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Book SynopsisPictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics, artists, and activists living and working in the UK and the US. For the first time, contributors map Douglass’ eclectic and experimental visual archive across an array of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, historical, ideological, and philosophical contexts. While Douglass the activist, diplomat, statesman, politician, autobiographer, orator, essayist, historian, memoirist, correspondent, and philosopher have been the focus of a scholarly industry over the decades, Douglass the art historian and the subject of photographs, paintings, prints, and sculpture let alone mass visual culture has only begun to be explored. Across this volume, scholars share their groundbreaking research investigating Douglass’ significance as the subject of visual culture and as himself a self-reflexive image-maker and radical theorist. Pictures and Power has come to life from a conviction endorsed by Douglass himself: the battleground against slavery and the fight for equal rights had many staging grounds and was by no means restricted to the plantation, the antislavery podium, the legal court, the stump circuit, the campaign trail, or even the educational institution but rather bled through every arena of imaginative, political and artistic life.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xiAcknowledgements xivForewordDeborah Willis 1PrefaceCeleste-Marie Bernier and Bill E. Lawson 7Introduction: ‘Paint me as I am’: The Many Faces of Frederick DouglassCeleste-Marie Bernier and Bill E. Lawson 19Part I Imaging Frederick Douglass1 P ictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass and the Beginnings of an African American Aesthetic in PhotographyDonna M. Wells 432 The Abolitionist and the Camera: Frederick Douglass’ Photographic Half-CenturyZoe Trodd 573 Anna Murray Douglass, ‘The Mother of Cedar Hill’:Photography and the Representation of Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s ActivismEarnestine Jenkins 774 ‘A Faithful Representation of the Man?’ The Pre-Civil War ‘Sorrow Images’ of Frederick DouglassCeleste-Marie Bernier 1055 Last Objects: Death, Autobiography and the Final ImprintFionnghuala Sweeney 143Part II Imagining Frederick Douglass6 Transatlantic Portrayals of Frederick Douglass and his Liberating Sojourn in Music and Visual Arts 1845–2015Alan Rice 1677 Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass’ Second SkinJeffrey C. Stewart 1898 Frederick Douglass in the Age of Moving PicturesHannah Durkin 2319 Looking Forward and Looking Back: Rashid Johnson and Frederick Douglass on PhotographyShawn Michelle Smith 25510 Viral Virtual Varicose Douglass Inside the World Wide Web: Or How to Make a Great Black Man InvisibleMarcus Wood 27511 Subverting the Racist Lens: Frederick Douglass, Humanity and the Power of the Photographic ImageBill E. Lawson and Maria Brincker 299AfterwordJohn Stauffer 329Notes on Contributors 333Index 339

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Book SynopsisThis book reconsiders the career of an important, controversial, but neglected figure in this history of Irish Presbyterianism. The Revd Isaac Nelson is mostly remembered for his opposition to the evangelical revival of 1859, but this book demonstrates that there was much more to Nelson’s career. Nelson started out as a protégé of Henry Cooke and as an exemplary young evangelical minister. Upon aligning himself with the Belfast Anti-Slavery Society and joining forces with American abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, Nelson emerged as a powerful voice against compromise with slaveholders. One of the central objectives of this book is to show that anti-slavery, especially his involvement with the ‘Send Back the Money’ controversy in the Free Church of Scotland and the debate over fellowship with slaveholders at the Evangelical Alliance, was crucially important to the development of Nelson into one of Irish Presbyterianism’s most controversial figures. His later opposition to the 1859 Revival has often been understood as being indicative of Nelson’s opposition to evangelicalism. This book argues that such a conclusion is mistaken and that Nelson opposed the Revival as a Presbyterian evangelical. His later involvement with the Land League and the Irish Home Rule movement, including his tenure as the Member of Parliament for County Mayo, could be easily dismissed as an entirely discreditable affair. While avoiding romantic nostalgia in relation to Nelson’s nationalism, this book argues that Nelson’s basis for advocating Home Rule was not as peculiar as it might first appear.Trade ReviewReviews ‘An interesting, probing, and thoroughly documented study of an importantly unconventional protagonist in several major religious and political debates, with reverberations far beyond Belfast or Ulster, which will make a considerable impact not merely on students of Ulster’s religious history, but on the broader field of Irish political history.' Professor David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College Dublin

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Book SynopsisDuring the course of more than four centuries, merchants in Liverpool were responsible for forcibly transporting over a million and a half Africans across the Atlantic to work as enslaved labourers on the plantations of the Caribbean as their ships carried a larger number of Africans than those of any other European port. White colonial owners used the enslaved Africans to produce sugar and other valuable tropical goods which were consumed at home in Britain. Liverpool and the slave trade is the first comprehensive account of the city’s participation in the trade. It tells the story of the merchants and ships’ captains who organised the trade and shows how they bought and sold Africans, how they treated the enslaved during the Atlantic voyage and how they and the wider community benefitted from the slave trade. It concludes with the efforts to end the trade and the legacy it has left in Liverpool and beyond. Drawing on the most recent research as well as extensive use of contemporary documents and personal testimonies and experiences to explore this history, Liverpool and the slave trade highlights an important part of the city’s history which has for too long been rejected, forgotten or ignored.Trade Review‘Liverpool and the Slave Trade is altogether an impressive work that will be useful to a broad range of readers. Even leaving aside its many fine qualities, the excellent images alone make it a valuable addition to a specialist’s library. Readers generally acquainted with the transatlantic slave trade will also value the Liverpool-specific aspects of every chapter, and it will serve as an engaging introductory volume for undergraduates, general readers, and all Liverpudlians.’ Ryan E. Mewett, H-Net Reviews‘Brief, yet uncompromising, it is a valuable addition to our understanding of slavery, especially its role in bringing prosperity to a city through which relatively few slaves directly passed [...] For anyone who thinks of the slave trade as a distant event from British shores, this book shatters the illusion.’ Thomas Malcomson, The Northern Mariner'The book is invaluable in understanding the key role Liverpool merchants played in the British slave trade and how involvement in that trade shaped the town economically, politically and socially during the period and beyond.' Laurence Westgraph, Transactions: The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World addresses post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in Haiti. Working through an archive of black politics, The Unfinished Revolution examines the charged upheaval that Haiti’s arrival caused in the Atlantic world. Salt revisits this site of contestation in order to critically reflect on the ways that brokers from Haiti and across the Atlantic responded to the political existence of a nation forged from the fires of revolution and consistently racialized as black by other nation-states. These sovereign bodies—who Salt argues took their political cues regarding who can be sovereign from the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)—struggled to accept the existence of the independent nation-state of Haiti. Examining Haiti through the lens of blackness and sovereignty, Salt produces an original and compelling account of the challenges and constraints Haiti has encountered in fighting for its continued political existence. Assembling a wide range of materials—from photographs, newspaper articles, letters, diplomatic documents, essays and objects—Salt produces a cogent and nuanced book that moves beyond the revolutionary period of Haiti’s history in order to argue that Haiti remains in the midst of an unfinished revolution over its sovereignty.Trade Review'The Unfinished Revolution offers a relevant look at post-independence Haiti. Readers will appreciate the host of figures and events Salt presents along with her thoughtful discussions of these "transnational representatives." The work will appeal to students and scholars interested in reflecting on what sovereignty means for a black nation during the Atlantic world period and beyond.' Yveline Alexis, H-LatAmTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION/ Sovereignty and PowerONE/ Games of Sovereignty and OpportunityTWO/ Selling Citizenship, Recognising Blood, Stabilising SovereigntyTHREE/ Burlesquing Empire: Performing Black Sovereignty on the World StageFOUR/ Welcome to the New World Order: Haiti and Black Sovereignty at the Turn of the CenturyFIVE/ Sovereignty Under Seige? Contemporary Performances of Black Sovereignty

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Book SynopsisMany people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous economic system that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros thrived by exchanging slaves and commodities with African, Arab and Indian merchants. By the seventeenth century, the archipelago had become an important supply point on the route from Europe to Asia, and developed a special relationship with the English. The twentieth century brought French colonial rule and a plantation economy based on perfumes and spices. In 1975, following decades of neglect, the Comoros declared independence from France, only to be blighted by a series of coups, a radical revolutionary government and a mercenary regime. Today, the island nation suffers chronic mismanagement and relies on foreign aid and remittances from a diasporic community in France. Nonetheless, the Comoros are largely peaceful and culturally vibrant--connected to the outside world in the internet age, but, at the same time, still slightly apart. Iain Walker traces the history and unique culture of these enigmatic islands, from their first settlement by Africans, Arabs and Austronesians, through their heyday within the greater Swahili world and their decline as a forgotten outpost of the French colonial empire, to their contemporary status as an independent state in the Indian Ocean​.Trade Review‘A marvelous, engaged book.’ -- H-Net'Walker has produced a tightly organized, straightforward chronological history. […] This book would be a great acquisition for anyone interested in filling in gaps in knowledge of the western Indian Ocean world.' -- African Studies Review'Comprehensive, compelling, and engagingly written, Iain Walker's history is a major work and an indispensable and impressive contribution to the scarce scholarly literature in English on the Comoros.' -- Michael Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto Scarborough, and author of 'Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte''This detailed and authoritative history of the Comoros is long overdue. At last, with their richly documented past and their numerous traditional histories, these islands can be better understood as lying at the very centre of the maritime economy and culture of the western Indian Ocean.' -- Malyn Newitt, author of 'A Short History of Mozambique''A much-needed and wide-ranging study of the complex history of the Comoros. Walker reveals how these islands of luxuriant jungles and the fragrance of ylang ylang became the site for violent contention, and offers a comprehensive case study of the long-term legacies of colonialism.' -- Robert Aldrich, Professor of European History, University of Sydney'It is a particular strength of Iain Walker's deeply researched history of the Comoros that he both locates the islands in their wider regional and global contexts and deftly explains their very complex social system.' -- Edward Alpers, Research Professor of History, UCLA, and author of 'The Indian Ocean in World History'

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Book SynopsisThe 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain's role in trans-Atlantic slavery, too often overlooked. Yet the legacy of that predatory economy reaches far beyond bronze memorials; it continues to shape the entire visual fabric of the country. Architect Victoria Perry explores the relationship between the wealth of slave-owning elites and the architecture and landscapes of Georgian Britain. She reveals how profits from Caribbean sugar plantations fed the opulence of stately homes and landscape gardens. Trade in slaves and slave-grown products also boosted the prosperity of ports like Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow, shifting cultural influence towards the Atlantic west. New artistic centres like Bath emerged, while investment in poor, remote areas of Wales, Cumbria and Scotland led to their 're-imagining' as tourist destinations: Snowdonia, the Lakes and the Highlands. The patronage of absentee planters popularised British ideas of 'natural scenery'--viewing mountains, rivers and rocks as landscape art--and then exported the concept of 'sublime and picturesque' landscapes across the Atlantic. A Bittersweet Heritage unearths the slavery-tainted history of Britain's manors, ports, roads and countryside, and powerfully explains what this legacy means today.Trade Review''A Bittersweet Heritage' illuminates how Caribbean profits shaped not only family trees, but the planting and painting of Britain's landscape--and the mansions erected thereon.' -- Church Times'An impressive, highly readable, and beautifully illustrated book.' -- The Round Table'[A] fine, well-illustrated work of (often painful) history.' -- Context'An important and engrossing contribution to the history of Britain's place in the global slave trade, and how it shaped our urban and rural, domestic and civic fabric. Perry successfully charts this brutal past and reminds us all of how its everyday legacies continue today.' -- Tristram Hunt, historian, former MP and Director, Victoria and Albert Museum'This book showing how profits from Black slavery helped to transform Britain's architecture and landscapes gripped me from beginning to end. Enhanced by a lucid and accessible prose style together with many fascinating images, it most certainly deserves a very wide readership.' -- Sir Tom Devine, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, and editor of 'Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection''This is a scholarly and timely history of great country seats created from the profits of plantation slavery. It is a fascinating story of how the political, cultural, social and economic milieu both shaped their history and informs our present.' -- Simon Allford, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects'This book is eye-opening. From her essay in the renowned volume Slavery and the British Country House to this magnificent new study, Victoria Perry continues to illuminate the myriad--and surprising--architectural, rural and cultural legacies of Britain's slavery business.' -- Corinne Fowler, Professor of Postcolonial Literature, University of Leicester'A captivating if uncomfortable account of the connections – strategic and individual – between the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Britain's built and natural heritage. The design ideals of this cruel historic period have been successfully buried for generations, but Perry's meticulous research and excellent storytelling bring them to new audiences.' -- Louise Thomas, Director, Historic Towns & Villages Forum

