Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books

Book SynopsisExamines how, due to the fear of insurrection by the enslaved, southerners created their own version of American exceptionalism, one that placed the perpetuation of slavery at its forefront.

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Book SynopsisAlthough few recognize the name of Bras-Coupe today, Bryan Wagner's riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupe illustrates why the saga of this notorious escaped slave should be a touchstone among scholars and students of the African diaspora.

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Book SynopsisDuring six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War.

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Book SynopsisExplores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities were founded during the early French imperial expansion of the Atlantic world. Both became important port cities of their own continents, the Atlantic world as a whole, and the African diaspora.

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Book SynopsisExamines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes”, “mulattoes,” “mustees”, “Indians”, “mixed-bloods”, or simply “free people of color”. From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents.

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Book SynopsisExamines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famous maps: Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels.

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Book SynopsisExplores the epistemological possibilities of the Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas across multiple poetic, visual, and cultural permutations.

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Book SynopsisHow childbearing among enslaved women became commodified-and was exploited by slaveowners as well as slaves.Trade Review"Morgan's remarkably lucid treatment of the role of gender in constructing racial ideologies and in justifying the economic system of slavery should make such complex themes accessible to advanced undergraduates. Her book succeeds in highlighting the importance of African women in determining the shape of the slave system in the New World, as well as the ways in which the system shaped the experiences of African women. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"The author of this study has made a major contribution . . . by looking specifically at the issue of gender as a lens through which better to understand the establishment of race-based slavery in Britain's colonies in the Caribbean and North America." * The Historian *Table of Contents1. "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology 2. "The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe": The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles 3. "The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers": Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies 4. "Hannah and Hir Children": Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women 5. "Women's Sweat": Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World 6. "Deluders and Seducers of Each Other": Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance

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Book SynopsisIt is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were introduced, governments found ways of continuing similar forms of coercion and exploitation, such as forced, bonded, and indentured labor. Every country in the world has now abolished slavery, yet millions of people continue to find themselves subject to contemporary forms of slavery, such as human trafficking, wartime enslavement, and the worst forms of child labor. The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking offers an innovative study in the attempt to understand and eradicate these ongoing human rights abuses.In The Anti-Slavery Project, historian and human rights expert Joel Quirk examines the evolution of political opposition to slavery frTrade Review"In this excellent exposé of the history of slavery from its legal abolition to contemporary manifestations, Professor Joel Quirk fills a serious gap in the study of this issue and lucidly addresses the inevitable trait-d'union existing between past and present in slavery studies." * Leiden Journal of International Law *"Quirk has joined an increasing number of historians who should be applauded for devoting themselves to human rights, and he makes a valuable contribution by linking slavery to contemporary forms of exploitation." * Human Rights Quarterly *"Quirk further develops an analytical thread that has woven throughout much of his scholarship: the problems attendant to the inherited definition and iconography of the transatlantic slave trade. . . . His work remains pivotal in the field." * Human Rights Review *"The current anti-slavery movement labours under a delusion. The popular notion that some new and monstrous mutation burst upon the world at the end of the twentieth century serves no one well, least of all those in slavery. This original and insightful book helps us to see slavery clearly, both in the past and today. It is very difficult to solve a problem you do not understand, and more so if the problem is called by a different name every generation. The Anti-Slavery Project offers invaluable assistance to modern abolitionists and scholars along the lines of Einstein's dictum: 'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.'" * Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves *"In this path-breaking book, Joel Quirk provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between the global history of slavery and abolition and contemporary forms of human bondage. By focusing upon the limitations-as well as strengths-of the historical abolition movement, The Anti-Slavery Project offers new insights into the enduring yet constantly evolving challenges that have faced slaves, former slaves and other vulnerable groups at many different times and places." * Paul E. Lovejoy, York University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Anti-Slavery Project PART I: THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE LEGAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY 1. A Short History of British Anti-Slavery 2. British Anti-Slavery and European International Society 3. British Anti-Slavery and European Colonialism PART II: LINKING THE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY 4. The Limits of Legal Abolition 5. Defining Slavery in All Its Forms PART III: CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY 6. "Classical" Slavery and Descent-Based Discrimination 7. Slaves to Debt 8. Trafficked into Slavery Conclusion: Contemporary Slavery in the Shadow of History Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisJames J. Gigantino II shatters the easy dichotomy between free and slave states in early America. The Ragged Road to Abolition illustrates how slavery in New Jersey persisted until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and reveals the myriad ways this marginalized the state's free blacks.Trade Review"This magisterial volume sets the standard for examining slavery in New Jersey politics, economy, and society. More broadly, Gigantino deepens understanding of the state's role in sustaining the North's ambivalent stance on the peculiar institution." * Choice *"James Gigantino II has written . . . the definitive book on the abolition of slavery in New Jersey." * American Studies *"Gigantino . . . has written an accessible account of abolition that will be useful to New Jersey historians, educators, and even legislators." * Journal of American History *"A fresh, well-documented tale that forces us to reconsider much of what we thought we knew about the social, political, and productive life of a young nation." * Susan O'Donovan, University of Memphis *"The Ragged Road to Abolition does much more than fill a historiographical hole. It highlights how slavery and freedom operated on a continuum, rather than as oppositional states." * Hilary Moss, Amherst College *

