Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books

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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Book SynopsisIn Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula.Trade Review“A lucid and compelling account of the slave experience in a region long ignored by historians of slavery…. [It is] a valuable case study that underscores the need for historians to pay closer attention to the ways in which environmental factors shaped the slave experience in various parts of the world.”“Reilly’s valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly's valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly has been particularly resourceful in drawing upon diverse disciplines and datasets. The result is a bold, stimulating study that will hopefully provoke furth scholarly engagement with this important topic.” * International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula *“Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria successfully illuminates the history of unfree laborers in a little studied region and is able to do so persuasively by using limited source material.” * Journal of Social History *

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Book SynopsisIn Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula.Trade Review“A lucid and compelling account of the slave experience in a region long ignored by historians of slavery…. [It is] a valuable case study that underscores the need for historians to pay closer attention to the ways in which environmental factors shaped the slave experience in various parts of the world.”“Reilly’s valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly's valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Reilly has been particularly resourceful in drawing upon diverse disciplines and datasets. The result is a bold, stimulating study that will hopefully provoke furth scholarly engagement with this important topic.” * International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula *“Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria successfully illuminates the history of unfree laborers in a little studied region and is able to do so persuasively by using limited source material.” * Journal of Social History *

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Book SynopsisDespite international human rights decrees condemning it, marriage by force persists to this day. In this volume, the editors bring together legal scholars, anthropologists, historians, and development workers to explore the range of forced marriage practices in sub-Saharan Africa.Trade Review“This fascinating collection addresses the important problem of determining what forced marriage is through the perspective of historical studies of marriage from precolonial through postcolonial eras in Africa. The essays destabilize any idea that there is a simple dichotomy between forced and consensual marriage, and show that calling forms of coerced marriage customary or traditional ignores the extent to which tradition is constantly subject to change.”“Marriage by Force? pulls back the curtain and reveals the layers of social structures, gender, resistance, and liberation which manifest themselves when marriage is forced. The volume asks pertinent questions about a continuum of coercion in war and peace. Ultimately, the contributors have provided new perspectives on marriage, where contestations exist, with regard to not only the patriarchies of control of sexuality, the body and behavior, but also over labor, belonging and longing.”“This eloquent volume tackles age-old yet pressing problems of coercion, gender, and marriage in present-day Africa. The authors offer compelling case studies to demonstrate the deep-seated and complex values that underpin the subordination of women and girls and highlight the vulnerability of the female gender in the face of a growing movement—in Africa and abroad—to address the problem. This volume is a must-read for all those who teach, think, write, and formulate laws and public policy about gender and violence.”“...This volume, dealing with one of the ‘more critical human rights challenges in the twenty-first century sub-Saharan Africa’, is a timely and useful contribution to a broader literature which seeks to place gender-based violence into historical, social, and cultural context. It ought to be essential reading for scholars and practitioners engaging in work to analyse and intervene in gender-based violence on the African continent and elsewhere.” * Africa at LSE *

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Book SynopsisIn Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving—cannibalism—was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals.Trade Review“In a major contribution to historical methodology, Staller revisits sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts for what they can reveal, despite their biases and eurocentrism, about Africans’ understandings of and interactions with Portuguese invasion and the associated violence. Cannibalism rumors are taken seriously in this analysis as a way to unpack traumatic episodes associated with the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade.”“This is the best scholarship to date on the history and mythology of cannibalism in west central Africa…Moreover, the simplicity of Staller’s prose belies the sophistication of his conceptual framework, making his work an important teaching tool for both the undergraduate and graduate level.”“A welcome addition to the literature. Not only does [Staller] dispel myths about the Jaga, he demonstrates that Europeans and Africans played a key role in creating them.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 53 No. 2 (2020) *

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Book SynopsisIn Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving—cannibalism—was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals.Trade Review“In a major contribution to historical methodology, Staller revisits sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts for what they can reveal, despite their biases and eurocentrism, about Africans’ understandings of and interactions with Portuguese invasion and the associated violence. Cannibalism rumors are taken seriously in this analysis as a way to unpack traumatic episodes associated with the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade.”“This is the best scholarship to date on the history and mythology of cannibalism in west central Africa…Moreover, the simplicity of Staller’s prose belies the sophistication of his conceptual framework, making his work an important teaching tool for both the undergraduate and graduate level.”“A welcome addition to the literature. Not only does [Staller] dispel myths about the Jaga, he demonstrates that Europeans and Africans played a key role in creating them.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 53 No. 2 (2020) *

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Book SynopsisIn Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell details the life histories of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy, and ultimately sent to a Free Church of Scotland mission in South Africa, where their stories were recorded through a series of interviews.Trade Review“Shell offers intriguing range of insights into the patterns of slaving in late-nineteenth-century Oromia. These shine a suggestive light into the great void of the actual experiences of enslavement in Africa, arguably the single most pervasive motivator of historical changes in the continent for up to three centuries. She tells a dramatic story with restraint, poise, and dignity.”“Children of Hope advances our knowledge of slavery and abolition in Northeast Africa and the Indian Ocean World using a truly remarkable set of sources and a novel approach. Shell makes significant contributions to the scholarly literature by filling gaps in our knowledge of children and slavery, the practice of slave trading, and the lived experiences of liberated Africans in the Red Sea region.”“The data here is truly remarkable. For scholars of childhood, the availability of first-hand accounts by children offers unparalleled insights into their experiences.” * H-Africa *“This is an exceptional book that will add to children’s histories, slave studies, and Indian Ocean history.” * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *“Sandra Rowoldt Shell meticulously weaves together the narratives of the children with the detailed journals and documentation from the Royal Navy, the Mission archives at Sheikh Othman and the archives and journals from Lovedale….The historiography of slavery in Ethiopia is still in an early stage, and many more questions—concerning the economic, political, and social implications of the trade in slaves and slavery itself—remain to be answered. Shell’s book is an excellent and much-needed contribution for understanding various relating dynamics.” * Northeast African Studies *“Those in the field of Oromo, Ethiopian and African studies are indebted to Sandra Shell for bringing to life, the story of Oromo slave children.” * Journal of Oromo Studies *

