Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books
The University of Chicago Press The Electronic Word
Book SynopsisThe personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them. The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh. This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking pages, annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.
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The University of Chicago Press North of Slavery
Book Synopsis. . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service.John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . .C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar
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The University of Chicago Press The Freedom of Speech
Book SynopsisThe institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the policing of words themselves. Offering a compelling new lens on transatlantic slavery, this book gathers rich historical data from Barbados, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, and North America to delve into the complex relationships between voice, slavery, and empire. From the most quotidian encounters to formal rules of what counted as evidence in court, the battleground of slavery lay in who could speak and under what conditions. But, as Ogborn shows through keen attention to the narratives and silences in the archives, if slavery as a legal status could be made by words, it could be unmade by them as well. A masterful look at the duality of domination, The Freedom of Speech offers a rich interpretation of oral cultures that both supported and
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The University of Chicago Press Cul de Sac
Book SynopsisIn the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inTrade Review"The strength of Cheney's book lies in its in-depth insight into the affairs of the Saint-Domingue plantation aristocracy and their associates. The reader gets tantalizing glimpses of the lives and voices of the enslaved Africans whose labor underpinned the whole fragile edifice."--American Historical Review "This deeply researched and richly detailed study of one plantation reconstructs and illuminates the complex world of colonial Saint-Domingue. Through the story of the Cul de Sac plain, Cheney offers a layered and insightful analysis of the relationship between slavery, trade, and policy in the eighteenth-century French Atlantic."--Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution "Providing great historical detail, Cheney discusses how international conflicts; the struggles among metropolitan elites, Creole elites, and the French crown; and the ethical tensions between humaneness and business interests in the treatment of slaves contributed to the fragility and ultimate unsustainability of plantation capitalism. . . the text is well-written and organized, and the details help illustrate and reflect the complex layers of plantation capitalism in colonial France."--Choice "Cul de Sac takes us deep within the global center of one of the most brutal forms of capitalism in history. Masterfully reconstructing plantation life from newly discovered sources, Cheney exposes the fragility of a family enterprise riven by racial and ideological tensions as it confronted war and revolution. This is a must-read for students of Caribbean, Atlantic, and French history."--Michael Kwass, author of Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground "Until now, we had very few detailed accounts of plantations and how they operated. This book takes an especially rich set of records on a large absentee-owned plantation in Cul de Sac, a major sugar-planting region near Port-au-Prince, and creates a compelling account of slavery, capitalism, and family in this interesting society. Entertaining as well as informative, Cul de Sac will make a signal contribution to the scholarship of slavery and capitalism in the Atlantic World."--Trevor Burnard, author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 "One of the most important books on colonial and revolutionary Haiti (Saint-Domingue) of the past several decades. . . . Subtle and creative . . . . This book not only fills a gap in the literature of Haitian history but also aims to revise our understanding of early modern North Atlantic capitalism by demonstrating its reliance on unstable but persistent patrimonial alliances. In that objective, Cul de Sac succeeds magnificently, giving us a more revealing and finely drawn portrait of the economic and social relationships in which the Caribbean sugar plantation was embedded than we have previously known. . . . No one can come away from this book with anything less than a sense of gratitude and awe for the great achievement that it represents." --Journal of Modern History "Cul de Sac is written with extraordinary clarity and dexterity. The movements between micro-analysis and wider political economic and social forces, between culture and capitalism and between metropole and colony are ambitious and exemplary. It is elegantly constructed, beautifully written, and persuasively argued. It will no doubt serve as a model for further study. . . Cheney's portrait, which draws on an extraordinarily wide range of contextual scholarship, is finely calibrated, ambitiously capacious and thoroughly illuminating. His analysis links clearly the internal operations of the Ferronnays sugar estate--over time--to the global structuring contexts of French imperial policy, colonial empire, fluctuating world markets, the international division of labour and, ultimately, the dramatic upheavals of the Haitian Revolution. . .a meticulously researched and detailed account."--French History
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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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The University of Chicago Press Value in Art
Book SynopsisArt historian Henry M. Sayre traces the origins of the term value in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manet's art. How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, high in value and low in value? Henry M. Sayre traces the origin of this usage to one of art history's most famous and racially charged paintings, Édouard Manet'sOlympia. Art critics once described light and dark in painting in terms of musical metaphorhigher and lower tones, notes, and scales. Sayre shows that it was Émile Zola who introduced the new law of values in an 1867 essay on Manet. Unpacking the intricate contexts of Zola's essay and of several related paintings by Manet, Sayre argues that Zola's usage of value was intentionally double codedan economic metaphor for the political economy of slavery. In Manet's painting, Olympia and her maid represent objects of exchange, a commentary on the French Empire's complicity in the ongoing slave trade in the Americas. ExpertlyTrade Review“Henry M. Sayre’s Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade is an impressive, insightful, and thoroughly persuasive work. Impeccably researched and wide-ranging in its breadth of discussion, Sayre’s highly perceptive analysis centers on Manet but proceeds outward with masterful expertise and nuance, incorporating poetry, music, fiction, prose, French and American history and culture, politics, and––naturally––art. With sensitivity and imagination, with balance and tact, Sayre employs floating signifiers to track the insidious path of colonialism and slavery that underlie modernist art and culture. What he reveals of this depraved heart of darkness inspires the reader to new modes of understanding about the complexity of modernist representation––both its achievements and its shame.” * Geoffrey Green, San Francisco State University *“Value is a difficult art historical term, too often reduced to questions of price or hue. In Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade, Sayre achieves an eye-opening feat, namely, the unveiling of the term’s true political economy. Focused on Édouard Manet’s key 1860s paintings, Sayre articulates the period’s commodification of the black and female body—through slavery and prostitution—as the true subject of early modernist painting in France. This is indispensable reading for all scholars of Manet, the 1860s, and the politics of representation, as well as modernism’s fraught relationship to the history of slavery.” * André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania *"The art historian Henry Sayre promises to “reveal the politics that define the art of Édouard Manet” in this analysis of the French artist’s famous painting Olympia (1863), which shows a white prostitute and her black maid bringing her flowers. . . . Sayre explains in the preface: 'Almost all textbooks—and almost all art teachers, for that matter—refer to the light reflective nature (high or low) of light and dark colours in terms of their relative value, and I decided to look at the history of this usage.'" * The Art Newspaper *
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The University of Chicago Press Lincoln Douglas and Slavery In the Crucible of
Book SynopsisWinner of the Speech Communication's Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address.Zarefsky examines the dynamics of the seven 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, placing them in historical context and explaining the complicated issue of slavery in the territories, their focal point. He elucidates the candidates' arguments, analyzes their rhetorical strategies, and shows how public sentiment is transformed.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Ordinary People Extraordinary Times
Book SynopsisA collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.Trade Review“Sheryllynne Haggerty introduces us to a terrific archive of letters, making brand new insights into colonial Jamaican history and wrangling an incredibly disparate set of sources into a lively examination of the desires, political interests, consumption patterns, family organizations, and restricted options of both free and enslaved people in the Caribbean. While previous scholarship tends to focus on the elite classes, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times extends our understanding of colonial Jamaican society through an exploration of the everyday.” Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna College and author of Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733–1833
£91.80
Columbia University Press In Service and Servitude