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Book SynopsisIn The Black Urban Atlantic, eleven original essays by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America chronicle the black experience in Atlantic ports, providing a rich and diverse portrait of the ways in which Africans experienced urban life during the era of plantation slavery.Trade Review"A timely and important collection of essays on a subject of vital interest to historians of the early modern Atlantic world. By decisively moving away from an earlier generation of scholars who seemed to see slavery and urban life as incompatible, this substantial and original volume makes a major contribution to the ways in which we study Atlantic history and the African diaspora." * Vincent Brown, Harvard University *Table of ContentsIntroduction —Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury I. AFRICAN IDENTITIES IN ATLANTIC SPACES Chapter 1. Identity among Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone —David Northrup Chapter 2. Ouidah as a Multiethnic Community —Robin Law Chapter 3. African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia —João José Reis II. THE SOURCES OF BLACK AGENCY Chapter 4. Re-creating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba —Matt D. Childs Chapter 5. The Slaves and Free People of Color of Cap Français —David Geggus Chapter 6. Kingston, Jamaica: Crucible of Modernity —Trevor Burnard III. URBAN SPACES AND BLACK AUTONOMY Chapter 7. The African Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Cartagena and Its Hinterlands —Jane Landers Chapter 8. The Cultural Geography of Enslaved Ship Pilots —Kevin Dawson Chapter 9. Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda —Roquinaldo Ferreira Chapter 10. African Barbeiros in Brazilian Slave Ports —Mariza de Carvalho Soares IV. BLACK IDENTITIES IN NONPLANTATION ECONOMIES Chapter 11. The Hidden Histories of African Lisbon —James H. Sweet Chapter 12. Black Brotherhoods in Mexico City —Nicole von Germeten List of Contributors Notes Bibliographic Essay Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisExamining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, Daughters of the Trade uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.Trade Review"An important contribution that will appeal to a broad audience of scholars who have an interest in the history of entanglements, Africa, Europe, the Atlantic, gender, power relations, race and society." * Itinerario *"A carefully researched and illuminating addition to scholarship on Danish colonial history, the study of the Atlantic slave trade and its impacts on African history, and scholarship on the making of the Atlantic world." * American Historical Review *"Ipsen has opened a previously closed window. In the process, she has provided us with an analysis of interracial marriage in the Atlantic that bridges the early modern and modern, as well as the precolonial and colonial, with significant implications for interpretations of better known cases in the Dutch, French, and British Atlantic." * African Studies Review *"Ipsen breaks welcome new ground. . . . This is an excellent, very readable study that is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and courses on the history of gender, sexuality and racial dynamics in the Atlantic world." * Slavery & Abolition *"Daughters of the Trade is an important contribution to a growing body of literature on interracial marriage and the mixed-race communities that emerged on the African coast in the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Scholars and students of the Atlantic world, slavery and abolition, and West African slave-trade ports will find a great deal to consider in this work, especially in terms of methodology and analytical approach." * William & Mary Quarterly *"In this important and engaging study, Pernille Ipsen brings vividly to life the mixed-race communities that flourished around Danish forts on the West African coast. Her accessible work is full of surprises and adds a human dimension to the often abstract history of the slave trade, and the importance and originality of her research has implications far beyond West Africa. A first-rate achievement." * Randy J. Sparks, author of Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade *"Daughters of the Trade represents the best of recent work that seeks to problematize the formal conjugal relationships between European men and African and Euro-African women that were such a prominent feature of the trading cities and forts of coastal West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. In elucidating the centrality of intimate relations in the trade and African colonialism, Ipsen's graceful and intellectually lucid book will almost certainly become the benchmark monograph on the subject." * Emily Clark, author of The Strange History of the American Quadroon *"In this carefully researched and beautifully written study, Pernille Ipsen uses interracial marriages on the West African coast to illustrate the very local construction of race and racial consciousness in the Atlantic world. African women are at the heart of this story-as wives, as traders, as mothers, and as daughters. Women's lives have too often fallen to the margins, and Daughters of the Trade forcefully argues that African women played crucial, if complicated, roles in the development of the Atlantic world." * Jennifer Morgan, New York University *Table of ContentsMaps Introduction. Severine's Ancestors Chapter 1. Setting Up Chapter 2. A Hybrid Position Chapter 3. "What in Guinea You Promised Me" Chapter 4. "Danish Christian Mulatresses" Chapter 5. Familiar Circles Epilogue. Edward Carstensen's Parenthesis Notes Note on Sources Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world''s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery''s Capitalism argues for slavery''s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation''s spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence.Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholTrade Review"Slavery's Capitalism is a time capsule, neatly containing one of the most important developments in American scholarly and public life that took place during the Obama presidency. . . . The publication of Slavery's Capitalism at the tail end of the Obama era thus provides the perfect opportunity to take stock of what was accomplished in the last round of historicization: to see what is valuable in the paradigm of 'slavery's capitalism,' what is new about the 'new' history of capitalism in the United States, and what, if any, dangers of presentism its practitioners succumbed to. The book both incorporates and builds on a wave of recent scholarship on slavery and capitalism in the United States." * Times Literary Supplement *"The intimate relationship between capitalism and slavery has been too-long dismissed, and with it, the centrality of African and African American labor to the foundation of our modern economic system. Slavery's Capitalism announces the emergence of a new generation of scholars whose detailed research into every nook and cranny of emerging capitalism reveals the inextricable links between the enslavement of people of African descent and today's global economy." * Leslie Harris, Emory University *"The centrality of slavery to the economic development of the United States is revealed here more fully, in more dimensions, than in any other book. Anyone who wants to understand this profound revolution in historical thinking will find no better place to start." * Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America *"This fascinating collection of essays adds striking new insights to the venerable debate over the relationship between capitalism and slavery. It demonstrates slavery's centrality to the nineteenth-century Atlantic economy, and how slavery was fully compatible with technological, managerial, and financial innovation, but also why southern slavery differed from northern capitalism in ways that helped to produce the irrepressible conflict." * Eric Foner, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad *"With some of the best work in one of the hottest fields in American history, Slavery's Capitalism re-centers the history of American capitalism on racial slavery as the U.S. economy's initial engine for development. I admire the ambition of the scholarly project and applaud the topical range of the essays." * Gary J. Kornblith, coeditor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Slavery's Capitalism —Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman PART I. PLANTATION TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 1. Toward a Political Economy of Slave Labor: Hands, Whipping-Machines, and Modern Power —Edward E. Baptist Chapter 2. Slavery's Scientific Management: Masters and Managers —Caitlin Rosenthal Chapter 3. An International Harvest: The Second Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Development of the McCormick Reaper —Daniel B. Rood PART II. SLAVERY AND FINANCE Chapter 4. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Capitalism: Local Credit Networks and the Mortgaging of Slaves —Bonnie Martin Chapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism: Speculation, Slavery, and Economic Panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841 —Joshua D. Rothman Chapter 6. "Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death": Human Capital and Enslaved Mortality —Daina Ramey Berry Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made—Kathryn Boodry PART III. NETWORKS OF INTEREST AND THE NORTH Chapter 8. "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the Slave Economies of the West Indies —Eric Kimball Chapter 9. "No country but their counting-houses": The U.S.-Cuba-Baltic Circuit, 1809-1812 —Stephen Chambers Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest —Calvin Schermerhorn PART IV. NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NATURAL BOUNDARIES Chapter 11. War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution —Craig Steven Wilder Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch: Mathew Carey's 1819 —Andrew Shankman Chapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought —Alfred L. Brophy Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? Economic Development and Education in the Limestone South —John Majewski Notes Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There are a number of things to recommend Gerbner's welcome study. Throughout the text she reminds readers that the English, Dutch, and some French colonists in the Caribbean were arguably shaped more by their Protestantism than any national attachments. That this was especially the case in their engagement with slavery is an important revelation. She is also good at exploring and imagining the response of slaves and free blacks to the evolving theology of slavery that was gradually strengthening slavery's grasp in every corner of the Atlantic world. Perhaps most of all, she shines a light on Christianity's complicity in the development of modern racism." * Journal of Early Modern History *"In case we thought that North American problems with slavery were homegrown, Katharine Gerbner shows in great detail how the same problems existed in the colonized islands of the Atlantic as far back as the early seventeenth century- and indeed were imported directly from these islands to Maryland, South Carolina, and other Southern colonies . . . Her judgment is harsh. But it is a judgment based on impeccable research. Christian Slavery is the sort of well-grounded microhistory that, in the end, proves more valuable than wide-ranging surveys and broad declarations." * Commonweal *"In looking at this relationship between white-exclusivist 'Protestant Supremacy,' the formation of a paternalist Christian Slavery that encouraged conversion of blacks but discouraged their literacy, and the role of Africans and African Americans in compelling (through their words and actions) a rethinking of the relationship between Christianity and slavery, Gerbner has given us a new synthesis that incorporates the Atlantic world perspective beautifully. And she has given us another version of the grim irony of Southern religious history." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Gerbner's facility with Old German Script and Dutch documentary evidence has furnished a much-needed revision of the story of Christian Slavery, uncovering vital evidence for understanding the emergence of White Supremacy. Her focus on the Caribbean Islands is vital, given the fact that slavery there far outweighed slavery on the mainland. Finally, Gerbner's contribution on the role of literacy as an empowering tool for the oppresssed is significant." * Fides et Historia *"How and why did Christianity, seemingly built on spiritual emancipation and equality, give blessing to African slavery in the Americas? Christian Slavery is a powerful new interpretation of this question that will inspire scholars to rethink the connections between religion, race, and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world." * Jon Sensbach, University of Florida *"With impressive chronological and geographical breadth and a clear-eyed, transdenominational perspective, Christian Slavery reveals how the religious programs of early Quakers, Anglicans, and Moravians all became entangled with colonial slavery." * Travis Glasson, Temple University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Christian Slaves in the Atlantic World Chapter 2. Protestant Supremacy Chapter 3. Quaker Slavery and Slave Rebellion Chapter 4. From Christian to White Chapter 5. The Imperial Politics of Slave Conversion Chapter 6. The SPG and Slavery Chapter 7. Inner Slavery and Spiritual Freedom Chapter 8. Defining True Conversion Epilogue. Proslavery Theology and Black Christianity Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFollowing the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world —regardless of their status, gender, or race—negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender.Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also caused these hierarchies to collapse even before the age of Atlantic revolutions. Placing families at the center of the French Atlantic world, Palmer uses the concept of intimacy to illustrate how race, gender, and the law intersected to form a new worldview. Through analysis of personal, mercantile, and legal relationships, Trade Review"Intimate Bonds illuminates how slaves and free people of color challenged the hardening racial and social hierarchies of the eighteenth century. . . . The well-crafted blend of deep archival research and insightful prose makes Intimate Bonds a terrific addition to seminars on race, colonialism, and gender, as well as the Atlantic World, early America, early Latin America, and France." * Journal of Social History *"A striking and original study that will engage both scholars and students in its vivid exploration of families and people in eighteenth-century Atlantic France. Extensive and detailed archival research undergirds each narrative gem. The prose is simple and lively, hiding the author's hard work of empirically verifying familial and historical connections." * Sue Peabody, Washington State University *"Intimate Bonds is a deeply-researched book that offers an important intervention in the fields of early modern French and French Atlantic history. Analyzing a broader range of actors than previous historians, Jennifer L. Palmer sheds important new light on the contested, constructed, and shifting meanings of 'race' in the French Atlantic world." * Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon *

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Book SynopsisFollowing the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period. As race-based slavery became entrenched in French laws, all household members in the French Atlantic world —regardless of their status, gender, or race—negotiated increasingly stratified legal understandings of race and gender.Through her focus on household relationships, Jennifer L. Palmer reveals how intimacy not only led to the seemingly immutable hierarchies of the plantation system but also caused these hierarchies to collapse even before the age of Atlantic revolutions. Placing families at the center of the French Atlantic world, Palmer uses the concept of intimacy to illustrate how race, gender, and the law intersected to form a new worldview. Through analysis of personal, mercantile, and legal relationships, Trade Review"Intimate Bonds illuminates how slaves and free people of color challenged the hardening racial and social hierarchies of the eighteenth century. . . . The well-crafted blend of deep archival research and insightful prose makes Intimate Bonds a terrific addition to seminars on race, colonialism, and gender, as well as the Atlantic World, early America, early Latin America, and France." * Journal of Social History *"A striking and original study that will engage both scholars and students in its vivid exploration of families and people in eighteenth-century Atlantic France. Extensive and detailed archival research undergirds each narrative gem. The prose is simple and lively, hiding the author's hard work of empirically verifying familial and historical connections." * Sue Peabody, Washington State University *"Intimate Bonds is a deeply-researched book that offers an important intervention in the fields of early modern French and French Atlantic history. Analyzing a broader range of actors than previous historians, Jennifer L. Palmer sheds important new light on the contested, constructed, and shifting meanings of 'race' in the French Atlantic world." * Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon *

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Book SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world''s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery''s Capitalism argues for slavery''s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation''s spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence.Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholTrade Review"Slavery's Capitalism is a time capsule, neatly containing one of the most important developments in American scholarly and public life that took place during the Obama presidency. . . . The publication of Slavery's Capitalism at the tail end of the Obama era thus provides the perfect opportunity to take stock of what was accomplished in the last round of historicization: to see what is valuable in the paradigm of 'slavery's capitalism,' what is new about the 'new' history of capitalism in the United States, and what, if any, dangers of presentism its practitioners succumbed to. The book both incorporates and builds on a wave of recent scholarship on slavery and capitalism in the United States." * Times Literary Supplement *"The intimate relationship between capitalism and slavery has been too-long dismissed, and with it, the centrality of African and African American labor to the foundation of our modern economic system. Slavery's Capitalism announces the emergence of a new generation of scholars whose detailed research into every nook and cranny of emerging capitalism reveals the inextricable links between the enslavement of people of African descent and today's global economy." * Leslie Harris, Emory University *"The centrality of slavery to the economic development of the United States is revealed here more fully, in more dimensions, than in any other book. Anyone who wants to understand this profound revolution in historical thinking will find no better place to start." * Edward L. Ayers, author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America *"This fascinating collection of essays adds striking new insights to the venerable debate over the relationship between capitalism and slavery. It demonstrates slavery's centrality to the nineteenth-century Atlantic economy, and how slavery was fully compatible with technological, managerial, and financial innovation, but also why southern slavery differed from northern capitalism in ways that helped to produce the irrepressible conflict." * Eric Foner, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad *"With some of the best work in one of the hottest fields in American history, Slavery's Capitalism re-centers the history of American capitalism on racial slavery as the U.S. economy's initial engine for development. I admire the ambition of the scholarly project and applaud the topical range of the essays." * Gary J. Kornblith, coeditor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Slavery's Capitalism —Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman PART I. PLANTATION TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 1. Toward a Political Economy of Slave Labor: Hands, Whipping-Machines, and Modern Power —Edward E. Baptist Chapter 2. Slavery's Scientific Management: Masters and Managers —Caitlin Rosenthal Chapter 3. An International Harvest: The Second Slavery, the Virginia-Brazil Connection, and the Development of the McCormick Reaper —Daniel B. Rood PART II. SLAVERY AND FINANCE Chapter 4. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Capitalism: Local Credit Networks and the Mortgaging of Slaves —Bonnie Martin Chapter 5. The Contours of Cotton Capitalism: Speculation, Slavery, and Economic Panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841 —Joshua D. Rothman Chapter 6. "Broad is de Road dat Leads ter Death": Human Capital and Enslaved Mortality —Daina Ramey Berry Chapter 7. August Belmont and the World the Slaves Made—Kathryn Boodry PART III. NETWORKS OF INTEREST AND THE NORTH Chapter 8. "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the Slave Economies of the West Indies —Eric Kimball Chapter 9. "No country but their counting-houses": The U.S.-Cuba-Baltic Circuit, 1809-1812 —Stephen Chambers Chapter 10. The Coastwise Slave Trade and a Mercantile Community of Interest —Calvin Schermerhorn PART IV. NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND NATURAL BOUNDARIES Chapter 11. War and Priests: Catholic Colleges and Slavery in the Age of Revolution —Craig Steven Wilder Chapter 12. Capitalism, Slavery, and the New Epoch: Mathew Carey's 1819 —Andrew Shankman Chapter 13. The Market, Utility, and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought —Alfred L. Brophy Chapter 14. Why Did Northerners Oppose the Expansion of Slavery? Economic Development and Education in the Limestone South —John Majewski Notes Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with AfricaAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa''s political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler.In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa''s kings required IbTrade Review"At the core of Bennett's book is the argument that the fierce competition between Portugal and Spain over the African Atlantic, which was significantly mediated by the Church, was crucial to the creation of the modern nation-state and of what became modern European nationalism. Early national identities in Europe were forged, to a substantial extent, on the basis of competition over trade and influence in Africa. And this, Bennett says, gets completely lost in Western histories that fast-forward from the conquest of the Canary Islands to Columbus's arrival in the Americas." * New York Review of Books *"Bennett engages a wide historiography and offers new perspectives on early Atlantic legal culture, political and religious authority, pageantry, and slavery. Bennett complicates the narrative that Europeans rendered Africans into property and capital through Roman law and Christian theology . . . .African Kings and Black Slaves is one of the boldest and most successful attempts yet to engage the fields of African studies, history, and critical theory equally." * Hispanic American Historical Review *"African Kings and Black Slaves is an impressive work that fundamentally challenges current understandings of slavery, empire and modernity, and will likely be the cornerstone of a new body of scholarship it invites." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The book is short but packed with Bennett's analyses of the work of previous and current theorists and scholars. His judgments are acute, and . . . [h]e examines a prodigious amount of theory, using those parts of the corpus and the arguments that are pertinent and demolishing those he deems mistaken or misleading . . . The book is a major accomplishment and a testament to Bennett's wide reading. All those working on Atlantic slavery will need to take it into account." * Renaissance Quarterly *"Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves is a prelude to an essential contribution to Anglo-American studies of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. It is a tour de force historiographical essay. The ideological aims underpinning Bennett’s work are rather astute. Bennett offers an incendiary understanding of the 1441 Afro-European contacts against the existing historiography about the Atlantic slave trade." * Black Perspectives *"African Kings and Black Slavesconstitutes an impressive reframing of the origins of African and European sovereignty, absolutism, trade, and the legal and economic underpinnings of slaving and the African diaspora...Bennett’s book is immensely valuable due to his insistence on historicizing fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuryAfrican-Europeanencounters without the totalizing frame of an always already powerful Europe." * H-Altlantic *"An immensely thought-provoking book. In his sophisticated reconsideration of late-medieval European characterizations of sub-Saharan Africans, Herman L. Bennett troubles the traditional account of the rise of the West." * David Wheat, Michigan State University *"Herman L. Bennett's indispensable study alerts us to the political and intellectual consequences of flattening the history of Europe's relations with Africa by overlooking the Iberian experience. He ably shows how recuperating the notion of African sovereignty, abundantly recognized in early exchanges, can fundamentally change our understanding of African polities and African subjects." * Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles *"African Kings and Black Slaves centers the histories of peoples of African descent in the grand tale of imperial conquest and power and thereby challenges the dominant narrative that colonial slavery has timelessly been about freedom. Herman Bennett is especially sensitive to the multisited nature of the contests set in motion by colonial encounters." * Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1. Liberalism Chapter 2. Mythologies Chapter 3. Law Chapter 4. Authority Chapter 5. Histories Chapter 6. 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Book SynopsisIn the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does. In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 Afric-American Picture Gallery appeared in seven installments iTrade Review"n The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires analyzes how early Black newspapers, pamphlets, and the published proceedings of the Black conventions gave birth to new theories and practices of citizenship...Spires’s recovery of independent Black theories of citizenship is intellectually sophisticated and highly original. Spires offers a “reparative reading” of African American ideas about citizenship that go beyond the country’s founding ideals of civic republicanism." * The New York Review of Books *""[E]ngaging, powerful, and absolutely necessary . . . In The Practice of Citizenship, Spires theorizes alongside some of the most brilliant and challenging writers of the nineteenth century. But with an ease made all the more impressive because of its seeming effortlessness, Spires has written a detailed and elegant book that offers his readers a well cleared pathway into the world of black theorizing in the nineteenth century, and thus provided us with an opportunity to learn from activist-writers who developed and enacted practices of citizenship that engaged with but refused to be bound by the rules and regulations of a white supremacist state. And as an interpreter of and guide through these practices, Spires models for us black theorizing in the twenty-first century, an approach that is at once scholarly method and ethical imperative. An inspired and inspiring work filled with theories and practices that are as necessary now as they were then, The Practice of Citizenship is, in short, essential reading." * Reviews in American History *"[A]n intelligent and well-researched analysis of how writers of African descent in the New World understood and demonstrated citizenship from the late eighteenth century until the dawn of the Civil War. The Practice of Citizenship offers a robust foundation on which future generations of teachers, students, and researchers could learn more about the creativity and resolve of the African diaspora in its long quest for a citizenship they deserve rightfully and unquestionably to call their own." * Early American Literature *"The Practice of Citizenship is a rare and important book . . . In this beautifully written and theoretically sophisticated study, the author chronicles how Black people conceived and practiced citizenship in spaces including-and perhaps especially-beyond the nation-state form . . . It is as much a theory of contested spaces as it is a philosophy of community." * Modern Philology *"Derrick Spires’ The Practice of Citizenship is a beautifully written and brilliantly evocative work that centres print culture in the early United States as a site for the theorization and practice of citizenship for Black people…Reflecting on this book in the modern era, it is evident that there are historical carryovers as regards the theory and practice of Black citizenship which mark Spires’ work as urgent and necessary in the current moment. It would do well to recall that citizenship ideals and practices advocated by Black thinkers in the early United States, such as collective power, networks and neighborhoods, and critical citizenship, still remain vital in the ongoing twenty-first-century movement for recognition of Black citizenship in the United States, both in theory and in practice." * American Nineteenth Century History *"Derrick Spires’s comprehensive, wide-ranging analysis of citizenship in early African American print culture is a magnificent study in the field. It will stand among the milestone studies of early African American literature and print culture among this generation of scholars. His book positions African American ideas of citizenship between the American Revolution and Civil War as nuanced, protean, and evolving. He proposes the theory—brilliant, generative, carefully elaborated, and conversation-shifting—that African Americans claimed and constructed the role of citizenship as one entwined in action, in the process of doing everyday civil, political, familial, and commercial work in their communities." * American Periodicals *"Offering a richly immersive experience, The Practice of Citizenship displaces well-known representative figures, foregrounds a diverse community of letters, and significantly increases our understanding of African American discourses of citizenship." * Jeannine DeLombard, University of California, Santa Barbara *"Derrick R. Spires orchestrates insightful readings of both the most important and underutilized touchstones in early Black print studies like a master conductor. By having an array of early Black authors, events, and exchanges in play together and by amplifying how early Black writers and communities created, enlivened, and sustained collective advocacy, Spires's work is poised to significantly expand the canon of nineteenth-century texts scholars write about and teach. The Practice of Citizenship is a considerable achievement." * P. Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Black Theorizing: Reimagining a "Beautiful but Baneful Object" Chapter 1. Neighborly Citizenship in Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late and Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 Chapter 2. Circulating Citizenship in the Black State Conventions of the 1840s Chapter 3. Economic Citizenship in Ethiop and Communipaw's New York Chapter 4. Critical Citizenship in the Anglo-African Magazine, 1859-1860 Chapter 5. Pedagogies of Revolutionary Citizenship Conclusion. 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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Goddu’s bold monograph contributes new interpretive tools to the collective efforts to recover neglected aspects of the African American archive. And it adds its voice to the growing collection of studies prompting us to scrutinize the structures of white abolitionist feeling. Selling Antislavery also sets the scene for further material and visual histories of the antebellum abolitionist movement, and the manifold, complex affective confrontations with slavery that brought the US to Civil War." * American Literary History *"Selling Antislavery offers a richly detailed and meticulously researched interrogation of the American Antislavery Society’s print, visual, and material culture. Goddu’s careful analysis of the ways these objects and texts shaped the tastes, perspective, and identity of those white northerners who would come to define the region’s middle class is especially compelling. " * Winterthur Portfolio *"What makes Selling Antislavery essential reading is the breadth of its research, the depth of its analysis, and the way it demonstrates that 'the movement’s rhetorical approaches were consolidated by its material practices'...Selling Antislavery will interest early Americanists for how it moves from the decades of antislavery activism before the 1830s through the 1860s. It is an important study for anyone interested in the history of media, politics, and culture in the United States." * Early American Literature *"This meticulously researched and crisply argued book manages the interlocking commercial, sentimental, and political formations of 19th-century U.S. print and material cultures with nuance and analytical dexterity...Goddu’s book represents the crucial work that print and material culture studies do. Her readings texture conversations of the literary with material and print cultures’ tangible, quotidian presences...[Selling Antislavery] s a model of how to contextualize whiteness and its various communities and identities and practices, helping us to think about how whiteness as an identity mobilizes racial politics to define itself not just seemingly against Blackness, but also seemingly against racism and anti-Blackness." * Textual Cultures *"Selling Antislavery provides a comprehensive analysis of the fascinating material culture of abolitionism: quirky almanacs, women's Christmas fairs, lavish gift annuals, and grand panoramas of southern slavery and black achievement. It is the book for which slavery studies-and American studies more broadly-has been waiting." * Jeannine DeLombard, author of In the Shadows of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity *"Through a multimedia array of case studies, Teresa A. Goddu focuses on the business-minded corporatism of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Her book is a much-needed history of the key dynamic that drove the rapid evolution of the antislavery effort in the United States from a small, heterogenous, and unpopular collection of gradualists and radicals into an organized and efficient mass movement." * Marcy Dinius, author of The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Antislavery Inc. Part I. Antislavery Print Culture Chapter 2. Summing Up Slavery: The Antislavery Almanac and the Production of Fact Chapter 3. The African American Slave Narrative as Factual Compendium Part II. Antislavery Material Culture Chapter 4. Speaking Objects: Antislavery Fairs and Sentimental Consumerism Chapter 5. Antislavery Fairs and the Culture of Class Part III. Antislavery Visual Culture Chapter 6. Antislavery's Panoramic Perspective Chapter 7. Fugitive Sight: African American Panoramas of Slavery and Freedom Conclusion. The American Anti-Slavery Society Celebrates Its Third Decade Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisHow important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slaveryIn Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery.In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C. Nell, Thomas Sidney, and Charlotte Forten, and Transcendentalist intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, developed a Higher Law ethos, a unique set of romantic political sensibilitiesmarked by moral enthusiasms, democratic idealism, and a vision of the self that could judge political questions from higher standards of morality and reason. The Transcendentalism that emerges here is not simply the dreamy philosophy of privileged white New Englanders, but a more populist movement, one that encouraged an uncompromising forTrade Review"Fighting for the Higher Law is not just the most comprehensive study to date of Transcendentalism's relationship to the abolitionist movement but a gripping story to boot." * Journal of American History *"The effort to correct a whitewashed understanding of American Transcendentalism takes a giant step forward with Fighting for the Higher Law. Peter Wirzbicki has gifted us a richly detailed and revelatory study that restores Black thinkers and antislavery networks to Transcendentalism…The book offers us a new vision of the American crowd and celebrates within it each and all who kept with perfect sweetness the commitment to equality." * American Literary History *"The most thorough and convincing account to date of the relationship between Transcendentalism and the campaign to end slavery." * Journal of the Civil War Era *"[A]n important contribution to the history of both Transcendentalism and radical abolitionism, as well as to intellectual history as a discipline...[I]t expertly describes intellectual and political life as the converging point of different forces and currents produced by a diverse cast of characters and sites and that is not centered exclusively on white male canonical authors or institutions, without flattening the intricacies and sometimes deadlocks of movements built across gender, race, and class lines." * Journal of Southern History *"In his lucid, well-researched intellectual history, Wirzbicki, underscores the nexus between the philosophy of New England transcendentalism and the politics of abolitionism…. By centering abolitionism within the history of transcendentalism, and transcendentalism within the abolitionist crusade, Wirzbicki advances understanding of these two pillars of reform ideology and action in New England, in antebellum and Civil War-era America generally, and in the work of 20th-century racial reformers W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr." * Choice *"In these pages, with an eloquence worthy of William Cooper Nell and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Peter Wirzbicki urges us to hear the hidden harmonies between abolitionist and Transcendentalist thought, while never failing to notice the dissonances, too. This is an inspiring book that ranges as widely as the thinkers it follows. It demonstrates anew why intellectuals and the life of the mind mattered in the struggle to end slavery." * Caleb McDaniel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America *"Peter Wirzbicki brilliantly rescues Transcendental abolitionists from the caricatures and myths that surround their history. Perhaps the most original contribution he makes is to foreground the forgotten intellectual and political contributions of African American Transcendentalists. This astute book will forever change the way we think about Transcendentalism and foreground its antislavery contributions to the American radical democratic imagination." * Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Within this study, Dwyer argues persuasively that for both slaveholders and the enslaved, emotion was used as a crucial tool of power and thus mastering one’s emotions, as the title suggests, was integral to navigating daily life under slavery...By emphasizing the central role that emotion played in the maintenance of and resistance to slavery, Dwyer is doing the vital work of urging us to recognize the pervasive role emotion--an often overlooked social and political force--continues to play in upholding racist power structures in today’s society." * American Nineteenth Century History *"In Mastering Emotions, Erin Austin Dwyer insightfully demonstrates how emotions shaped, maintained, and challenged the institution of slavery by examining the power dynamics of real and performative feelings between people who were enslaved and slave owners...Mastering Emotions covers considerable ground, examining a number of emotions from multiple angles and perspectives...Importantly, Dwyer's conclusion makes a strong case for further academic and cultural work to better understand the power dynamics of emotions within race relations since the abolition of slavery more than 150 years ago." * The Journal of Southern History *""Essential...Dwyer’s thoroughly documented study demonstrates that white southerners often dismissed the emotional capacity of Black people, especially when it came to separating enslaved families by sale...One of the many virtues of this volume is that Dwyer carries her story beyond emancipation into the Jim Crow era." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Emotional Politics of Slavery Chapter 1. "To Change Their Sentiments" Chapter 2. "Born and Reared in Slavery" Chapter 3. "The Pursuit of Happiness" Chapter 4. "Breach of Confidence" Chapter 5. "Fear No Lash, nor Worse" Chapter 6. "Enjoying Freedom" Epilogue. "The Sentiment Left by Slavery Is Still with Us" Notes Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisExamines the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners. The book draws on evidence from archaeology, history, geology, and other fields to explore the ways that white privilege continues to obscure the contributions of Black people at Mount Clare.Trade Review“Show[s] how much information a historical archaeologist can supply about the lives of enslaved.” - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in North Africa. Among those taken were the Lutheran minister Reverend Ólafur Egilsson. Reverend Ólafur wrote The Travels to chronicle his experiences both as a captive in Algiers and as a traveller across Europe.