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Book SynopsisThis book presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women in the sixteenth century--the very period from which we can trace the origins of global empires, slavery, capitalism, modern religious dogma and anti-Black violence. These features of today's world took shape as Portugal built a global empire on African gold and bodies. Forced labour was essential to the world economy of the Atlantic basin, and afflicted many African women and girls who were enslaved and manumitted, baptised and unconvinced. While some women liaised with European and mixed-race men along the West African coast, others, ordinary yet bold, pushed back against new forms of captivity, racial capitalism, religious orthodoxy and sexual violence, as if they were already self-governing. Many Black Women of this Fortress lays bare the insurgent ideas and actions of Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, charting how they advocated for themselves and exercised spiritual and female power. Theirs is a collective story, written from obscurity; from the forgotten and overlooked colonial records. By drawing attention to their lives, we dare to grasp the complexities of modernity's gestation.Trade Review'This remarkable book recovers from the Portuguese archives the life histories of three women who lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in present-day Ghana. Konadu, an outstanding historian of his generation, presents a lucid, riveting and transformative portrait of gender and politics in the face of the violence of European empires at the dawn of modernity.' -- Toby Green, Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture, King's College London'A fascinating picture of the entangled early modern world. Using the rich archival material found in inquisition records, this book provides an important new window onto the daily lives of three Black women in sixteenth-century coastal West Africa, and in Europe.' -- Bronwen Everill, Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge'A refreshing, remarkable excavation of the kind of life stories typically lost to history. Methodologically creative and bold in reach, this is a book that forces us to rethink both what we know and what we are able to know.' -- Paddy Docherty, author of Blood and Bronze

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Book SynopsisThe epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery, who defeated Napoleon’s armies and crowned himself a free black king. How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon’s invading troops and become king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the forgotten, remarkable story of Henry Christophe. Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before serving in the Haitian Revolution as one of Toussaint Louverture’s top generals. Following Haitian independence, Christophe crowned himself King Henry I. His attempts to build a modern black state won the support of leading British abolitionists—but his ambition helped to plunge his country into civil war. Christophe saw himself as an Enlightenment ruler, and his kingdom produced great literary works, epic fortresses and opulent palaces. He was a proud anti-imperialist and fought off French plots against him. Yet the Haitian people chafed under his authoritarian rule. Today, all that remains is Christophe’s mountaintop Citadelle, Haiti’s sole World Heritage site—a monument to a revolutionary black monarchy, in a world of empire and slavery.Trade Review‘Black Crown' grasps the essential tragedy of history, in all its ambiguity and contingency.’ -- The Telegraph'With narrative verve and a deep understanding of the country's extraordinary past, Clammer opens a window on to the life and times of one of the most tragic figures of the francophone Antilles, le roi Christophe.' -- The Spectator'Paul Clammer brings this extraordinary story to life in his deeply researched biography of Christophe, the first to appear in decades... a detailed and rewarding read.' -- History Today‘An excellent record of many different aspects of Haiti’s little-known history.’ -- Liberation'An important contribution to Haiti's little-known history.' -- Morning Star‘A great historical narrative that introduces the reader to an array of fascinating characters in an age of revolution.’ -- Counterfire'A rich story... important and well-written.' -- The Zambia Daily Mail'Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Black Crown is the biography of Henry Christophe we have been waiting for. Through Christophe's story, Clammer describes the country's transition from plantation colony to independent nation-state. Essential reading, not only for those interested in the history of Haiti but also for anyone seeking to understand the emergence of the modern Atlantic world.' -- Charles Forsdick, co-author of Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions'The majesty of Haiti's foundations is reflected in the almost unreal story of King Henry Christophe. Bold, nationalistic, and unrelenting, Christophe long occupied outside imaginations that for a century subjected him to myth and ridicule. Black Crown is a major corrective to this: a carefully researched, beautifully written and deeply absorbing biography. It shines on every page with subtle insights on a story too little understood. Paul Clammer's triumph is to recover the man, his country, and his age, and present Haiti's proud black king in all his conflicting glory.' -- Matthew J. Smith, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, University College of London'This adds greatly to our growing understanding of the Haitian Revolution, its turbulent aftermath and the cutthroat politics of revolutionary Haiti. Clammer seems to have left no stone unturned in his research and brings a great deal to the table for both Haiti scholars and the general reader wishing to understand the reign of King Christophe. Black Crown also represents another point of evidence for an interesting question--do you have to be a professional academic to write a great history book? Clearly not.' -- Johnhenry Gonzalez, University of Cambridge, author of Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti

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Book Synopsis'More than lives up to the hype' Observer'Set to become a publishing sensation' Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row'An astounding achievement' Sunday Times'The lost giant of American literature' New YorkerJune, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leave with him.The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters, each from the perspective of a different white townsperson. These are boys, girls, men and women; either liberal or conservative, bigoted or sympathetic - yet all of whom are grappling with this spontaneous, collective rejection of subordination.In 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley's debut novel A Different Drummer earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. Fifty-five years later, author and journalist Kathryn Schulz happened upon the novel serendipitously and was inspired to write the New Yorker article 'The Lost Giant of American Literature', included as a foreword to this edition.Trade ReviewEvery so often, a 'forgotten classic' is rediscovered around which the literary world rallies with praise and prediction of a 'Stoner effect' . . . A Different Drummer more than lives up to the hype, both in terms of its literary accomplishment and in the power of its political vision . . . Today the book offers us an unflinching study of the southern white American psyche at the cusp of the civil rights movement: its belligerence against change, the incomprehension and anger. It is woeful to think that almost 60 years later, Kelley's story seems just as timely and as urgent, but what a gift to literature that we have rediscovered it. -- Arifa Akbar * Observer *Simple, timeless, mythic . . . an astounding achievement . . . still relevant and powerful today. * Sunday Times *Set to become a publishing sensation. -- Kirsty Lang * BBC Front Row *Black America's lost literary masterpiece. * Observer *Astounding . . . Absolutely essential reading. * Stylist *This fierce and brilliant novel is written with sympathy as well as sorrow. It's a myth packed with real-world resonance. * Guardian *Wonderful . . . full of dazzling moments of social and psychological observation that jump from the page as if they were written yesterday. * Metro *A Different Drummer is a revelation. A story so vividly alive I closed the book a different person from the one who opened it. A vital classic of literature. -- Polly Clark, author of LarchfieldBrilliant . . . The rare first novel that makes future ones seem both inevitable and exciting. * New Yorker *Despite the novel being over 50 years old it feels as relevant as ever, sitting alongside the likes of The Good Immigrant, Slay in Your Lane and Becoming. -- Alexandra Heminsley * Grazia *Kelley blended fantasy and fact to construct an alternative world whose sweep and complexity drew comparisons to James Joyce and William Faulkner. * New York Times *This first novel just perhaps could play a part in changing our history. * Kansas City Star *[A] masterpiece . . . Kelley wrote intricate novels that identified with the rejection of dominant social orders. * Public Books *An exceptionally powerful and elegant first novel. * Manchester Guardian *Superbly written . . . a stunning work. * Kirkus *A rare first novel: dynamic, imaginative, and accomplished . . . It is a custom to say of first novels that they 'show promise.' But we need not say that of this one. It shows accomplishment; it shows fulfillment. * Chicago Sunday Tribune *So brilliant is this initial novel that one must consider Mr. Kelley for tentative future placement among the paragons of American letters. * Boston Sunday Herald *Beautifully written and thought-provoking . . . It will strike a responsive chord in all men of goodwill. * Baltimore Evening Sun *Superb . . . The comparisons of his debut to the books of James Baldwin and Faulkner are justified. * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThe slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way, and with figures from the past, vividly dramatising the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and American history.Trade ReviewAn original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery ... driven by this writer's prodigious narrative gifts. -- Elizabeth Schmidt * The New York Times *One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers ... She's a theorist and writer who actually changes what's possible in my thought patterns -- Claudia RankineThis is a memoir about loss, alienation, and estrangement, but also, ultimately, about the power of art to remember ... A magnificent achievement. -- Henry Louis Gates JrBy addressing gaps and omissions in accounts of trans-Atlantic slavery ... Hartman has influenced an entire generation of scholars and afforded readers a proximity to the past that would otherwise be foreclosed. -- MacArthur statement[Hartman writes] with striking intimacy, evoking the feelings and the conditions of Black life -- Alexis Okeowo * New Yorker *Praise for Saidiya Hartman: "She was so smart that I thought the windows were gonna blow out, the quickness of her mind and the sharpness of her critique were breathtaking." -- Judith Butler * on meeting Hartman *She's not an 'angry Black woman. She's not Assata Shakur. But what they don't know is that, where Assata Shakur will blow your head off, Saidiya has just put a stiletto between your ribs. -- Frank B. Wilderson III, Chair of the Department of African-American stucies, UC Irivine

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Book SynopsisA fascinating examination of the activities of the joint-stock royal charter companies that established settlements in the British North American colonies and which were pivotal in shaping the political-economic transformation of early America and its capitalist evolution.

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Book SynopsisThe Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "history from below." Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution.By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing readers with an intellectual history of the enslaved.Though The Common Wind is credited with having "opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words," the manuscript remained unpublished for thirty-two years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World, it has been published by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker.Trade ReviewA captivating odyssey across the age of Revolution. * Times Literary Supplement *"Over the past three decades, scholarship on the Black Atlantic and black internationalism has flourished. The Common Wind deserves a great deal of credit for this development . Julius Scott offers an inspiring history about the subaltern production, transformative power, and global circulation of ideas." -- Brandon Byrd * African American Intellectual History Society *"Scott has done what very few scholars have been able to do; he has uncovered a vast communication network that relied primarily on the ephemeral - word of mouth rather than paper...Scott's storytelling abilities are singularly compelling...[His] prose is highly accessible, not to mention mellifluous and full of striking imagery...Its singular contribution remains unmatched." * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Common Wind is a magnum opus, a subaltern tale that occupied a then-burgeoning space in historical writing - a "history from below" focusing on the disenfranchised rather than the powerful. * Vice News Tonight on HBO *renowned for its creativity, imaginative research and graceful prose * Publishers Weekly *a tour de force. Rigorously researched and beautifully written, it has profoundly shaped our understanding of Black Atlantic history. Indeed, Scott's study of the movement of people, ideas, words, papers, and even feelings among people of African descent in the eighteenth century is a stunning model for any kind of history -- Ada Ferrer, author of Insurgent Cuba and Freedom Nowclear, persuasive, and (owing to understatement in the face of great crimes) even calming -- Peter Linebaugh, author of Many Headed Hydra"so exciting, original, and profound"[it inspired] "an entire generation to create a new field of knowledge about the past" -- Vincent Brown, Harvard University * Time Magazine *a beloved and consequential work -- Tom Bartlett * Chronicle of Higher Education *pathbreaking and enormously influential. . .like any truly classic piece of scholarship, Scott's study offers fresh insights with each rereading. -- Ashli White * Journal of American History *Scott has listened carefully for the voices-sometimes only whispers-that carried radical ideas and information around the Caribbean, leaving faint but distinct traces in the archives. He brilliantly translates to the Caribbean setting ideas originally developed by European historians about "history from below" and the ways "masterless," itinerant men and women could drive political change. His prose beautifully evokes bustling ports and markets, remote jungle and mountain hideaways, wind-swept ship decks and fetid, cargo-laden hulls -- David A. Bell * New York Review of Books *This iconic book speaks to what we all see unfolding in the world today where masses are seeing, becoming, and most of all moving ideas that are taking collective hold across the globe. ... One of the most highly sought out intellectual histories of slavery that centers "rumors of emancipation," [The Common Wind] shows the parallel not only to protest but the unending fears of the global influence that mobilization can have. -- Sowande’ M. Mustakeem * Age of Revolutions *The Common Wind, which takes its title from Wordsworth's sonnet to Louverture, is based on Scott's 1986 doctoral dissertation. Photocopies - and, later, PDFs - of his thesis had circulated among historians like an 'underground mixtape'. As the dissertation did the rounds, through at least two generations of professors and students, it helped define the emerging field of Atlantic world history. -- Pooja Bhatia * London Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisDuring the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers - enslaved and free - allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment of possibility.These Black writers borrowed from the European tradition of Romanticism - lyric poetry, prophetic visions - to write, speak, and sing their hopes for what freedom might mean. At the same time, they voiced anxieties about the expansion of global capital and U.S. imperial power in the aftermath of slavery. They also focused on the ramifications of slavery's sexual violence. Authors like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, George Moses Horton, Albery Allson Whitman, and Joshua McCarter Simpson conceived the Civil War as a revolutionary upheaval on par with Europe's stormy Age of Revolutions. The Black Romantic Revolution proposes that the Black Romantics' cultural innovations have shaped Black radical culture to this day, from the blues and hip hop to Black nationalism and Black feminism. Their expressions of love and rage, grief and determination, dreams and nightmares, still echo into our present.Trade ReviewWritten with deep and layered seriousness, and a healthy willingness to provoke and play, this impressive study reads Black poetry as profoundly political and as exceeding politics. Subtly theorized, especially via Black feminist theory, and attentive to changing imperatives of political coalition building, it nevertheless keeps the poets and the poetry front and center. The old surrealist insistence that poetry can be an emancipatory and creative activity emerges here not as an injunction but as one central aspect of lived history. -- David Roediger, author of How Race Survived US HistoryThe Black Romantic Revolution is well written, characterized by smoothly flowing prose that offers both clarity and nuance. Matt Sandler's meticulous attention to literary form and to cultural context produces a study full of surprises supported by concrete evidence. Above all, The Black Romantic Revolution takes its insights from the authors it examines. Quite deliberately, Sandler refuses to look at nineteenth-century African American poets through the lens of European Romanticism, allowing its ideals to ground arguments about Black writers' validity. Instead, he studies their choices so faithfully that he shows readers how early Black poets developed a Romanticism of their own. Sandler's readers will come to appreciate authors like Frances E. W. Harper and George Moses Horton - as well as the turbulent decades and complex cultural landscape to which they contributed - in truly unexpected ways. * Koritha Mitchell, author of From Slave Cabins to the White House and editor of Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy *With uncommon verve, Matt Sandler correlates Romantic poetic idioms from the natural world regarding whirlwinds and the coming storm to those about revolution and the impending crisis from the political world. The Black Romantic Revolution has as a latent question what happens to our understanding of the long nineteenth-century when re-read through the optics of African American literary studies, historical poetics, and Romanticism. Sandler not only illustrates how African American poets extended the temporal and thematic scope of Romanticism but also how black American poets came to fulfill its political yearnings and aesthetic apotheosis. In so doing, Sandler offers a trenchant critique of, and necessary corrective to, the disciplinary formations that have heretofore failed to put into clearer view the shared horizons between "African American" and "Romanticism." -- Ivy G. Wilson, author of Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of NationalismSandler has assembled a book featuring Black voices from pre-emancipation America. These poets were both free and enslaved and the book centers on their advocacy on emancipation, and their vision about what post-slavery America might be, prophesies that are still felt today. -- Sara Webster * Broooklyn Based *There's no doubt that The Black Romantic Revolution will serve as a valuable guide and resource for scholars who study nineteenth-century African American literature. Moreover, literary scholars interested in Transatlantic studies have much to gain by following Sandler connect the dots from Eurocentric Romanticism to Black American Romanticism. -- Howard Ramsby * Cultural Front *Thunderous, accessible ... Sandler challenges established ideas about the poets' relationship to Romanticism, but never gets bogged down in academic turf battles. Instead, he highlights the work, the poets and their political and cultural worlds, guiding readers through history, biography, theory and engaging close readings of the poems themselves. -- Alan Scherstuhl * Shelf Awareness (Starred Review) *The Black Romantic Revolution brings a somewhat unknown element of US literature further into the public consciousness. Sandler's prose illuminates some of the genre's important texts, placing the works and their creators in the political and literary moment they were composed. Simultaneously, he provides the reader with an understanding of the meaning these poets and their works hold for today, when the ongoing struggle for a genuine and lasting Black liberation from a legacy of US white supremacy remains disturbingly elusive. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *The Black Romantic Revolution is an example of generative scholarship that properly meets the weight of our moment...As Sandler uncovers the neglected artistic and political projects of 19th-century African American poets, he both builds the Western canon and Blackens it...In our moment, this Black work matters. -- Derik Smith * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Black Romantic Revolution does not simply expose the lies about freedom and abolition we have inherited from the 18th and 19th centuries; rather, [it turns] to the past to call forth lyrical alternatives to long-standing narratives about enlightenment and revolution. -- Manu Samriti Chander * Public Books *A glimpse into the ways that Black literary production has capaciously engaged itself beyond the rigid boundaries of genres and intended audiences. * Studies in Romanticism *