Book SynopsisExamining how the shared interests of state elites and the middle classes rationalize mistreatment of domestic workers, the author argues that the "premodern" exploitation of migrant domestic workers is at odds with the global expansion of open markets and free trade.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Arranging and Rearranging the Interior Frontiers of Society 3. "Boys, Amahs, and Girls": Domestic Workers of the Past and Present 4. The Malaysian-Philippine-Indonesian Maid Trade 5. Infrapolitics of Domestic Service: Strategies of, and Resistances to, Control 6. Modernity Via Consumption: Domestic Service and the Making of the Modern Malaysian Middle Classes 7. Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference for practitioners.Trade ReviewLutnick's is a much-needed scholarly voice in a research field that is dominated by condemnatory prurience, earnest expose, and salacious melodrama. Her book has the potential to shake up the various anti-trafficking groups-several of which base their proposed solutions and fundraising on ideas that Lutnick will challenge-and therefore change the way that we all talk about and respond to trafficking. -- Zoe Trodd, University of Nottingham Alexandra Lutnick's Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking is the most comprehensive and sophisticated book on this topic on the market. Conventional depictions portray minors involved in prostitution monolithically and stereotypically, but this volume points to important complexities and variations at every stage-from entry to exit. Drawing on life-course theory, the book documents diversity in pathways into prostitution, relations between minors and third parties, work experiences, access to needed services, and state laws and enforcement patterns. It is a major contribution to our understanding of this world. -- Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University This book is a must for anyone interested in youth involved in the sex trades or sex-trafficking issues. The research and discussions offer a glimpse into the nuanced and complicated realities that facilitate youth involvement in sex trades. Lutnick's scholarship helps us to think beyond the victim/villain binary by exposing the various ways in which family, friends, policy, and the state are accountable to their circumstances. The book offers timely and useful strength-based strategies that also attend to issues of oppression and justice. -- Stephanie Wahab, Portland State University School of Social Work Lutnick's book brings a welcome dose of scholarship, reason, and credibility to a topic clouded by inaccuracy, jargon, and ideology. Her message is clear: criminalization is doing more harm than good, and the focus should be on prevention, support, and respect for civil and human rights. -- Megan McLemore, senior researcher, Human Rights Watch Readers interested in the sex trade and sex trafficking issues will find this book a valuable resource. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Timing of Initiation: Routes Into and Reasons for Involvement in Sex Trades 3. Linked Lives: Third Parties, Violence, and Transitions in Involvement 4. Service Needs and Microsystem Challenges 5. Mesosystem Challenges: Interactions Between Case Managers and Other Systems 6. From Criminalization to Decriminalization: Local Responses to Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking 7. Macrosystem Challenges: The Impact of Policies and Culture 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Study Site Information Appendix B: Methodological Process Appendix C: Case Narrative Interview Guide Appendix D: Qualitative Analysis Code List Appendix E: Sample Characteristics Notes References Index
£90.00
Columbia University Press The New Slave Narrative
Book SynopsisLaura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.Trade ReviewIn The New Slave Narrative, Laura T. Murphy, a literary scholar and antislavery activist, provides a timely and rigorous examination of the current narratives of contemporary slavery. Through meticulous readings of these recent volumes, Murphy reveals the profound influence of nineteenth-century slave narratives on these stories, examining how antebellum conventions impact the representations of those who have been recently enslaved. Brilliantly unraveling the political and social milieu in which twenty-first-century slave narratives are produced and published, Murphy makes a convincing argument for a “collegial literary critical approach” in order to “deepen our understanding of slavery and freedom.” The New Slave Narrative is a critically important consideration of human rights discourse. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard UniversityThe New Slave Narrative is an important, foundational text—a book that unstops our ears and opens our minds. -- Kevin Bales, author of Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the WorldThe New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first-century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can reshape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their LivesLaura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean—for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves. -- Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, author of What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They DoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on LanguagePrefaceIntroduction: The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative in the Twenty-First Century1. Making Slavery Legible2. The Not-Yet-Freedom Narrative3. Blackface Abolition4. Sex Problems and Antislavery’s Cognitive Dissonance5. What the Genre Creates, It Destroys: The Rise and Fall of Somaly MamConclusion: Collegial ReadingAppendix: List of New Slave NarrativesNotesBibliographyIndex
£75.00
Columbia University Press The New Slave Narrative The Battle Over
Book SynopsisLaura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change.Trade ReviewIn The New Slave Narrative, Laura T. Murphy, a literary scholar and antislavery activist, provides a timely and rigorous examination of the current narratives of contemporary slavery. Through meticulous readings of these recent volumes, Murphy reveals the profound influence of nineteenth-century slave narratives on these stories, examining how antebellum conventions impact the representations of those who have been recently enslaved. Brilliantly unraveling the political and social milieu in which twenty-first-century slave narratives are produced and published, Murphy makes a convincing argument for a “collegial literary critical approach” in order to “deepen our understanding of slavery and freedom.” The New Slave Narrative is a critically important consideration of human rights discourse. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard UniversityThe New Slave Narrative is an important, foundational text—a book that unstops our ears and opens our minds. -- Kevin Bales, author of Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the WorldThe New Slave Narrative highlights the centrality of first-person testimony to twenty-first-century efforts to abolish global slavery. By centering autobiographical accounts written by survivors of slavery, Laura T. Murphy attends to how testimonial appeals to distant audiences can reshape human rights discourse and reinvigorate antislavery activism, even as they cannot evade old forms of cooptation. Murphy deftly returns the leadership of antislavery agendas to those who have survived it. -- Leigh Gilmore, author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their LivesLaura T. Murphy's The New Slave Narrative will become the foundational text for a wave of scholars working to understand what these stories mean—for society, for scholarship, and for survivors themselves. -- Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, author of What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They DoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on LanguagePrefaceIntroduction: The Reemergence of the Slave Narrative in the Twenty-First Century1. Making Slavery Legible2. The Not-Yet-Freedom Narrative3. Blackface Abolition4. Sex Problems and Antislavery’s Cognitive Dissonance5. What the Genre Creates, It Destroys: The Rise and Fall of Somaly MamConclusion: Collegial ReadingAppendix: List of New Slave NarrativesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press A Slave Between Empires
Book SynopsisIn June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a life crossing empires. M’hamed Oualdi investigates Husayn’s transimperial life and the posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational dimensions of North African history.Trade ReviewM'hamed Oualdi’s biography cum social history is dazzling. In life and death, General Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah's story reveals unlikely itineraries, unsuspected traveling companions, and hidden transactions that call into question conventional histories of nineteenth-century North Africa and the Ottoman Empire. The author’s presentation of archives as exiles, émigrés, and migrants is particularly original. -- Julia Clancy-Smith, author of Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900A Slave Between Empires is a bold reinterpretation of North Africa’s modern history: it revisits time and space by going beyond the narrow lens of colonization and by examining Tunisia as part of a large set of regional (European and Ottoman) networks. A must-read by one of the best historians of the Maghreb. -- Malika Zeghal, Harvard UniversityThis meticulously researched and beautifully written book shows how new insights into Tunisian history can be gained by bracketing the colonial and making a place for “other chronologies.” This historiographical positioning brings a full Mediterranean context back into view, putting the Ottoman empire, law, and Tunisian family history onto center stage. -- Benjamin Claude Brower, author of A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of French Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902The death documents of this post-colonial Ottoman Tunisian elite settler in Tuscany were a dense knot of financial, intellectual, legal, and kinship ties. Oualdi untangles this net before our eyes, revealing a figure who bridged the Mediterranean in a direction that colonialism tells us was not possible: from south to north. -- Will Hanley, author of Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in AlexandriaOualdi has much to offer his readers by bringing insights from French and Arabic historiography on Tunisia’s Ottoman and colonial past to an English readership, revealing the entangled nature of Tunisian, North African, French, Italian, and Ottoman histories. Following the life (and afterlife) of a slave turned minister, A Slave Between Empires is rich with new insights and tantalizing details, and Oualdi has clearly scoured many archives to put this together. -- Amy Kallander, author of Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman TunisiaOualdi has set out “an entangled history” indeed, one worthy of non-academic treatments, if not novels or a movie or two. * Asian Review of Books *At a time when Turkey and France are jockeying for influence across the Mediterranean from Cyprus to Libya, A Slave Between Empires has an odd contemporary relevance. * Current History *The approach taken to an individual life, traversing imperial borders and religious and social worlds, will also be of great methodological interest to those trying to situate new global histories between empires. * Journal of British Studies *An impressive study. * Sehepunkte *A vibrant and thought-provoking examination of the people and events in the region of North Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. * Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: A North African Land and Its Ottoman and Colonial Legacies1. Husayn: An Ottoman Reformer and a Product of Ottoman Reforms2. Husayn’s Wealth: How to Build and Protect an Estate Between Empires3. A World of “Affairs”: Litigation as a Tool for Negotiation4. The Diplomatic Conflicts Over Husayn’s Estate: Ottoman and Italian Interventions5. Sovereigns, Mothers, and Creditors: The Agency of Husayn’s Potential Heirs6. Husayn’s Legacies in Colonial Tunisia: An EpilogueConclusion: Local and Imperial Histories of the MaghrebSelect GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Slave in a Palanquin Colonial Servitude and