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Book SynopsisWitnesses to the fragility of humanity, which is capable of freedom or slavery, brotherhood or hatred. Each chapter offers a ray of hope, suggesting how we might acknowledge and respond to this difficult history.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more.Trade Review"This excellent collection of essays covers the sweep of New Jersey history from the colonial, proprietary era to the recent politics of Mount Laurel. It brings together some of the finest writing on the state, and raises questions relevant to major themes in American history more generally. Maxine Lurie has provided an excellent introductory essay to contextualize each piece in the collection, and each essay also comes with suggestions for further reading on the topic. With its broad coverage of political,social, women's, African American, Native American, and labor history, thecollection will appeal to the general reader and be of enormous use tothose teaching New Jersey history in schools and universities." -- Paul G. E. Clemens * history department, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction by Maxine N. Lurie 1. New Jersey: The Unique Proprietary by Maxine N. Lurie 2. Origins and Patterns of Agrarian Unrest in New Jersey, 1735 to 1754 by Thomas L. Purvis 3. Declarations of Dependence: War and Inequality in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1776-1815 by Gregory Evans Dowd 4. New Jersey and the Two Constitutions by Mary R. Murrin 5. Party Formation in New Jersey in the Jackson Era by Richard P. McCormick 6. Feminism, Utopianism, and Domesticity: The Career of Rebecca Buffum Spring, 1811-1911 by Marie Marmo Mullaney 7. The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in a Free State (1685-1866) by Simeon F. Moss 8. The Political Front in Civil War New Jersey by Maurice Tandler 9. Newport of the Nouveaux Bourgeois by Charles E. Funnell 10. Mr. Justice Pitney and Progressivism by Michal R. Belknap 11. Bimson's Mistake: Or, How the Paterson Police Helped to Spread the 1913 Strike by Steve Golin 12. The Applejack Campaign of 1919: "As 'Wet' as the Atlantic Ocean" by Warren E. Stickle III 13. Women Standing for Women: The Early Political Career of Mary T. Norton by Gary Mitchell 14. Frank Hague, Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of the New Deal by Lyle W. Dorsett 15. Lessons in Land Use: Radburn and the Regional Planning Association of America by Danial Schaffer 16. The Beleaguered City as Promised Land: Blacks in Newark, 1917-1947 by Clement A. Price 17. The Political State of New Jersey: Conclusion by Gerald M. Pomper Index

