Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books
The University of Michigan Press The Captive Stage
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Slaves War The Civil War in the Words of
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Mariner Books Bury the Chains
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Random House USA Inc Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
Book SynopsisIntroduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass’s own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs’s account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains essential reading.
£11.39
Johns Hopkins University Press Moralists and Modernizers Americas PreCivil War
Book SynopsisIt emphasizes the duality of antebellum reform, which blended impulses toward social and moral uplift with impulses to impose new codes of personal conduct, shape character, and construct new institutions of social control."-from Moralists and ModernizersTrade Review[A] well-written, attention-grabbing synethesis of the antebellum reform movement in the US... Mintz makes accessible to readers of all levels a good, solid historical study comparing all of these important movements. Choice This text stands tall, offering historical perspective to issues that still baffle the American people and demonstrating how perennial are the battles for equal justice and social transformation. Cross Currents: Religion and Intellectual LifeTable of ContentsEditor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Specter of Social BreakdownChapter 2. The Promise of the MillenniumChapter 3. Making the United States a Christian Republic: The Politics of VirtueChapter 4. The Science of Doing Good: Creating Crucibles of Moral Character Chapter 5. Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt CustomEpilogue: Antebellum Reform and the American Liberal TraditionBibliographical EssayIndex
£27.76
Johns Hopkins University Press Maryland Voices of the Civil War
Book SynopsisMaryland Voices of the Civil War illuminates the human complexities of the Civil War era and the political realignment that enabled Marylanders to abolish slavery in their state before the end of the war.Trade ReviewMitchell's remarkable new book lets us listen and understand how the great war was fought to save the union, this state and our national soul. -- Michael Olesker Baltimore Examiner 2007 Using excerpts from personal correspondence, journals, and newspapers from that period, Mitchell frames the issues (states' rights, slavery, secession) and the state's role in the conflict in both political and personal terms. There's plenty of bravado from the warriors, but Mitchell also does an excellent job including the voices of people who are simply snagged by the war... giving it more diversity and range. -- John Lewis Baltimore Magazine 2007 A generously illustrated history of Maryland during the Civil War using documents from the time... Mitchell records gore for purpose and with meaning. Urbanite 2007 Both fascinating and illuminating... Maryland Voices of the Civil War belongs not only in libraries and schools, but also on the bookshelves of everyone interested in this state or that era. -- William Evitts Maryland Historical Magazine 2007 Unlike other Civil War books, Voices focuses on the civilians that left behind written documentation about their experiences. -- Anny Hoge City Paper 2008 The voices of Maryland flow freely off the pages of this work... This is not just a book for Maryland. It is a work that belongs in all academic institutions' Civil War collections. Highly recommended. Choice 2008 A model of this genre... highly recommended for its masterful presentation of primary sources... Maryland Voices of the Civil War deserves to be in the library of anyone interested in mid-19th century American history. -- Michael Russert Civil War News 2008 A handsomely designed book, the author tells the story of the divisions that kept Marylanders in contention with one another during the Civil War. -- Glenn W. LaFantasie Historian 2009 This book would be of special interest to those interested in African American history or genealogy; anyone seeking data on those border states which were so deeply conflicted by the war; and those whose forebears were resident in Maryland in the years immediately preceding, during and after the Civil War. It is well-written, and would add detail to any research conducted on the period. -- Rev. Dr. David McDonald Federation of Genealogical SocietiesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditorial MethoIntroductionPart I: Indecision1. Fall 1860–Winter 18612. April 18613. May 18614. Summer 1861Part II: "Occupation"5. Federals6. Recruits7. Arrests8. Prison9. RebelsPart III: Liberation10. Slaves11. Black Troops12. Freedom?13. MurderEpilogueAbbreviations for Frequently Cited SourcesNotesBibliographic NoteIndex
