Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books
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 Policing Freedom
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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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Cambridge University Press The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution
Book SynopsisThis book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Simon J. Gilhooley traces how debates around the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia gave rise to the articulation of this constitutional interpretation, which constrained the radical potential of the constitutional text. To reconstruct the origins of this interpretation, Gilhooley draws on rich sources that include historical newspapers, pamphlets, and congressional debates. Examining free black activism in the North, Abolitionism in the 1830s, and the evolution of pro-slavery thought, this book shows how in navigating the existence of slavery in the District and the fundamental constitutional issue of the enslaved''s personhood, Antebellum opponents of abolition came to promote an enduring but constraining constitutTrade Review'Gilhooley gives us a new and profoundly original account of the roots, during the era of slavery, of today's battles over constitutional interpretation. In the process, he reconceives the political legacy of the 1820s and 1830s, scrambles our contemporary assumptions about the ideological meaning of the different theories of the Constitution, and thoroughly dissects the American worship of the founders. This is a terrific book and one to be returned to again and again.' Aziz Rana, Cornell University'This book is convincing and profound: a real tour de force. Gilhooley is immensely clarifying on points of history, political theory, and legal/constitutional development precisely because he integrates them. His argument that originalism emerged as a response to the exigencies of antebellum debates will be a touchstone for a very long time.' David Waldstreicher, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Constitutional Imaginaries of the Missouri Crisis; 2. The Declaration of Independence and Black Citizenship in the 1820s; 3. Abolitionism and the Constitution in the 1830s; 4. The Slaveholding South and the Constitutionalization of Slavery; 5. Theories of the Federal Compact in the 1830s; 6. Slavery, The District of Columbia, and the Constitution; 7. The Congressional Crisis of 1836; 8: The Compact and the Election of 1836; 9. The Afterlife of the Compact of 1836; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Black Legend
Book SynopsisCelebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine, Raúl Grigera (''el negro Raúl''), who in the early 1900s audaciously fashioned himself into an alluring Black icon of Buenos Aires'' bohemian nightlife, only to have defamatory storytellers unmake him. In this gripping history, Paulina Alberto exposes the destructive power of racial storytelling and narrates a new history of Black Argentina and Argentine Blackness across two centuries. With the extraordinary Raúl Grigera at its center, Black Legend opens new windows into lived experiences of Blackness in a ''white'' nation, and illuminates how Raúl''s experience of celebrity was not far removed from more ordinary experiences of racial stories in the flesh.Trade Review'This book is a gem. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, it reaches across the borders of our hemisphere to help us think in complex and humane ways about race, the power of storytelling, and nocturnal life in Buenos Aires.' Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University'Alberto uses the skills of a sleuth to recover the life of Buenos Aires's famed 'negro Raúl' and those of a truly gifted historian to help us think not just about Blackness in Argentina but also about the very real power of stories in the lives of individuals, communities, and nations. A fascinating, beautiful work of history.' Ada Ferrer, New York University'Black Legend is an extremely innovative book that brings together the best kind of historical work, weaving together life story and national myth with the writing of history itself. Through meticulous research, Paulina Alberto tells the life and afterlives of Black celebrity Raúl Grigera, providing a deep analysis of the long-lasting effects of racial storytelling in Argentina's self-definition as a nation. Offering a counter narrative of Grigera's life, Alberto reminds us that a story well told can play as powerful a role in dismantling racism.' Keila Grinberg, author of A Black Jurist in a Slave Society'Poignant and penetrating, Black Legend is a sensitive biography of one complex man and a multilayered history of a community, city, and country all vying to script Blackness in the turbulent twentieth century. A book as much about the power of stories in political culture as the deep and shadowed racial past of Argentina, Black Legend is a stunning achievement.' Tiya Miles, Harvard University and author of The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits'More than a traditional biography, Black Legend is an exemplary blueprint on how historical work based on one subject can function simultaneously as a microscope that provides revelatory detail and minutiae, and as a telescope that offers a sweeping look at myriad dynamics within a society.' Jessica Graham, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Racial Stories; 1. Ancestors (1850–1880); 2. Community (1880–1900); 3. Youth (1900–1910); 4. Celebrity (1910–1916); 5. Defamation (1916–1930); 6. Deaths (1930–1955); Epilogue: Afterlives (1955–Present).