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Book SynopsisGeorge Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon's enslaved workers have been largely left out of the story. Drawing on years of research in a wide range of sources, Mary Thompson offers the first comprehensive account of those who served in bondage at Mount Vernon.Trade Reviewbrilliant, erudite history of Mount Vernon" - ALH Online Review

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Book SynopsisAs he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1666-1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, translated here for the first time.

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Book SynopsisExplores the importance of slavery in the minds of Confederate soldiers and its effects on military policy and decision making. Beyond showing how essential the defense of slavery was in motivating Confederate troops to fight, Woodward examines the Rebels’ persistent belief in the need to defend slavery and deploy it militarily as the war raged on.

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Book SynopsisIn this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and indentured labor. Bonds of Citizenship illuminates the historical tensions between the legal paradigms of citizenship and contract, and in the emergence of free labor ideology in American culture.Phan argues that in the age of Emancipation the cultural attributes of free personhood became identified with the legal rights and privileges of the citizen, and that individual freedom thus became identified with the nation-state. He situates the emergence of American citizenship and the American novel within the context of Atlantic slavery and Anglo-American legal culture, placing early American texts by Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Brockden Brown alongside Black Atlantic texts by Ottobah Cugoano anTrade ReviewPhan (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) provides an original look at the cultural work of nation building....Readers with a rudimentary understanding of literary and political theoryand an awareness of economic historywill be best positioned to benefit from the author's extensive research into the legal, political, and literary writing of this important era, although many audiences will profit from his synthesis of these materials. * Choice *Phan does more than write a revisionist history, reimagining both American literary history and the long nineteenth century; his genealogy and his comparative method give us to understand how deeply entailed an earlier generations discussion of slavery might be with current prattle respecting 'original intent.'An immense contribution to law and literature scholarship. -- Stephen Best,University of California, BerkeleyBonds of Citizenshipis most insightful in its analyses of the controversies over the Constitutions stance on slavery and in particular what is often called the & fugitive slave clause of the Constitution. * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. "A Man from Another Country": Citizenship and the Bonds of Labor 1 Bound by Law: Apprenticeship and the Culture of "Free" Labor 2 Civic Virtues: Narrative Form and the Trial of Character in Early America 3 Fugitive Bonds: Contract and the Culture of Constitutionalism 4 Hereditary Bondsman: Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of the Law 5 "If Man Will Strike": Moby-Dick and the Letter of the Law Conclusion. The Labors of Emancipation: Founded Law and Freedom Defined Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. Eugene Berger provides a major corrective in the case of Chile, documenting how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organised crime families.Trade Review“This Incurable Evil examines a topic of great importance, yet one barely treated by scholars: the enslavement of Indigenous Chileans across a considerable stretch of the colonial period but centered on the seventeenth century. This rich and important book recovers and chronicles the ‘lost worlds’ of the Mapuche and their neighbors. The material is compelling, and the story is compellingly told."—Kris Lane, author of PotosÍ: The Silver City That Changed the World

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Book SynopsisWhile most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention.Trade Review“This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the West Africans’ fight against enslavement.” * Journal of World History *“The scholars in this collection overwhelmingly argue that certain populations of West Africans were keenly aware of the devastating impact of the transatlantic slave trade on their societies, and these populations sought to mitigate the damages as best they could.... This collection is particularly useful in teaching undergraduate and graduate students about the transatlantic slave trade to counter and balance the pervasive belief that Africans were either passive victims or active participants in slavery.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Fighting the Slave Trade provides a comprehensive and compelling interpretation of the West African involvement in the Atlantic trade…Its clear language and engaging style make it relevant both to specialists and a broader readership.” * Progress in Development Studies *

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Book SynopsisWhile most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention.Trade Review“This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the West Africans’ fight against enslavement.” * Journal of World History *“The scholars in this collection overwhelmingly argue that certain populations of West Africans were keenly aware of the devastating impact of the transatlantic slave trade on their societies, and these populations sought to mitigate the damages as best they could.... This collection is particularly useful in teaching undergraduate and graduate students about the transatlantic slave trade to counter and balance the pervasive belief that Africans were either passive victims or active participants in slavery.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Fighting the Slave Trade provides a comprehensive and compelling interpretation of the West African involvement in the Atlantic trade…Its clear language and engaging style make it relevant both to specialists and a broader readership.” * Progress in Development Studies *