£44.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Captives and Countrymen
Book SynopsisThis first systematic study of how the United States responded to Barbary Captivityshows how public reaction to international events shaped America domestically and its evolving place in the world during the early nineteenth century.Trade ReviewPeskin's splendid book gives the reader a new way to look at the Barbary piracy. -- John A. C. Greppin Times Literary Supplement 2009 Peskin's work should be welcomed as providing an important piece to the larger unfolding story of Western interaction with the Arab world. -- Paul Baepler New England Quarterly 2009 After September 11 2001, many books have explored the clash between the United States and the Barbary States in the years bridging the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, seeking the traces of early national engagement in the Muslim world... [Peskin] finally moves beyond these publications, bringing both new sources and new ideas into play... The debate over the Barbary Wars was pivotal in American contemporary politics and public opinion. -- Marco Sioli Journal of American Studies 2010 Captives and Countrymen is an important contribution to our understanding of the public sphere, nationalism, and imperiialism in the early republic. -- Andrew M. Schocket Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2009 Peskin provides an important contribution to the understanding of the development of American nationalism. -- Paul A. Gilje American Historical Review 2010 A well-researched, closely argued book from which both general readers and specialists alike will benefit. -- Franklin T. Lambert Diplomatic History 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Captivity and the Public Sphere1. Captivity and Communications2. The Captives Write Home3. Publicity and SecrecyPart 2: The Impact of Captivity at Home4. Slavery at Home and Abroad5. Captive Nation: Algiers and Independence6. The Navy and the Call to ArmsPart 3: Captivity and the American Empire7. Masculinity and Servility in Tripoli8. Between Colony and Empire9. Beyond Captivity: The Wars of 1812Conclusion: Captivity and GlobalizationAppendix: Lists of Letters from CaptivesNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Caning of Charles Sumner Honor Idealism and
Book SynopsisHe addresses the importance of the event in the national crisis and shows why such actions are not quite as alien to today's politics as they might at first seem.Trade ReviewThis will be a valuable addition to Civil War collections. Booklist 2010 An extraordinary and valuable study of what these events of history reveal not only about America of the past, but also America of today, The Caning of Charles Sumner is highly recommended especially for college library collections and American Civil War shelves. Midwest Book Review The short length, subject, and writing style of The Caning of Charles Sumner will make this text a staple in survey and upper-level American history classes alike. -- Mary Ellen Pethel Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction1. One Minute2. A Machine That Would Go of Itself?3. Immediate Aftermath4. A Long, Winding Road5. Honor, Idealism, and InevitabilityEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£25.15
Louisiana State University Press Freedoms Seekers Essays on Comparative
Book SynopsisOffers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phenomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.
£40.45
The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln before Lincoln
Book SynopsisDespite a wealth of biographical material, relatively few full-length motion pictures have taken Abraham Lincoln and his life as a primary subject. In this detailed study, Brian J. Snee provides a sweeping overview of the cinematic representations of the sixteenth president from the silent era up to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).
£39.15
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Invisible Slaves The Victims and Perpetrators of
Book SynopsisDiscusses slavery around the world, with research and firsthand stories that reframe slavery as a modern-day crisis, not a historical phenomenon or third-world issue. Identifying four types of slavery - chattel slavery, debt bondage, forced labour, and sex slavery - W. Kurt Hauser examines the efforts and failures of governments to address them.
£17.95
Holiday House Inc Buried Lives
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University of Missouri Press London Metropolis of the Slave Trade
Book SynopsisBringing together material from James A. Rawley's three decades of work, this volume depicts the slave trade from 1700 to the American Civil War. It considers the role of London in the trade, and focuses on a number of important figures in the slave industry, including Humphry Morice.