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Book SynopsisIn Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.Trade Review"Sites of Slavery is a meticulously researched, persuasively argued, beautifully written, and intellectually daring study of contemporary narratives of slavery. Through her dazzling readings of fiction, drama, dance, cinema, visual art, heritage tourism, reparations legal cases, and critical race historiographies, Salamishah Tillet demonstrates how a range of African American artists, writers, and intellectuals respond to the contemporary 'crisis of citizenship' by foregrounding a 'democratic aesthetic' in their representations of slavery. This book will transform the way we think about the place of African American cultural production in relation to 'post–civil rights era' political discourse."—Valerie Smith, author of Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination"Sites of Slavery is an original contribution to the scholarship on memory, representation, and New World slavery. With keen insight and dazzling analysis, Salamishah Tillet attends to the implications that contemporary representations of slavery have for our understanding of the history of slavery in the United States and of African American identity. This book crosses disciplines to offer a compelling view of the many ways that slavery lives in the contemporary imagination and colors the way we see our past, our present, and our future."—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University“. . . . judged on its own philosophical and analytical terms, Sites of Slavery offers a powerful and strikingly original take on contemporary African American ‘rituals of collective recuperative forms of recognition, and revisionist forms of historiography’( p. 4).” -- Scot A. French * Journal of American History *“Sites of Slavery is an innovative synthesis of connecting historical memory, reflected in the cultural productions of African American artists, scholars, and writers who draw on the past to understand the present.” -- Robert Anthony Bennett, III * Spectrum *“Tillet’s work is valuable to scholars because of its careful illumination of diverse conceptions of slavery, freedom, and citizenship. Sites of Slavery is a useful book that contributes to our understanding of the challenges of contemporary neo-slave 'narratives' across several genres.” -- Christine L. Montgomery * Black Scholar *“Ultimately, Tillet’s book has broad relevance to Americanists in historical periods stretching from the nineteenth century to the present, with archives crossing boundaries from the photographic to the juridical and methodological approaches from spatial theory to psychoanalysis. It is an impressive accomplishment.” -- Jennie Lightweis-Goff, * Journal of American Culture *“The greatest attribute of Sites of Slavery is its analytical framework in which the author employs a wide range of sources, including novels, photographs, installations, plays, films, pictures, official discourses, lawsuits, and scholarly monographs. The book offers a provocative snapshot to examine the problem of representations of slavery and the relations between history and fiction. . . . [T]he book is highly readable and a prospective addition to syllabi of graduate and undergraduate courses on African American and African diaspora studies.” -- Ana Lucia Araujo * Journal of American Ethnic History *“Sites of Slavery is a meticulously researched, compelling addition to a growing body of literature concerning race and the post-Civil Rights moment. Salamishah Tillet effortlessly analyzes a range of interdisciplinary materials, positing riveting examinations of how writers, artists, and intellectuals critique America’s hypocrisies and impact conversations about the possibilities for Black social life and a true racial democracy in the United States.” -- Michelle D. Commander * Callaloo *"Salamishah Tillet’s Sites of Slavery brilliantly explores aesthetic and political appropriations of chattel slavery by 'African American writers, artists, and intellectuals' in 'the post–civil rights' era." -- James Edward Ford * Novel *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Peculiar Citizenships 1 1. Freedom in a Bondsmaid's Arms: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the Persistence of African American Memory 19 2. The Milder and More Amusing Phases of Slavery: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Satire 51 3. A Race of Angels: (Trans)Nationalism, African American Tourism, and the Slave Forts 95 4. What Have We Done to Weigh So Little on Their Scale: Mnemonic Restitution and the Aesthetics of Racial Reparations 133 Epilogue. The President's House, Freedom, and Slavery in the Age of Obama 169 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 217

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Book SynopsisPeter M. Beattie provides a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Brazilian island penal colony Fernando de Noronha, in which he shows how it serves as a metaphor for Brazilian society and was key to Brazil's abolishment of slavery. Trade Review"Beattie’s account of the events on Fernando and its various classes of inmates and other inhabitants is extremely rich in detail and a good read from beginning to end." -- Pieter Spierenburg * British Journal of Criminology *"As a way to reflect on Brazil as a whole at the time, as well as on penology, gender, slavery, and human rights in the greater Atlantic world, Fernando de Noronha’s history magnifies some points and either distorts or omits others. But Beattie’s approach shows how this unique setting can inform a varied range of larger issues." -- Thomas H. Holloway * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This work is a valuable tool for graduate teaching in Brazilian, Latin American, or African diaspora history, and it is essential reading for scholars of the Atlantic world." -- Zachary R. Morgan * American Historical Review *"The originality of this volume lies in this broad approach and its capacity to cut across the boundaries of various sub-disciplines.... The volume is well written and has a clear structure, the documentary basis rich and varied and its interpretations convincing." -- Christian G. de Vito * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Peter Beattie has produced a multi-faceted and insightful study, a prime example of how to study Brazil’s popular classes as both a coherent and a multi-faceted group.... [A] balanced and well-written book, one crowned by a handful of brilliant concepts that will raise the bar for future studies of popular groups in Brazil’s long nineteenth century." -- Oscar de la Torre * Canadian Journal of History *"Punishment in Paradise unearths new and unique archival material, engages with a wide breadth of scholarship, and is deftly written. It will be essential reading for scholars of Brazil, slavery, and coerced labor in the Atlantic World as well as scholars interested in the intersections of masculinity, sexuality, criminality, and human rights." -- Lena Suk * Labor *"Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and legal practitioners interested in understanding the criminal law and penal practice and its embeddedness in a long history of labor appropriation. It should attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history, the transatlantic nineteenth century, slavery and abolition, and the history of crime and punishment. This book should make its way onto syllabi for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of crime and justice; the history of gender and sexuality; and the social history of Brazil, Latin America, and the Atlantic world generally." -- Amy Chazkel * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *"Punishment in Paradise provides much food for thought and invitation to debate. Like The Tribute of Blood, it should shape syllabi and research agendas for years to come." -- Marc A. Hertzman * Luso-Brazilian Review *"Beattie illuminate[s] themes that have been largely overlooked or neglected in national historiographies." -- Evan C. Rothera * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Peter Beattie has crafted a thoughtfully researched sociolegal history. Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and students of crime, punishment, and justice in addition to labor regimes within the transatlantic nineteenth century. It should also attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history as well as slavery and abolition." -- Manuella Meyer * Hispanic American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisPeter M. Beattie provides a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Brazilian island penal colony Fernando de Noronha, in which he shows how it serves as a metaphor for Brazilian society and was key to Brazil's abolishment of slavery. Trade Review"Beattie’s account of the events on Fernando and its various classes of inmates and other inhabitants is extremely rich in detail and a good read from beginning to end." -- Pieter Spierenburg * British Journal of Criminology *"As a way to reflect on Brazil as a whole at the time, as well as on penology, gender, slavery, and human rights in the greater Atlantic world, Fernando de Noronha’s history magnifies some points and either distorts or omits others. But Beattie’s approach shows how this unique setting can inform a varied range of larger issues." -- Thomas H. Holloway * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This work is a valuable tool for graduate teaching in Brazilian, Latin American, or African diaspora history, and it is essential reading for scholars of the Atlantic world." -- Zachary R. Morgan * American Historical Review *"The originality of this volume lies in this broad approach and its capacity to cut across the boundaries of various sub-disciplines.... The volume is well written and has a clear structure, the documentary basis rich and varied and its interpretations convincing." -- Christian G. de Vito * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Peter Beattie has produced a multi-faceted and insightful study, a prime example of how to study Brazil’s popular classes as both a coherent and a multi-faceted group.... [A] balanced and well-written book, one crowned by a handful of brilliant concepts that will raise the bar for future studies of popular groups in Brazil’s long nineteenth century." -- Oscar de la Torre * Canadian Journal of History *"Punishment in Paradise unearths new and unique archival material, engages with a wide breadth of scholarship, and is deftly written. It will be essential reading for scholars of Brazil, slavery, and coerced labor in the Atlantic World as well as scholars interested in the intersections of masculinity, sexuality, criminality, and human rights." -- Lena Suk * Labor *"Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and legal practitioners interested in understanding the criminal law and penal practice and its embeddedness in a long history of labor appropriation. It should attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history, the transatlantic nineteenth century, slavery and abolition, and the history of crime and punishment. This book should make its way onto syllabi for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of crime and justice; the history of gender and sexuality; and the social history of Brazil, Latin America, and the Atlantic world generally." -- Amy Chazkel * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *"Punishment in Paradise provides much food for thought and invitation to debate. Like The Tribute of Blood, it should shape syllabi and research agendas for years to come." -- Marc A. Hertzman * Luso-Brazilian Review *"Beattie illuminate[s] themes that have been largely overlooked or neglected in national historiographies." -- Evan C. Rothera * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Peter Beattie has crafted a thoughtfully researched sociolegal history. Punishment in Paradise will be essential reading for scholars and students of crime, punishment, and justice in addition to labor regimes within the transatlantic nineteenth century. It should also attract a broad readership, including those interested in Brazilian history as well as slavery and abolition." -- Manuella Meyer * Hispanic American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisA major reference tool, providing thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, this book defines research on postemancipation societies in North America, South America, Latin America, and Africa.Trade ReviewThe first [bibliography] dedicated to the often neglected postemancipation history of former slave-owning societies.... The editors present more than 1,600 entries in many languages, arranged geographically and subdivided by type of resource, most of them annotated.... Also delves into sources beyond the expected studies of former slaves and slave owners, e.g., the effects of urbanization and immigration during this transitional period. - Choice; ""A crucial and standard source for everyone interested in the global meaning of African slavery, the African diaspora, and their enduring legacy."" - David Brion Davis, Yale University; ""An important research tool for anyone interested in the social, economic, political, and ideological changes brought by the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies, Spanish and Portuguese America, and Africa.... Invaluable for researchers at every level."" - Harold Woodman, Purdue University

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Book SynopsisDuring the wars for independence in Spanish South America (1808-1826), thousands of slaves enlisted under the promise of personal freedom and, in some cases, freedom for other family members.