Book SynopsisNira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the wake of abolition. Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.Trade ReviewSlave in a Palanquin is one of the most remarkable and original works I have read on the history of the Indian Ocean. With her enormous scholarly gifts, Wickramasinghe endeavors to recover what she calls “fugitive lives,” a project that is as much as anything a meditation on the archive of slavery—its silences, fractures, and unexpected shards of illumination. -- Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersSlave in a Palanquin is a deft exorcism of the specter of slavery for an island whose history is often simplistically cast in terms of colonizer and colonized, or Sinhala and Tamil. It is a model treatment of the diverse forms that slavery could take in the Indian Ocean world. -- Michael Laffan, editor of Belonging Across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National RightsAt once humane, lucid, intelligent, and highly innovative, this is a masterly analysis of the various regimes of slavery in Sri Lanka under both Dutch and British colonial rule, their demise, and the reasons they were forgotten. Nira Wickramasinghe has produced a major work of comparative scholarship. -- Robert Ross, author of The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856A compellingly important work by one of Sri Lanka's best historians. Slave in a Palanquin challenges narratives of purity and authenticity on an island where murmurings about descent are far too common but where memories of enslavement have been erased. By turning to forgotten records and traces, Wickramasinghe insists on the subaltern, the resistant, and the particular. As the book proceeds, Sri Lanka moves into the center of key debates in world history about labor, memory, freedom, and power. -- Sujit Sivasundaram, author of Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean ColonyEngaging and beautifully written. * Journal of British Studies *Highly recommended. * Choice *This ambitious book is a vital contribution that speaks to scholarship both on the Indian Ocean and global slavery. * H-Soz-Kult *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Dutch Fiscal’s Murder: Interrogating the Identity of Slaves, Blacks, and “Kaffirs”2. From Colombo to Galle: Enslaved Bodies in an Archive of Violence3. Slave in a Palanquin: Jaffna in the Early Nineteenth Century4. The Chilaw “Experiment”: Labor for Freedom5. The Plaint of an Emancipated Slave: A Play in Two Acts6. Eclipse of the Slave: Traces, HauntingsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Irreparable Evil
Book SynopsisIrreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.Trade ReviewEngaging with moral philosophy, social theory, and postcolonial thinking, David Scott boldly argues that New World slavery was an 'absolute evil,' or irreparable harm, characterized by the destruction of African lifeworlds, for which a reparative response, both moral and material, is necessary. He does so through lucid prose and timely arguments that relate the Caribbean past to our contemporary present in persuasive and provocative ways. -- Gary Wilder, author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and SolidarityTable of ContentsPrologue: On the Devastation of Lifeworlds and Forms of LifePart I1. The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory HistoryPart II2. Incomparable Evil3. Incommensurable EvilsPart III4. Slavery’s Evil Lifeworld5. Evil EnrichmentEpilogue: On IrreparabilityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£92.65
Columbia University Press Irreparable Evil
Book SynopsisIrreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.Trade ReviewEngaging with moral philosophy, social theory, and postcolonial thinking, David Scott boldly argues that New World slavery was an 'absolute evil,' or irreparable harm, characterized by the destruction of African lifeworlds, for which a reparative response, both moral and material, is necessary. He does so through lucid prose and timely arguments that relate the Caribbean past to our contemporary present in persuasive and provocative ways. -- Gary Wilder, author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and SolidarityTable of ContentsPrologue: On the Devastation of Lifeworlds and Forms of LifePart I1. The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory HistoryPart II2. Incomparable Evil3. Incommensurable EvilsPart III4. Slavery’s Evil Lifeworld5. Evil EnrichmentEpilogue: On IrreparabilityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Illinois Press Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary
Book SynopsisA unique study of slavery reenactments and performances in African American literature and cultureTrade Review“Woolfork’s book builds on recent work in African American studies and psychoanalytic theory by Cathy Caruth, Claudia Tate, Hortense Spillers, and Saidiya Hartman, challenging and confronting the divides between past and present, freedom and slavery, as they are reenacted bodily and textually in contemporary US culture. Recommended”--Choice"With great clarity, Lisa Woolfork engages the most sophisticated theoretical ideas about trauma and slavery. This intricate, comprehensive, and inclusive work joins a burgeoning field of studies that directly analyze slavery in contemporary neo-slave narrative."--Helena Woodard, associate professor of English, University of Texas"A welcome addition to the African diaspora conversations about slavery, its trauma, and the complications of its remembrance. Woolfork's focus on the bodily epistemology of the slave past as a part of a transnational, multi-racial, multi-generational critique is well conceived and provocative."--Sheila Smith McKoy, author of When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Violence
£31.50
University of Illinois Press Freeing Charles
Book SynopsisFreeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. Scott Christianson follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad and his experiences in the North on the eve of the Civil War. This engaging narrative represents the first in-depth historical study of this crucial incident, one of the fiercest anti-slavery riots after Harpers Ferry. Christianson also presents a richly detailed look at slavery culture in antebellum Virginia and probes the deepest political and psychological aspects of this epic tale. His account underscores fundamental questions about racial inequality, the rule of law, civil disobedience, and violent resistance to slavery in the antebellum North and South. As seen in New York Times and on C-Span’s Book TV.Trade Review "Christianson explores the complications of the law, and he captures the drama of Nalle’s escape and attempted recapture and the complexities of citizens willing to defy the law for a higher principle."--Booklist"This is a welcome volume and should stimulate researchers to unearth other important, though seemingly minor, events that preceded the nation's bloody civil war."--The Journal of African American History"A master storyteller, Christianson has a novelist's eye for picturing the places, events, and forgotten people who figured in his narrative. . . . A significant addition to the story of the coming of the Civil War."--Civil War Book Review"Christianson's beautifully written story of fugitive slave Charles Nalle's dramatic escape, recapture, and then rescue is one of the long forgotten yet incredibly important events in our nation's history. Christianson serves up history like a master storyteller: a great dose of drama, tragedy, triumph, love, illicit sex, and a cast of characters that will surprise and delight."--Kate Clifford Larson, author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero"Extensively researched and finely analyzed, Freeing Charles tells the gripping story of a fugitive slave rescue that has largely escaped our attention until now."--Richard J. M. Blackett, author of Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War "A thoughtful biography."--The Journal of Southern History "What is more courageous, militancy or a middle-class life? Fleeing for freedom or remaining loyal to a family? It is one of the virtues of [this] book that [it] raise[s] such questions without insisting on an answer."--The Wall Street Journal"In this magnificently conceived and subtly rendered book, Christianson not only brings to life the men and women of the Underground Railroad as they carry out one of the most dramatic rescues of a fugitive slave on record, he also guides us unflinchingly along the heartbreaking fault line of racial relations that warped life in America--in both the North and the South--in the age of slavery."--Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America "Absorbing and eminently readable. With a large cast of characters, this stirring historical narrative centered on one incident also uses a wide-angle lens to reveal many other facets of slavery's impact during the antebellum years."--Jean M. Humez, author of Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories "A vivid and arresting biography that focuses on one mid-nineteenth century man and his family, whom slavery constantly imperiled even after they freed themselves not only once, but several times. It is such stories that help us learn how much was at stake for anyone held to slavery and the lengths to which some white people would go to reverse attempts at self-emancipation."--Philip J. Schwarz, author of Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation
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University of Illinois Press Gleanings of Freedom Free and Slave Labor along
Book SynopsisThe transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper SouthTrade 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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University of Illinois Press Rebels and Runaways Slave Resistance in