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Book SynopsisSignificant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas.Trade Review“This anthology epitomized the strengths of the new history of slavery: a world-wide perspective that cuts across time and space … and an emphasis on the actual experience of enslavement and on enslaved peoples as active agents with their own distinct voices.”“The new history of slavery has begun to excavate women’s experiences and unpack the gendered nature of enslavement, but Campbell et al. offer the first focus on children, a focus that clearly resonates with international concern about child labor and child sexual abuse in the world today…. This is a path-breaking collection….” * Enterprise & Society *“The aims of (Children in Slavery Through the Ages’s) editors—to uncover the reasons for the purchase of slave children; and to illustrate their experiences—are amply fulfilled…. What is particularly illuminating about these essays is their potential to inform the study of children in contemporary forms of slavery, where here too, poverty is a central feature, deceit is widespread, and children are perceived as more submissive and easier to control.” * Reviews in History *“This excellent collection of studies on children in slavery leaves one looking forward to the second volume, which one hopes will provide a broader discussion of what the study of enslaved children can tell us about slavery (and childhood) more generally.” * Africa: Journal of the IAI *

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Book SynopsisThe abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived.Trade Review“Derek Peterson has succeeded in putting together a first-rate collection that extends our understanding of the global reach and influence of British abolitionism. Original and innovative, it offers a range of insights, not least about the legacy of abolitionism, that will have a major impact on future research in this area, while at the same time reshaping what has become known as the ‘new Atlantic history.’” * Journal of British Studies *“This is a strong collection of some of the best scholars in the field playing variations on the theme of abolition, slavery, and empire. The research and writing are of the highest quality, contributing to ongoing historiographical debates, and the book as a whole provides a strong synthesis of the current abolition literature for students.” * Victorian Studies *“This is an important collection, ambitious in its geographical and temporal sweep, meticulous in its attention to the specific, and providing a reassessment of both the campaign to end the British slave trade and the degree to which that campaign fashioned British imperial life and policy for decades after.” * The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History *“Both the introduction and the final essay by Glassman are fitting bookends to a volume that will serve as an excellent classroom text. They both summarize the existing literature while offering new insights into the legacy of abolitionist rhetoric more than a century after it was successfully deployed to help end the slave trade.” * African Studies Review *“Drawing together impressive contributions by established scholars, the essays reframe the study of African actors in African slavery and Britain’s imperialist agenda couched in the language of abolition…. The virtue of such a collection is two-fold and can easily be incorporated into either an introductory course or an advanced course in the field.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“This volume certainly sets a high standard for future publications to follow…. Abolitionism and Imperialism can be recommended without reservation both for the general reader and every educational level from sixth former upwards.” * African Research & Documentation *“Every essay is engaging and erudite….” * Labour, Capital and Society *“I must pay Derek Peterson an enormous tribute for selecting and editing such marvelous and cutting-edge scholarship. This volume should have a major impact for years to come on our interpretations of the broad and often unexplored effects and consequences of British abolitionism.”“Derek Peterson has assembled a sparkling collection which seriously challenges the narrative of abolition as British triumphalism, and incisively demonstrates the global reach of abolitionist discourse long after the abolition of slavery. It is refreshing to see a new cast of characters people the abolitionist stage, and from parts of the world well beyond Britain and the Atlantic.” * author of The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset *“The book’s seven essays highlight the political and moral latitude of abolitionism as well as the transoceanic discourse that it ignited during and even after the era of abolitionism…. These contributors certainly broaden our perspective of the abolitionist project in the West and beyond.” * Journal of Religion in Africa *

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Book SynopsisChild Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Trade Review“The subject of children and slavery has only recently become a special focus of scholars…. The focus on children as such is, therefore, a significant breakthrough in understanding slavery as a system in different institutionalized contexts.” * Journal of African History *

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Book SynopsisThrough an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the the transatlantic slave trade, Metaphor and the Slave Trade shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation and persist in West African discourse.Trade Review“Metaphor and the Slave Trade is a book that is long overdue in African literary studies. Using many of the literary canon’s most read texts, the author has presented a new perspective in the reading of these and other texts of African literature, opening the way forward for readers to nuance each and every African text for the subtle metaphors that point to a people’s memory of the slave trade.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Original and challenging…(Murphy) argues that while it has been acknowledged that the oral tradition registers the traumatic effect of the slave trade, scholars have been slow to recognize its deep imprint on the collective imaginary and the way in which it has been reflected in the modern literature in English.”“Murphy brings to the foreground a hitherto concealed trove of metaphors that, while inspired by the dark, long and gruesome history of slavery in West Africa, will prove to be a highly suggestive resource for re-thinking African literary history. A timely and highly innovative work.”“Drawing on the writings of Tutuola, Okri, Armah and Aidoo, Laura Murphy demonstrates how modern authors of fiction in Africa employ metaphors of the slave trade to reflect cultural memory of a past that is always alive in the present, no matter how obscure.”“A well-researched and beautifully written textual study…authoritative and carefully argued.”Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction * One: Against Amnesia Metaphor and Memory in West Africa * Two: Magical Capture in a Landscape of Terror The Trope of the Body in the Bag in Amos Tutuola's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts * Three: Geographies of Memory Mapping Slavery's Recurrence in Ben Okri's The Famished Road * Four: The Curse of Constant Remembrance The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments * Five: Childless Mothers and Dead Husbands The Enslavement of Intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's Secret Language of Memory * Six: The Suffering of Survival * Epilogue: The Future of the Past The New Historical Fiction * Notes * Bibliography * Index

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Book SynopsisIn Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa.Trade Review“Higgs provides a fascinating exploration of the use of forced labor in Portuguese African colonies and the politics of humanitarian investigations in the early 20th century…. This well-written book deserves to be read by scholars of colonial Africa and imperialism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *“Catherine Higgs’s Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa is an elegantly written, well-illustrated account of the ensuing investigations into this so-called new slavery in Africa orchestrated largely by Cadbury and the British Foreign Office.… [The] study resonates today, dealing, as it does, with the often tainted international origins of our later era of mass consumerism.” * American Historical Review *“An excellent study…illustrated by numerous contemporary photographs…. (Joseph) Burtt's correspondence with Cadbury, together with his report and writings, form the basis of a large part of Higgs's skillfully written and important book, which critically reassesses Cadbury's struggle between moral integrity and the need for competitively priced cocoa.” * African Affairs *“Higgs's accessible and graceful prose captures the complexities, contingencies, and contradictions of Burtt's voyage…. A fascinating journey approachable for scholars and casual readers.” * The Historian *“As the history of a commodity and social movement, Chocolate Islands is useful because it pulls together so many important narratives within African history. It is a worthwhile companion for multiple university applications, from modern Africa courses to world history, or as an excellent example of narrative historical techniques for graduate students.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Catherine Higgs has written a marvelous book examining the European dilemma over post-abolition forms of African labor…. Higgs weaves, with eye-opening success, seemingly disparate threads into a single historical landscape.” * Journal of African History *“Chocolate Islands is a superb book…. (It) should be read by undergraduates, graduate students, and the general reader who search for an understanding of the complexities of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, and the incongruities of the labor-recruitment policies of the Portuguese and other European colonizers.” * Enterprise and Society *“Like Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, Catherine Higgs takes us into another ‘heart of darkness’ of colonial rule. Chocolate Islands is a compelling read examining how the British chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers investigated the use of slave labor in Portuguese colonies to produce cocoa. It raises challenging questions not only about how a business with a humanitarian streak dealt with the use of forced labor in the early twentieth century, but also about the labor practices of businesses in the twenty-first-century world.”“(Chocolate Islands) takes the reader into the politics, diplomacy, and highly personal interactions among planters, philanthropists, missionaries, journalists, and anti-slavery activists, Portuguese colonial administrators, and authorities in both the British and Portuguese foreign offices…. Higgs’s careful work…adds depth and texture to our understanding of the Chocolate Islands and the turn of the century struggles around highly sought-after cocoa….” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“A considerable contribution to the literature on modern Portuguese colonialism and its Quaker critics” * H-Net (H-Luso-Africa) *“Higgs’s book is a reminder of the relevance of African histories to contemporary questions. There are obvious parallels between the serviçais and the factory workers of 21st-century China, or the cleaners and service providers of Dubai. Modern Western democracies may be founded on ideologies of freedom, but they have yet to reconcile these ideologies with what used to be known as the ‘labour question’. The intellectual incoherence of late capitalism emerges nowhere more starkly than in the paradox of the coercive labour regimes needed to facilitate unlimited free consumption.” * London Review of Books *“Catherine Higgs has combined careful academic research with the kind of skillful writing you'd expect in a good historical novel… . The book is strikingly relevant to today's headlines. It is an excellent study for academics who want to know how to research at a professional level and then write well for the public, and it will strongly appeal to general readers.” * Book News *“Catherine Higgs writes about the chocolate islands with clarity and conviction, commanding the evidence while presenting an argument about the ‘dignity of labor’ with an elegance of style. In terms of presentation, research and structure, the book is a tour de force.”“A fine, detailed work about the intersection of chocolate and slavery in the first decade of the 20th century.” * Library Journal *“Higgs offers a well-researched examination of the dynamics of race, labor, and colonialism in the early part of the twentieth century.” * Booklist *“Higgs takes us into the plantations of the chocolate islands and along the slave routes of southern Africa in this deeply researched and beautifully written investigation of slave, free, and coerced labor in early colonial Africa that began when Cadbury Brothers was accused of using cocoa harvested by slaves.”