£55.10
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Enslaved Indentured Free
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Rising Sun Publications Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch The Science of
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Maryland Historical Society Stealing Freedom Along the MasonDixon Line
Book SynopsisMcCreary and his community provide a framework to examine slave catching and kidnapping in the Baltimore-Wilmington-Philadelphia region and how those activities contributed to the nation's political and visceral divide.Table of ContentsPreface & AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Maelstrom2. A Failed Compromise3. "Hanging the First Abolitionist that They Catch in Maryland"4. The Trials of Rachel Parker5. Kidnapping . . . or Slave Catching?6. End of an EraAfterwordReferencesIndex
£23.40
St Martin's Press Flee North
Book SynopsisA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the YearA riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history.Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north.They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region's leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantation
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Johns Hopkins University Press Money over Mastery Family over Freedom
Book SynopsisSlaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade.Trade ReviewThis elegantly written and engaging monograph is required reading for students of nineteenth-century North Carolina history. -- Sean Condon North Carolina Historical Review There is much to admire in Schermerhorn's book... A compelling, finely grained study. -- Max Grivno Journal of American History [A] valuable study... Anyone interested in slavery and the antebellum South will profit from reading it. -- Frank Towers Journal of the Early Republic Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom displays exhaustive research, a well-crafted argument, and is a valuable addition to antebellum slave historiography. -- Brett J. Derbes H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews Elegantly argued and sharply written Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom convincingly shows the centrality of enslaved men and women to the transformation of the coastal upper South's commercial life and the ways they mitigated this modernizing project. -- Ted Pearson Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrologue1. Networkers2. Watermen3. Domestics4. Makers5. RailroadsEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Wolf by the Ears
Book SynopsisWolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic.Trade ReviewVan Atta produces an incredibly readable and engaging work perfect for classroom use or as a refresher for those historians who need a compact summation of the latest scholarship surrounding this important historical moment in the early nation. -- James J. Gigantino II Missouri Historical Review In this engaging work, Van Atta... provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War... Choice Wolf by the Ears should be valued by scholars seeking a quick overview of antebellum American political history. More than just short, yet comprehensive, Van Atta's account is comprehensible, which should make it especially valuable to students, who should welcome its inclusion on course syllabi. Middle West Review Van Atta expertly outlines the intellectual and ideological ramifications of slavery's expansion--which can often become quite complex and convoluted--with an engaging style...This text is particularly suited for college students, nonspecialists, and those wanting a refresher on the sectional conflict of the antebellum period. Western Historical Quarterly Van Atta has written the clearest narrative of the Missouri crisis to date. students and scholars alike will profit from reading this brief yet thorough survey of a seminal moment in the history of the early republic. Louisiana History The meticulous translation and excellent editorial annotations make this a deeply valuable scholarly contribution. Louisiana History John R Van Atta has written a fine synthesis on the Missouri crisis that incorporates some of the best scholarship in the field. It serves as a wonderful introduction to the subject. Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Origins2. The West3. Impasse4. Compromises5. AftermathEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Plantation Kingdom
Book SynopsisWritten for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.Trade ReviewA concise presentation of some of the best recent scholarship in agricultural history...Environmental historians will find the book useful as an introduction to southern agricultural history, exploring the economic, political, and environmental factors that influenced plantation agriculture. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction by Richard FollettThe Road to Commodity Hell: The Rise and Fall of the First American Rice IndustryCotton and the US South: A Short HistoryThe Rise and Fall of American SugarTobacco's Commodity RouteConclusionNotesGuide to Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Plantation Kingdom
Book SynopsisWritten for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.Trade ReviewA concise presentation of some of the best recent scholarship in agricultural history...Environmental historians will find the book useful as an introduction to southern agricultural history, exploring the economic, political, and environmental factors that influenced plantation agriculture. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction by Richard FollettThe Road to Commodity Hell: The Rise and Fall of the First American Rice IndustryCotton and the US South: A Short HistoryThe Rise and Fall of American SugarTobacco's Commodity RouteConclusionNotesGuide to Further ReadingIndex