Book SynopsisArgues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection in American history.Trade ReviewHarry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award, Florida Historical Society, 2013. Bronze Medal, Florida Book Awards Nonfiction Category, 2013. "Offered new insightful research on Florida's unique role in slave resistance. . . . Recommended."--Choice"While discussing the nature of slave resistance in antebellum Florida, Rivers offers a convincing argument for unique conditions for rebellion in Florida. A fine analysis of slavery and resistance in Florida."--Journal of Social History"A masterful, comprehensive, and captivating analysis of resistance and absconding in Florida. Rivers fluidly and movingly examines the complex and highly differentiated experiences of the enslaved in Florida, and their variable reactions to that condition. A must read for those interested in their sweeping and compelling story."--Michael A. Gomez, author of Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora"A sweepingly impressive and admirably provocative study, Rebels and Runaways illuminates changes and meanings of slave resistance and armed rebellion. This important contribution offers a significantly sophisticated understanding of the complexities of resistance and rebellion to the tyranny of slavery."--Darlene Clark Hine, coeditor of Black Europe and the African Diaspora and The Black Chicago Renaissance"Most studies of antebellum slavery have either ignored or forgotten the bold actions of hundreds of enslaved Africans in Florida. Rivers's poignant study makes a strong case that this thrilling human drama--played out over many generations--constitutes perhaps the largest slave rebellion in American history. After reading this splendid book, historians and others interested in America's history will never look at slave resistance in the same way again."--James M. Denham, author of A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821–1861"A satisfying and significant study, a model for other state-centered studies of runaway slaves."--American Historical Review"Rebels and Runaways: Slaves Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida provides a detailed account of three levels of slave defiance--typically nonviolent 'day-to-day' resistance, running away, and violent resistance. . . . Rebels and Runaways adds to the overwhelming evidence that slaves were not passive and continued to resist and run away despite the efforts of their owners to ensure that the slaves remained docile and at home."--The Journal of Southern History "Rivers's often insightful investigation of evolving forms and patterns of slave resistance underscores the gross imbalance of forces that slaves, individually and collectively, confronted in trying to acquire the space necessary to even think freedom a remote possibility."--Civil War History "A valuable--indeed indispensable--account that profoundly alters our understanding of slave protests and rebellion. Rivers offers perspectives that reach beyond Florida to embrace a regional and global context for a new understanding of freedom and unfreedom. Steeped in remarkable research, this is a must read book for anyone who studies slavery."--Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln "Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida is a marvelous history of the complex ways enslaved blacks resisted slavery and how their determined efforts impacted the larger American experience. Rivers is to be commended for telling the complicated and compelling story of the fight enslaved blacks faced against terrorism over their bodies, minds, and souls in America."--Martin Luther King, III, President and Chief Executive Officer, The King Center, Atlanta, Georgia "In this masterful undertaking, Larry E. Rivers fulfills a promise to illuminate the humanity of enslaved Floridians and argues convincingly that the Second Seminole War was 'a Negro, not an Indian War.' Rebels and Runaways makes it impossible for scholars to ignore the level of discontent among slaves in Florida."--Wilma King, Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History, University of Missouri, Columbia "Rebels and Runaways is the most important study of African American slave rebellions since the publication of Herbert Aptheker's Negro Slave Revolts. Larry E. Rivers does for the history of slave resistance in the United States what C. L. R. James's Black Jacobins did for the Haitian Revolution. Rivers faithfully portrays the aspirations of enslaved Africans in Florida with sensitivity, and he opens a new chapter on the history of slave revolution and race war in the Americas. This book will have a profound impact on the field for generations to come."--Paul Ortiz, associate professor of history, University of Florida "Rebels and Runaways is groundbreaking because, unlike other similar studies to date, it analytically addresses the Atlantic worldview held by some rebels and runaways and their impact on the multi-level patterns of slave resistance that developed over time in Florida. It focuses also on what these various levels of slave resistance meant to the overall expansion and development of the country as a whole. This is a solid and engaging study."--Freddie L. Parker, professor and chair of history, North Carolina Central University
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MO - University of Illinois Press Daisy Turners Kin
Book SynopsisA daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont--in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to iTrade ReviewChicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016 Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016. "Folklorist Beck's story of the Turner family's transition from freedom to slavery to freedom again is a marvel of scholarly storytelling. . . . An engrossing American tale."--Publisher's Weekly"This book belongs in every academic and public library. Essential."--Choice"If you are interested in learning how oral history can lead to discovery and help chronicle a family legacy, then you will find Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga a necessary guidebook."--Oral History Review"Jane Beck has done a masterful job in illustrating how long-term in-depth interviews, wide-ranging and meticulous research, and a wonderful writing style can produce, at once, a highly readable and deeply informative book."--Journal of American Folklore"I met and filmed Daisy Turner for my Civil War series and was struck by her vibrancy and the power of her voice. How fortunate we are that Jane Beck was able to both record and authenticate her family narrative. It allows us new insights into the experience of four generations of a family who maintained their identity and self-respect in spite of the dehumanizing circumstances they lived through. What an engaging and powerful story!"--Ken Burns, filmmaker"Turner's recollections are interwoven with Beck's research to provide an astonishing saga of a single African American family, an example of the oral history tradition across two continents, and an amazing woman who bridges generations of her family."--Booklist "A deeply, patiently researched journey into the unusual English-African roots of a long-lived Grafton, Vermont, storyteller. . . . A well-excavated biography of a 'custodian of a multigenerational American family saga.'"--Kirkus Reviews"A well presented and evocative account of the Turner family's journey from slavery to prosperity in Grafton, Vermont. . . . Daisy Turner and her family's life stories are richly presented as Beck keeps her promise to write a book that will preserve the Turner family narrative."--Western Folklore "Daisy Turner's Kin triumphs in demonstrating the importance of oral history. . . . A compelling story of a family that gives insights into a tumultuous period of transition in American History."--Journal of American Studies "This amazing true story should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand American history. Jane Beck's seminal book, built upon decades of rare historical research combined with rich oral narratives, reads like a vivid novel. The central narrative portrays three generations of Turner men and women whose . . . creativity, resilience, and spiritual strength are at the root of their survival. Drawing upon letters, photos, local records, and oral recollection, the author has woven this compelling, necessary tale that in praise of Daisy Turner's determined truth-telling, encourages a reconsideration of traditional African American histories."--Ronne Hartfield, author of Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family "Beck has done an impeccable job of verifying the memories of Daisy Turner, clarifying what in her oral history is simply part of family lore and what is historically significant and accurate."--W. Ralph Eubanks, author of The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South "A powerful vindication and thoughtful explication of the power and persistence of an oral tradition. Anchoring her work in long-term relationships and stellar research both in the library and in the field, Jane Beck shows how folk traditions, and the past, live on and shape our lives."--Debora Kodish, founder and former director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project
£87.55
University of Illinois Press Slavery at Sea Terror Sex and Sickness in the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWesley-Logan Prize, American Historical Association (AHA), 2017Dred Scott Freedom Award in the category Historical Literary Excellence, Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, 2020"Mustakeem's command of sources and methodology is remarkable. . . . Slavery at Sea is an outstanding intervention in the history of slavery." --Journal of African American History"This excellent work illustrates the paradoxical significance of U.S. slavery studies in relation to the larger African Diaspora."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"A compelling and original argument that makes a fundamental contribution to the history of slavery in colonial British America."--William and Mary Quarterly"Mustakeem's groundbreaking study. . . . offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence and transformed human beings into the world's most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries."--Huffington Post"Essential."--Choice"Slavery at Sea does an excellent job describing the importance of the Middle Passage, as well as forcefully rejecting the notion that slave subjugation began upon arrival in America. . . . Excellent research, a clear and engaging literary style, and an appropriate use of primary source material recommend this book for the student of the Atlantic slave trade or the historian who desires new insights into the manufacturing process of slavery."--Civil War News"An intensely social history of the transatlantic slave trade . . . Mustakeem consciously centers her narrative on the very young and old, women, and the infirm to demonstrate the ways in which there was no one Middle Passage."--The Junto"Slavery at Sea is a welcome book because it provides a more sustained account of the deprivations and indignities inflicted upon enslaved Africans by European capitalists and their collaborators in Africa. . . than virtually any other book."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews"In Slavery at Sea, Mustakeem writes with power and heart, offering a deeply intimate narrative of the experience of dehumanization and the undeniable awareness that nothing good came from this history."