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Book SynopsisCastilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization.

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Book SynopsisA true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.Trade Review"A history of an African-American family, from Yarrow Mamout's enslaved arrival in North America in 1752, proceeding through Robert Turner Ford's debut at (residentially segregated) Harvard College in 1923, and beyond. The family was remarkable from the outset: Mamout, freed, was painted by Charles Willson Peale." -Harvard Magazine "Part historical narrative, part genealogical detective work, this book will appeal to a range of academic and general readers, especially those interested in race relations in early America." -Library Journal "Carefully researched and engagingly written, this fascinating book tells the story of an education Muslim who was brought as a slave to America in 1752 then earned his freedom 44 years later. The book also traces the history of his family to the time when a descendant graduates from Harvard University in 1927. The narrative absorbingly weaves together one family's amazing tale with the history of American and slavery and race relations." -Steve Norman, Collection Development and Evaluation Section of the Reference and User Services Association " ... James H. Johnston recounts the story of Yarrow Mamout's life and traces some of Yarrow's descendants into the twentieth century." -Journal of Southern History "... Portray[s] an illuminating, thought-provoking, relatively unusual moment in early American history." -Publishers Weekly "Johnston has given Americans a rare treasure, a true story of an African American family, and its triumph over slavery. The great American painter Charles Willson Peale, best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution, would have very much approved--Johnston's done with a whole lot of research, patience, and writing, what Peale did with his brush almost 200 years ago." -- -Sidney Hart Senior Historian, National Portrait Gallery "Johnston has admirably sought to connect the dots of the family's history while also providing parallels to the larger story of slavery and emancipation in colonial America." -New Bay Times Weekly "Historians typically write about this chapter of American history from a sweeping, birds-eye view perspective primarily because so few records exist about the lives of individual slaves. It's for this reason that James Johnston's 'From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family' is such a valuable addition to the subject's literature." -- -Michael G. Williams Erickson TribuneTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim in the Slave Trade from West Africa 2. Tobacco and the Importation of a Labor Force 3. Yarrow's Welcome to America 4. Slavery and Revolution 5. Yarrow of Georgetown 6. The Portraits: Peale, Yarrow, and Simpson 7. Yarrow's Sister, Free Hannah 8. Yarrow's Niece, Nancy Hillman 9. Yarrow's Son, Aquilla Yarrow 10. Mary "Polly" Turner Yarrow 11. Aquilla and Polly in a Pleasant Valley 12. Traces of Yarrow 13. Unpleasant Valley 14. Freedom 15. From Harvard to Today 16. Epilogue: Guide to the Yarrows' and Turners' World Today Notes Bibliography 000 Acknowledgments 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisFugitive Rousseau explores slavery and primitivism in Rousseau’s political writings by contextualizing them in modern European empire and Roman imperial philosophy. Fugitive Rousseau argues against seeing Rousseau as either a nativist or cosmopolitan, either communitarian or liberal, and instead reconstructs a radical conception of freedom based in fugitive political resistance.Trade Review"Jean-Jacques Rousseau obsessively deploys the rhetoric of slavery, but has almost nothing to say about the actually-existing slavery of his own time. Taking off from this striking observation and informed by the distinctive concerns of recent postcolonial and Black Atlantic scholarship, Jimmy Casas Klausen offers a string of illuminating discussions of often-overlooked themes in Rousseau's oeuvre, such as travel and cosmopolitan identity, primitivism and marronage. In place of the familiar contrast between the over-socialized citizen of The Social Contract and the figure of the solitary walker or pre-social savage, Klausen invites us to appreciate those moments where Rousseau shows himself sensitive to the often fragile kinds of freedom that become available when we are able to slip away from dominant and dominating social and political structures. Fugitive Rousseau is an original and stimulating contribution to eighteenth-century studies, as well as a significant work of political theory in its own right." -- -Christopher Brooke University of Cambridge "A complex and fascinating project. The ideas are original and provocative and should advance new thinking in political theory." -- -Anne Norton University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction I Slavery 1. Displacements 2... and Condensations II Freedom? 3. Cosmopolitanism 4. Nativism 5. Fugitive Freedom Afterword Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA study of post-1980 US and Caribbean literary responses to legal personhood. Analyzes literature by Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, Rosario Ferré, Gayl Jones, and John Edgar Wideman, which depict the legal slave as a generative legal category for labor, immigration, and human rights issues into the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Salvage Work is a thoughtful and timely exploration of the historical, ideological, and political significance of legal personhood in very contemporary fiction. Salvage Work is a wonderful incorporation of a deep body of legal history ... moving away from purely 'cultural' definitions and recognizable political trajectories and toward a complicated reading of identity." -- -Samantha Pinto Georgetown University "Salvage Work is a unique and exciting study that engages with a variety of disciplines, including American studies, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies. This is a beautifully written book that offers astute, nuanced close readings of the literary works that expose the critical intersections between law, empire, personhood, and literature." -- -April Shemak Sam Houston State University "Angela Naimou's superbly written Salvage Work is one of the smartest responses to Giorgio Agamben's 'death-bound theories of legal personhood.' Rather than take the refugee as the singular figure for theorizing the limits of sovereignty and the subject of law, Naimou studies the disruptions to a liberal rights paradigm through her focus on equally troubling cases of exceptional personhood in the figures of, among others, the slave, the disappeared, the corporation, the sailor, the fugitive, and the fetus. The legal and political insights are all the more powerful because they emerge from meticulous close readings of U.S. and Caribbean fiction, reminding us of just how much the world needs humanities-based and literary thinking if we are to tackle the most important problems of our time in their full weight and complexity." -- -Joseph R. Slaughter Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the Legal Person 1 Part I: Legal Debris 1. The Free, the Slave, and the Disappeared: States and Sites of Exceptional Personhood in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman 000 2. Sugar's Legacies: Romance, Revolution, and Wageless Life in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat and Rosario Ferre 000 Part II: Salvage Aesthetics 3. Fugitive Personhood: Re-Imagining Sanctuary in Gayl Jones's Song For Anninho and Mosquito 000 4. Masking Fanon 000 Epilogue: Personhood at Its Limits: The Animal, the Fetus, and the Stateless Person 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisA study of post-1980 US and Caribbean literary responses to legal personhood. Analyzes literature by Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, Rosario Ferré, Gayl Jones, and John Edgar Wideman, which depict the legal slave as a generative legal category for labor, immigration, and human rights issues into the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Salvage Work is a thoughtful and timely exploration of the historical, ideological, and political significance of legal personhood in very contemporary fiction. Salvage Work is a wonderful incorporation of a deep body of legal history ... moving away from purely 'cultural' definitions and recognizable political trajectories and toward a complicated reading of identity." -- -Samantha Pinto Georgetown University "Salvage Work is a unique and exciting study that engages with a variety of disciplines, including American studies, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial studies. This is a beautifully written book that offers astute, nuanced close readings of the literary works that expose the critical intersections between law, empire, personhood, and literature." -- -April Shemak Sam Houston State University "Angela Naimou's superbly written Salvage Work is one of the smartest responses to Giorgio Agamben's 'death-bound theories of legal personhood.' Rather than take the refugee as the singular figure for theorizing the limits of sovereignty and the subject of law, Naimou studies the disruptions to a liberal rights paradigm through her focus on equally troubling cases of exceptional personhood in the figures of, among others, the slave, the disappeared, the corporation, the sailor, the fugitive, and the fetus. The legal and political insights are all the more powerful because they emerge from meticulous close readings of U.S. and Caribbean fiction, reminding us of just how much the world needs humanities-based and literary thinking if we are to tackle the most important problems of our time in their full weight and complexity." -- -Joseph R. Slaughter Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the Legal Person 1 Part I: Legal Debris 1. The Free, the Slave, and the Disappeared: States and Sites of Exceptional Personhood in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman 000 2. Sugar's Legacies: Romance, Revolution, and Wageless Life in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat and Rosario Ferre 000 Part II: Salvage Aesthetics 3. Fugitive Personhood: Re-Imagining Sanctuary in Gayl Jones's Song For Anninho and Mosquito 000 4. Masking Fanon 000 Epilogue: Personhood at Its Limits: The Animal, the Fetus, and the Stateless Person 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations............................................................ vii List of Tables in Appendix 1.............................................. ix Acknowledgments ............................................................. xi Introduction ..................................................................... xiii A Note on the Text ............................................................ xli A Note on Colonial and Revolutionary Newspapers...... xliii Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition ..... xlvii Teacher’s Guide to “Pretends to Be Free”........................ liii Foreword by Edward E. Baptist........................................ lix Runaway Slave Advertisements.......................................... 1 Appendix 1: Tables ......................................................... 305 Appendix 2: Hues and Cries ........................................... 321 Glossary .......................................................................... 329 Selected Bibliography..................................................... 335 Subject Index .................................................................. 345 Name Index..................................................................... 351