£24.35
Johns Hopkins University Press John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule 18351850
Book SynopsisA lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.Table of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. "Slavery Cannot Be Abolished"2. "Am I Gagged?"3. "He Knew That They All Abhorred Slavery"4. "How Can the Union Be Preserved?"EpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£22.77
Amberley Publishing I Was Transformed Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisA vivid and compelling account of the famous escaped slave Frederick Douglassâs tour of Britain and Ireland, 1845-7
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Arcadia Publishing Slavery the Underground Railroad in New
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Arcadia Publishing Abolitionists of South Central Pennsylvania
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Arcadia Publishing The Search for the Underground Railroad in
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History Press Harriet Jacobs in New Bedford
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History Press A Tour on the Underground Railroad Along the Ohio
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History Press Slave Labor on Virginias Blue Ridge Railroad
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History Press Stories of Slavery in New Jersey American
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Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. African American Literature Anthology: Slavery,
Book SynopsisAfrican American Literature Anthology: Slavery, Liberation, & Resistance includes texts from various rhetoricians who worked as abolitionists, speakers, writers, activists, and/or publishers of dissident literature. They all employ their rhetorical influence to argue against the second-class citizenship status experienced by African Americans in the United States. By engaging in dissident discourse, they cause Americans of all walks of life to interrogate the promises owed by the language of the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and America's institutions. Central to the issues presented in this African American literature anthology are themes of resistance to slavery, lynching, and state violence. Therefore, the authors in this text are antithetical to notions of white superiority and black inferiority. Instead, they argue for racial equality. And an equal opportunity for African Americans to pursue the American Dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Resistance both verbal and nonverbal is an essential response to social injustices experienced by marginalised peoples. Therefore, African American writers approach rhetorical expression with a measure of courage that dismisses controversy to advance progress. Instead, they express themselves at risk to their health, safety, and well-being to advance the cause of equality and fairness for all Americans. Various genres of literature are depicted in this anthology such as excerpts of poetry, speeches, non-fiction, fiction, and folklore. Many of the writers included in this anthology are well-versed in a multitude of genres of literary expression. Therefore, this anthology will compel many readers to seek out other works by the following authors included herein. These include Phillis Wheatley, Maria W. Stewart, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, T. Thomas Fortune, Ida B. Wells, Charles W. Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson.Table of Contents About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: Phillis Wheatley 1.1 On Being Brought from Africa to America (1753) Themes 1.2 On Virtue (1753) Themes Chapter 2: Maria W. Stewart Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832) Themes Chapter 3: Henry Highland Garnet From An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1843) Preface An Address Themes Chapter 4: Frederick Douglass 4.1 From Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, An American Slave (1845) Chapter 1 Chapter 7 Chapter 11 Themes 4.2 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) 4.3 What the Black Man Wants (1865) Themes 4.4 From John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College (1881) Introduction Address Themes Chapter 5: T. Thomas Fortune From Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South (1884) Author's Preface Chapter 1: Black Chapter 2: White Chapter 3: The Negro and the Nation Chapter 4: The Triumph of the Vanquished Themes Chapter 6: Ida B. Wells From The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States (1895) Preface: Hon. Frederick Douglass's Letter The Case Stated Lynching Imbeciles: An Arkansas Butchery Lynching of Innocent Men: Lynched on Account of Relationship Lynched for Anything or Nothing: Lynched for Wife Beating History of Some Cases of Rape The Crusade Justified: Appeal from America to the World Themes Chapter 7: Charles W. Chesnutt From Frederick Douglass: A Biography (1899) IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII Themes Chapter 8: W. E. B. Du Bois 8.1 The Song of Smoke (1907) Themes 8.2. From The Souls of Black Folk (1903) The Forethought I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings II. Of the Dawn of Freedom III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others Themes Chapter 9: Paul Laurence Dunbar 9.1 From The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904) The Lynching of Jube Benson (1904) Themes 9.2 Black Samson of Brandywine (1903) Themes 9.3 The Colored Soldiers (1895) Themes 9.4 Frederick Douglass (1913) Themes 9.5 We Wear the Mask (1895) Themes Chapter 10: Claude Mckay 10.1 America (1921) 10.2 The Lynching (1922) 10.3 If We Must Die (1919) 10.4 To the White Fiends (1919) 10.5 The Harlem Dancer (1922) 10.6 Harlem Shadows (1918) Themes Chapter 11: James Weldon Johnson 11.1 From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) Preface I II III Themes 11.2 The Creation (1922) 11.3 The White Witch (1922) 11.4 Brothers (1922) 11.5 Fifty Years (1863-1913) (1917) Themes