--Journal of American Culture "Mustakeem does a remarkable job exploring the untold and overlooked stories of the most marginalized of the Africans. . . . Her work challenges many prevailing assumptions and offers an insightful, alternative contribution to our understanding of slavery at sea." --The Journal of American History "A tremendously important contribution to understandings of the Middle Passage. This work will shift the ways scholars frame the history of slavery in the Americas by extending the terrain of enslavement across the Atlantic and centering the lives and deaths of enslaved African women and men in the Middle Passage."--Barbara Krauthamer, author of Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South "It is not easy to say new things about the slave trade, but Mustakeem does so, again and again. She strikes a mighty blow against the 'violence of abstraction' that has long governed the study of the subject. She makes us understand the slave trade in a new, visceral way."--Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom "Slavery at Sea includes heartbreaking stories of capture, breathtaking vignettes of torture, and harrowing tales of the Middle Passage that bring to life the terror that many enslaved people experienced at sea. This well-researched study also pays critical attention to how age, gender, and health informed the economic development of the international slave trade."--Jim Downs, author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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University of Illinois Press Making an Antislavery Nation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Peck has written a book that demands attention."--Journal of the Civil War Era"Sure to interest anyone looking for a fine-grained account of pre-Civil War politics."--Publisher's Weekly"Graham Peck offers a sophisticated analysis of the forces that led to the Civil War, emphasizing how Abraham Lincoln disguised the wolf of radical antislavery nationalism with conservative sheep’s clothing, and how Stephen A. Douglas was gradually crushed between the upper millstone of Southern intransigence and the nether millstone of Northern disaffection for his toleration of slavery."--Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life"[A] thoughtful and valuable new contribution to the unending debate about the coming of the Civil War." --Civil War Book Review"Making an Antislavery Nation is an elegant and important reinterpretation of the political battles between slavery and freedom from the nation’s founding to the secession crisis. In focusing on Illinois, Graham Peck brilliantly highlights the significance of the state in national politics and of Stephen Douglas as the pivotal figure in the rise of antislavery politics and disunion. His portrait of Douglas is unequaled in a story that is structurally and stylistically a work of immense sophistication."--John Stauffer, Harvard University, and author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln"Making an Antislavery Nation elucidates overlooked or underemphasized dimensions of the shifting set of beliefs about freedom and slavery that cohered into Lincoln's ideological vision of an anti-slavery nation."--Reviews in History"The victory of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party was the most significant political revolution in American history. Graham A. Peck’s penetrating account of the politics of slavery in Illinois—at once a key battleground state and a microcosm of the nation as a whole—offers a powerful new interpretation of this critical moment in antebellum politics. By fusing antislavery radicalism with American nationalism, Lincoln and the Republicans overcame an increasingly proslavery northern Democratic Party. Thoroughly researched and judiciously argued, Making an Antislavery Nation changes the way we understand the triumph of the Republicans and the origins of the Civil War."--Matthew Karp, Princeton University, and author of This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy"Absolutely tremendous!"--Adam I. P. Smith, Senior Lecturer, University College London "Peck has provided a useful and interesting framework for understanding antislavery politics in Illinois and in the nation."--The Annals of IowaTable of ContentsMaps ix Introduction 1 Prelude: An Inheritance of Slavery 13 1. The Nation’s Conflict over Slavery in Miniature: Illinois, 1818–1824 17 2. Democrats, Whigs, and Party Conflict, 1825–1842 34 3. Manifest Destiny, Slavery, and the Rupture of the Democratic Party, 1843–1847 54 4. Advocates for an Antislavery Nation, 1837–1848 72 5. Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern Democratic Origins of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1849–1854 97 6. The Collapse of the Douglas Democracy, 1854–1860 123 7. Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of an Antislavery Nationalism, 1854–1860 156 Conclusion: The Northern Democrats’ Dilemma over Slavery 184 Acknowledgments 195 Appendix 199 Notes 205 Index 253
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University of Illinois Press The Mark of Slavery
Book SynopsisExploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore. Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail,Trade Review"This original work adds an important new voice to conversations about slavery, disability, and medical history. Exceptional analysis of an understudied topic" --Library Journal (starred review)"Addressing an often-overlooked aspect of the experiences of enslaved people, Barclay intricately examines the connection between racism, disabilities and slavery, as well as the legacy it left behind, in this important and well-researched volume." --Ms. Magazine"The Mark of Slavery is not simply a study of disability discourse. Rather, the book examines disability as both a discourse about race and slavery and as a lived experience affecting the lives of thousands of enslaved people." --Black Perspectives"While many of the racist and ableist discourses seemed to be contradictory and nonsensical, Barclay skillfully demonstrates how each of the narratives work together to create a larger, long-standing co-constitution of Blackness, disability, and dependency. . . . After reading this book, it is near impossible to consider race in America as anything separate from disability and ableism. . . . Compelling." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Jenifer Barclay offers us a powerful, deeply researched, and rich study of the meanings of disability in the antebellum South. The sheer breadth of literature that this work speaks to is impressive. . . . The Mark of Slavery is a critical intervention into fields that have ignored or marginalized disability." --American Nineteenth Century History"Barclay's study is a well-researched investigation of nineteenth-century cultural debates on race and the body. Disability scholarship has flourished in recent years, and Barclay's book is a welcome contribution to the field." --Journal of Southern History"Highly recommended." --Choice"Barclay's deft handling of disability through her archival research, the brilliance of her scholarship on the ways that blackness becomes synonymous with disability, her skillful use of Black Critical Disability Studies as a methodological framework, and clear and persuasive prose allows us greater insight into the debilitating effects of slavery as a disabling device for its victims."--Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology
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University of Illinois Press Africa in America Slave Acculturation and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award, 1993. Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1991. "Africa in America is more than another account of slave resistance and accommodation. It is a brilliant and provocative work of historical anthropology and a synthetic account of slavery that firmly places the subject in a comparative and long-term context. . . . Mullin's three-part chronology of resistance and rebellion is attractive in its simplicity and flexibility."--James D. Rice, Southern HistorianTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 I THE UNSEASONED 1 Naming Africans 13 2 Africans Name Themselves 34 3 The Blood Oath, Play, and Ancestors 62 II PLANTATION SLAVES 4 Plantations: Case Studies 77 5 "Scientific" Planters: The Ideology of Industrial Regimentation in Mature Slave Societies 115 6 The Slaves' Economic Strategies: Food, Markets, and Property 126 7 Family 159 8 Plantation Religion and Resistance 174 III THE ASSIMILATEDS 9 Slave Resistance in an Era of War and Revolution, 1768-1805 215 10 Mission Christianity and Preemancipation Rebellion 241 11 Epilogue: Africa in America 268 Appendixes 281 Notes 309 Bibliography 385 Index 405
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University of Illinois Press Sojourner Truths America
Book SynopsisAn expansive new biography of Sojourner Truth, charismatic preacher and activistTrade ReviewWinner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010. Co-winner of the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award. "This biography is admirable in its thoroughness and in Washington's commitment to her subject and is well worth consulting."--Publishers Weekly“This scholarly biography, meticulously researched ... is destined to be the definitive study for a generation. Highly recommended.”-- Choice "An interesting and persuasive reading. By forcing us to give up a sanitized, desexualized picture of Truth ... Washington does us a great service--one of many performed by this exciting and comprehensive book."--Women's Review of Books"[A] wonderfully detailed and insightful account of Sojourner Truth's life."--The Journal of American HistoryTable of Contentsa word on language ix acknowledgments xi abbreviations xix introduction: the three lives of sojourner truth part I bell hardenbergh and slavery times in the hudson river valley 1. African and Dutch Religious Heritage 9 2. "Home Is Like a Grave" 18 Domesticity, Spirituality, and Patriarchy 3. "Better to Me Than a Man" 32 Female Life, Labor, and Slavery in Rural New York part II isabella van wagenen: a preaching woman 4. Like Hagar and Her Children 51 Long Walks to Freedom 5. "A Rushing Mighty Wind" 69 Isabella's Baptism of the Spirit 6. Sanctification and Perfection 81 Becoming a Religious Radical 7. "I Will Crush Them with the Truth" 98 The Commune of Matthias part III sojourner truth and the antislavery apostles 8. The Antislavery Vanguard, 1833-1843 129 9. "The Spirit Calls Me There" 141 A Sojourner Is Chosen 10. A Holy City 156 Sojourner Truth and the Northampton Community 11. The Cold Water Army, Olive Gilbert, and Sojourner's Narrative 175 12. The Bloodhound Bill and Intensified Activism 191 13. The New York Campaign 206 14. "God, You Drive" 221 The Sojourner in Ohio 15. "I Go in for Agitatin'" 248 16. Truth Is Powerful 272 17. Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land 298 18. "Was Woman True?" 334 Sojourner, Suffrage, and Civil Rights 19. "I Am on My Way to Kansas" 355 epilogue: well done, good and faithful servant 377 notes 381 index 455 Illustrations follow pages 8, 50, 128.