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Book SynopsisExpanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series ‘Britain’s Black Past’, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Even those who may be familiar with some of the materials will find much that they had not previously known, and will be introduced to people, places, and stories brought to light by new research. In a time of international racial unrest and migration, it is important not to lose sight of similar situations that took place in an earlier time. In chapters written by scholars, artists, and independent researchers, readers will learn of an early musician, the sales of slaves in Scotland, the grave—now a shrine—of a black enslaved boy left to die in Morecombe Bay, of a country estate owned by a mixed-race slave owner, and of the two strikingly different people who lived in a Bristol house that is now a museum. Black sailors, political activists, memoirists, appear in these pages, but the book also re-examines living history, in the form of modern plays, television programmes, and genealogical sleuthing. Through them, Britain’s Black Past is not only presented anew, but shown to be very much alive in our own time.Trade Review'Drawing on the work and diverse methods of its contributors, who include historians, curators and an actor, it provides in-depth histories of Black people and communities in Britain, challenging how we construct and remember them. [...] These biographies, concerning figures from visiting African princes to the 1,700 Black sailors in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy, are vital to disrupting past narratives that depict Black people as passive, and show the rich diversity of Black British History.'Montaz Marché, Times Literary Supplement'[Britain's] Black Past includes many original and creative chapters … [Britain’s] Black Past is part of a historiography of Black British scholarship.’Onyeka Nubia, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 'This collection situates itself as an ideal starting point for newcomers to the field seeking an overview of the current trends and major recent interventions in Black British history, as well as for those looking to refresh their British and imperial history course reading lists.'Ryan Hanley, English Historical Review‘In Britain’s Black Past there is much that is useful to readers who are starting to investigate the subject, but also material that may be of use to those who are more familiar with this history.’ Hakim Adi, New West Indian Guide

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Book SynopsisExpanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series ‘Britain’s Black Past’, this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Even those who may be familiar with some of the materials will find much that they had not previously known, and will be introduced to people, places, and stories brought to light by new research. In a time of international racial unrest and migration, it is important not to lose sight of similar situations that took place in an earlier time. In chapters written by scholars, artists, and independent researchers, readers will learn of an early musician, the sales of slaves in Scotland, the grave—now a shrine—of a black enslaved boy left to die in Morecombe Bay, of a country estate owned by a mixed-race slave owner, and of the two strikingly different people who lived in a Bristol house that is now a museum. Black sailors, political activists, memoirists, appear in these pages, but the book also re-examines living history, in the form of modern plays, television programmes, and genealogical sleuthing. Through them, Britain’s Black Past is not only presented anew, but shown to be very much alive in our own time.Trade Review'Drawing on the work and diverse methods of its contributors, who include historians, curators and an actor, it provides in-depth histories of Black people and communities in Britain, challenging how we construct and remember them. [...] These biographies, concerning figures from visiting African princes to the 1,700 Black sailors in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy, are vital to disrupting past narratives that depict Black people as passive, and show the rich diversity of Black British History.'Montaz Marché, Times Literary Supplement'[Britain's] Black Past includes many original and creative chapters … [Britain’s] Black Past is part of a historiography of Black British scholarship.’Onyeka Nubia, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 'This collection situates itself as an ideal starting point for newcomers to the field seeking an overview of the current trends and major recent interventions in Black British history, as well as for those looking to refresh their British and imperial history course reading lists.'Ryan Hanley, English Historical Review‘In Britain’s Black Past there is much that is useful to readers who are starting to investigate the subject, but also material that may be of use to those who are more familiar with this history.’ Hakim Adi, New West Indian Guide

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Book SynopsisThe Ties that Bind explores in depth the close affinities that bound together anti-slavery activists in Britain and the USA during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, years that witnessed the overthrow of slavery in both the British Caribbean and the American South. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the book sheds important new light on the dynamics of abolitionist opinion building during the Age of Reform, from books and artefacts to anti-slavery songs, lectures and placards. Building an anti-slavery public required patience and perseverance. It also involved an engagement with politics, even if anti-slavery activists disagreed about what form that engagement should take. This is a book about the importance of transatlantic co-operation and the transmission of ideas and practices. Yet, at the same time, it is also alert to the tensions that underlay these ‘Atlantic affinities’, particularly when it came to what was sometimes perceived as the increasing Americanization of anti-slavery protest culture. Above all, The Ties that Bind stresses the importance of personality, perhaps best exemplified in the enduring transatlantic friendship between George Thompson and William Lloyd Garrison.Trade Review"A superb re-examination of one of the 19th century’s pivotal political, social, cultural movements."Professor Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University"An impressively researched book which makes a sophisticated argument about how abolitionists forged a transatlantic constituency and ultimately toppled slavery from its powerful position in the British Caribbean and the United States."Michael E. Woods, Associate Professor, Marshall University‘J. R. Oldfield’s The Ties That Bind: Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820–1865 is a welcome addition to the substantial canon of antislavery studies produced in the last several decades.’ Dee E. Andrews, Journal of British Studies 'The Ties That Bind succeeds in providing both a much-needed synthesis of recent scholarship on transatlantic abolitionism whilst simultaneously contributing a fresh perspective on understudied aspects of cross-oceanic anti-slavery such as the role of friendship and reform-oriented itinerant lecturers.’ Kate Rivington, Slavery & Abolition'[The Ties that Bind] makes for a sharp, judicious narrative.' David Brown, American Nineteenth Century History‘In six fast-paced chapters, Oldfield explores multiple intersections of British and American abolitionism. One especially valuable chapter compares the abolitionist movements’ effects on their nations’ respective political systems… Modern activists should be able to draw valuable lessons from a careful reading of Oldfield’s analysis of their abolitionist forebears.’ John R. McKivigan, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Atlantic Affinities 2. Political Abolitionism 3. The Power of the Word 4. Consuming Abolition 5. Singing Abolition 6. The Ties that Bind Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund.The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being ‘forgotten histories’, persist over time as a contested public debate. This public memory, intimately intertwined with constructions of ‘place’ and ‘identity’, has been shaped by legacies of transatlantic slavery itself, as well as other events, contexts and phenomena along its trajectory, revealing the ways in which current narratives and debate around difficult histories have histories of their own. By the 21st century, Liverpool, once the ‘slaving capital of the world’, had more permanent and long-lasting memory work relating to transatlantic slavery than any other British city. The long history of how Liverpool, home to Britain’s oldest continuous black presence, has publicly ‘remembered’ its own slaving past, how this has changed over time and why, is of central significance and relevance to current and ongoing efforts to face contested histories, particularly those surrounding race, slavery and empire.Trade Review'An extremely thoughtful and illuminating book, based on meticulous research. As a contribution to our understanding of the legacy of slavery in Liverpool, this book will be regarded as a landmark study, offering a very clever and insightful meditation on history and memory that is bound to excite interest on both sides of the Atlantic.'Professor John Oldfield, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull'Moody’s book is timely and instructive. Though each is important in its own right, it offers more than an academic meditation on theories of memory... It provides, too, an insightful case study of how evolving and contested memories of Britain’s colonial and slave past are reshaping the 21st century cultural and political landscape of the nation as a whole.'David Richardson, Memory Studies'The Persistence of Memory is impressive in scope because Jessica Moody brings together many different ways of memorializing the slave trade and slavery... This is essential reading for understanding the issues surrounding consulting and working with Black communities — those of African Caribbean descent, others with long histories in Britain, and those more recently migrated from African countries.' Sheryllynne Haggerty, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Remembering Slavery in the ‘Slaving Capital of the World’Slavery, Memory, Public HistoryThe Persistence of Dissonant MemoryRecovering Memory across a Longue Durée: methodology and book structure1: From History to Memory: The Discursive Legacies of the PastIntroductionLiverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’From History to MemoryScouse Boasting, an Enterprising Sprit and The Competition‘The Glory and the Shame’Overcoming AbolitionThe Memorial Debate of Liverpool and SlaveryConclusion2. Black Liverpool: Living with the Legacy of the PastIntroductionExceptional Legacies: the Liverpool black presence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuryRacism, Riot and Resistance: living with the legacy of the pastGuerrilla Public History: Education and ActivismConclusion3. Coinciding Anniversaries: Birthdays and the Abolition Act in 1907, 1957 and 2007Introduction1907: Performing Civic Patriotism and Celebrating the Slave Trade1957: Racism, Decolonisation, and Abolition2007: Birthdays and BicentenariesConclusion4. The ‘Cult’ of William Roscoe: Remembering AbolitionIntroductionLiverpool and AbolitionThe Cult of William RoscoeConclusion5. The Rise of the MuseumsIntroductionThe Transatlantic Slavery GalleryThe International Slavery MuseumConclusion6. Performing Memory: Local slavery memory in a globalizing worldIntroductionWhose Apology? Local Apology, Global AudienceSlavery Remembrance DayConclusion7. Sites of Memory: Bodies and the CityscapeIntroductionBuying and Selling: Myth, Place, and LayeringGraves and GhostsBodies in StoneConclusionBibliographyPeriodicalsArchival MaterialPublished GuidebooksHistories of LiverpoolOther Primary Texts and SourcesSecondary WorksWebsites and Online Resources