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Book SynopsisJames Collins Johnson was an escaped slave working at Princeton University in 1843 when he was arrested and tried as a fugitive. Though convicted and slated for return to slavery, he was redeemed by a local white woman. Johnson became one of the best-known vendors at Princeton over his six-decade career. This book challenges this uncomplicated account of Johnson’s life.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Timeline | xxiii Introduction | 1 1 James Collins of Maryland, and His Escape from Slavery | 13 2 Princeton Slavery, Princeton Freedom | 37 3 The Betrayal and Arrest of James Collins Johnson | 57 4 The Fugitive Slave Trial of James Collins Johnson | 68 5 The Rescue of James Collins Johnson | 84 6 Johnson’s Princeton Life after the Trial | 100 Conclusion | 129 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 137 Bibliography | 205 Index | 229

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Book SynopsisDivided into 4 parts, this book examines the cause of the demise of the slave trade to Bahia (a province of Brazil) by 1851. It traces Bahia's abolitionist movement through the enactment of the Law of the Free Womb in 1871, and focuses on the role of Candomble, an African religion practiced by the Africans of Brazil, in ending slavery in the area.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Sylviane A. Diouf I DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES Lacustrine villages in south Benin as refuge from the slave trade by Elisee Soumonni - Slave raiding & defensive systems south of Lake Chad from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by Thierno Mouctar Bab - The myth of inevitability & invincibility: resistance to slavers & the slave trade in Central Africa, 1850-1910 by Dennis D. Cordell - The impact of the slave trade on Cayor & Baol: mutations in habitat & land occupancy by Adama Gueye - Defensive strategies: Wasulu, Masina & the slave trade by Martin A. Klein II PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES The last resort: redeeming family & friends by Sylviane A. Diouf - Anglo-Efik relations & protection against illegal enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740-1807 by Paul E. Lovejoy & David Richardson III OFFENSIVE STRATEGIES Igboland, slavery & the drums of war & heroism by John N. Oriji - 'A devotion to the idea of liberty at any price': rebellion & antislavery in the Upper Guinea coast in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries by Ismail Rashid - Strategies of the decentralized: defending communities from slave raiders in coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815 by Walter Hawthorne - The struggle against the transatlantic slave trade: the role of the state by Joseph E. Inikori - Shipboard revolts, African authority & the transatlantic slave trade by David Richardson - Epilogue: memory as resistance by Carolyn A. Brown.

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Book SynopsisOuidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade.Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region, and the second most important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the export of slaves for the trans- Atlantic trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the 'Slave Coast'. Exporting over a million slaves, it was second only to Luanda in Angola for the embarkation of slaves in the whole of Africa. The author's central concerns are the organization of the African end of the slave trade, and the impact participation in the trade had on the historical development of the African societies involved. It shifts the focus from the viewpoint of the Dahomian monarchy, represented in previous studies, to the coast. Here is a well documented case study of pre-colonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time. North America: Ohio U PressTrade ReviewThis work is a masterful chronological history of a community, especially the history of its merchant families. Although grounded in archival research, the book's collection of oral traditions from descendants of the Ouidah merchants makes this study of an urban community unique. Especially important is the history of the Brazilians among them, because many of these merchants were ex-slaves themselves and Portuguese was the lingua franca. -- R.T. Brown * CHOICE *This magisterial volume, an impressive contribution to the history of West Africa and of the slave trade, together with his numerous other published works, highlights Robin Law as one of the most distinguished historians in the field of African history. -- Christopher Fyfe * AFRICAN STUDIES *Ouidah offers a great deal more than just a case study of slave traffic. Professor Law examines the town from the inside out, and from its obscure Hueda origins to its occupation by the French in 1892 via its long incorporation into the kingdom of Dahomey. Slaving features as a staple of the local economy - the merchants and officials of Ouidah served as middlemen in the sale of slaves taken elsewhere - and is a recurring theme, but the character of the town and its inhabitants are also dealt with at length. Of course, they are inextricably linked. ... Professor Law excels in reconstructing the topography, society and administrative history of Ouidah under successive regimes and relating these structures to the conduct of external trade, both for slaves and, latterly, for palm oil. -- Richard Gorski * HISTORY *This book is an excellent case study on the formation, growth and decline of Ouidah's Atlantic merchant community and of the town itself. ... this is a very informative book. It provides a detailed analysis of the formation and growth of Ouidah's trade community and its relations with Dahomey in the era of Atlantic commerce. -- Ibrahima Thiaw * INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Origins: Ouidah before the Dahomian conquest - The Dahomian conquest of Ouidah - Dahomian Ouidah - The operation of the Atlantic slave trade - De Souza's Ouidah: the era of the illegal slave trade, 1815-39 - The era of transition: from slaves to palm oil, 1840-57 - Dissension & decline: Ouidah under King Glele, 1858-77 - From Dahomian to French rule, 1878-92 - Sources & bibliography.

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Book SynopsisIn 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the wealthiest and most flourishing of the Caribbean slave colonies. The slave revolt of 1791 set in motion the colony's struggle for independence as Haiti. Carolyn Fick argues that the slaves were the principal architects both of their own freedom and of the successful movement toward independence.

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Book SynopsisLos Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant—and long forgotten—Supreme Court cases in American history.Trade Review"In Bryant’s gripping telling, the moral contradictions of the time are laid bare…. Carefully researched, beautifully crafted, Dark Places—the title comes, ominously but evocatively, from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness—is one of the very few books that delivers on the promiscuous promise to employ an obscure episode to offer new insights on a well-trod byway of history." -- David M. Shribman - Boston Globe"Illuminating…. Fascinating…." -- David Reynolds - Wall Street Journal"Bryant masterfully narrates the incredible machinations revolving around the eventual case, which would drag on for seven years, and take a considerable toll on the captives awaiting a decision…. Epic in scope, providing rich portraits of life at sea and trade in the Atlantic world, slavery and its hazards in the malaria-ridden South, and the tension between the ethical and financial interests of a slew of chummy Southern gentlemen adjudicating the case, Dark Places of the Earth is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of antebellum America." -- Bobbi Booker - Philadelphia Tribune"An eye-opening account of a little-known (yet horrifying) episode in American history…. In Dark Places of the Earth, Bryant has salvaged the history of an era when black lives mattered to slavers only as profit and the dead were thrown to the sharks." -- Adam Rothman - Washington Independent Review of Books"From its poetic title to its concluding sentence, Dark Places of the Earth spins a riveting yarn, using the vexed voyage of the slave ship Antelope to illuminate a profound moment in American history. Vividly drawn characters and courtroom drama make this narrative history of a high order." -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion"In this fascinating and engagingly written study, Jonathan M. Bryant illuminates a largely forgotten—but highly significant—episode in American legal history. Based on prodigious and meticulous research, Dark Places of the Earth will appeal to general readers and scholars alike. An important, original book." -- Douglas R. Egerton, author of The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era"Jonathan Bryant sheds new and revealing light on a dark chapter in the history of American slavery, and on a Supreme Court decision that, despite its faults, deserves to be better known." -- Brian McGinty, author of Lincoln's Greatest Case"Bryant presents a broadened picture of the transatlantic slave trade while illuminating a legal battle with huge moral implications." -- Barbara Hoffert - Library Journal"A richly documented work that restores the Antelope to its central place in the long, grim history of the Atlantic slave trade." -- Kirkus Reviews"Detailed and fascinating account…. This is a superb examination of an obscure but important episode in the struggle against slavery." -- Jay Freeman - Booklist, Starred review"[Bryant] meticulously unwinds the years-long, complex legal history that finally led to the case being heard by the six justices of John Marshall's Supreme Court, four of whom were slave owners…. From the West African shores to Georgia, Washington, D.C., and, finally Liberia, Bryant's riveting history of this case and these slaves is a remarkable one." -- Tom Lavoie - Shelf Awareness