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Chicago Review Press Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven
Book SynopsisThe John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using “peons,” but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable: he decided to destroy the evidence. Enlisting the aid of his trusted black farm boss, Clyde Manning, he began methodically killing his slaves. As this true story unfolds, each detail seems more shocking, and surprises continue in the aftermath, with a sensational trial galvanizing the nation and marking a turning point in the treatment of black Americans.Trade Review"Horrific real story." -- Today's Black Woman."A horrifying tale of the Old South. . . . Freeman walks the reader though the eleven murders and their aftermath with cool detachment. The book is scrupulously researched, with an eye for the telling detail. A good true-crime story, with far-reaching implications." -- Kirkus Reviews
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University of Arkansas Press Freebooters and Smugglers: The Foreign Slave
Book SynopsisIn 1891, a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: ""Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine."" One law in particular he was referring to was the Abolition Act of 1808. It was specifically passed to end the foreign slave trade. However, as Ernest Obadele-Starks shows, thanks to profiteering smugglers like the Lafitte brothers and the Bowie brothers, the slave trade persisted throughout the south for a number of years after the law was passed. Freebooters and Smugglers examines the tactics and strategies that the adherents of the foreign slave trade used to challenge the law. It reassesses the role that Americans played in the continuation of foreign slave transshipments into the country right up to the Civil War, shedding light on an important topic that has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the slave trade.Trade ReviewThis book is definitely a winner. It fills a gaping hole in the scholarly literature about a very important subject, transcending the strong inclination of historians to confine themselves to simplistic counting and literal mindedness in their use of documents and databases." - Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, professor emerita of history, Rutgers University"Obadele-Starks does a comprehensive job, impressive in its scope, following the trade as it moves west, telling the story down to and through the Civil War, dealing with its international aspects, and putting it within the context of the struggle over slavery itself. The research that supports the narrative is prodigious."" - S. Charles Bolton, professor of history, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
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Smithsonian Books From No Return: The 221-Year Journey of the Slave
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Westholme Publishing, U.S. The Man with the Branded Hand: The Life of
Book SynopsisSailing around the Florida Keys in 1844, forty-five-year-old Jonathan Walker had a price on his head. On board the small boat he had built that winter in Alabama were seven fugitives from slavery. The Cape Cod sailor and abolitionist was wanted in Pensacola, Florida, for his crime: stealing slaves. The slaves' owners had posted $100 each as reward money for their property and $1,000 for Walker's apprehension. Only a day's sail from their goal of freedom in British-controlled Bahamas, Walker and the slaves were stopped and seized by bounty hunters and taken to a Key West court. Ordered back to Pensacola for trial, Walker ended up spending a year in jail. He was fined and sentenced to stand in the pillory; in addition, he was to suffer a unique punishment in American history: while a packed courtroom watched, a United States marshal was ordered to use a hot branding iron to burn the letters SS, for "slave stealer," into Walker's right hand. Walker survived his ordeal, spending much of his incarceration in isolation. Once released, he remained active in the antislavery movement even while he and his devoted wife Jane raised their nine children. His attempt to help form a new colony in Mexico for runaway American slaves also led to punishing experiences for Walker and one of his sons. Living later with his family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the years before the Civil War, Walker made room in his crowded house to shelter runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. He participated in abolitionist lecture tours across the North where Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Branded Hand"--to astonished audiences. Too old to enlist in the Civil War, Walker instead headed to Virginia in the war's final year to help educate African Americans fleeing Confederate forces. In The Man With the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist, distinguished journalist Alvin F. Oickle relates this entire remarkable story of a life devoted to the supposition that "all men are created equal."
