The development of 'development', 1946–83; 6. Fighting against the desert, 1984–2000; 7. Between development and dependence.
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Cambridge University Press From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime
Book SynopsisThe first book to develop an in-depth analysis of how legal and political ideas concerning the criminalization of racial violence have evolved from slavery to the present, and to offer new historical and theoretical perspective for analyzing limits of current attempts to use criminal legislation as a weapon against racism.Trade Review'With a broad chronological sweep from the colonial era to the present day, Ely Aaronson for the first time illuminates the connections between efforts to criminalize violence against African Americans under slavery and Jim Crow and hate crime legislation today. Putting the tools of sociological analysis to work, he recasts familiar stories in a new and fascinating light, showing the way criminal justice - or injustice - works to perpetuate racial hierarchies. A must-read for students of law, history, criminology, and critical race studies.' Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California Law School'In this remarkable book, Ely Aaronson offers us a sophisticated and finely grained interpretation of the role of criminal laws ostensibly designed to address racial violence throughout the political history of the United States. Focusing in particular on the underlying political dynamics that shaped opportunities for both activism and resistance, but also paying close attention to the operation of legal doctrines and to the institutional structures within which law enforcement operates, Aaronson illuminates the distinctive shape of criminalization efforts in successive eras from slavery to the present day … From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime not only addresses a most pressing legal and political issue in the United States, but also contributes to sociolegal and political history and to social theory. It merits a large and attentive audience.' N. M. Lacey, London School of Economics and Political Science'Contrary to the common assumption that hate crime laws are a product of the modern civil rights era, Aaronson's brilliant study traces the logic of laws protecting minorities back to the legal framework of racial domination from slavery on. This impeccably researched and beautifully written book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the tangle of race and criminalization in the United States today.' Jonathan Simon, Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, University of California, BerkeleyTable of Contents1. Towards a historical and sociological analysis of the criminalization of racial violence; 2. Progressive criminalization at the heart of darkness?: the legal response to the victimization of slaves in the colonial and antebellum South; 3. 'Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon': the rise and fall of federal pro-black criminalization policy, 1865–1909; 4. 'We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with': campaigning for criminalization reform in the long civil rights movement, 1909–68; 5. Criminalizing racial hatred, legitimizing racial inequality: hate-crime laws and the new politics of pro-black criminalization; 6. Conclusion: criminalization reform and egalitarian social change - an uneasy relationship.
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Cambridge University Press Unrequited Toil
Book SynopsisWritten as an introduction for undergraduate students, Unrequited Toil explores the history of American slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction. Personal narratives are used across twelve chronologically ordered chapters to explore themes such as politics, economics, labor, literature, rebellion, and social conditions.Trade Review'In Unrequited Toil, Calvin Schermerhorn offers a fresh study of slavery, synthesizing what we know about the institution thus far. From the cotton fields to coal mines, he tells the story of American slavery in many forms. His bold and direct language makes this history plain, palatable, and personal. This book will be used for years to come as it offers the perfect overview of US slavery for scholars and the general reader.' Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from the Womb to the Grave, in the Building of a Nation'A distinguished historian of slavery and the slave trade, Calvin Schermerhorn's new synthesis on the history of slavery combines the latest historical literature in the field with his own considerable research adeptly. A highly usable book in courses on slavery and nineteenth-century American history.' Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition'Schermerhorn provides an overview of slavery in the US from the Revolutionary era until the end of Reconstruction in the late 1870s. Moving chronologically, the book addresses the major issues that faced enslaved African Americans, such as personal, day-to-day experiences with family, labor, and sexual exploitation, as well as efforts to secure freedom by running away, challenging slavery in the courts, and planning and staging rebellions. … Schermerhorn's focus is refreshing, as he brings the experiences of enslaved Americans to the forefront, rather than addressing slavery from the realm of white slaveholders. In addition, the author illuminates his narrative with fascinating historical anecdotes, which … support and flesh out his narrative while also creating a readable text. This is a useful work for individuals seeking edification on the subject of US slavery … [and] those looking for a starting point for further research. … Highly recommended.' T. K. Byron, Choice'Unrequited Toil is an engaging, beautifully composed survey of slavery in the United States. It presents a highly useful and readable account featuring the latest scholarly research, valuable to specialists and students alike.' Dale Kretz, The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Counter-revolutionaries; 2. Slow death for slavery; 3. Cotton empire; 4. Black insurgency; 5. Financial chains; 6. Life in the quotidian; 7. Landscape of sexual violence; 8. Industrial discipline; 9. Narratives; 10. Geopolitics; 11. Abolition war; 12. No justice, no peace; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic 17501807
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations, and examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done.Trade Review'In this richly researched volume, Roberts casts light on the 'lived experience of enslaved peoples' by documenting the daily life of slaves in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.' M. G. Spencer, Choice'Justin Roberts has written a challenging and thought-provoking book. In it, he underlines the centrality of work and the conditions pertaining thereto to the lives of enslaved Africans in Barbados,Jamaica, and Virginia in the late eighteenth century … a multipolar study of their lives that sheds light on important differences not only between the Chesapeake and Caribbean worlds of slavery but also within the Caribbean world of slavery. In this respect, Roberts has written an important book, providing for the later eighteenth century the more nuanced and comparative study of sugar production, plantation life, and slave demography in the Caribbean that one has come to associate with the research of Barry Higman, among others, for the period after British slave trade abolition in 1807.' Rosalie G. Riegle, H-Peace'Roberts' book is a fine study of how the plantocratic urge to ensure that slaves worked was the key both to profitability and to social and political calm.' James Walvin, International Journal of Maritime History'There is a great deal that is impressive and worthwhile about this study. The book is based on a wide body of scholarship on labor, political economy, archaeology, and other fields … for scholars and students interested in slave labor in the New World and the Caribbean and North America in particular, this is a valuable text.' Frederick Knight, Agricultural HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Clock work: time, quantification, amelioration, and the Enlightenment; 2. Sunup to sundown: agricultural diversity and seasonal patterns of work; 3. Lockstep and line: gang work and the division of labor; 4. Negotiating sickness: health, work, and seasonality; 5. Labor and industry: skilled and unskilled work; 6. Working lives: occupations and families in the slave community; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Memoirs of Granville Sharp Esq.
Book SynopsisThe family of leading anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp (17351813) consigned his archives to the painter, playwright and author Prince Hoare, who published this biography in 1820. Sharp's work for abolition, and his other charitable and scholarly activities, are detailed in this fascinating work, drawn directly from his own writings.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. His education, and writings to the year 1776; 2. Acquaintance with General Oglethorpe, etc.; 3. Settlement of a colony at Sierra Leone; 4. Mr Sharp's means of expenditure; 5. Domestic character of Mr Sharp; 6. Catalogue of the books written by him; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination 17641834
Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the ''grave of Europeans''. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.Table of ContentsCommunicating disease: literature and medicine in the Atlantic World; Part I. Health, Geography and Aesthetics: 1. 'What new forms of death': the poetics of disease and cure; 2. The diagnostics of description: medical topography and the colonial picturesque; Part II. Colonial Bodies: 3. Skin, textuality and colonial feeling; 4. 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World': White West Indians and Atlantic medical knowledge; Part III. Revolution and Abolition: 5. The 'intimate union of medicine and magic': Obeah, revolution and colonial modernity; Afterword: colonial modernities and after abolition.