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University of Illinois Press Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore deliver a powerful narrative of Lovejoy's antislavery views and the coalition of abolitionists, Black national leaders, religious institutions, and women. . . . More than a straightforward biography, this book weaves together a complex story of religion, reform, and politics in the Civil War-era Midwest and Lovejoy seemingly at the center of everything." --Middle West Review "Owen Lovejoy was that rarest of beings--a dedicated abolitionist and a savvy politician. Having already published an indispensable collection of Lovejoy's most important writings, the Moores have now given us the most thorough biography of Lovejoy to date. Grounded in deep research and an unparalleled familiarity with the ins and outs of Illinois politics, the Moores demonstrate Lovejoy's crucial role in the creation of the 'coalition for equality' that eventually brought slavery down."--James Oakes, author of The Scorpions Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War"This very fine study of Owen Lovejoy develops a deep understanding of a significant antislavery politician and of the Midwestern political culture that he so skillfully represented. It is a biography offers rich rewards to historians who study the problem of slavery, the abolitionist movement, and the politics of the sectional conflict."--James Brewer Stewart, author of Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery"Lovejoy's inspiring story is told by historians Jane Ann and William Moore. Although not historians by profession, they decided decades ago to resuscitate Lovejoy's memory by reinterpreting his role in slavery's abolition. Passionate and dedicated, they plunged into archival research. The yield has been bountiful." --Annals of Iowa
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University of Illinois Press The Mark of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This original work adds an important new voice to conversations about slavery, disability, and medical history. Exceptional analysis of an understudied topic" --Library Journal (starred review)"Addressing an often-overlooked aspect of the experiences of enslaved people, Barclay intricately examines the connection between racism, disabilities and slavery, as well as the legacy it left behind, in this important and well-researched volume." --Ms. Magazine"The Mark of Slavery is not simply a study of disability discourse. Rather, the book examines disability as both a discourse about race and slavery and as a lived experience affecting the lives of thousands of enslaved people." --Black Perspectives"While many of the racist and ableist discourses seemed to be contradictory and nonsensical, Barclay skillfully demonstrates how each of the narratives work together to create a larger, long-standing co-constitution of Blackness, disability, and dependency. . . . After reading this book, it is near impossible to consider race in America as anything separate from disability and ableism. . . . Compelling." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Jenifer Barclay offers us a powerful, deeply researched, and rich study of the meanings of disability in the antebellum South. The sheer breadth of literature that this work speaks to is impressive. . . . The Mark of Slavery is a critical intervention into fields that have ignored or marginalized disability." --American Nineteenth Century History"Barclay's study is a well-researched investigation of nineteenth-century cultural debates on race and the body. Disability scholarship has flourished in recent years, and Barclay's book is a welcome contribution to the field." --Journal of Southern History"Highly recommended." --Choice"Barclay's deft handling of disability through her archival research, the brilliance of her scholarship on the ways that blackness becomes synonymous with disability, her skillful use of Black Critical Disability Studies as a methodological framework, and clear and persuasive prose allows us greater insight into the debilitating effects of slavery as a disabling device for its victims."--Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology
£19.79
Indiana University Press Legacy of the Lash
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book, which is very well written and based on extensive documentary research, portrays the existence of a strict social and racial hierarchy in Brazil, thus adding to countless studies that, for the past several decades, have challenged the still-quite-persistent idea that the country is an example of racial harmony. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Tables1. Introduction: Race and Violence in Brazil and its Navy 2. Legislating the Lash3. Control of the Lower Decks, 1860-18934. Roots of a Rebellion 5. The Revolt of the Lash6. The Aftermath 7. Conclusion BibliographyIndex
£48.60
Indiana University Press Slave Owners of West Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSlave Owners of West Africa is a welcome and timely addition to the historiography of slavery and abolition in West Africa. . . . It is a must-read book for anyone in the field. * African Studies Quarterly *Overall, this book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship about an extremely complicated and sensitive subject by bringing to light the biographies of three individuals who represent a transformative turning point in African history. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Amegashie Afeku of Keta: Priest and Political Advisor, Businessman and Slave Owner2. Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: Of Chieftaincy and Slavery, of Politics and the Personal3. Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: The Faith Journey of a Slave Owner4. Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex
£52.70
Indiana University Press Slave Owners of West Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSlave Owners of West Africa is a welcome and timely addition to the historiography of slavery and abolition in West Africa. . . . It is a must-read book for anyone in the field. * African Studies Quarterly *Overall, this book makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship about an extremely complicated and sensitive subject by bringing to light the biographies of three individuals who represent a transformative turning point in African history. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Amegashie Afeku of Keta: Priest and Political Advisor, Businessman and Slave Owner2. Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: Of Chieftaincy and Slavery, of Politics and the Personal3. Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: The Faith Journey of a Slave Owner4. Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press Africans in Exile
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies that complicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa.Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies thatcomplicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa. * H-Africa *This book contributes significantly to African Studies as a field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to better understand exile as a diverse yet defining feature of our age. -- Christian A Williams - University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsCONTENTSForeword: Holger Bernt HansenAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett ShadlePart Two: Geographies of Exile7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith TerrettaPart Three: Remembering and Performing Exile12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. LawranceEpilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh JallowAfterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. BurrillNotes on ContributorsIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Africans in Exile
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies that complicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa.Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies thatcomplicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa. * H-Africa *This book contributes significantly to African Studies as a field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to better understand exile as a diverse yet defining feature of our age. -- Christian A Williams - University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsCONTENTSForeword: Holger Bernt HansenAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett ShadlePart Two: Geographies of Exile7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith TerrettaPart Three: Remembering and Performing Exile12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. LawranceEpilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh JallowAfterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. BurrillNotes on ContributorsIndex
£25.19
University of Notre Dame Press The Joys and Disappointments of a German
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The German governess Ina von Binzer’s letters provide unparalleled insights into the texture of Brazilian life in the early 1880s, from the condition and lives of slaves to the intimate family and material lives of their owners who employed her. Lewin’s contextualization of these precious primary sources is consummate, moving from archival confirmation of specific details to concise summations of the general context that these missives illuminate.” —Peter M. Beattie, author of The Tribute of Blood“This book wonderfully compliments a textbook account of nineteenth-century Brazil. The Joys and Disappointments of a German Governess in Imperial Brazil touches on many of the most notable events and paradoxes of the period, including the rise of coffee, waning slavery (that was not, however, weakening quickly enough in the regions where von Binzer visited), monarchical rule, and the start of a new wave of European immigration.” —Ian Read, author of The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888"Drawing on the personal letters of Ina von Binzer, Linda Lewin provides today’s scholars with a lens to understand how wealthy families rooted in Brazilian coffee production struggled with the onset of abolition. Lewin’s book integrates powerful photographs, including rare views of slaves, with von Binzer’s letters that, together with Lewin’s succinct, accessible introduction and explicating footnotes, will stimulate and complicate historical debates about slavery in Brazil." —Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, author of So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico"This insider’s view of the final days of slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil captures her employers’ lives and that of their enslaved servants. Expertly edited by Linda Lewin, her letters are a rich primary source for all historians of slavery and the family. Appropriate period photographs accompany the text." —Mary C. Karasch, author of Before Brasília"This book is a fascinating window into nineteenth-century Brazilian daily life. The reader will enjoy the German governess’s depictions of family relations in this first English translation and will appreciate her take on a society defined by enslavement in all its aspects. Linda Lewin’s introduction weaves both realms, illuminating the inner works of the last slave society in the Americas." —Maria-Aparecida Lopes, author of Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930"One cannot finish reading The Joys and Disappointments of a German Governess in Imperial Brazil without gaining insight into the economy, society, and beauty that was Brazil in the 1880s, as well as developing some admiration for this intrepid governess, despite her flaws and prejudices. The translation flows nicely, and Linda Lewin’s excellent introduction sets the stage." —Francie R. Chassen-López, author of From Liberal to Revolutionary OaxacaTable of ContentsIllustrations List Acknowledgments Note on the Monetary Unit of the Brazilian Empire Introduction by Linda Lewin Ina von Binzer's Letters: 1. 