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Westholme Publishing, U.S. Till the Dark Angel Comes: Abolitionism and the
Book SynopsisThe Transformation of the Abolitionist Movement from Peaceful Demonstration to Radical Confrontation as Embodied in John Brown Establishing himself as a fresh and important voice in the history of African American emancipation, William S. King provides a critical introduction to the lead-up to the Civil War. A skilled and judicious chronicler, King seamlessly weaves multiple and seemingly disparate threads, including early nineteenth-century Revivalism, the emergence of the Republic of Texas, the fugitive slave laws and even the explosion of a cannon aboard the U.S.S. Princeton in 1844 to explain how the opposition to slavery in America changed from producing speeches and pamphlets to embracing the reality that slavery could be eradicated only through armed conflict. By tracing this transformation through the life of John Brown, King provides an entirely new assessment of this enigmatic figure who was characterized as a mad man in the wake of his butchering of proslavery settlers in Kansas and the inept raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. King puts these actions in context to explain the paradox of Brown s legacy. On one hand he was vilified as an unstable threat to American democracy or a fanatical sideshow to the history of the Civil War, while on the other he was an inspiration to the oppressed, a man who garnered the indomitable Harriet Tubman s commitment to the righteousness of his endeavor. Elegantly written with a command of period sources, "Till the Dark Angel Comes: Abolitionism and the Road to the Second American Revolution" is the story of interracial opposition to slavery, the important debates among free blacks as to their future in America, and the arguments and compromises at the highest levels of government. Here we encounter many personalities of the time, some well known, such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and John C. Calhoun, and others less so, but no less important Martin Delany, Henry Highland Garnet, and Elijah Lovejoy."
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Westholme Publishing Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on
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The Library of America American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (LOA #233)
Book SynopsisFor the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, here is a collection of writings that charts our nation's long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil. It's an inspiring moral and political struggle whose evolution parallels the story of America itself. To advance their cause, the opponents of slavery employed every available literary form: fiction and poetry, essay and autobiography, sermons, pamphlets, speeches, hymns, plays, even children's literature. This is the first anthology to take the full measure of a body of writing that spans nearly two centuries and, exceptionally for its time, embraced writers black and white, male and female. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Phillis Wheatley, and Olaudah Equiano offer original, even revolutionary, eighteenth century responses to slavery. With the nineteenth century, an already diverse movement becomes even more varied: the impassioned rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison joins the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and William Wells Brown; memoirs of former slaves stand alongside protest poems by John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Lydia Sigourney; anonymous editorials complement speeches by statesmen such as Charles Sumner and Abraham Lincoln.Features helpful notes, a chronology of the antislavery movement, and a16-page color insert of illustrations.
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University of New Orleans Press Bouki Fait Gombo
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Michigan State University Press Anthropology and Radical Humanism
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Chicago Review Press The American Slave Coast: A History of the
Book SynopsisThe American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of “breeding women” essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves’ children, and their children’s children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light.
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University of Massachusetts Press Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A
Book SynopsisShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told.In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England's deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of New England.
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WW Norton & Co The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the
Book SynopsisIndependence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back into New York’s frenzied harbor with the ship's black steward, William Tillman, at the helm. While the story of that ill-fated voyage is one of the most harrowing tales of captivity and survival on the high seas, it has, almost unbelievably, been lost to history. Now reclaiming Tillman as the real American hero he was, historian Brian McGinty dramatically returns readers to that riotous, explosive summer of 1861, when the country was tearing apart at the seams and the Union army was in near shambles following a humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Desperate for good news, the North was soon riveted by reports of an incident that occurred a few hundred miles off the coast of New York, where the Waring had been overtaken by a marauding crew of Confederate privateers. While the white sailors became chummy with their