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Book SynopsisThe Northwest Territory sparked heated debates over race and civil rights in the nascent United States from the moment of its founding. Part of the "Early American Places" series, this book contributes to the study of slavery and social activism in nineteenth-century America.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in the emergence of rights consciousness will benefit from reading this book. * Ohio Valley History *Weiner's book represents a useful expansion of the literature on the abolitionist movement.....[It] is an excellent study of race relations and the struggle over slavery in [the Midwest]. * The Annals of Iowa *Weiner's book is a welcome addition recognizing the Old Northwest as a distinct region and, as such, a distinct voice in the discussion of race and rights in the developing United States in a small collection of such literature. * Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society *Race and Rights is a well-written narrative that gives a good picture of the world of antislavery activism in the Old Northwest. * Indiana Magazine of History *This well-written, deeply researched study of antislavery and proslavery actions in the Old Northwest adds powerful new dimensions to our understanding of evolving antagonisms about human servitude in the decades before the Civil War. * Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisSlavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South African War in 1899.ForTrade Review“This is a major work of South African history, putting economics and exploitation back where they belong, in the centre of the country’s historiography.”“This book is an important study that has made a significant contribution to the existing historiography of Africa in general and the Cape Colony in particular. It is based on an impressive archival research. Indeed, Dooling’s meticulous scouring and skillful use of the previously ‘almost unused’ records of bankruptcy, estates, and other records like land transfers, mortgage bonds, and literature on Cape slavery, economy, and the landed class facilitated his construction of a detailed history of the experiences of the landed class in Cape Colony in general....” * Journal of World History *“Wayne Dooling’s book is a major contribution to the burgeoning corpus of works surrounding the institution of slavery in the early colonial Cape.… (T)he author is as focused on continuity as he is on transformation, and while he pays due attention to slave liberations and to the immediate crisis of emancipation for slave-owners, he is more concerned with weaving this moment into the longer narrative he constructs.” * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisSlavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on the topic Traces the relationship between slavery and modern cultural habits through an analysis of commonplace objects that include sugar, tobacco, tea, maps, portraiture, print, and more Represents the only study that utilizes common objects to illustrate the cultural impact and legacy of the Atlantic slave trade Makes the topic of slavery accessible to a wider public audience Trade ReviewSuggestions form the author: * Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop, 588 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215-3707 * Caryl Phillips, Dept of English, Yale University, P.O. Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520-8302. * David Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, P.O. Box 208206, 230 Prospect St, new Haven CT 065205-8206. * Professor James Horn, Director, Historic Jamestown, 1368 Colonial Parkway, Jamestown, Virginia VA 23081. * Ted Maris-Wolf, Vice-President and Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23185. * Paul Ley, Editor, History Today, 2nd Floor, 9 Staple Inn, London WCIV 7QH * Rob Attar, BBC History Magazine, Tower House, Fairfax St, Bristol, BS1 3BN. * Professor John Oldfield, Director, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High St, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK * Professor Gad Heuman, Editor, Slavery and Abolition, Dept of History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7VL, UK.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Slavery in Western Life 1 1 A Sugar Bowl: Sugar and Slavery 11 2 Cowrie Shells: Slavery and Global Trade 37 3 Tobacco: The Slave Origins of a Global Epidemic 54 4 Mahogany: Fashion and Slavery 82 5 Stately Homes and Mansions: The Architecture of Slavery 104 6 Maps: Revealing Slavery 128 7 A Portrait: Pictures in Black and White 151 8 The Brooks: Slave Ships 173 9 A Book: Slavery and the World of Print 192 10 Chains: The Ironware of Slavery 218 11 Cotton: Slavery and Industrial Change 239 Conclusion 262 Index 265