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Cambridge University Press Fractional Freedoms
Book SynopsisHow could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tells the story of enslaved legal actors within the landscape of Hispanic urban slavery, focussing on women who were socially disadvantaged, economically active and extremely litigious.Trade Review'This is, without a doubt, one of the richest, most complex and well-researched studies of urban slavery in colonial Latin America. McKinley brings acute legal knowledge, both of the content of law and of its performative practice, to a study of enslaved men and women. The archival wealth here, plus the author's ability to tell a compelling yarn, produce an engaging and scholarly tome.' Karen B. Graubart, University of Notre Dame'Michelle A. McKinley has written a book that embodies the richness of recent Latin American legal history and also transcends that literature. Fractional Freedoms is rooted in heroic work in recondite and intractable archives in Europe and in the Americas. It is shaped by an incredibly sophisticated historical imagination, and is also filled with really interesting and well told stories about the negotiations and the local lives of enslaved Africans in early modern Lima. There are surprises on every page. For anyone interested in the global history of slavery, which by rights should be every serious student of history, this is the state of the art.' Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University, New Jersey'This is a first-rate piece of original, archive-based scholarship. It is a meticulous and extremely thoughtful examination of women's lives under slavery in and around Lima, Peru, a part of the Americas few connect with this institution. What really sets this book manuscript apart is the author's razor-sharp understanding and clear explanation of the colonial legal system. This book is a fully accessible social history that … contributes substantially to the growing history of the African diaspora.' Kris Lane, Tulane University, Louisiana'Michelle McKinley's Fractional Freedoms is an impressive contribution to this literature. Her careful analysis of previously underutilized ecclesiastical archives and her empathetic evocation of the slave experience should establish Fractional Freedoms as a model for future research.' Lyman Johnson, H-Law'McKinley's extensive work with church documents complicates the existing scholarship on slaves as legal actors … a primer on the most prominent types of legal disputes involving slaves.' Emily Berquist Soule, Latin American Research ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Litigating liberty; 2. Conjugal chains; 3. Dangerous dependencies; 4. Freedom at the font; 5. Till death do us part; 6. Buyer beware; 7. Conclusion.
£23.74
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts
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£30.00
Penguin Books Ltd Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery
Book SynopsisA freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slaveryBorn in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of African descent. Cugoano refutes pro-slavery arguments of the day, including slavery's supposed divine sanction; the belief that Africans gladly sold their own families into slavery; that Africans were especially suited to its rigors; and that West Indian slaves led better lives than European serfs. Exploiting his dual identity as both an African and a British citizen, Cugoano daringly asserted that all those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the same time he appealed to white England's better self.For more than seventy years, PenTrade Review"Vincent Carretta singlehandedly has transformed our understanding of the origins of the Anglo-African literary tradition. He has breathed new life into texts long thought dead" —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Table of ContentsEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Vincent CarrettaIntroduction by Vincent CarrettaAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIllustrationsSuggestions for Further ReadingThoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to The Inhabitants of Great-Britain, by Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa.London: 1787Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery; or, the Nature of Servitude as Admitted by the Law of God, Compared to the Modern Slavery of the Africans in the West-Indies; In an Answer to the Advocates for Slavery and Oppression. Addressed to the Sons of Africa, by a Native.London: 1791Explanatory Notes to the 1787 PublicationExplanatory Notes to the 1791 PublicationAppendix: Correspondence of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
£14.77
Penguin Putnam Inc The Slave Ship
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£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Enduring Truths Sojourners Shadows and Substance
Book SynopsisRunaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. This book explores how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself.