Southern captors, free black man William Tillman was perfectly aware of the fate that awaited him in the ruthless, slave-filled ports south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Stealthily biding his time until a moonlit night nine days after the capture, Tillman single-handedly killed three officers of the privateer crew, then took the wheel and pointed it home. Yet, with no experience as a navigator, only one other helper, and a war-torn Atlantic seaboard to contend with, his struggle had just begun. It took five perilous days at sea—all thrillingly recounted here—before the Waring returned to New York Harbor, where the story of Tillman's shipboard courage became such a tabloid sensation that he was not only put on the bill of Barnum’s American Museum but also proclaimed to be the "first hero" of the Civil War. As McGinty evocatively shows, however, in the horrors of the war then engulfing the nation, memories of his heroism—even of his identity—were all but lost to history. As such, The Rest I Will Kill becomes a thrilling and historically significant work, as well as an extraordinary journey that recounts how a free black man was able to defy efforts to make him a slave and become an unlikely glimmer of hope for a disheartened Union army in the war-battered North.Trade Review"Spectacular. . . . [A] carefully researched and expertly crafted book . . . . The Rest I Will Kill should enchant a wide audience: history buffs, Civil War enthusiasts, pirate junkies, readers who love action and adventure, and those interested in the seemingly unending quest for liberty. It’s difficult to imagine the person who can’t find something to admire in these pages" -- Michael Kleber-Diggs - Minneapolis Star Tribune"McGinty has uncovered another compelling, little-known gem of American history…[He] impressively recounts this extraordinary story of a remarkable man, the 'first real hero of the conflict.' Race, patriotism, and personal heroism come together in this eye-opening early episode in Civil War history." -- Kirkus Reviews"Vivid writing creates an exciting read, and McGinty’s use of primary sources such as newspapers and government documents is exceptional. . . . McGinty dubs Tillman a hero and a patriot, one of the first during the Civil War. An important contribution to the shelf of Civil War histories, this story will transfix readers." -- Patricia Ann Owens - Library Journal (Starred Review)
£17.99
WW Norton & Co New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in
Book SynopsisFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only “mastered that scholarship” but has now rendered it in “an original way, and deepened the story” (New York Times Book Review). While earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the South, Warren’s “panoptical exploration” (Christian Science Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade and examines the complicity of New England’s leading families, demonstrating how the region’s economy derived its vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports. And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.Trade Review"Whereas most studies of slavery in the United States concern the antebellum South, this one stakes out less visited territory—the laws and decisions made by the colonists in New England two centuries earlier." -- The New Yorker"[Warren] builds on and generously acknowledges more than two generations of research into the social history of New England and the economic history of the Atlantic world. But not only has she mastered that scholarship, she has also brought it together in an original way, and deepened the story with fresh research…New England Bound conveys the disorientation, the deprivation, the vulnerability, the occasional hunger and the profound isolation that defined the life of most African exiles in Puritan New England, where there was no plantation community." -- Christopher L. Brown - New York Times Book Review"'Slavery was in England’s American colonies, even its New England colonies, from the very beginning,' explains Princeton historian Wendy Warren in her deeply thoughtful, elegantly written New England Bound....The greatest revelations of New England Bound lie in Warren’s meticulous reconstruction of slavery in colonial New England....Warren pores over the patchy archival record with a probing eye and an ear keen to silences." -- Maya Jasanoff - New York Review of Books"[Warren] widens the lens to show the early New England economy was enmeshed in the seafaring trade that developed between four Atlantic continents for the transport, clothing, and feeding of African captives. The region’s early growth and prosperity, Warren shows, sprang from that tainted commerce. . . . Southerners resentful of Northerners’ condescension about the slaveholding past may find some comfort in these pages. In them should be some Northern discomfort too." -- Kenneth J. Cooper - Boston Globe"Historians have written penetratingly on North American colonial racism and slavery—Edmund Morgan, Alden Vaughan, Ira Berlin, for starters—but New England Bound is a smart contribution to the New England story, a panoptical exploration of how slavery took root like a weed in the crack of a sidewalk. . . . What we have in this account is sharp explication of the ‘deadly symbiosis’ of colonization and slavery, written with a governed verve that perks like a coffee pot. It makes the New England story that much fuller, challenging, and more accountable." -- Peter Lewis - Christian Science Monitor"A bracing and fearless inquiry into the intricate web of slavery and empire into which all New Englanders were bound. Ardently argued, and urgently necessary." -- Jill Lepore, author of New York Burning"A beautifully written, humane and finely researched work that makes clear how closely intermingled varieties