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Book SynopsisPenetrating and comprehensive, The Anatomy of Blackness shows that, far from being a monolithic idea, eighteenth-century Africanist discourse emerged out of a vigorous, varied dialogue that involved missionaries, slavers, colonists, naturalists, anatomists, philosophers, and Africans themselves.Trade ReviewThis is an important contribution to an important topic. But it is also a model of how intellectual history should be done. Curran moves well beyond the parade of Big Thinkers that have long dominated the history of ideas. He reads them, to be sure, but he also reads what they read. By this technique, he moves deeper and deeper into the culture of ethnography, anatomy, and slavery in search of the origins and forms of 'Blackness.' -- Marshall Poe New Books in History Curran's approach to intellectual history is an exciting one that transcends the oft-written biographies and other author-centered discussions. His focus on trends and his immersion in the writings of the time creates an accurate rather than anachronistic mindset, which is truly useful for historians. -- Sarah Goodwin Alpata: A Journal of History A definitive statement on the complex, painful, and richly revealing topic of how the major figures of the French Enlightenment reacted to the enslavement of black Africans, often to their discredit. The fields of race studies and of Enlightenment studies are more than ready to embrace the type of analysis in which Curran engages, and all the more so in that his book is beautifully written and illustrated. -- Mary McAlpin Symposium A highly intelligent book on an important topic. The breadth of Andrew Curran's knowledge about the Enlightenment is astonishing... The book makes the convincing point not only that Africa is a major focus in the Enlightenment's imagination, but also that natural history and anthropology are central to understanding not only its scientific agenda, but also its humanitarian politics. -- Carl Niekerk Centaurus This engrossing, comprehensive study traces 18th-century European thought on anatomical blackness of Africans... Curran's ability to dissect and explain complicated arguments of the period's major thinkers is impressive. Choice Curran's Francotropism and medical background enable him to develop insights that should prove important to the ongoing transnationalization and discipline-blurring of literary and cultural studies. -- Ian Finseth Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment This study reveals with striking clarity the complex interaction of the science of human difference in this period with other strands of Enlightenment thought as well as the practices of (French) slave trading and colonial slavery. -- Carolyn Vellenga Berman H-France A major contribution to the study of the uses of natural history, the presence and absence of universalism in the Enlightenment, and the origins of modern racial thought. -- Martin S. Staum H-France Curran has produced a powerful argument about how Europeans defined not only Africans but themselves in the early modern period; about how depictions of the 'other' furnished slavers and planters with the necessary intellectual justifications for slavery; about how natural science has the (frightening) ability to define both body and soul. -- Jeremy L. Caradonna H-France The Anatomy of Blackness is an intense and challenging reading experience, but one that certainly repays the effort. -- Stephen Kenny Reviews in History The rise of racial science in the late eighteenth century has become a flourishing field of investigation over the past twenty or so years. Andrew S. Curran's The Anatomy of Blackness is a significant contribution to this scholarship... In trying to understand why these events unfolded so differently in each nation, Andrew Curran's study has greatly enlarged our knowledge of an emergent race science in "enlightened" France. -- Nicholas Hudson Bulletin of the History of Medicine This is a convincing piece of scholarship... a satisfying and clear analysis of how French writers (among other) constructed images of the African body that reflected, while often simultaneously silencing, the central role played by slavery in attracting European interest to the subject in the first place... This book will be read with interest and profit not only by scholars of the Enlightenment, but also those concerned with the history of racial thinking, slavery, the history of science, and Europe's engagement with the rest of the world. -- Rebecca Earle European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tissue Samples in the Land of ConjectureDefining le NègreThe New Africanist Discourse after 1740The Contexts of RepresentationRepresenting Africanist DiscourseAnatomizing the History of Blackness1. Paper Trails: Writing the African, 1450–1750The Early Africanists: The Episodic and the EpicRationalizing AfricaThe Birth of the Caribbean AfricanJean-Baptiste LabatLabat on AfricaProcessing the African Travelogue: Prévost's Histoire générale des voyagesRousseau's Afrique2. Sameness and Science, 1730–1750The Origin of Shared OriginsToward a "Scientific" MonogenesisHistoricizing the Human in an Era of Empiricism: The Role of the AlbinoCreating the BlafardBuffonian Monogenesis: The Nègre as SameBlackness Qualified: Breaking down the NègreThe Colonial African and the Rare Buffonian Je3. The Problem of Difference: Philosophes and the Processing of African "Ethnography," 1750–1775The "Symptoms" of Blackness: Africanist "Facts," 1750–1770Montesquieu and the "Refutation" of DifferenceThe Nagging Context of Montesquieu's Antislavery DiatribeVoltaire: The Philosophe as EssentialistVoltaire and the Albino of 1744Voltaire, the Nègre, and Human MerchandiseProcessing Africa and Africans in the EncyclopédieThe Preternatural History of Black African DifferenceTeaching Degeneration: Valmont de Bomare's Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle4. The Natural History of Slavery, 1770–1802The Hardening of Climate Theory and the Birth of New Racial Categories circa 1770–1785Toward a Human Biopolitics circa 1750–1770The Politics of Slavery in the EncyclopédieMercier and Saint-Lambert and the New Natural HistoryThe Synchretism of the 1770s: Grappling with "Nature's Mistreatment" of the NègreAnti-slavery Rhetoric in Raynal's Histoire des deux IndesThe Era of NegrophiliaEpilogue: The Natural History of the Noir in an Age of RevolutionCoda: Black Africans and the Enlightenment LegacyNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisStudents of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history.Trade Review[David Allmendinger] has dug deeply into property records, wills, and court judgments, some extending back to the eighteenth century, to provide a scaffolding of information about the web of anonymous lives amid which Turner grew to maturity. A remarkable amount of fresh research undergirds this volume. -- Daniel W. Crofts Virginia Magazine of History and Biography In this long-awaited study, based on prodigious archival research, University of Delaware professor emeritus of history David F. Allmendinger Jr. presents a richly detailed, country-level microhistory of the 1831 Virginia slave uprising commonly known as Nat Turner's Rebellion. Journal of American History "The exhaustive research Allmendinger presents greatly enriches our historical understanding of the Southampton Rebellion through the eyes of its key victims. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County reveals important dimensions of the rebellion's local history and contextualizes the event, as Nat Turner did, within the context of slavery in Southampton County. Reviews in History Allmendinger's great achievement is that he made full use of 'new' primary sources related to the uprising of 1831-new sources hitherto hidden in plain sight. Most importantly, he understood the significance of this material and knew exactly how to mine it for valuable new insights into virtually every aspect of Nat Turner's rebellion. Reviews in American History No one has done more to corroborate and sync the details, nor to illuminate Turner's inspirations and goals. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County is a model of historical methodology, and goes further than any other previous work in helping readers understand Turner's motives and meaning African American Intellectual History Society We are all in David Allmendinger's debt for the labor of research that has given Nat Turner and The Rising in Southampton County its absent material context. Law and History Review Though the subject of countless histories, novels, videos, and websites, Nat Turner, the leader of the largest slave insurrection in U.S. history, remains an enigma; yet, in this new and challenging study, the life and times of the legendary revolutionary come into much better focus. A must-read for historians of slave resistance and all others interested in the history of antebellum Virginia and in particular Southampton County. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Allmendinger approaches a well-trodden historical event from a distinctive perspective. [He] provides the most complete historical context surrounding the rebellion. Ultimately, Allmendinger succeeds in providing a more complete understanding of the community of Southampton, Virginia, and offers a better explanation for the motivations that led Turner and his followers down such a bloody path in 1831. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsNote on SurnamesIntroduction: The Key AccountPart I: Masters1. A History of Motives2. Lines of Descent: The Turners3. Alliances: Turner, Francis, Reese4. Successors: Capt. Moore and Mr. TravisPart II: Rebellion6. The Inner Circle7. The Zigzag Course8. Toward the Town9. The RisingPart III: Telling Evidence10. The Inquiry11. Confession12. Closing ScenesAppendixesA. Roster of InsurgentsB. Insurgents Who Separated before Parker's FieldC. Coerced ParticipantsD. Insurgents at Buckhorn QuarterE. White VictimsF. Atrocities and the Tax RollsA Note on Historiography: Rebellion and Local HistoryNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic.Trade ReviewVan Atta produces an incredibly readable and engaging work perfect for classroom use or as a refresher for those historians who need a compact summation of the latest scholarship surrounding this important historical moment in the early nation. -- James J. Gigantino II Missouri Historical Review In this engaging work, Van Atta... provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War... Choice Wolf by the Ears should be valued by scholars seeking a quick overview of antebellum American political history. More than just short, yet comprehensive, Van Atta's account is comprehensible, which should make it especially valuable to students, who should welcome its inclusion on course syllabi. Middle West Review Van Atta expertly outlines the intellectual and ideological ramifications of slavery's expansion--which can often become quite complex and convoluted--with an engaging style...This text is particularly suited for college students, nonspecialists, and those wanting a refresher on the sectional conflict of the antebellum period. Western Historical Quarterly Van Atta has written the clearest narrative of the Missouri crisis to date. students and scholars alike will profit from reading this brief yet thorough survey of a seminal moment in the history of the early republic. Louisiana History The meticulous translation and excellent editorial annotations make this a deeply valuable scholarly contribution. Louisiana History John R Van Atta has written a fine synthesis on the Missouri crisis that incorporates some of the best scholarship in the field. It serves as a wonderful introduction to the subject. Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Origins2. The West3. Impasse4. Compromises5. AftermathEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisStudents of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history.Trade Review[David Allmendinger] has dug deeply into property records, wills, and court judgments, some extending back to the eighteenth century, to provide a scaffolding of information about the web of anonymous lives amid which Turner grew to maturity. A remarkable amount of fresh research undergirds this volume. -- Daniel W. Crofts Virginia Magazine of History and Biography In this long-awaited study, based on prodigious archival research, University of Delaware professor emeritus of history David F. Allmendinger Jr. presents a richly detailed, country-level microhistory of the 1831 Virginia slave uprising commonly known as Nat Turner's Rebellion. Journal of American History "The exhaustive research Allmendinger presents greatly enriches our historical understanding of the Southampton Rebellion through the eyes of its key victims. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County reveals important dimensions of the rebellion's local history and contextualizes the event, as Nat Turner did, within the context of slavery in Southampton County. Reviews in History Allmendinger's great achievement is that he made full use of 'new' primary sources related to the uprising of 1831-new sources hitherto hidden in plain sight. Most importantly, he understood the significance of this material and knew exactly how to mine it for valuable new insights into virtually every aspect of Nat Turner's rebellion. Reviews in American History No one has done more to corroborate and sync the details, nor to illuminate Turner's inspirations and goals. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County is a model of historical methodology, and goes further than any other previous work in helping readers understand Turner's motives and meaning African American Intellectual History Society We are all in David Allmendinger's debt for the labor of research that has given Nat Turner and The Rising in Southampton County its absent material context. Law and History Review Though the subject of countless histories, novels, videos, and websites, Nat Turner, the leader of the largest slave insurrection in U.S. history, remains an enigma; yet, in this new and challenging study, the life and times of the legendary revolutionary come into much better focus. A must-read for historians of slave resistance and all others interested in the history of antebellum Virginia and in particular Southampton County. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Allmendinger approaches a well-trodden historical event from a distinctive perspective. [He] provides the most complete historical context surrounding the rebellion. Ultimately, Allmendinger succeeds in providing a more complete understanding of the community of Southampton, Virginia, and offers a better explanation for the motivations that led Turner and his followers down such a bloody path in 1831. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsNote on SurnamesIntroduction: The Key AccountPart I: Masters1. A History of Motives2. Lines of Descent: The Turners3. Alliances: Turner, Francis, Reese4. Successors: Capt. Moore and Mr. TravisPart II: Rebellion6. The Inner Circle7. The Zigzag Course8. Toward the Town9. The RisingPart III: Telling Evidence10. The Inquiry11. Confession12. Closing ScenesAppendixesA. Roster of InsurgentsB. Insurgents Who Separated before Parker's FieldC. Coerced ParticipantsD. Insurgents at Buckhorn QuarterE. White VictimsF. Atrocities and the Tax RollsA Note on Historiography: Rebellion and Local HistoryNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.Table of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. "Slavery Cannot Be Abolished"2. "Am I Gagged?"3. "He Knew That They All Abhorred Slavery"4. "How Can the Union Be Preserved?"EpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisFollow the changing fortunes of an early American family living through tumultuous times. The Cary family of Chelsea, Massachusetts, prospered as plantation owners and managers for nearly two decades in the West Indies before the Grenada slave revolts of 17951796 upended the sugar trade. Sarah Gray Cary used her quick intelligence and astute judgment to help her family adapt to their shifting fortunes. From Samuel Cary's departure from Boston to St. Kitts in 1764 to the second generation's search for trade throughout the West Indies, Susan Clair Imbarrato tells the compelling story of the Cary family from prosperity and crisis to renewal. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, this engaging book describes how Sarah Cary managed households in both Grenada and Chelsea while raising thirteen children. In particular, Imbarrato examines Sarah's correspondence with her sons Samuel and Lucius, in which they address family matters, share opinions on political and social events, discuss Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Seeking Fortune2. Building Prosperity3. Relocating and Adjusting4. Slave Revolts and Shifting Fortunes5. Recovery and Renewal6. Sustaining a FamilyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNo one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of this book.from the foreword by David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomDrawing on previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early life of the man who was to become the gadfly of America's conscience and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century black Americans. With a new foreword by renowned Douglass scholar David W. Blight, Dickson J. Preston's highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene. Astounding his white contemporaries with his oratorical brilliance and intellectual capabilities, Douglass dared to challenge the doctrine of white supremacy on its own grounds. At the time of Douglass's death in 1895, one eulogist wrote that he was pTable of ContentsForeword by, David W. BlightForeword by, James MichenerPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I. A Boy Named Frederick1. The Bailey Heritage2. Father Image: Aaron Anthony3. Frederick's Birth4. The Colonel and the Slave Boy5. Rule by Terror6. Fells Point7. Teen-Age Rebel8. Rebirth9. Preparation for FreedomPart II. The Exile's Return10. Postwar Reunions11. Homecoming to TalbotAppendix A. A Douglass ChronologyAppendix B. Genealogy of Frederick DouglassA Note on SourcesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis first-of-its-kind biography tells the story of Rev. James Page, who rose from slavery in the nineteenth century to become a religious and political leader among African Americans as well as an international spokesperson for the cause of racial equality. Winner of the Rembert Patrick Award by The Florida Historical Society, Florida Non-Fiction Book Award by the Florida Book Awards, Harry T. and Harrietter V. Moore Award by the Florida Historical SocietyJames Page spent the majority of his life enslavedduring which time he experienced the death of his free father, witnessed his mother and brother being sold on the auction block, and was forcibly moved 700 miles south from Richmond, VA, to Tallahassee, FL, by his enslaver, John Parkhill. Page would go on to become Parkhill's chief aide on his plantation and, unusually, a religious leader who was widely respected by enslaved men and women as well as by white clergy, educators, and politicians. Rare for enslaved people at the time, PTrade ReviewDr. Rivers has written a very brave book, because it refuses to accept stereotypes no matter their origin.—The Tallahassee DemocratThis is a remarkable book, deeply researched, gracefully written, and revealing many astonishing facts about the trials of a slave and how he coped with racial attitudes and prejudices.—Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Canadian Journal of HistoryBecause the past informs the present, Rivers illuminates the path of Father James Page's climb to freedom as a framework for measuring our own lives and the progress of Florida and America toward achieving racial justice and equality. —Valerie Scoon, Florida State University, Capital Outlookdeeply researched and inspiring book...Rivers does an excellent job of analyzing and describing the very complicated and sometimes contradictory behavior of Father James Page.—Said Sewell, Diverse: Issues in Higher EducationAs the first scholarly, full-length biography of any 19th century enslaved preacher from slavery to freedom Rivers' impeccably written biography is an impressive undertaking that required years of archival digging and a careful examination of the limited primary sources available[it] models the practice of vivifying overlooked historical figures.—Mélena Laudig, Princeton University, Reading Religion[Rivers] rightly argues that the emphasis on slaveholders' paternalism in studies of bondpeople often over-determines how scholars narrate the activities of the enslaved. Instead, he invites scholars to ask questions about Black agency—specifically how enslaved preachers like Page reasoned and made choices that ultimately shaped Black, southern, and American religious cultures.—Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh , Standford University, Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Early Life in Virginia2. Forced Migration to the Florida Frontier3. A New Environment and Responsibilities as an Overseer4. Challenges, Calamities, and the Ministry5. Forging Family Ties6. Intensifying Pastoral Duties and Leadership Responsibilities7. Stepping toward Civil War8. The Civil War Years9. Emancipation and Congressional Reconstruction10. Radical Reconstruction and Its AftermathEpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape. When the President's House installation opened in 2010, it became the first federal property to feature a slave memorial. In Upon the Ruins of Liberty, Roger Aden offers a compelling account that explores the development of this important historic site and how history, space, and public memory intersected with contemporary racial politics. Aden constructs this engrossing tale by drawing on archival material and interviews with principal figures in the controversy-including historian Ed Lawler, site activist Michael Coard, and site designer Emanuel Kelly. Upon the Ruins of Liberty chronicles the politically-charged efforts to create a fitting tribute to the place where George Washington (and later, John Adams) shaped the presidency whilTrade ReviewAden's is one of the best book-length case studies I have seen on contested sites like the president's house. --Ken FooteTable of ContentsPreface1 Discovering the Truth: The Revelation of Ugly History2 Re-collecting the Past: The Complexity of Public Memory3 Displacing the Inconvenient: The Incomplete Story of Liberty4 Honoring the Ancestors: The Quest for Acknowledgment5 Shaping the Place: The Design Competition6 Revealing the Foundations: The Excavation of the Site7 Telling the Stories: The Opening of the Installation8 Continuing the Conversation: The Legacy of the President’s HouseAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape. When the President's House installation opened in 2010, it became the first federal property to feature a slave memorial. In Upon the Ruins of Liberty, Roger Aden offers a compelling account that explores the development of this important historic site and how history, space, and public memory intersected with contemporary racial politics. Aden constructs this engrossing tale by drawing on archival material and interviews with principal figures in the controversy-including historian Ed Lawler, site activist Michael Coard, and site designer Emanuel Kelly. Upon the Ruins of Liberty chronicles the politically-charged efforts to create a fitting tribute to the place where George Washington (and later, John Adams) shaped the presidency whilTrade ReviewAden's is one of the best book-length case studies I have seen on contested sites like the president's house. --Ken FooteTable of ContentsPreface1 Discovering the Truth: The Revelation of Ugly History2 Re-collecting the Past: The Complexity of Public Memory3 Displacing the Inconvenient: The Incomplete Story of Liberty4 Honoring the Ancestors: The Quest for Acknowledgment5 Shaping the Place: The Design Competition6 Revealing the Foundations: The Excavation of the Site7 Telling the Stories: The Opening of the Installation8 Continuing the Conversation: The Legacy of the President’s HouseAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow can politicians and ordinary citizens face the racial past in a country that frames itself as colorblind? In her timely and provocative book, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming shows how people make sense of slavery in a nation where talking about race, colonialism, and slavery remains taboo. Noting how struggles over the meaning of racial history are informed by contemporary politics of race, she asks: What kinds of group identities are at stake today for activists and French people with ties to overseas territories where slavery took place?Fleming investigates the connections and disconnections that are made between racism, slavery, and colonialism in France. She provides historical context and examines how politicians and commemorative activists interpret the racial past and present. Resurrecting Slavery also includes in-depth interviews with French Caribbean migrants outside the commemorative movement to address the everyday racial politics of remembrance. Bringing a critiTrade Review"The French believe racism is something that affects other societies. Fleming's Resurrecting Slavery has forever exploded this myth! Based on over a hundred in-depth interviews, archival work, and ethnographic observations, this book demonstrates convincingly that France is indeed shaped by white supremacy. A major contribution to our scholarly work on racial formations, Resurrecting Slavery is a book I intend to assign to my classes for years to come."—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, Duke University, and author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America"Combining fascinating qualitative data with incisive critical race theory, Fleming offers new insights into the contradiction between France's color-blind political narrative and its ongoing legacy of racial oppression. She demonstrates that, in the hands of French Caribbean and black French activists, attempts to commemorate slavery have the potential to break the silence surrounding racism in France. Resurrecting Slavery is an important reminder that only by confronting white supremacy in its past and present, national and global incarnations can we hope to dismantle it."—Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty"Linguistic barriers have too often hindered communication and learning possibilities among different sections of the global black diaspora. In her essential and illuminating book, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming brings to our Anglo attention the state of debate on racism and slavery in continental and overseas France-a country that has refused to even recognize ‘race' as a legitimate category. As she shows, only by confronting the historical and ongoing realities of white supremacy can we truly begin to commemorate and overcome the legacy of the colonial and slave past."—Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center, and author of The Racial Contract