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Cambridge University Press A New Plantation World
Book SynopsisExamines the transformation of architecture and landscape involved in the making of 'sporting plantations' in coastal South Carolina by wealthy sporting enthusiasts. Vivian explores the meaning of plantations in American culture, how new sporting estates affected historical memory of slavery, and the consequences for contemporary views of the South Carolina coast and its past.Trade Review'Daniel J. Vivian offers a fascinating, though long forgotten, history of how elite Northerners repurposed the former plantations of the South Carolina Low Country into sporting estates during the early decades of the twentieth century. Well-written and accessible, A New Plantation World complicates our understanding of North-South relations several decades after the Civil War, and demonstrates that the plantations purchased by wealthy Northerners were not intended for mythmaking, but reinvention.' Karen L. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and author of Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South'A New Plantation World peels away layers of myth and romance to reveal the curious story of elite Americans who engaged in conspicuous consumption by refashioning the South Carolina lowcountry, a landscape wrought by slavery, into a leisure playground. Riddled with ironies, this engaging history reminds us that their attempt to transform the region had the effect of perpetuating and intensifying inherited notions of race, region, and cultural privilege associated with this unique American landscape.' W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'Daniel J. Vivian deftly and persuasively recuperates the deeply conflicted architectural and cultural histories of the early twentieth-century sporting plantations of the Carolina Low Country. His sharp, insightful engagement with the reinvention of plantation myth and mystique through the interventions of wealthy Northern 'sports' on buildings and landscapes offers a compelling lesson on how wealth, privilege, and politics edit historical and environmental memory.' Bernard L. Herman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'… no one has presented the 'New Plantation World' of the South Carolina lowcountry as comprehensively as Vivian. His book is rich in details and exhaustively footnoted. He draws on a wealth of primary and secondary sources to support his argument, including public and private manuscript collections. Vivian does for the South Carolina lowcountry what Stephanie Yuhl did for the city of Charleston, South Carolina, with A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston (2005). Indeed, Yuhl's and Vivian's books could serve as companion pieces that present a picture of how the both the urban and rural built environment and landscape of the South Carolina coast were rehabilitated and transformed in the early twentieth century to create an imagined past.' Jennifer W. Dickey, The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Discovering the lowcountry: Northern sportsmen in paradise, 1880–1915; 2. Creating plantations for sport and leisure: estate-making in the Carolina lowcountry, 1915–1940; 3. New lowcountry, new plantations; 4. Creating Mulberry Plantation, 1915–1935: the Colonial Revival as an estate-making idiom; 5. Medway plantation: the patina of age; 6. Representing a new plantation world; 7. Plantation life: varieties of experience on the remade plantations of the lowcountry; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Slavery and Abolition
Book SynopsisThe first full-length historical study of pre-abolition black British writing, this book challenges established narratives of eighteenth-century black history that focus almost exclusively on slavery and abolition. Ryan Hanley expands our perspectives to encompass the often neglected but important black writers of the time, and highlights their contribution to politics, culture, and the arts. He considers the lives and works of contemporary black literary celebrities alongside largely forgotten evangelical authors and political radicals to uncover how they came to produce such diverse and powerful work. By navigating the social, religious, political and professional networks that surrounded these authors and their writing, he also reveals that black intellectuals were never confined to the peripheries of British culture. From the decks of Royal Navy ships to the drawing rooms of country houses, from the pub to the pulpit, black writers, and the work they produced, helped to build moderTrade Review'Historians of black British history, the British Atlantic, and slavery studies will all find something rewarding in the book. Indeed, the Royal Historical Society deemed Beyond Slavery and Abolition worthy of its annual Whitfield Prize, an award that this novel work most certainly deserves.' Gary D. Sellick, H-SlaveryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Black Celebrities: 1. Ignatius Sancho and posthumous literary celebrity, 1779–1782; 2. Olaudah Equiano: celebrity abolitionist; 3. Mary Prince and the infamy of victimhood, 1828–1833; Part II. Black Evangelicals: 4. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and British Calvinism, 1765–1779; 5. Boston King, Kingswood School, and British Methodism, 1794–1798; 6. John Jea in Lancashire and Hampshire, 1801–1817; Part III. Black Radicals: 7. Ottobah Cugoano and the 'Black poor', 1786–1791; 8. Robert Wedderburn and London's radical underworld; Conclusion; Select bibliography.
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