27 May 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 2. June 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 3. 20 June 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 4. 11 July 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 5. 25 July 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 6. 14 August 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 7. 1 September 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 8. 17 September 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 9. 5 October 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 10. 22 October 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 11. 3 December 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 12. 24 December 1881 Fazenda São Francisco 13. 15 January 1882 Petrópolis 14. 8 February 1882 Petrópolis 15. 12 February 1882 Rio de Janeiro 16. 17 February 1882 Rio de Janeiro 17. 21 February 1882 Rio de Janeiro 18. 2 March 1882 Rio de Janeiro 19. 20 March 1882 São Paulo 20. 5 April 1882 São Paulo 21. 21 April 1882 São Paulo 22. 5 May 1882 São Paulo 23. 29 May 1882 São Paulo 24. 25 June 1882 São Paulo 25. 28 June 1882 São Paulo 26. 1 July 1882 São Paulo 27. 11 July 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 28. 19 July 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 29. 28 July 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 30. 5 August 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 31. 20 August 1882Santos 32. 22 September 1882 Santos 33. 4 October 1881 Fazenda São Sebastião 34. 27 October 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 35. 17 November 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 36. 5 December 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 37. 18 December 1882 Fazenda São Sebastião 38. 28 December 1882 São Paulo 39. 2 January 1883 Santos 40. 9 January 1883 Fazenda São Sebastião 41. January 1883 São Paulo Suggestions for Further Reading Index
£40.50
Pennsylvania State University Press Temperance and Cosmopolitanism African American
Book SynopsisA study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom. Trade Review“This book speaks softly and carries a big wallop. Through precise readings and meticulous historical research, Stewart demonstrates that there was a common transnational epistemology uniting black reformers. Highly recommended.”—Kathryn Lofton,author of Consuming Religion“Exploring a world torn by the foundational fractures forced by the system of slavery and racial control, Stewart uncovers a history of reform that challenges our understanding of place and mobility in African American history. She considers such writers as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith, finding in their works a cosmopolitan determination to reorient American culture from the ground up. Anyone interested in African American literary and cultural history will want to read this important book.”—John Ernest,author of Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History“An original, nuanced, and theoretically robust work of scholarship that will quickly prove to be a tremendous addition to our understanding of race, religion, politics, and public life. Stewart critically reads the multiple languages and expressions of freedom as amalgams that form and inform the multiple meanings of the world and human experience. By deeply probing the complex contours of the temperance movement against the backdrop of the Atlantic world, Stewart adds rich texture and offers fresh perspectives on this protean international movement.”—Corey D. B. Walker,author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America“In this study Carole Lynn Stewart shows how a group of enslaved, ex-enslaved, or fugitive African American women and men, through international travel, imaginative vision, and intellectual insight, critically expanded the practice and ideal of temperance from an individualistic, inner purity blind to the corruption of a civic order that tolerated slavery and enabled temperance to a serve as the vital basis for both the inward and societal meanings of freedom.”—Charles H. Long,author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion“Stewart offers readers a theoretically rich, at times dizzying, account of the various ways Black creative writers, evangelists, and political activists connected cosmopolitanism to innovative practices of resistance and liberation.”—Stefan M. Wheelock American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Slave Travels and the Beginnings of a Temperate Cosmopolitanism 1. William Wells Brown and Martin Delany: Civil and Geographic Spaces of Temperate Cosmopolitanism 2. Brown’s Temperate Cosmopolitan “Home”: Creole Civilization and Temperate Manners 3. George Moses Horton’s Freedom: A Temperate Republicanism and a Critical Cosmopolitanism 4. Frances E. W. Harper’s Black Cosmopolitan Creoles: A Temperate Transnationalism 5. “The Quintessence of Sanctifying Grace”: Amanda Smith’s Religious Experience, Freedom, and a Temperate Cosmopolitanism Epilogue: Tempering and Conjuring the Roots of Cosmopolitan Recovery Notes Bibliography Index
£91.96
University of Washington Press Slavery and the PostBlack Imagination
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the 2022 Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited CollectionInterrogates how artists have created new ways to imagine the past of American slaveryFrom Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead's literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele's body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging alternate takes on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the postCivil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and BlTrade Review"[A]n academic and culturally relevant feast for the reader." * Journal of Popular Culture *"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination manages to clarify and convincingly advance the discourse of post-Blackness in conversation with contemporary representations of slavery." * American and English Studies *"[A] formidable collection." * Amerikastudien / American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe 1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker Derek Conrad Murray 2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing Derek C. Maus 3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout Cameron Leader-Picone 4. Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement Mollie Godfrey 5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out Kimerly Nichele Brown 6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe 7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment Ilka saal 8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art Malin Pereira 9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon Woman Bertram D. Ashe 10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal List of Contributors Index
£28.31
University of Washington Press Slavery and the PostBlack Imagination
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n academic and culturally relevant feast for the reader." * Journal of Popular Culture *"Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination manages to clarify and convincingly advance the discourse of post-Blackness in conversation with contemporary representations of slavery." * American and English Studies *"[A] formidable collection." * Amerikastudien / American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Ilka Saal and Bertram D. Ashe 1. The Blackest Blackness: Slavery and the Satire of Kara Walker Derek Conrad Murray 2. Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave novels from the Year Postracial Definitively Stopped Being a Thing Derek C. Maus 3. Whispering Racism in a Postracial World: Slavery and Post-Blackness in Paul Beatty's the Sellout Cameron Leader-Picone 4. Getting Graphic with Kindred: The Neo-Slave Narrative of the Black Lives Matter Movement Mollie Godfrey 5. "Stay Woke": Post-Black Filmmaking the Afterlife of Slavery in Jordan Peele's Get Out Kimerly Nichele Brown 6. The Song: Living with "Dixie" and the "Coon Space" of Post-Blackness Chenjerai Kumanyika, Jack Hitt, and Chris neary, with an introduction by Bertram D. Ashe 7. Performing Slavery at the Turn of the Millennium: Stereotypes, Affect, and Theatricality in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors and Young Jean Lee's The Shipment Ilka saal 8. Thylias Moss's Slave Moth: Liberatory Verse Narrative and Performance Art Malin Pereira 9. Plantation Memories: Cheryl Dunye's Representation of a Representation of American Slavery in the Watermelon Woman Bertram D. Ashe 10. "An Audience Is a Mob on Its Butt": An Interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal List of Contributors Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Mapping Water in Dominica
Book SynopsisHow sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as Nature's Island, was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica's colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological recordwhich preserves traces of slave households, waterwaysTrade Review"This book is an excellent example of the application of archaeological research to a larger anthropological problem, in this case the anthropology of slavery and plantation economies in the Caribbean." * Choice *"This is a well-written book that has the added advantage of demonstrating the value of archaeology for the study of history, environmental history not least." * H-Net *"In this fine study of colonial Dominica, Mark W. Hauser brings together the history of slavery, the environment, and the growing field of histories of water. His interdisciplinary approach unveils new perspectives on known events and provides fresh insights into largely forgotten histories." * The Middle Ground Journal *
£110.48
University of Wisconsin Press Slave Trade and Abolition Gender Commerce and
Book SynopsisTraces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers, acting as intermediaries between foreign and local people.