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Book SynopsisEngaging the past, the present, and the future, African Sovereigns shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is linked to the African Diaspora. In so doing, this interdisciplinary undertaking interrogates the definition of Diaspora but mainly emphasizes the term’s use. Mario Nisbett demonstrates that an examination of Jamaican Maroon communities, particularly their socio-political development, can further highlight the significance of the African Diaspora as an analytical tool. He shows how Jamaican Maroons inform resistance to abjection, a denial of full humanity, through claiming their African origin and developing solidarity and consciousness in order to affirm black humanity. The book establishes that present-day Jamaican Maroons remain relevant and engage the African Diaspora to improve black standing and bolster assertions of sovereignty.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter One: Jamaican Maroons: Histories, Politics and CultureChapter Two: Black AbjectionChapter Three: OriginChapter Four: Collective ConsciousnessChapter Five: Sovereignty Claims

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Book SynopsisPeople in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks, and others).Table of ContentsIntroduction: Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Reflections on the Phenomena of Imprisonment and Slavery in the Middle Ages and Early Modern PeriodAlbrecht ClassenChapter 1: The Transformation of Gehenna: Taking the Biblical Wasteland into the Prison House of HellWarren TormeyChapter 2: Insprinc haptbandun, inuar uigandun: Magical (?) Remedies to Escape from Imprisonment in the Germanic TraditionChiara BenatiChapter 3: Ambivalence in the Poems of the Slave-Knight ‘Antarah Ibn Shaddād: An Engagement with Historicism(s)Doaa OmranChapter 4: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourse in the Qur’an: A New-Historicist ReadingChristiane Paulus and Magda Hasabelnaby Chapter 5: The Tragic Incarceration and Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj: A Spiritual Passage from Suffering to GlorificationAmany El-SawyChapter 6: Fruitless Wars and Abominable Crimes: Unfreedom in the Political Rule and Violence of Late Ninth-Century Southern ItalySarah WhittenChapter 7: Prisons That Never Were: Ruins, Churches, and Cruelty in Medieval and Modern Iberia (Eighth Through Nineteenth Centuries)Abel Lorenzo-RodríguezChapter 8: Tit for Tat: Imprisonment, Slavery, Torture and Other Retribution in William IX’s Gab of the Red CatFidel Fajardo-AcostaChapter 9: Thralls in Old Icelandic Literature: Historical Trope or Literary Device?Carlee ArnettChapter 10: Piracy, Imprisonment, Merchants, and Freedom: Rudolf von Ems’s The Good Gerhart (ca. 1220): Mediterranean Perspectives in a Middle High German Context; with Some Reflections on the Topic of Imprisonment in Other Medieval NarrativesAlbrecht ClassenChapter 11: Don Juan Manuel’s Long-Lost Uncle, Don Enrique: Back From Twenty-Five Years in Captivity in Italy Maria Cecilia RuizChapter 12: Mamlūks, Qaḍis, and the Local Population: A Discourse of Resistance, Power, and Liminality in Medieval EgyptSally AbedChapter 13: The Education of Male Slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Restructuring of Ottoman Social HierarchyMaha BaddarChapter 14: From Imprisonment to Liberation: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale as a Multi-Layered Exploration of a Paradigm for Prison Life Daniel F. PiggChapter 15: How to Get Out of Prison: Imprisoned Jews and Their Hafturfehde: Records from the Medieval and Early Modern Holy Roman Empire (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)Andreas Lehnertz and Birgit Wiedl Chapter 16: Overcoming Stress in Imprisonment: How Positive Religious Coping and Expressive Writing Helped Fray Luis de León Survive His Inquisitorial Trial (1572‒1576)J. Michael FultonChapter 17: Health and Community Rescue or Soul Salvation? Incarceration as an Anti-Plague Measure in the Czech Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesFilip HrbekChapter 18: Shakespeare’s Savage SlaveThomas Willard

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Book SynopsisColonialism and Slavery in Performance brings together original archival research with recent critical perspectives to argue for the importance of theatrical culture to the understanding of the French Caribbean sugar colonies in the eighteenth century. Fifteen English-language essays from both established and emerging scholars apply insights and methodologies from performance studies and theatre history in order to propose a new understanding of Old Regime culture and identity as a trans-Atlantic continuum that includes the Antillean possessions whose slave labour provided enormous wealth to the metropole. Carefully documented studies of performances in Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous French colony, illustrate how the crucible of a brutally racialized colonial space gave rise to a new French identity by adapting many of the cherished theatrical traditions that colonists imported directly from the mainland, resulting in a Creole performance culture that reflected the strong influence of African practices brought to the islands by plantation slaves. Other essays focus on how European theatregoers reconciled the contradiction inherent in the eighteenth century’s progressive embrace of human rights, with an increasing dependence on the economic spoils of slavery, thus illustrating how the stage served as a means to negotiate new tensions within “French” identity, in the metropole as well as in the colonies. In the final section of the volume, essays explore the place of performance in representations of the Old Regime Antilles, from the Haitian literary diaspora to contemporary performing artists from Martinique and Guadeloupe, as the stage remains central to understanding history and identity in France’s former Atlantic slave colonies.Featuring contributions from Sean Anderson, Karine Bénac-Giroux, Bernard Camier, Nadia Chonville, Laurent Dubois, Logan J. Connors, Béatrice Ferrier, Kaiama L. Glover, Jeffrey M. Leichman, Laurence Marie, Pascale Pellerin, Julia Prest, Catherine Ramond, Emily Sahakian, Pierre Saint-Amand, and Fredrik Thomasson.Trade Review‘None of the sections of this well-organized and thought-provoking collaborative work disappoint. They contain well-articulated and well-researched contributions at the intersections of history and culture, with the French essays translated for English-speaking readers. The book enriches the field of Colonial Studies with contributions that explore fascinating dialogues between colonies and the metropole… Colonialism and Slavery in Performance beautifully fills historiographic lacunae with vibrant and thorough discussions of theatrical culture and practices.’ Jacqueline Couti, New West Indian Guide

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund.The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being ‘forgotten histories’, persist over time as a contested public debate. This public memory, intimately intertwined with constructions of ‘place’ and ‘identity’, has been shaped by legacies of transatlantic slavery itself, as well as other events, contexts and phenomena along its trajectory, revealing the ways in which current narratives and debate around difficult histories have histories of their own. By the 21st century, Liverpool, once the ‘slaving capital of the world’, had more permanent and long-lasting memory work relating to transatlantic slavery than any other British city. The long history of how Liverpool, home to Britain’s oldest continuous black presence, has publicly ‘remembered’ its own slaving past, how this has changed over time and why, is of central significance and relevance to current and ongoing efforts to face contested histories, particularly those surrounding race, slavery and empire.Trade Review'An extremely thoughtful and illuminating book, based on meticulous research. As a contribution to our understanding of the legacy of slavery in Liverpool, this book will be regarded as a landmark study, offering a very clever and insightful meditation on history and memory that is bound to excite interest on both sides of the Atlantic.'Professor John Oldfield, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull'Moody’s book is timely and instructive. Though each is important in its own right, it offers more than an academic meditation on theories of memory... It provides, too, an insightful case study of how evolving and contested memories of Britain’s colonial and slave past are reshaping the 21st century cultural and political landscape of the nation as a whole.'David Richardson, Memory Studies'The Persistence of Memory is impressive in scope because Jessica Moody brings together many different ways of memorializing the slave trade and slavery... This is essential reading for understanding the issues surrounding consulting and working with Black communities — those of African Caribbean descent, others with long histories in Britain, and those more recently migrated from African countries.' Sheryllynne Haggerty, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Remembering Slavery in the ‘Slaving Capital of the World’Slavery, Memory, Public HistoryThe Persistence of Dissonant MemoryRecovering Memory across a Longue Durée: methodology and book structure1: From History to Memory: The Discursive Legacies of the PastIntroductionLiverpool, ‘slaving capital of the world’From History to MemoryScouse Boasting, an Enterprising Sprit and The Competition‘The Glory and the Shame’Overcoming AbolitionThe Memorial Debate of Liverpool and SlaveryConclusion2. Black Liverpool: Living with the Legacy of the PastIntroductionExceptional Legacies: the Liverpool black presence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuryRacism, Riot and Resistance: living with the legacy of the pastGuerrilla Public History: Education and ActivismConclusion3. Coinciding Anniversaries: Birthdays and the Abolition Act in 1907, 1957 and 2007Introduction1907: Performing Civic Patriotism and Celebrating the Slave Trade1957: Racism, Decolonisation, and Abolition2007: Birthdays and BicentenariesConclusion4. The ‘Cult’ of William Roscoe: Remembering AbolitionIntroductionLiverpool and AbolitionThe Cult of William RoscoeConclusion5. The Rise of the MuseumsIntroductionThe Transatlantic Slavery GalleryThe International Slavery MuseumConclusion6. Performing Memory: Local slavery memory in a globalizing worldIntroductionWhose Apology? Local Apology, Global AudienceSlavery Remembrance DayConclusion7. Sites of Memory: Bodies and the CityscapeIntroductionBuying and Selling: Myth, Place, and LayeringGraves and GhostsBodies in StoneConclusionBibliographyPeriodicalsArchival MaterialPublished GuidebooksHistories of LiverpoolOther Primary Texts and SourcesSecondary WorksWebsites and Online Resources