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Book SynopsisSierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s.Trade Review“The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century, is an engaging history of Sierra Leone that departs from previous scholarship. Taking issue with those who have tended to describe the Krio as essentially a Christian and Westernized ‘ethnic group,’ [Cole] suggests that the Krio identity, forged in nineteenth-century Freetown, transcended ethnicity, culture, and even religion. Indeed, his study focuses not on Christians, but on the hitherto understudied Muslim Krios, a group he portrays as ‘marginalized within the marginalized’ … This informative book fills an important space on the shelves of Sierra Leonean history.” * American Historical Review *“…The Krio of West Africa is not only a long-overdue and welcome addition to the historical literature on Sierra Leone, but also a breath of fresh air for treating an important subject located in the longue durée of Sierra Leone’s past rather than privileging the aberration that much of the country’s postcolonial history has been. My prediction is that Cole’s monograph will become a benchmark for studying the complex histories of other indigenous ethnic groups of Sierra Leone.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Cole’s book is an important contribution to the history of Krio and Sierra Leonean society. … It also contributes to our historical knowledge concerning the spread of Islam in West Africa and the Krio Muslims’ role in it.” * Comparativ *“Cole’s long awaited book… is an engaging history of Sierra Leone that departs from previous scholarship. Taking issue with those who have tended to describe the Krio as essentially a Christian and Westernized ‘ethnic group,’ he suggests that the Krio identity, forged in nineteenth-century Freetown, transcended ethnicity, culture, and even religion. …This informative book fills an important space on the shelves of Sierra Leonean history.” * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTwenty-six authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds look at the vexed, traumatic intersections of the histories of slavery and of sexuality. They argue that such intersections mattered profoundly and, indeed, that slavery cannot be understood without adequate attention to sexuality.Trade Review“This collection challenges many established conceptual boundaries, and refines and reinterprets others.” * African Studies Quarterly *Table of Contents* Introduction: Key themes and perspectives Elizabeth Elbourne * Part I - Paradigms and Overviews: Points of Departure and Return * 1. Slavery, Sex, and Dehumanization David Brion Davis * 2. Sexuality and Slavery in the Western Sudan Martin Klein * 3. Sex and Power in the Russian Institutions of Slavery and Serfdom Richard Hellie * Part II - Concubinage, Law, and the Family * 4. Suria: Concubine or Secondary Slave Wife? The Case of Zanzibar in the Nineteenth Century Abdul Sheriff * 5. A Sexual Order in the Making: Wives and Slaves in Early Imperial China Griet Vankeerberghen * 6. "To marry one's slave is as easy as eating a meal": The Dynamics of Carnal Relations within Saharan Slavery E. Ann McDougall * 7. Slavery, Family Life, and the African Diaspora in the Arabian Gulf, 1880?-?1940 Matthew S. Hopper * 8. "I ask for divorce because my husband does not let me go back to my country of origin with my brother": Gender, Family, and the End of Slavery in the Region of Kayes, French Soudan (1890?-?1920) Marie Rodet * 9. The Fatal Sorbet: An Account of Slavery, Jealousy, Pregnancy, and Murder in a Harem in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1850 George La Rue * Part III - Intimate Power: Sexuality and Slavery in the Households of the Atlantic World * 10. Sexual Relations between the Enslaved as well as between Slaves and Non-Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Ulrike Schmieder * 11. "This Complicated Incest": Children, Sexuality, and Sexual Abuse during Slavery and the Apprenticeship Period in the British Caribbean, 1790- 1838 Tara Iniss * 12. Strategies for Social Mobility: Liaisons between Foreign Men and Slave Women in Benguela, ca. 1770-1850 Mariana Candido * Part IV - Sex Trafficking and Prostitution * 13. Japanese Brothel Prostitution, Daily Life, and the Client: Colonial Singapore, 1870-1940 James Francis Warren * 14. Body Price: Ambiguities in the Sale of Women at the End of the Qing Dynasty Johanna Ransmeier * 15. Sex, Slavery, and Human Trafficking in Nigeria: An Overview Roseline Uyanga with Marie-Luise Ermisch * 16. The Rise of Sex Trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia since the 1960s Francesca Ann Louise Mitchell * 17. The Japanese Army and Comfort Women in World War II Shigeru Sato * Part V - Art, Sexuality, and Slavery * 18. Hidden Geographies of the Cape: Shifting Representations of Slavery and Sexuality in South African Art and Fiction Gabeba Baderoon * 19. Innocence Curtailed: Reading Maternity and Sexuality as Labor in Canadian Representations of Black Girls Charmaine Nelson * 20. Gender, Sex, and Power: Images of the Enslaved Women's Bodies Ana Lucia Araujo * Part VI - Queering the Study of Slavery * 21. "To Lever's on Soap!" Roger Casement, Slavery, and Sexual Imperialism Brian Lewis * 22. Sodomy, Love, and Slavery in Colonial Brazil: A Case Study of Minas Gerais during the Eighteenth Century Ronaldo Vainfas * 23. Eunuchs, Power, and Slavery in the Early Islamic World Legacies: Discourse, Dishonor, and Labor Saleh Trabelsi * 24. Slaves, Coolies, and Garrison Whores: A Colonial Discourse of "Unfreedom" in the Dutch East Indies Joost Cote * 25. Lure of the Impure: Sexuality, Gender, and Agency of "Slave" Girls in Contemporary Madagascar Sandra Evers * 26. Wages of Womanhood: Managers and Women Workers in the Jute Mill Industry of Bengal,?1890?-?1940 Subho Basu

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