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Book SynopsisHow can politicians and ordinary citizens face the racial past in a country that frames itself as colorblind? In her timely and provocative book, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming shows how people make sense of slavery in a nation where talking about race, colonialism, and slavery remains taboo. Noting how struggles over the meaning of racial history are informed by contemporary politics of race, she asks: What kinds of group identities are at stake today for activists and French people with ties to overseas territories where slavery took place?Fleming investigates the connections and disconnections that are made between racism, slavery, and colonialism in France. She provides historical context and examines how politicians and commemorative activists interpret the racial past and present. Resurrecting Slavery also includes in-depth interviews with French Caribbean migrants outside the commemorative movement to address the everyday racial politics of remembrance. Bringing a critiTrade Review"The French believe racism is something that affects other societies. Fleming's Resurrecting Slavery has forever exploded this myth! Based on over a hundred in-depth interviews, archival work, and ethnographic observations, this book demonstrates convincingly that France is indeed shaped by white supremacy. A major contribution to our scholarly work on racial formations, Resurrecting Slavery is a book I intend to assign to my classes for years to come."—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, Duke University, and author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America"Combining fascinating qualitative data with incisive critical race theory, Fleming offers new insights into the contradiction between France's color-blind political narrative and its ongoing legacy of racial oppression. She demonstrates that, in the hands of French Caribbean and black French activists, attempts to commemorate slavery have the potential to break the silence surrounding racism in France. Resurrecting Slavery is an important reminder that only by confronting white supremacy in its past and present, national and global incarnations can we hope to dismantle it."—Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty"Linguistic barriers have too often hindered communication and learning possibilities among different sections of the global black diaspora. In her essential and illuminating book, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming brings to our Anglo attention the state of debate on racism and slavery in continental and overseas France-a country that has refused to even recognize ‘race' as a legitimate category. As she shows, only by confronting the historical and ongoing realities of white supremacy can we truly begin to commemorate and overcome the legacy of the colonial and slave past."—Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center, and author of The Racial Contract