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Book SynopsisTransatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this ‘national sin’ by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the ‘Middle Passage’, and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain’s history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain.Trade ReviewReviews 'Focusing on various dimensions of the history and memory of the Atlantic slave trade in different regions of Britain, this comprehensive book is an important and very welcome contribution to scholarship in the field.' Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction Katie Donington, Ryan Hanley and Jessica MoodyPart I Little Britain’s History of Slavery1 From Guinea to Guernsey and Cornwall to the Caribbean: Recovering the History of Slavery in the Western English Channel Brycchan Carey2 ‘There to sing the song of Moses’: John Jea’s Methodism and Working-Class Attitudes to Slavery in Liverpool and Portsmouth, 1801–1817 Ryan Hanley3 Portrait of a Slave-Trading Family: The Staniforths of Liverpool Jane Longmore4 Forgotten Women: Anna Eliza Elletson and Absentee Slave Ownership Hannah Young5 East Meets West: Exploring the Connections between Britain, the Caribbean and the East India Company, c. 1757–1857 Chris JeppesenPart II: Little Britain’s Memory of Slavery6 Whose Memories? Edward Long and the Work of Re-Remembering Catherine Hall7 Liverpool’s Local Tints: Drowning Memory and ‘Maritimising’ Slavery in a Seaport City Jessica Moody8 Local Roots/Global Routes: Slavery, Memory and Identity in Hackney Katie Donington9 Multidirectional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and Glasgow Michael Morris10 Making Museum Narratives of Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Olney Leanne MunroeAfterword John OldfieldSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book is an examination of the island of St Helena’s involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a British Vice-Admiralty court there in 1840, this tiny and remote South Atlantic colony became the hub of naval activity in the region. It served as a base for the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron, and as such became the principal receiving depot for intercepted slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 ‘recaptive’ or ‘liberated’ Africans were landed at the island. Here, in embryonic refugee camps, these former slaves lived and died, genuine freedom still a distant prospect.This book provides an account and evaluation of this episode. It begins by charting the political contexts which drew St Helena into the fray of abolition, and considers how its involvement, at times, came to occupy those at the highest levels of British politics. In the main, however, it focuses on St Helena itself, and examines how matters played out on the ground. The study utilises documentary sources (many previously untouched) which tell the stories of those whose lives became bound up in the compass of anti-slavery, far from London and long after the Abolition Act of 1807. It puts the Black experience at the foreground, aiming to bring a voice to a forgotten people, many of whom died in limbo, in a place that was physically and conceptually between freedom and slavery.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. A Place of Immense Advantage 2. London and Jamestown 3. Sailortown 4. Life and death in the depots 5. ‘All, all, without avail’. Medicine and the liberated Africans 6. After ‘liberation’ 7. Island Lives Conclusion Appendix 1. Slave prize cases tried at Freetown, Luanda, Cape Town and St Helena, 1836–68 Appendix 2. Prizes adjudicated by the Vice-Admiralty court of St Helena Appendix 3. Liberated African emigration from St Helena Appendix 4. Emigrant voyages from St Helena Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the slaving ship in which he was a young officer, Rushton returned to Liverpool to scratch a living as a publican, newspaper editor, and finally bookseller and publisher. In his day Rushton was a well-known Liverpool poet and reformer, with an impressively wide range of causes (the Liverpool Blind School, the Liverpool Marine Society, and many radical political groups). Many of his songs, particularly the marine ballads, were very familiar in Britain and America. In the later Victorian period, as a particular version of romanticism began to dominate literary sensibilities, Rushton’s overt politics fell from favour and he became rather obscure, at least by comparison with his like-minded (but much better off) friend William Roscoe. As the history of slavery abolition and other radical causes has come to be re-examined, the bicentenary of Rushton’s death, falling in November 2014, has suggested an opportunity to take a new look at his remarkable career and impressive body of work. There has never been a critical edition of Rushton’s poems. His own 1806 edition omits much, including what is his best-known work in modern times, the anti-slavery West-Indian Eclogues of 1787; the posthumous 1824 edition omits much from the 1806 collection while drawing in other work. The present edition works from the earliest datable sources, in newspapers, chapbooks, periodicals, and broadsides, providing a clean text with significant revisions and variants noted in the commentary. Unfamiliar words are glossed, and brief introductions and contextual commentaries, informed by the latest scholarship, are given for each piece of writing.Trade ReviewReviews 'A very welcome book and one which does justice to Edward Rushton’s remarkable and unique literary achievement.' John Whale'The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton (1756–1814), edited by Paul Baines and Franca Dellarosa’s Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics 1782–1814 (a first-rate critical biography) taken together, are two volumes that enable Rushton’s work to join a large and sometimes quite riveting body of material at the intersection of working-class poetry and the literary history of abolitionism.' Jenny Davidson, SEL Review'Paul Baines’s The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton, is a triumph... space is given to Rushton’s poetry and prose in a manner that allows them to speak for themselves. Baines does not clutter the text with lengthy notes concerning textual variants, history, or glosses, instead confining these to a detailed but concise ‘commentary’ at the end of the volume.' Matthew Ward & Paul Whickman, Year's Work in English Studies'[This is] the first modern volume of [Rushton's] collected works (painstakingly edited by Paul Baines)... As Baines pointed out at the 2014 conference marking both the bicentenary of Rushton’s death and the publication of these books, the attempt to collect, collate and rationalise the fugitive poetry of a figure whose work was often ephemeral, unattributed or reproduced without permission on either side of the Atlantic was a formidable one. The scale of this undertaking is evidenced by the 102 pages of commentary that accompany the works themselves.' Ryan Hanley, The BARS Review, No. 48'[Baines] brings more attention to this fascinating writer.'Jeffrey N. Cox, Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Abbreviations and Short Titles POEMS An Irregular Ode (1781) To the People of England (1782) The Dismember’d Empire (1782) West-Indian Eclogues (1787) The Neglected Tars of Britain (1787) Neglected Genius (1787) Poor Ben (1790) A Song Sung at the Commemoration of the Anniversary of the French Revolution, at Liverpool, July 14, 1791 (1791) The Fire of Liberty (1792) Seamen’s Nursery (1794) Stanzas on the Anniversary of the American Revolution (1794) The Tender’s Hold (1794) Blue Eyed Mary (1796) Elegy [To the Memory of Robert Burns] (c.1796) Sonnet [The Swallow] (c.1796) The Remedy [The Leviathan] (1797) Song [Mary le More] (1798) Written for the anniversary of the Liverpool Marine Society (1799) Song. From Hymns, &c. for the Blind (c. 1799) Lucy’s Ghost. A Marine Ballad (1800) Sonnet by a Poor Man. On the approach of the Gout (1801) Will Clewline (1801) Ode. Sung at St. John’s Chapel, Lancaster, on Tuesday last, being the Anniversary of the Lancaster Marine Society (1801) Ode. To France (1802) The Maniac (1804) Stanzas on Blindness (1805) To a Redbreast (1806) Solicitude (1806) Toussaint to his Troops (1806) On the Death of Hugh Mulligan (1806) To a Bald-Headed Poetical Friend (1806) The Ardent Lover (1806) The Lass of Liverpool (1806) Woman (1806) Mary’s Death (1806) The Halcyon (1806) The Shrike (1806) Briton, and Negro Slave (1806) Absence (1806) On the Death of a Much-Loved Relative (1806) Entreaty (1806) A Caution (1806) The Throstle (1806) The Complaint (1806) The Pier (1806) Mary (1806) The Origin of Turtle and Punch (1806) Parody (1806) The Farewell (1806) The Return (1806) To the Gout (1806) On the Death of Miss E. Fletcher (1806) The Chase (1806) The Winter’s Passage (1806) Stanzas on the Recovery of Sight (1809) Lines to the Memory of William Cowdroy (1814) The Fire of English Liberty (1824) Lines Addressed to Robt. Southey, Esq. (1817) The Exile’s Lament (1824) An Epitaph on John Taylor (1824) To the Memory of Bartholomew Tilski (1824) Jemmy Armstrong (1824) Superstition (1824) PROSE Expostulatory Letter to George Washington (1797) [Letter to Thomas Paine] (written c. 1800, published 1809) [Monthly Retrospect of Politics] (1810) Extracts from Letters (written 1805-1813, published 1814) A Few Plain Facts relative to the Origin of the Liverpool Institute for the Blind (written 1804, published 1817) An Attempt to prove that Climate, Food, and Manners, are not the Causes of the Dissimilarity of Colour (unknown date, published 1824) [Letter to Samuel Ryley, 12 August 1814] (written 1814, published 1903) [Mr Rushtons Remarks on the Slavery] (unknown date, previously unpublished) [Letter to Thomas Walker, 30 January 1806] (written 1806, previously unpublished) COMMENTARY Abbreviations and Short Titles Glossary Poems Prose Appendix One: poems possibly by Rushton Appendix Two: poems written to and about Rushton

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to excavate and recover a wealth of under-examined artworks and research materials directly to interrogate, debate and analyse the tangled skeins undergirding visual representations of transatlantic slavery across the Black diaspora. Living and working on both sides of the Atlantic, as these scholars, curators and practitioners demonstrate, African diasporic artists adopt radical and revisionist practices by which to confront the difficult aesthetic and political realities surrounding the social and cultural legacies let alone national and mythical memories of Transatlantic Slavery and the international Slave Trade. Adopting a comparative perspective, this book investigates the diverse body of works produced by black artists as these contributors come to grips with the ways in which their neglected and repeatedly unexamined similarities and differences bear witness to the existence of an African diasporic visual arts tradition. As in-depth investigations into the diverse resistance strategies at work within these artists’ vast bodies of work testify, theirs is an ongoing fight for the right to art for art’s sake as they challenge mainstream tendencies towards examining their works solely for their sociological and political dimensions. This book adopts a cross- cultural perspective to draw together artists, curators, academics, and public researchers in order to provide an interdisciplinary examination into the eclectic and experimental oeuvre produced by black artists working within the United States, the United Kingdom and across the African diaspora. The overall aim of this book is to re-examine complex yet under-researched theoretical paradigms vis-à-vis the patterns of influence and cross-cultural exchange across both America and a black diasporic visual arts tradition, a vastly neglected field of study.Trade ReviewReviews 'This diverse and finely nuanced collection of essays adds significantly to debates about slavery and visual culture in the Anglophone world. By interweaving new work by the major art-historical scholars in the field with essays by artists whose work reflects upon, and draws creative power from, the trauma of slavery, this book presents a lively new conspectus of an important area of study that has come into its own in recent years. This book rightly refuses to consign slavery safely to the past, but rather insists on its ‘nonsynchronous contemporaneity’. Slavery’s presence, mediated by memory and present through its many legacies, is presented here as a key force in contemporary visual culture – and indeed in culture at large.' Professor Tim Barringer, Yale UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘Inside the Invisible’: African Diasporic Artists Visualise Transatlantic Slavery - Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah Durkin Part I Slavery and Memory in Contemporary African Diasporic Art 1. Lost and Found at the Swop-Meet: Betye Saar, the Everyday Object and the Work of Lubaina Himid - Lubaina Himid 2. Preserves - Debra Priestly 3. What Goes without Saying - Hank Willis Thomas 4. Spectres in the Postcolonies: Re-imagining Violence and Resistance - Roshini Kempadoo 5. Strategic Remembering and Tactical Forgetfulness in Depicting the Plantation: A Personal Account - Keith Piper Part II Historical Iconography and Visualising Transatlantic Slavery 6. The Chattel Record: Visualising the Archive in Diasporan Art - Fionnghuala Sweeney 7. Henry Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions - Alan Rice 8. Uncle Tom and the Problem of ‘Soft’ Resistance to Slavery - David Bindman 9. The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture - Zoe Trodd Part III African Diasporic Monuments and Memorialisation 10. Siting the Circum-Atlantic: Nelson in a Bottle in Trafalgar Square - Geoffrey Quilley 11. Art and Caribbean Slavery: Modern Visions of the 1763 Guyana Rebellion - Leon Wainwright 12. ‘The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth’: Richmond Barthé’s Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Hannah Durkin Part IV Contemporary Legacies in African Diasporic Art 13. We Might Not Be Surprised: Visualising Slavery and the Slave Ship in the Works of Charles Campbell and Mary Evans - Eddie Chambers 14. ‘X is for X Ray, X Slave, X Colony’: A ‘Lexicon of Liberation’ versus ‘My Slave History’ in the Paintings, Installations and Sketchbooks of Donald Rodney - Celeste-Marie Bernier 15. Reconfiguring African Trade Beads: The Most Beautiful, Bountiful and Marginalised Sculptural Legacy to have Survived the Middle Passage - Marcus Wood Afterword: Against the Grain: Contingency and Found Objects - Nathan Grant Notes on Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents remain open for discussion. Recently, several historians have suggested that slaves achieved their own freedom by resisting slavery, which counters the predominant argument that abolitionist pressure groups, parliamentarians, and the governmental and anti-governmental armies of the various slaveholding empires were the prime movers behind emancipation. Marques, one of the leading historians of slavery and abolition, argues that, in most cases, it is impossible to establish a direct relation between slaves’ uprisings and the emancipation laws that would be approved in the western countries. Following this presentation, his arguments are taken up by a dozen of the most outstanding historians in this field. In a concluding chapter, Marques responds briefly to their comments and evaluates the degree to which they challenge or enhance his view.Trade Review "These differing opinions and the fact that Marques is invited to add Part three, ‘Afterthoughts’, with which the book concludes, make for a lively and comprehensive debate which remains, however, open to further expansion and development" · Ethnicity and Race in a Changing WorldTable of Contents Preface Pieter C. Emmer and Seymour Drescher PART I Introduction: Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: An Overinterpretation João Pedro Marques PART II Chapter 1. Africa and Abolitionism John Thornton Chapter 2. Who Abolished Slavery in the Dutch Caribbean? Pieter C. Emmer Chapter 3. Slave Resistance and Emancipation: The Case of Saint-Domingue David Geggus Chapter 4. Civilizing Insurgency. Two Variants of Slave Revolts in the Age of Revolution Seymour Drescher Chapter 5. The Wars of Independence, Slave Soldiers, and the Issue of Abolition in Spanish South America Peter Blanchard Chapter 6. Shipboard Slave Revolts and Abolition David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman Chapter 7. Slave Resistance and Abolitionis: A Multifaceteted Issue Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau Chapter 8. Slave Revolts and Abolitionism David Brion Davis Chapter 9. The Role of Slave Resistance in Slave Emancipation Robin Blackburn Chapter 10. Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery: A Misinterpretation Hilary Beckles PART III Afterthoughts João Pedro Marques Notes on Contributors Bibliography from the Commentaries Index

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Book Synopsis In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain and Latin America has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, abolition, race, identity, and captivity. No scholar better exemplified these developments than Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, a specialist on Spain and its Caribbean colonies in Cuba and Puerto Rico. A brilliant career was cut short in 2015 when he died at the age of 48. Rethinking Atlantic Empire takes Schmidt-Nowara’s work as a point of departure, charting scholarly paths that move past reductive national narratives and embrace transnational approaches to the entangled empires of the Atlantic world.Trade Review “Overall, Eastman and Jacobson have organized a powerful reminder of Schmidt-Nowara’s titanic contribution to Spanish imperial and Atlantic histories. The contributors write with great emotion, leading to compelling narratives and insightful arguments. This is a volume that should be read widely both for its synthetic treatment of Schmidt-Nowara’s work and as a blueprint for how historiographical ideas can shape disciplines and scholarship beyond their own fields.” • Hispanic American Historical Review “The volume is well-thought out and expertly organized. It serves its purpose as a call for all historians, regardless of field, to remember Christopher’s many influences and to ecalibrate our approaches to history. Those who read this homage are left with a sense of awe and amazement at a scholar and a man who was a trailblazer in every respect.” • H-Net Reviews “Rethinking Atlantic Empire is well conceptualized, organized, and written, with chapters that are exceptionally accessible and clear.” • Tamar Herzog, Harvard University “This is a fine, well-balanced book that provides an excellent synopsis of Chris Schmidt-Nowara’s academic work and career, its legacy, and the personal and professional impact he and his work had on a generation of scholars in and around his field.” • David Ortiz, Jr, University of ArizonaTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Scott Eastman and Stephen Jacobson Chapter 1. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (1966–2015): His Work and His Life Stephen Jacobson Chapter 2. The First Word: Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874 and the Renewal of Spanish Imperial History" Adrian Shubert Chapter 3. Not Just Spain, Not Just Colonies: Writing Transnational Histories of the Nineteenth Century Joshua Goode Chapter 4. "Divergent Reflections” on Colonialism and Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic World: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s “The Conquest of History” Dalia Antonia Muller Chapter 5. Bonds of Affection? The Catholic Church and Slavery in New Spain Emily Berquist Soule Chapter 6. Questions of Scale: Spain, Latin America, and the Atlantic World in Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Scholarship on Slavery Elena Schneider Chapter 7. Empire and Anti-Slavery through a New Lens: Spanish Colonialism Seen from the Dominican Republic and Haiti Anne Eller Chapter 8. Unlocking the Historical Truth of Abolitionist Literature: Beecher Stowe's A Key in Spanish Translation Lisa Surwillo Chapter 9. Empire and Civil Rights in Franco’s Spain Louie Dean Valencia-García Chapter 10. “To Make a Language of My Own”: Fernando Blanco White’s Flight to Freedom (1815) Joselyn M. Almeida Chapter 11. Spanish Prisoners of War and Political Refugees in France, 1808-1820 Juan Luis Simal Conclusion: The Conquest of History and the Construction of Identitarian Discourses: An Interview with Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Vicent Sanz Rozalén List of Works by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