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University of Chicago Press My Fathers Name
Book SynopsisArmed with only early boyhood memories, the author begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather's old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. This title tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at once a detective story and a moving historical memoir.Trade Review"Lawrence P. Jackson's matter-of-fact prose is accessible and is strangely and beautifully evocative of the Civil War era. We not only learn about the deprivations, inhumanity, and constant humiliations perpetrated on black people in the nineteenth century, but we gain a deeper understanding of what constitutes American culture and society today. It is amazing that Jackson's family survived to produce such a splendid writer able to share their story with us." -Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World"
£30.49
University of Chicago Press The Anthropology of Slavery The Womb of Iron and Gold
£113.67
University of Chicago Press The Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the
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£113.53
The University of Chicago Press Memories of the Slave Trade Ritual and the
Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped (and been reshaped by) experiences of colonialism, postcolonialsm, and the country's ten-year rebel war.Trade Review"[This] is an extraordinary combination of ethnography and history that promises to reshape our understanding of West African cultures and the ways in which their insertion into history has affected such quotidian matters as gender and ideas about the person. Shaw provides an elegant analysis that shows how aspects of culture, such as ideas about secrecy and local concepts of agency, were fashioned under historical circumstances that are both transmitted and rethought in the present." - Ivan Karp, Emory University
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University of Illinois Press The Southern Debate over Slavery
Book SynopsisSlavery and southern society as documented in individual petitionsTrade Review“When your Orator returned Home he found his Wife in Tears, and upon inquiery of the cause, she informed your Orator that the aforesaid Haley had Grossly abused and insulted her, and amongst other terms of opprobriousness had called his said Wife a Damned Liar--upon which your Orator pusued the said Haley . . . and upon overtaking him, inflicted Several blows, for the gross and degrading insult offered his Wife--and your Orator hopes that such a State of insubbordination in a man of his Colour, would well justify the Deed.”--from “Joseph B. Abrahams to the Chancery Court, Henrico County, Virginia, 1806”"For serious scholars of both American slavery and pre-Civil War America this volume is essential."--H-CivWar"A landmark feat of historical discovery and retrieval. . . . A truly fascinating glimpse into the thoughts and personal conduct of otherwise obscure men and women of both races in the pre-emancipation south."--Civil War Book Review"A terrific addition to our knowledge about slavery."--The North Carolina Historical Review"Schweninger has compiled another extraordinary volume of primary source documents revealing the scope and details of the experience of slavery in the US South. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice“The documents reveal a number of complicated truths about the system of slavery. . . . Useful material for both lectures and discussions, the petitions collected here will serve as a valuable teaching resource.”--The Journal of Southern History
£103.00
MO - University of Illinois Press Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne
Book SynopsisThe dynamic lives of three diverse women, fighting for and against slavery in antebellum MarylandTrade Review"A good read. Recommended."--Choice "A fascinating book."--Multicultural Review"The contributions ... to the studies of enslavement, gender politics, and the importance of place are substantial."--The Journal of Southern History"A fascinating, intellectually stimulating, and enlightening sociohistorical analysis."--The Journal of African American History"Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne is such an original and sophisticated examination across race and class boundaries of the lives of three antebellum women. It is illuminating, informative, provocative, and intellectually stimulating."--Darlene Clark Hine, coauthor of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America"This significant work represents an innovative, thoughtful, and creative consideration of intersections between gender, region, and slavery. I cannot overly stress this book's unique and important contributions to women's studies, African American studies, history, and cultural studies."--Walter Allen, coeditor of Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity, and ExcellenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Monster's Handsome Face 19 2. Maryland, My Maryland 43 3. Harriet Tubman, Called Moses of Her People 69 4. Political Economy and Marginalization 106 5. Rules, Laws, and the Rule of Law 123 6. The Mantle of Domesticity; Living within a Woman's Place and Space 139 7. Beginnings at the End 156 Notes 173 Index 201Illustrations begin after page 122
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MO - University of Illinois Press Free Black Communities and the Underground Railr