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Book SynopsisReplete now with its own scholarly traditions and controversies, Roman slavery as a field of study is no longer limited to the economic sphere, but is recognized as a fundamental social institution with multiple implications for Roman society and culture. The essays in this collection explore how material culture – namely, art, architecture, and inscriptions – can illustrate Roman attitudes towards the institution of slavery and towards slaves themselves in ways that significantly augment conventional textual accounts.Providing the first interdisciplinary approach to the study of Roman slavery, the volume brings together diverse specialists in history, art history, and archaeology. The contributors engage with questions concerning the slave trade, manumission, slave education, containment and movement, and the use of slaves in the Roman army.Trade Review'This is an engaging book. The case studies are valuable in their own right, and the best are models for emulation.' -- K.R. Bradley University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction MICHELE GEORGE 1. Greek or Latin? The owner&rsquos choice of names for vernae in Rome CHRISTER BRUUN 2. Slavery and Manumission in the Roman Elite: A Study of the Columbaria of the Volusii and the Statilii HENRIK MOURITSEN 3. Reading the &lsquoPages’ of the Domus Caesaris: Pueri Delicati, Slave Education, and the Graffiti of the Palatine Paedagogium PETER KEEGAN 4. Geographies of Slave Containment and Movement SANDRA R. JOSHEL 5. Working Models: Functional Art and Roman Conceptions of Slavery NOEL LENSKI 6. Cupid Punished: Reflections on a Roman Genre Scene MICHELE GEORGE 7. Slaves and Liberti in the Roman Army NATALIE BOYMEL KAMPEN References List of Contributors Inscriptions Index Locorum General Index Phoenix Supplementary Volumes Illustrations follow

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Book SynopsisModern slavery is growing despite the introduction of laws to try to stem it. This is the first book critically to assess the legislation, using evidence from across the field, and to offer strategies for improvement in policy and practice.Trade Review"Timely and important… It is difficult to do justice to the breadth and depth of expertise, information and analysis in this densely packed book." Institute of Race Relations Weekly Digest, 22 May - 4 June 2019"A truly thought-provoking collection of chapters on the recent journey the U.K has been on with regard to modern slavery." David Gadd, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Combining diverse commentators dealing with 'modern slavery', this book provides a sweeping criticism of the UK response. Several years after the Modern Slavery Act was enacted, it's a timely call for improvement." Sasha Jesperson, Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery, St. Mary's UniversityTable of ContentsEditorial Introduction: The modern slavery agenda: politics, policy and practice ~ Gary Craig, Alex Balch, Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite; Modern slavery in global context: ending the political economy of forced labour and slavery ~ Aidan McQuade; The United Kingdom response to modern slavery: law, policy and politics ~ Ruth van Dyke; Defeating ‘Modern Slavery’, Reducing Exploitation?: the Organisational and Regulatory Challenge ~ Alex Balch; Class Acts? A comparative analysis of modern slavery legislation across the UK ~ Vicky Brotherton; Child trafficking in the UK ~ Chloe Setter; Human Trafficking- addressing the symptom, not the cause ~ Kate Roberts; Still Punishing the Wrong People: The Criminalisation of Potential Trafficked Cannabis Gardeners ~ Patrick Burland; Modern Slavery and Transparency in Supply Chains - the Role of Business ~ Colleen Theron; Migrant illegality, slavery and exploitative work ~ Louise Waite and Hannah Lewis; The UK’s approach to tackling modern slavery in a European context ~ Klara Skrivankova; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisExamines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Using untapped legislative and court records, Stacey L. Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.

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Book SynopsisBased on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.

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Book SynopsisOffers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of Havana. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of colour and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana.

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Book SynopsisNow in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.

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