£21.56
University of Wisconsin Press Fugitive Texts Slave Narratives in Antebellum
Book SynopsisOffers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Michael Roy reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture.Table of Contents Prologue — Runaway Bestsellers? Chapter 1 — “The general diffusion of abolition light”: The Institutional Origins of the Antebellum Slave Narrative Raindrops, Autumn Leaves, and Snowflakes: Publishing and Circulating Antislavery Literature in the 1830s The Narrative of James Williams as Antislavery Propaganda Faithful Portrait, Lawful Weapon: Charles Ball’s Slavery in the United States Paradoxical Presences: The Narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Chloe Spear Chapter 2 — “My Narrative is just published”: Agency, Itinerancy, and the Slave Narrative Marginality, Itinerancy, and Reform in Antebellum America The Transatlantic Journeys of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Reprinting and Recycling the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave Other Narratives, Other Trajectories: Henry Bibb, Leonard Black, Sojourner Truth Chapter 3 — “Quite a sensation”: Slave Narratives in the Age of Uncle Tom “The servile publishers of that day”: Antislavery and the Book Trade The Business of Twelve Years a Slave Old Friends, New Names: Frederick Douglass and Charles Ball Redux Incidents in the Life of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Epilogue — The Slave Narrative Unbound
£60.00
Yale University Press My Bondage and My Freedom
Book SynopsisBorn into slavery in 1818, the author escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. This book recounts his remarkable life.Trade Review"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."—Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan University"With scorching rhetoric, my heroic ancestor rails against the inhumanity of slavery while upholding the tenets of liberty with poetic elegance. In this new edition, David Blight offers a fresh perspective on my great-great-great grandfather's life from his enslavement on the eastern shore of Maryland to his emergence as a revolutionary leader at the center of a national crisis over the future of slavery."—Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives"David Blight's graceful introduction provides the essential historical context, public as well as private, and helps us appreciate how Douglass's great book managed to be at once a piercing polemic, an extraordinary act of memory, and a masterpiece of American prose."—James Oakes, City University of New York
£15.79
Yale University Press Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
Book SynopsisA critical edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American historyTrade Review“This is the most thoughtful collection of materials to accompany a major primary text that I have seen. The editors deserve particular commendation for including a section on teaching Douglass’ narrative.”—Craig Kaplowitz, Judson University“The primary document sections are especially valuable as teaching aids. They supplement the narrative and allow readers the opportunity to explore for themselves Douglass’s influences and challenges.”—Jennifer Helgren, University of the Pacific“Carefully selected to provide diverse perspectives on distinct aspects of Douglass’ life and story, the primary sources offer a fascinating window into the early nineteenth century worlds in which he lived. This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today. It is exceptional.”—Nancy Hewitt, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
£10.97
Yale University Press California a Slave State
Book SynopsisThe untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern traffickingTrade Review“A devastatingly detailed, urgent, and somewhat regretful confirmation of an inconvenient truth: Far from being the place where everyone got an equal chance, California embraced slavery from the outset. . . . That boosterish tale of California’s endless possibility turns out to have been built with sweat, oppression, coercion, and genocide. It was precisely California’s openness, Pfaelzer posits, that allowed greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy to run amok, and it is this bitter irony—not the orange groves or Mediterranean climate—that makes us (that fraught word) exceptional.”—Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times“A historian explains how California ‘welcomed, honed and legalized’ human bondage for 250 years, from the legalized enslavement of Native Americans to forced labor in today’s prisons.”—New York Times Book ReviewHonored with the Heyday History Award, sponsored by Heyday Books “A powerful history of California’s varied systems of servitude, this book extends across three centuries, exploring bondage, resistance, and how servitude has shaped life in the golden state.”—Benjamin Madley, author of An American Genocide“California has long asserted a proud legacy as a ‘free state.’ Jean Pfaelzer exposes huge rifts in that glossy narrative, including contemporary practices. A stunning aggregation of evidence through extraordinary research.”—Franklin Odo, Amherst College“This capacious book excavates California’s brutal history of multi-racial bondage. After reading it, we will never see the Golden State’s celebrated diversity—or the stories the nation tells itself about its racial past—in the same way.”—P. Gabrielle Foreman, The Colored Conventions Project“Through prolific storytelling using a range of human characters, Jean Pfaelzer takes us through the long California story of slavery and unfreedom in its many forms, offering a powerful revision of the state’s history.”—Philip Deloria, author of Playing Indian
£25.00
Yale University Press A Question of Freedom The Families Who Challenged
Book SynopsisTrade Review"William Thomas casts a bright light into the period’s darkness. . . . He reveals a remarkable struggle for freedom, one buoyed at first by new aspirations in the broader culture and later doomed by rekindled fears. . . . Valuable and provocative. . . . Mr. Thomas brings a clear and sensitive eye to the tangled relationship of black and white Americans in the early 19th century."—Fergus Bordewich, Wall Street Journal"Gripping. . . . Profound and prodigiously researched."—Alison L. LaCroix, Washington PostSelected as a finalist for the 2021 PROSE Awards, sponsored by the Association of American PublishersFinalist for the George Washington Book Award, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center and Washington CollegeWinner of the SHEAR Best Book Prize, sponsored by The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner of the 2021 Nebraska Book Award, Nonfiction Legal History category, sponsored by Nebraska Center for the BookCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2021“Here is a strikingly original, eloquent, and humane book on an inhumane institution. The story restores the names and histories of people who fought for freedom for generations.”—Edward Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America“In A Question of Freedom, historian William Thomas brings to light the truly remarkable and largely forgotten efforts of people held in bondage to sue for their freedom in the courts of the early United States. A genuine contribution to the social, legal, and political history of American slavery, this is a book of great depth and insight.”—Adam Rothman, historian and curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive“With its vivid narration, revelatory research, careful contextualization, and bracing honesty, A Question of Freedom demonstrates that freedom suits were not isolated episodes but instead a major form of slave resistance, with far-reaching and ongoing effects in the long freedom struggle. This book is essential reading for understanding the history of slavery and the modern debate over reparations.”—Elizabeth R. Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War"William Thomas has produced an important and astonishing chronicle of the legal battles waged by enslaved people for their own freedom. Braiding white-knuckle courtroom drama together with a searing exploration of his own family history, he redefines slavery’s place in early American law—not an inherent feature, but a dubious institution whose contradictions were exploited by the enslaved to protect themselves and their families.”—Yoni Appelbaum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic"A Question of Freedom is an essential book that details the extraordinary efforts of enslaved people to challenge both the legitimacy and absoluteness of slavery in courts of law. It is a work of remarkable honesty and humanity that should inform any conversation on the legacy of slavery. Please read it."—Lauret Savoy, author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the America Landscape
£27.50
Yale University Press Principles and Agents
Book SynopsisA new history of the abolition of the British slave tradeTrade Review“Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that dominance was at its peak.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade“David Richardson’s meticulous exploration of the rise and fall of the British slave trade offers a brilliant synthesis of the history and historiography of a pivotal development in world history.”—Seymour Drescher, author of Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery“The most important recent single volume study of the slave trade, this is a book that commands attention. Richardson confronts a topic of great historical importance. It is a study conceived and executed with an intellectual verve and confidence.”—James Walvin, University of York“An important and timely book that will appeal to the general reader interested in the history of the British slave trade and the abolition movement.”—Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge
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WW Norton & Co William Wells Brown
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African American writer of the nineteenth century.Trade Review"Ezra Greenspan's painstaking historical research and artful insights of literary analysis have returned William Wells Brown to his rightful place...The very soul of this talented and complex man is laid bare by Greenspan's rich contextualization of Brown's abolitionist success, his remarkably prolific writing, and his legal statelessness in America yet cosmopolitan status as world citizen." -- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University "An informative and often moving account." "A compelling life of one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century-a boon to our understanding of African American and American culture." -- Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University "A scholarly tour de force. Drawing from an astonishing range of primary materials, Greenspan renders Brown's life in a gripping, elegant narrative that opens up many new vistas on Brown and his world." -- David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center "Rich and fascinating...Ezra Greenspan has accomplished a remarkable feat of innovative research and has lucidly brought Brown, the self-taught former slave, to life as a person and as a writer who repeatedly reinvented himself in several genres while producing a brilliant critique of America's dilemma with race." -- David W. Blight, Yale University "In his day, Brown rivaled Frederick Douglass as a prominent black abolitionist and exceeded him as an author of important histories and biographies of African Americans. Ezra Greenspan's definitive biography rescues Brown from undeserved obscurity." -- James M. McPherson, Princeton University "William Wells Brown not only was the first African American novelist; he was a master at bringing his contemporaries, the heroic black men and women of the Civil War generation, into full view with his pen. Now, at last, biographer Ezra Greenspan has done the same for Brown. The result is an "experimental voyage," beautifully written and exhaustively researched, that enthralls the reader while illuminating the improvisational genius of one of the nation's most influential fugitive slaves. In reconstructing the fullness of his story, long obscured by the Jim Crow era that followed, William Wells Brown: An African American Life, ensures that Brown's rightful place in the constellation of leading black men and women of letters will remain fixed for future generations." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University "A fascinating read and an excellent piece of historical detective work." -- Annette Gordon Reed, Harvard University "Greenspan's detailed study of this life of constant growth should win Brown his proper place in American history."
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