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Book Synopsis Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of “trace” as a seminal notion to explore this paradox, this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past – often in almost unconscious ways – and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues.Trade Review “This book offers a fascinating study of the often implicit ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in the Bijlmer, a suburb of Amsterdam that since the 1970s became ever more marked by Afro-Surinamese presence.” • Peter Geschiere, University of AmsterdamTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Politics of Autochthony Chapter 2. Negotiating Colonial Geographies Chapter 3. Practices of Diaspora. Chapter 4. Kaskawina – Politics of a Lower Frequency Chapter 5. Doing Cultural Heritage: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Authentication Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' Washington Post '[An] epic history ... a sweeping, thoughtful narrative' Los Angeles Times On Sunday 27 February, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion which came amazingly close to succeeding. Surrounded by jungle and savannah, the revolutionaries and their enslavers struck and parried for an entire year. In the end, the Dutch prevailed because of one advantage: their access to soldiers and supplies. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one that almost changed the face of the Americas. Drawing on 900 interrogation transcripts collected by the Dutch when the Berbice rebellion finally collapsed, which were subsequently buried in Dutch archives, historian Marjoleine Kars reconstructs an extraordinarily rich day-by-day account of this pivotal event. Blood on the River provides a rare, in-depth look at the political vision of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution. An astonishing original work of history, Blood on the River will change our understanding of revolutions, slavery and of the story of freedom in the New World.Trade ReviewA riveting addition to the history of the search for freedom in the Americas * Kirkus Reviews *A richly detailed account of a gripping human story -- H.W. Brands * Washington Post *[An] epic history ... A sweeping, thoughtful narrative, joining a new wave of books that make visible previously dismissed Black voices -- Carolyn Kellogg * Los Angeles Times *A gripping tale about the human need for freedom ... The story of the Berbice Rebellion begs to be told, and Kars' telling is impressive -- Martha Anne Toll * NPR Books *A model for how academic history can reach a wide audience, a narrative-driven work which presents pioneering archival scholarship in which we can hear the voices of the enslaved protagonists ... Kars represents the complexities of the rebellion without romanticising it -- Bethan Fisk * History Today *A powerful book that will appeal to experts and - thanks to the lively and accessible writing style - the general public alike * Black Perspectives *This striking study unearths a meaningful chapter in the history of slavery * Publishers Weekly *Meticulously researched and careful to prioritize the perspectives of the marginalized, Blood on the River offers a fascinating glimpse of the complex history of slavery in the Americas * Booklist *A must-read for anyone interested in slave revolts and the history of Atlantic slavery * Library Journal *[A] masterpiece ... Marjoleine Kars has unearthed a little-known rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice and rendered its story with insight, empathy, and wisdom. You'll find no easy platitudes herein. Instead, you'll find human beings in full relief, acting with courage, kindness, calculation, and mendacity in their quest for self-determination. Blood on the River is a story for the ages -- Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan PeopleTakes readers on a moving journey deep into a colonial heart of darkness. Drawing on rich and challenging sources, Marjoleine Kars reveals enslaved people making a rebellion that lingers in memory and landscape -- Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Internal Enemy and William Cooper's TownThis is required reading for historians of the Black Atlantic world -- Jennifer Morgan, professor of history at New York University and author of Reckoning with SlaveryOne of the great slave revolts in modern history has at last found a gifted historian to tell its epic tale. Using a breathtaking archival discovery to make the Berbice rebels vivid flesh-and-blood actors, Marjoleine Kars deeply enriches the global scholarship on the history of slavery and resistance -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and FreedomVivid ... The aborted attempt at freedom she chronicles provides a harrowing counterpoint to the American and French revolutions that would soon follow -- Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the WorldMarjoleine Kars has brought from the archives the voices of the enslaved, both in hope and in defeat. A tale of importance for our time -- Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Trickster Travels and The Return of Martin Guerre

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Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' Sunday Times 'A remarkable book' New York Times 'An extraordinary tale through the generations' Guardian In 1850s South Carolina, Rose, an enslaved woman, faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few items. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. That, in itself, is a story. But it's not the whole story. How does one uncover the lives of people who, in their day, were considered property? Harvard historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women's faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward. All That She Carried gives us history as it was lived, a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds.Trade ReviewAll That She Carried stands as an astonishing account of love, resilience and survival, one that helps to plug that archival abyss * Sunday Times *All That She Carried finds a way to give voice to the wordless by using a mundane, domestic object - a cloth sack and its contents - to thread an extraordinary tale through the generations * Guardian *A powerful story of love and survival...it takes a visionary mind to do what Miles has done in All That She Carried...a work that stands as a testament to the humanity enslaved people were so brutally denied * Financial Times *A brilliant example of how we can tell the stories of those who have been forgotten or written out of history -- Andrea Wulf * Spectator BOOKS OF THE YEAR *A remarkable book -- Jennifer Szalai * The New York Times *Deeply layered and insightful ... [a] bold reflection on American history, African American resilience, and the human capacity for love and perseverance * Washington Post *Through [Miles's] interpretation, the humble things in the sack take on ever-greater meaning, its very survival seems magical, and Rose's gift starts to feel momentous in scale -- Rebecca Onion * Slate *Deeply and lovingly researched ... a testament to the power of story, witness, and unyielding love * Atlanta Journal-Constitution *Tiya Miles is a gentle genius . . . All That She Carried is a gorgeous book and a model for how to read as well as feel the precious artifacts of Black women's lives -- Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a NationA brilliant exercise in historical excavation and recovery ... With creativity, determination, and great insight, Miles illuminates the lives of women who suffered much, but never forgot the importance of love and family -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of MonticelloA history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesAll That She Carried is a moving literary and visual experience about love between a mother and daughter and about many women descendants down through the years. Above all it is Miles's lyrical story, written in her signature penetrating prose, about the power of objects and memory, as well as human endurance, in the history of slavery. The book is nothing short of a revelation -- David W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom[A] powerful history of women and slavery * The New Yorker *[A] brilliant and compassionate account * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *[A] sparkling tale * Oprah Daily *[An] extraordinary story ... unique and unforgettable * Ms. Magazine *This absorbing, heartfelt and beautifully written book traces the story of one family through a simple cotton sack to reveal the determination of one woman, sold into slavery, to protect the next generations from harm. In researching Rose's life, Tiya Miles uncovers the - too often unheard - voices of Black female slaves; and tells of their appalling suffering and remarkable stoicism. -- Clare Hunter, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle and Embroidering Her TruthIt is such a small sack, made of such very rough material. Yet as Tiya Miles shows, this textile given by a mother to her child at a time of greatest peril not only holds within it the whole unforgivable history of Transatlantic slavery, it also contains the greatest thing that anything can contain: love -- Victoria Finlay, author of Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material WorldTiya Miles has crafted a powerful, poignant narrative through a single, wondrous, ordinary object. The bag that Ashley carried stands for hope in the bleakest of times and of love. History writing at its best -- Kate Strasdin, author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's WardrobeAshley's Sack, as it is known, with its short and simple message of intergenerational love, becomes a portal through which Tiya Miles views and reimagines the inner lives of Black women. She excavates the history of Black women who face insurmountable odds and invent a language that can travel across time -- Michael Eric Dyson, author of Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in AmericaTiya Miles uses the tools of her trade to tend to Black people, to Black mothers and daughters, to our wounds, to collective Black love and loss. This book demonstrates Miles's signature genius in its rare balance of both rigor and care -- Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her SuperpowerAll That She Carried is a masterpiece work of African American women's history that reveals what it takes to survive and even thrive. Read this book and then pass it on to someone you love -- Martha S. Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllTiya Miles has written a beautiful book about the tragic materiality of black women's lives across three generations, through slavery and freedom. This book is for anyone interested in learning about black people's centrality to American history -- Stephanie Jones-Rogers, author of They Were Her Property

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Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' Sunday Times 'A remarkable book' New York Times 'An extraordinary tale through the generations' Guardian In 1850s South Carolina, Rose, an enslaved woman, faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few items. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. That, in itself, is a story. But it's not the whole story. How does one uncover the lives of people who, in their day, were considered property? Harvard historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women's faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward. All That She Carried gives us history as it was lived, a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds.Trade ReviewAll That She Carried stands as an astonishing account of love, resilience and survival, one that helps to plug that archival abyss * Sunday Times *All That She Carried finds a way to give voice to the wordless by using a mundane, domestic object - a cloth sack and its contents - to thread an extraordinary tale through the generations * Guardian *A remarkable book -- Jennifer Szalai * The New York Times *Deeply layered and insightful ... [a] bold reflection on American history, African American resilience, and the human capacity for love and perseverance * Washington Post *Through [Miles's] interpretation, the humble things in the sack take on ever-greater meaning, its very survival seems magical, and Rose's gift starts to feel momentous in scale -- Rebecca Onion * Slate *Deeply and lovingly researched ... a testament to the power of story, witness, and unyielding love * Atlanta Journal-Constitution *Tiya Miles is a gentle genius . . . All That She Carried is a gorgeous book and a model for how to read as well as feel the precious artifacts of Black women's lives -- Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a NationA brilliant exercise in historical excavation and recovery ... With creativity, determination, and great insight, Miles illuminates the lives of women who suffered much, but never forgot the importance of love and family -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of MonticelloA history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesAll That She Carried is a moving literary and visual experience about love between a mother and daughter and about many women descendants down through the years. Above all it is Miles's lyrical story, written in her signature penetrating prose, about the power of objects and memory, as well as human endurance, in the history of slavery. The book is nothing short of a revelation -- David W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom[A] powerful history of women and slavery * The New Yorker *[A] brilliant and compassionate account * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *[A] sparkling tale * Oprah Daily *[An] extraordinary story ... unique and unforgettable * Ms. Magazine *This absorbing, heartfelt and beautifully written book traces the story of one family through a simple cotton sack to reveal the determination of one woman, sold into slavery, to protect the next generations from harm. In researching Rose's life, Tiya Miles uncovers the - too often unheard - voices of Black female slaves; and tells of their appalling suffering and remarkable stoicism. -- Clare Hunter, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle and Embroidering Her TruthIt is such a small sack, made of such very rough material. Yet as Tiya Miles shows, this textile given by a mother to her child at a time of greatest peril not only holds within it the whole unforgivable history of Transatlantic slavery, it also contains the greatest thing that anything can contain: love -- Victoria Finlay, author of Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material WorldTiya Miles has crafted a powerful, poignant narrative through a single, wondrous, ordinary object. The bag that Ashley carried stands for hope in the bleakest of times and of love. History writing at its best -- Kate Strasdin, author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's WardrobeAshley's Sack, as it is known, with its short and simple message of intergenerational love, becomes a portal through which Tiya Miles views and reimagines the inner lives of Black women. She excavates the history of Black women who face insurmountable odds and invent a language that can travel across time -- Michael Eric Dyson, author of Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in AmericaTiya Miles uses the tools of her trade to tend to Black people, to Black mothers and daughters, to our wounds, to collective Black love and loss. This book demonstrates Miles's signature genius in its rare balance of both rigor and care -- Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her SuperpowerAll That She Carried is a masterpiece work of African American women's history that reveals what it takes to survive and even thrive. Read this book and then pass it on to someone you love -- Martha S. Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllTiya Miles has written a beautiful book about the tragic materiality of black women's lives across three generations, through slavery and freedom. This book is for anyone interested in learning about black people's centrality to American history -- Stephanie Jones-Rogers, author of They Were Her Property