of slavery and New England colonization were from the very start. With great skill, Warren does full justice to the ideas of the individuals involved, as well as to the political and economic imperatives that drove some, and that trapped and gravely damaged others." -- Linda Colley, author of Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850"Wendy Warren's deeply researched and powerfully written New England Bound opens up a new vista for the study of slavery and race in the United States. It will transform our thinking about seventeenth-century New England." -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello, winner of the Pulitzer Prize"New England Bound is a book of revelations. Not only does Wendy Warren cast startling new light on early America, not only does she uncover how racial slavery was woven into the fabric of New England from the very beginning, but she also shows how forgotten folk—people long thought lost to history—can be brought to light, and to life, if we look, and listen, for their stories. A remarkable achievement." -- James Merrell, author of Into the American Woods, winner of the Bancroft Prize"With intrepid research and stunning narrative skill, Wendy Warren demonstrates how much seventeenth-century New England societies were dependent on the West Indian slave trade, and especially on the labor, bodies, and lives of black slaves. Warren has turned the prophetic lessons of Ecclesiastes back upon the Puritan fathers with scholarly judgment, humanizing both them and the people they enslaved. This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." -- David W. Blight, Yale University, author of Race and Reunion"In New England Bound, Wendy Warren builds a powerful case for the centrality of slavery to the economy of the Puritan colonies in the North." -- Joyce Appleby, author of The Relentless Revolution"A major contribution to the history of enslavement, of African Americans, of early New England society, and—most important—of the sinews and tissues at the center of the whole complex process we call 'colonization.' The research that supports it is ingenious, the argument compelling, the prose lucid and graceful." -- John Demos, author of The Heathen School
£14.99
Chicago Review Press I Am Not Your Slave: A Memoir
Book SynopsisI am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. As she is transported from the point of her abduction on a remote farm near the Namibian-Angolan border and channeled to her ultimate destination in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, her three-year odyssey exposes the brutal horrors of a modern day middle passage. During her ordeal, Tupa encounters members of Africa’s notorious gangs, terrifying witchdoctors, mysterious middlemen from China, corrupt police and border officials, Arab smugglers and high-ranking United Nations officials. And of course, Tupa meets her fellow trafficking victims, young women and girls from around the world. Tupa’s harrowing experience, including her daring escape and eventual return home, sheds light on the most shocking aspects of modern day slavery, as well as the essential determination to be free.Trade Review"This incredible story offers three important insights: how it is possible for someone to be trafficked, why it might not be immediately apparent someone is in slavery, and, most important, why the antislavery movement needs strong survivor advocates like Tupa Tjipombo." Joanna Ewart-James, executive director, Freedom United"A riveting story of a young girl's courage in the face of unimaginable terror, her determination to fight for her dignityand above all, her courage to speak out and break the silence about the human trafficking nightmare we have ignored for too long." JULIAN SHER, author of Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them"[A] vivid, soulful account with personal details, yet hers cannot be called a singular story." Booklist"For readers who wish to understand more fully the grim reality of human trafficking." Library Journal Online"Her unflinching determination to survive drives the book and drags her readers kicking and screaming and clutching for respite...reading I Am Not Your Slave will move even the most stoic." BookTrib
£22.46
Texas Tech Press,U.S. Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory,
Book SynopsisAfrican American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations led lives ranging from utter subjection to recognized kinship. Regardless of status, during Removal, they followed the Trail of Tears in the footsteps of the slaveholders, suffering the same life-threatening hardships and poverty. As if Removal to Indian Territory weren’t cataclysmic enough, the Civil War shattered the worlds of these slave women even more, scattering families, destroying property, and disrupting social and family relationships. Suddenly free, they had nowhere to turn. Freedwomen found themselves negotiating new lives within a labyrinth of federal and tribal oversight, Indian resentment, and intruding entrepreneurs and settlers. Remarkably, they reconstructed their families and marshaled the skills to fashion livelihoods in a burgeoning capitalist environment. They sought education and forged new relationships with immigrant black women and men, managing to establish a foundation for survival. Linda Williams Reese is the first to trace the harsh and often bitter journey of these women from arrival in Indian Territory to free-citizen status in 1890. In doing so, she establishes them as pioneers of the American West equal to their Indian and other Plains sisters.
£24.26
Hesperus Press Ltd 12 Years a Slave A Memoir Of Kidnap Slavery And
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£17.05
Four Courts Press Ltd An Ulster Slave Owner in the Revolutionary
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