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad.Trade Review"In this book Cheryl Janifer LaRoche provides a corrective to this gap in the history by taking a broader landscape approach to 'geographies of resistance,' and she also traces in understated terms but powerful examples the silencing of the same history."--The Journal of American History "LaRoche deserves praise for her effort to situate free blacks firmly at the center of the scholarship on the Underground Railroad. She also makes contribution to that body of literature."--Civil War Book Review "This important addition to the scholarship on the Underground Railroad focuses on the role of free black communities. . . . Utilizing archaeology, previously untapped written sources, and oral history, the author makes a convincing argument for including black communities in the narrative about the Underground Railroad. Highly recommended."--Choice"The Geography of Resistance is carefully researched, tightly organized, and written from the heart. . . . LaRoche recognizes the natural environment as an agent of history, and she deftly weaves the landscape into each story. The book demonstrates the level of scholarship that is now possible thanks to research conducted in recent decades by federal archaeologists and by African American historical organizations, and the work that has been encouraged and guided by the National Park Service."--Annals of Iowa"An exemplary model of nuanced, interdisciplinary scholarship."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"By considering the land itself a ‘geography of resistance’ and using an interdisciplinary approach, LaRoche pushes the boundaries of traditional scholarship. LaRoche marshals significant historical evidence to connect black churches and the Underground Railroad. Quite notable indeed."--The Journal of Southern History"Of interest to lay readers and scholars alike. Anyone fascinated by the Underground Railroad and black resistance more broadly will profit from this volume."--Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains"The Geography of Resistance is carefully researched, tightly organized, and written from the heart.--The Annals of Iowa "LaRoche's well-written and carefully researched study provides new insight into the history of the Underground Railroad and will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone who is interested in the study of early nineteenth-century America."--The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "LaRoche's work contributes to a more complete understanding of the relationship between free black communities, the black church, and the Underground Railroad."--American Historical Review "Well researched and well written. . . . The Geography of Resistance: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad adds valuable new insights into the story of the migration of African Americans. It broadens the knowledge of a people who were fugitives in their own country, and it will allow future researchers to uncover other places of refuge for these African Americans."--Northern Terminus: The African Canadian History Journal "Employing the tools of archeology, LaRoche's study provides a powerful new window into the Underground Railroad and significantly enriches our understanding of it. She helps rescue some of the crucial Underground Railroad lore that scholars have been attempting to substantiate or refute for more than a century."--Keith Griffler, author of Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley
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MO - University of Illinois Press Gleanings of Freedom Free and Slave Labor along
Book SynopsisDrawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, the author reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.Trade Review"Grivno's carefully documented interpretation of rural life and labor challenges readers to think hard about the meanings of slavery, freedom, and borders in antebellum America."--The Journal of American History "A thickly descriptive and nuanced account of the 'evolution of race, class, and labor regimes' in Maryland from just after the American Revolution up to the Civil War."--Civil War Book Review "Max Grivno's engaging and often harrowing narrative of agricultural workers along the northern Maryland border, investigates a place where 'slavery's roots ran shallow,' yet where free landless laborers face severe constraints in a changing market. . . . Grivno's book brilliantly succeeds in analyzing local and regional changes in terms of broader developments, portraying the distinctiveness of an understudied corner of the South."--The Journal of Southern History"Grivno's significant study speaks to a number of themes in the recent historiography of slavery and labor: the similarities and differences between slavery and freedom, the important role of the interstate slave trade, and the importance of family and household as a key to workers' means of survival and employers' influence over them. A powerful analysis of these key topics that will shape debate in the field for some time."--Christopher Clark, author of Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War"Subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania."--Southern Spaces"Grivno has rescued some folk from oblivion, put some flesh on the statistical bones of history, and shown us just how hard scraping by could be."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"Gleanings of Freedom shines light on an important, underappreciated site in the history of slavery and makes a lasting contribution to the study of American workers and the slave South."--American Historical Review"A splendid volume, interestingly written, engaging a broad historiography, and formulating convincing arguments concerning the evolution and racial complexity of the rural labor force."--The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "A persuasive and powerful study of a rural labor system at a tender moment of transition. It should rightly enjoy pride of place alongside some of the best work recently published on slavery in the U.S.A."--Slavery and Abolition "Gleanings of Freedom tells a story at once wholly underappreciated and immensely important. In unprecedented detail, Max Grivno's impeccably researched study explains how slavery and freedom functioned in such close proximity and for so long. It is--and will remain--indispensable for scholars of slavery, wage labor, and the tangled history of America's antebellum working class."--Mark M. Smith, author of How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