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Book SynopsisPictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics, artists, and activists living and working in the UK and the US. For the first time, contributors map Douglass’ eclectic and experimental visual archive across an array of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, historical, ideological, and philosophical contexts. While Douglass the activist, diplomat, statesman, politician, autobiographer, orator, essayist, historian, memoirist, correspondent, and philosopher have been the focus of a scholarly industry over the decades, Douglass the art historian and the subject of photographs, paintings, prints, and sculpture let alone mass visual culture has only begun to be explored. Across this volume, scholars share their groundbreaking research investigating Douglass’ significance as the subject of visual culture and as himself a self-reflexive image-maker and radical theorist. Pictures and Power has come to life from a conviction endorsed by Douglass himself: the battleground against slavery and the fight for equal rights had many staging grounds and was by no means restricted to the plantation, the antislavery podium, the legal court, the stump circuit, the campaign trail, or even the educational institution but rather bled through every arena of imaginative, political and artistic life.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xiAcknowledgements xivForewordDeborah Willis 1PrefaceCeleste-Marie Bernier and Bill E. Lawson 7Introduction: ‘Paint me as I am’: The Many Faces of Frederick DouglassCeleste-Marie Bernier and Bill E. Lawson 19Part I Imaging Frederick Douglass1 P ictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass and the Beginnings of an African American Aesthetic in PhotographyDonna M. Wells 432 The Abolitionist and the Camera: Frederick Douglass’ Photographic Half-CenturyZoe Trodd 573 Anna Murray Douglass, ‘The Mother of Cedar Hill’:Photography and the Representation of Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s ActivismEarnestine Jenkins 774 ‘A Faithful Representation of the Man?’ The Pre-Civil War ‘Sorrow Images’ of Frederick DouglassCeleste-Marie Bernier 1055 Last Objects: Death, Autobiography and the Final ImprintFionnghuala Sweeney 143Part II Imagining Frederick Douglass6 Transatlantic Portrayals of Frederick Douglass and his Liberating Sojourn in Music and Visual Arts 1845–2015Alan Rice 1677 Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass’ Second SkinJeffrey C. Stewart 1898 Frederick Douglass in the Age of Moving PicturesHannah Durkin 2319 Looking Forward and Looking Back: Rashid Johnson and Frederick Douglass on PhotographyShawn Michelle Smith 25510 Viral Virtual Varicose Douglass Inside the World Wide Web: Or How to Make a Great Black Man InvisibleMarcus Wood 27511 Subverting the Racist Lens: Frederick Douglass, Humanity and the Power of the Photographic ImageBill E. Lawson and Maria Brincker 299AfterwordJohn Stauffer 329Notes on Contributors 333Index 339

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Book SynopsisEmancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about them, and revises interpretations of the role of gender and reproduction within them. First, about the preponderance of women and children in manumission; second, about the association of black female mobility with intimate inter-racial relations; third, about the racialised and gendered routes to freed status; and fourth, about the legacies of West African female socio-economic behaviours for modalities of family and freedom in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The central concern within the book is how African and African descendant women navigated enslaved motherhood and negotiated the divide between enslavement and freedom for themselves and their children. The book is, therefore, organised around the subject position of the enslaved mother and the reproduction of her children in enslavement, while the condition of enslaved motherhood is examined through overlapping historical praxis evidenced in nineteenth-century Bahia: contested freedom, racialised mothering, and competing maternal interests - biological, ritual, surrogate. The point at which these interests converged historically was, it is argued, a conflict over black female reproductive rights.Table of ContentsFigures INTRODUCTION PART I Emancipatory narratives and enslaved motherhood Introduction 1. “An act so meritorious and humanitarian” 2. “Despite all the benefits given to her by my family” Conclusion PART II Enslaved children, free/d children Introduction 3. “They can bring, with less risk of detection, a greater number” 4. “To forever enjoy his freedom” Conclusion PART III Enslaved mother, enslaver father Introduction 5. “She was mistress of the house” 6. “I must declare this house is hers” Conclusion PART IV African mothers, Brazilian daughters Introduction 7. “Because they are always intertwined” 8. “Having raised her as my daughter” Conclusion EPILOGUE Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPeople, young and old, need stars to guide them. They need models to construct their own identity, to build their self-esteem, to change the way they see the world and to overcome their own and others’ prejudice.During my childhood, many stars were pointed out to me. I admired them, dreamt about them: Socrates, Baudelaire, Einstein, Marie Curie, General de Gaulle, Mother Teresa… But nobody ever spoke to me about black stars. The world of my education was white, from the colour of the school walls to the pages of my textbooks. I knew nothing about my own ancestors. Slavery was the only black subject ever mentioned. In this vision, the history of Black people could only ever be a vale of tears and strife.Can you tell me the name of a black scientist?A black explorer?A black philosopher?A black pharaoh?If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then, whatever the colour of your skin, this book is for you. Because the best way to fight racism and intolerance is to educate ourselves and to broaden our imaginations.The portraits of the men and women in this book are a product of my own reading and my interviews with scholars. Starting with Lucy and ending with Barack Obama, and along the way meeting Aesop, Dona Béatrice, Pushkin, Anne Zingha, Aimé Césaire, Martin Luther King and many others. These stars have allowed me to reject the idea that I am a victim, to renew my faith in mankind and, above all, to believe in myself. - Lilian ThuramThis translation of Lilian Thuram’s bestselling 2010 volume, Mes Etoiles Noires, by Laurent Dubois (University of Virginia), finally brings his anti-racism work to the attention of an English-language audience (the book has already been translated into several European languages). At a time when the Black Lives Matter movement has reminded us of the need to tell more complex stories about our shared past, this volume constitutes a timely intervention by a prominent black sporting figure.Trade Review'At the heart of [The Lilian Thuram Foundation For Education Against Racism's] activities has been the publication of a series of books that do the legwork of imagining the world differently. The first and best-selling of these is My Black Stars [...] now finally available in English. [...] Thuram tackles the persistance of a world view that consistently prioritises white people and white culture, [...] keeping the struggle for equality at the heart of the public debate.' David Murphy, When Saturday ComesTable of ContentsIntroductionOur African ‘Grandmother’LucyThe Black PharoahsTaharqaA Wise Man from Ancient GreeceAesop‘Every Life is a Life’The Hunters of MandenThe Pride and Courage of a QueenAnna ZinghaThe Struggle for a New KingdomDona BeatrizGeneral-in-Chief of the Russian Imperial ArmyAbraham Petrovitch HannibalA Philosopher from GhanaAnton Wilhelm AmoThe Musician of the EnlightenmentChevalier de Saint-Georges‘Uproot the tree of slavery with me’Toussaint LouvertureThe Liberator of HaitiJean-Jacques DessalinesThe Poet of Paradise LostPhillis WheatleyThe Oath of the AncestorsGuillaume Guillon Lethière‘A first shot up to shatter the fog’Louis Delgrès & Solitude‘Ain’t I a Woman?’Sojourner TruthThe Greatest Russian PoetAlexander PushkinThe First Black American Presidential CandidateFrederick DouglassSmuggling in the Name of LibertyHarriet TubmanAgainst the Invention of the RacesJoseph Anténor FirminThe First Black ‘Nègre’ at the École Polytechnique of FranceCamille MortenolThe First Man to Reach the North PoleMatthew HensonA Whirlwind on Two WheelsMajor TaylorThe Hell of the Human ZoosOta BengaBack to AfricaMarcus Mosiah Garvey‘No time rest, all the time make war, all the time kill blacks’Tirailleurs SénégalaisChampion of the WorldBattling SikiThe Black DragonflyPanama Al BrownA Pen of RageRichard Nathaniel WrightThe Silent Resistance FighterAddi BâThe Genius of Black Scientific PioneersScientists, Inventors, Researchers…‘Trees in the South Bear Strange Fruit’Billie Holliday‘Our Time Has Come’Aimé CésaireReturning Africa to Her ChildrenPatrice Emery LumumbaBlack Skin, White MasksFrantz FanonThe SparkRosa Louise McCauley ParksLiberty or DeathMalcolm XA Dream that Changed the WorldDr Martin Luther King, JrA Militant for the African PeopleMongo Beti‘I am super fast! I fight with my mind.’Muhammad AliThe Man who ran the GauntletTommie SmithFrom Ten Thousand Days in Prison to… the PresidencyRolihlahla Nelson MandelaInterplanetary VoyagerCheick Modibo DiarraThe Voice of the VoicelessMumia Abu-JamalThe Emotional Truth of RapTupac Amaru ShakurThe Star of HopeBarack Hussein ObamaNo, This Map is Not Upside DownWords that Liberate the Future, by Gilles-Marie ValetBibliography

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Book SynopsisA compelling account of the story of slavery - from ancient times, through the plantations of the Caribbean and America, to the official abolition of the slave trade more than 200 years ago. Recounts the stories of people who were enslaved, including their daring tales of resistance and escape. Highlights the continued existence of slavery today and what you can do to help stop it.

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Book SynopsisBook Band: Dark Red (ideal for ages 10+) A riveting pirate tale set in the eighteenth century during the golden age of piracy in the Caribbean, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll and Jacqueline Wilson. It’s 1718: pirate ships sail the oceans and brutal slave masters control the plantations. Eleven-year-old Abigail Buckler lives with her father in the Caribbean. Her clothes are made of finest muslin so she can’t play in them, not that there’s anyone to play with anyway. She isn’t even allowed to go out alone. But when pirates attack Abigail’s life will change forever. Suddenly her old certainties about right and wrong, good and bad start to unravel. Maybe Abigail doesn’t have to be so ladylike after all… Packed with historical detail about the Atlantic slave trade, the ravages of empire and human cost of providing luxuries like sugar, cotton and tobacco to Europe, Blackbeard’s Treasure is a page-turning, swashbuckling adventure which takes a look at the real pirates of the Caribbean.Trade ReviewThis is children's fiction at its best ... Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson. * The Lady *Your 8-12 year olds need to get their hands on this swashbuckling adventure by the brilliant Iszi Lawrence. * Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind and A Thousand Ships *You’ve rarely met a heroine as fearless, brilliant and passionate as 11-year-old Abigail. This action-packed tale introduces real pirates and tackles important topics. Think of Pirates of the Caribbean only grounded in real historical detail. A treasure trove indeed! * Caroline Lawrence, author of The Roman Mysteries *... a fun, swashbuckling adventure, full of historical figures brought to life [....] It is a book that adds to a little-known bit of history and it is a fascinating adventure story that I can see will be enjoyed by all. * Reading Zone *The story is rich in details throughout. * Through the Bookshelf *PRAISE FOR THE UNSTOPPABLE LETTY PEGG Letty and her friends and rivals are great characters, as are the real life people she comes across at different times in her adventures. Thoroughly recommended. -- Andrea Reece * Books for Keeps *PRAISE FOR BILLIE SWIFT TAKES FLIGHT It is brimming with historical detail and really highlights the heroic nature of some very inspirational women. It would be an excellent class story that would provide children with a tale about a thrilling war-time adventure * Reading Zone *

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Book SynopsisThe primary aim of Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race is quite ambitious: to open up the Caribbean to a “sound studies” approach, and to thereby effect a shift in Caribbean studies away from the predominantly visual biases of most scholarly works and towards a fuller understanding of early Caribbean societies through listening in to the past. Paying close attention to auditory elements in written accounts of slavery and revolts allows us to unlock the sounds that are registered and recorded there, so that not only does one gain a more sensorially full understanding of the society, but also to a considerable extent, the voices and subjectivities of the enslaved are brought out of the silence to which they have been largely consigned. Reading texts in this way, listening to the sounds of language, work, festivity, music, laughter, mourning, and warfare, for example, allows one to know better the lives of the enslaved people, and how, counter to the largely visual power of the planters, the people developed a highly sophisticated auditory culture that in large part ensured their survival and indeed their final victories over the institution of slavery. Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter One: The Atlantic Culture of the Ear: Law, Adornment, Dress, BalanceChapter Two: Sounds of SlaveryChapter Three: From Slavery to ResistanceCoda: Sensing Difference, Measuring RaceBibliography

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Book SynopsisDibia was educated in Africa, stolen across the sea and sold into slavery. He spent the rest of his life on a sugar plantation, where he worked with Agoüya, drank Aboré’s rum, married Izabelle and had a son named Paul. This book tells the story of the community he lived in with a hundred others in a colonial outpost of the Caribbean. It depicts the everyday life of enslaved Africans and Native Americans in remarkable detail, showing their names, relationships, skills, health and interactions, as they contended with and resisted their enslavement. Most studies of plantation life examine well-established colonies in the century before abolition. This work provides a counterpoint by depicting the founding population of an African-American community in the early years of the industrial sugar plantation complex. Drawing on a planter’s manuscript, shipping records, missionary accounts and seventeenth-century scraps of paper, Dibia’s World will appeal to specialists as well as general readers interested in the early Atlantic world, Creole societies, slavery and African-American history.Trade ReviewA tour de force of scholarship that gives us a rare portrait of an African slave community in the late seventeenth century.Prof. Trevor Burnard, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of HullTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dibia1. Jean Goupy and the Rémire Plantation2. The Enslaved Community of Rémire3. Origins4. Marriages5. Skills and Work6. Daily Life7. Culture8. Freedom9. Health, Punishment and Death10. The Free PopulationConclusion: DibiaAppendix: An English Translation of the InventoryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York, relates his tale, of being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before smuggling information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's account provides extensive details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes the cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. FLAME TREE451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic, essential books.