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MO - University of Illinois Press Sex Sickness and Slavery
Book SynopsisIntegrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. This book argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period.Trade Review"A powerful case for the importance of medical men and ideas in undergirding slavery and white supremacy."--Southern Spaces "Weiner provides an ambitious and well-researched study of the relationship between the antebellum social order and medical discourse on race, gender, and illness in the South."--The Journal of Southern History"With a thorough analysis of a breadth of evidence, the authors effectively prove their thesis and raise many other striking points along the way… Especially valuable is their analysis of how African American slaves understood health and illness and how their views differed from those of white physicians."--Florida Historical Quarterly "Weiner and Hough excel at incorporating source material from collected African American folklore, medical journal articles, diary entries, and medical guidebooks into their narrative. An accessible and clear account of the unequivocal ties between the ascendancy of medical professionalism and authority by highlighting the experiences of traditionally marginalized bodies within the politically turbulent southern context."--The Journal of American History"This book is a valuable addition to existing scholarship on science, race, and sex. . . .Highly recommended."--Choice "A masterful guide to the particularities of southern medicine on the eve of the Civil War. Historians of the South, medicine, gender, and race will welcome it."--Ohio Valley History"A unique look at the role of the medical institution in fulfilling the antebellum Southern requirement of unquestionable categorization of bodies to continue a way of life. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery shows that the importance of one institution in maintaining a status quo cannot be taken for granted."--Southern Historian "In this beautifully written book, Weiner details how physicians wrote and thought about the illnesses of slaves and women. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery joines a distinguished body of scholarship that shows how intellectual power in the South was mobilized in support of slavery."--The Historian
£35.46
WW Norton & Co Freedom National
Book SynopsisA powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.Trade Review"Brilliant in analysis and compelling in argument, this is now the book to read on how slavery died." -- Library Journal"This remarkable book offers the best account ever written of the complex historical process known as emancipation. The story is dramatic and compelling, and no one interested in the American Civil War or the fate of slavery can afford to ignore it." -- Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"Freedom National provides the best account we have of the process of emancipation and the ultimate abolition of slavery, on the ground in the South and in the halls of power at Washington. It also makes clear that from the beginning, nearly all participants recognized that the central issue of the war was slavery and that its likely outcome was a new birth of freedom." -- James M. McPherson, author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861—1865"A masterful piece of scholarship.... A must-read book for anyone seeking a greater understanding of the complicated and politically charged nature of emancipation." -- Robert I. Girardi - Washington Independent Review of Books
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WW Norton & Co Arnt I a Woman
Book Synopsis"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityTrade Review"Told with human sympathy and professional skill…Ar'n't I a Woman? moves well beyond mere revisionism; it is as important as it is overdue." -- James Oakes, author of Freedom National"This small but important book should be read by everyone interested in the subjects of freedom and equality. Which means most of us." -- Kirkus Reviews
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WW Norton & Co His Promised Land
Book Synopsis"Surpasses all previous slave narratives…Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article." —Joseph J. Ellis, CivilizationTrade Review"John P. Parker was an extraordinary man…He seems to have been that true American rarity, a person who spent much of his life facing racial battles yet saw the world through colorblind eyes…He lived a perpetual Perils of Paul and did so with unending zest…Now he can be given his due." -- Jonathan Yardley - Washington Post Book World"Riveting…Astonishing and believable." -- Nell Irvin Painter"A rip-roaring adventure yarn…History of the best kind." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Classic Slave Narratives
Book SynopsisA seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.Before the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape, joined by a similar number after the war. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America's top experts in African American studies, presents four of these classic narratives that illustrate the real nature of black experience in slavery.Fascinating and powerful, this collection includes four of the best-known examples: the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (alias Linda Brent), Mary Price, and Olaudah Equiano (alias Gustavus Vassa). These amazing stories are not only first-person histories of the highest caliber, they are also a unique literary form that has given birth to the spirit, vitality, and vision of America's modern black writers.Updated with the ninth edition of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the last edition he revised and published in his lifetime.With a Revised and Updated Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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