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Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Audiences could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who travelled the country drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionists of the day.But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as the Crafts fled to England to embark upon a new life.With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife recounts both a ground-breaking quest for liberty and justice, and an unforgettable love story.Trade Review'Ellen and William Craft loved each other, but also loved freedom, and knew one was impossible without the other ... we readers gasp in amazement and wonder at the tragedy and triumph' -- Marlon James, winner of The Booker Prize'A feat of ... storytelling, sympathy and insight' * The New York Times *'Woo's history draws from a variety of sources, including the Crafts' own account, to reconstruct a 'journey of mutual self-emancipation', while artfully sketching the background of a nation careering toward civil war' * The New Yorker *'Phenomenal' -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois'A suspenseful, sensitively rendered account . . . Woo tells the story [with] a cinematic eye' -- W. Caleb McDaniel * The New York Times Book Review *'Superbly researched and masterfully written' * Library Journal *'A gripping adventure. . . . suspenseful and wonderfully told' * Kirkus Reviews *'A pathbreaking book ... Riveting' -- Stuart Miller * The Los Angeles Times *'A narrative of such courage and resourcefulness it seems too dashing to be true. But it is... The story is so richly dramatic, and Ms. Woo so skilled at spinning it out, that at times it's a genuine nail-biter' -- Priscilla M. Jensen * The Wall Street Journal *'Master Slave Husband Wife tells one of the most important stories of American slavery and freedom. With prose that is suspenseful, brilliantly detailed, historically precise, and simply gorgeous, Woo depicts the Crafts and their historic role in antebellum America stunningly. This is a story that will stay with you for a lifetime' -- Imani Perry * author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation *'Details of the history of 19th-century American slavery and the courage of those who suffered it and the inhuman vileness of those who were responsible for it' -- Patrick Stewart * interviewed in The New York Times *

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Book SynopsisThe Age of Revolution (1776-1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a 'Second Slavery' surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a system of financial credit that leveraged the value of the slaves. By 1860, more than 6 million captives of African descent toiled to produce the cotton, sugar and coffee craved by global consumers. This 'Second Slavery' mimicked capitalist disciplines, intensified slavery's racial character and launched half a century of headlong economic growth.On the eve of the American Civil War, the Slave Power seemed invincible. The slaveholding elite entrenched their 'peculiar institution' in the fabric of the Union only to risk everything on secession. Nobody solicited the slaves' wishes until it became clear that, wherever they could, they were deserting the plantations and joining the Union forces.Abolition radicals destroyed the Second Slavery and victory for the North also spelled defeat for slavery in Cuba and Brazil. But in each of these societies racial oppression was to be reconfigured by 'Black Codes', Jim Crow and toxic doctrines of racial destiny.Slavery leaves an indelible mark on many Atlantic nations. The Reckoning charts the historic impact of slavery and anti-slavery, of black and white activists, of fugitive slaves, feminists, writers, clerics and soldiers. Notwithstanding much unfinished business, the anti-slavery struggle retains its capacity to illuminate and inspire.Trade ReviewTremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave ShipBy concluding his decades-long project on New World slavery, and by drawing the attention of British readers to an often-neglected aspect of that history, Blackburn has fittingly capped a lifetime of scholarship. -- Michael Taylor * Literary Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why the ‘Second Slavery’? Patterns of the ‘First Slavery’ Slavery’s Survivors: The American South, Brazil, Cuba Distinctiveness of the Second Slavery Industry, Finance and SlaveryFortifications of the Second SlaveryPart One: Westwards Expansion I Pioneers of the Second Slavery Contested Origins of the United States The US Constitution and Slavery An Abolition Moment? The Northwest Ordinance and Militia Act From the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase Birth of the White Man’s Republic Indian Removal and the German Coast Revolt The Price of Compromise The Missouri Controversy A Choice for Slavery II The Making of the Hispano-Cuban Elite A Cuban Miracle? Cuba as a ‘Society with Slaves’ The British in Havana The Hispano-Cuban Reconquest of Florida The Great Slave Revolt in St Domingue The Plantation Surge Cuba as a Slave Society The Colonial Pact A Model Colony?III Brazil: Independence, Monarchy, Slavery and CitizenshipPatterns of Race and SlaveryMercantilism’s End and a New Slave Trade BoomStirrings of Independence and Anti-slavery The Last Days of Colonial BrazilAdherence to the Emperor Liberty, Pacification and Terror in Bahia Pedro’s Setbacks and Abdication The Regency and the Slave TradeBrazil and Backwardness Romanticism and ‘Natural History’Power Was EverythingBrazil Ends the Slave TradeIV Life and Toil on the Slave PlantationRacial Capitalism and the Chattel PrincipleA Multitude of Tasks‘Vigilance Without Punishment is an Illusion’The Productivity of Gang LabourThe Slaveholder as Colonist and Potentate Natural Economy and the Reproduction of the Slave PopulationV Slaveholder Capitalism, Credit and Westwards ExpansionSlaveholders and Modernity Dimensions of the Plantation BoomSlavery Away from the PlantationsCredit is King?Mechanization and its LimitsThe Special Case of Sugar ProcessingAccounting for SlaveryPlanters Ride the Business CycleSlave Dealers Become Sugar LordsHow Cotton Paid for EmpirePart Two: Why the Slaveowners Lost VI. War, Peace and Slavery, 1815-60Mechanics of the Congress SystemConservative Reaction and Bourgeois AdvanceThe Vienna Congress and the Slave TradeLatin America, Britain and the Monroe Doctrine A Congress of the Americas?The Fate of CubaBrazil, Britain and the Upshot of 1850 The Diplomacy of Bullies Filibustering in Texas and CubaMutations of the PeaceVII. Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the Civil WarAnti-Slavery and the Northern MilieuThe Appeal and the Liberator The American Anti-Slavery Society‘A Shock as of an Earthquake’: Pro-Slavery OverreachesSplits over Women’s Rights The Whig and Liberty parties The Role of Frederick DouglassPolitical Abolitionism, Free Soil and the Wilmot Proviso Militant Anti-slaveryThe Dynamics of the Sectional ConflictThe Fugitive Slave Law and Underground Railroad Bleeding Kansas The Rise of the Republican PartyThe Slave Power and the Dred Scott Decision John Brown’s BodyThe Last Cords of Union BreakThe Meaning of Secession: A Slaveholders’ RevoltVIII. Emancipation and Reconstruction in North AmericaWar for the UnionNovelty of the US Civil WarLincoln Discovers that Patriotism Is Not EnoughThe Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation from Above and BelowThe Defeat of the ConfederacyPresidential Reconstruction and the Radical ChallengeThe Radical Programme: Confiscation and Black SuffrageThe Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in the SouthThe North and Radical ReconstructionBlacks and Whites in the New South A Second Revolution?IX. The Ending of Slavery in CubaCuba and Isabelline Spain Puerto Rican Comparisons Tepid Abolitionism of the Cuban Middle ClassSpain’s Politics of AttractionCrisis of the Isabelline RegimeAbolitionism and the Priorities of Imperialist DiplomacyThe Moret Law The ‘Lottery of Princes’ The Republic of DukesBourbon Restoration and the Triumph of the RentierThe Pact of ZanjónSlavery Ends at LastThe United States Seizes Control X. Brazil: The Last EmancipationSlavery’s Place in the Imperial Order Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade Ban The War with Paraguay Crabwise Advance of Emancipationism The Rio Branco Law of 1871The Political Economy of FreedomChurch and StateThe Social Profile of Brazilian AbolitionismRepublicanism and PositivismThe Abolitionist Offensive, 1880-4The Final Assault on Slavery Ordered Freedom‘A Tattered and Ridiculous Liberty’Epilogue: Legacies of Slavery and AbolitionAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisProphet against Slavery is an action-packed chronicle of a remarkable and radical individual. It is based on the award-winning biography by Marcus Rediker, which prompted the Quaker community that once disowned Lay to embrace him again after 280 years. Graphic novelist David Lester brings the full scope of Lay's activism and ideas to life.Born in 1682 to a humble Quaker family in Essex, England, Lay was a forceful and prescient visionary. Understanding the fundamental evil that slavery represented, he employed guerrilla theatre tactics and direct action to shame slave owners and traders. The prejudice Lay suffered as a dwarf and a hunchback, as well as his devout faith, informed his passion for human and animal liberation. Exhibiting stamina, fortitude, and integrity in the face of the cruelties practiced against his 'fellow creatures', he was frequently a solitary voice speaking truth to power.Lester's beautiful imagery and storytelling, accompanied by afterwords from Rediker and Paul Buhle, capture the radicalism, the humour, and the humanity of this uncannily modern figure. A testament to the impact each of us can make, Prophet against Slavery brings Lay'' prophetic vision to a new generation of young activists who today echo his call of 300 years ago: 'No justice, no peace!'Trade ReviewPraise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:Admirers of Marcus Rediker's splendid The Slave Ship will be delighted by this historian's new book. Sailor, pioneer of guerrilla theater, and a man who would stop at nothing to make his fellow human beings share his passionate outrage against slavery, Benjamin Lay has long needed a modern biographer worthy of him, and now he has one. -- Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s GhostPraise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:A modern biography of the radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay has long been overdue. With the sure hand of an eminent historian of the disfranchised, Marcus Rediker has brought to life the wide-ranging activism of this extraordinary Quaker, vegetarian dwarf in a richly crafted book. In fully recovering Lay's revolutionary abolitionist vision, Rediker reveals its ongoing significance for our world. -- Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of AbolitionPraise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:The unswerving eighteenth-century abolitionist Benjamin Lay, maligned when not ignored for many generations, has at last found his sympathetic biographer. In this captivating must-read book, Marcus Rediker shows that Lay's disfigured body contained a mind of steel and a heart overflowing with compassion for victims of the Atlantic slave trade. Lay's place in the annals of American reform is now secure. -- Gary Nash, author of Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker AbolitionistPraise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:Lay's antinomian radicalism has been wonderfully excavated by Marcus Rediker in this eloquent testament. -- Catherine Hall, author of Legacies of British Slave-OwnershipPraise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:This turbulent life of a seafarer, glove maker, and preacher is the stuff of legend, recovered with panache by Rediker. -- John Rees, author of The Leveller RevolutionPraise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:In this vivid life, Rediker explains how Benjamin Lay, the dwarf, became an iconic prophet of abolitionism. Lay lived in the utmost simplicity in a cave, eating no meat, and wearing only clothes he had made himself. Rediker shows how Lay, despite his modesty, used spectacle to dramatise the cruelty of slavery, and explains why, despite clashes with the wealthy, Lay died at seventy-seven with an estate worth over £500, which he bequeathed to the poor. The Fearless Benjamin Lay offers a master class in eighteenth-century radical micro-history, showing how much is revealed by the scattered details of one man's life, a short man but a political and moral giant. -- Robin Blackburn, author of The American CruciblePraise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:Like most satisfying biographies, Rediker's is part group biography, offering sketches of the lives with which Lay's intersected. * Times Literary Supplement *Praise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:It is a pretty safe bet that for every 1,000 people who know of William Wilberforce, no more than the odd one might have heard of Benjamin Lay. But if anyone deserves to muscle in on the mildly self-congratulatory and largely middle-class pantheon of Abolitionist Saints, it is the gloriously improbable and largely forgotten Quaker throwback and hero of Marcus Rediker's generous and absorbing act-his own phrase-of 'retrospective justice'. -- David Crane * Spectator *Praise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:Rediker has done a valuable service in rescuing Lay from obscurity ... I suspect there will be few readers who won't want to boil a celebratory turnip to salute what Benjamin Lay achieved in the course of his long and remarkable life. -- John Preston * Daily Mail *Praise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:This is micro-history at its best, a careful concentration on one small man's activities as a way of testing out the limits of what could be thought, known and felt in the hive-mind of early modern America. -- Kathryn Hughes * Guardian (Best biographies of the year 2017) *Praise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:It is a pretty safe bet that people reading this excellent biography of the Quaker radical Benjamin Lay will not have heard of him or his exploits. Hopefully because of Marcus Rediker's hard work and perseverance more people will now know of this extraordinary figure. -- Keith Livesy * A Trumpet of Sedition *Praise for The Fearless Benjamin Lay:Historian Marcus Rediker's excellent book . illuminates the life of this extraordinary man. -- Eugene Grant * New Statesman *

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Book SynopsisFor diversity, energy, hardship and tenacity Tom Peters’ life was exceptional. Enslaved in 1760, and escaping for a third time in 1775 when the Dunmore Proclamation offered fugitive slaves emancipation in return for military service, he enlisted in the British Army. Promoted to sergeant, he served in the Black Pioneers until 1783. Subsequent settlement of the Africans in Nova Scotia was a failure; it resulted in Tom visiting London in 1791 to meet abolitionist MPs and in 1792 15 ships carried the Africans to a prepared settlement in Sierra Leone where arriving in May that year, Tom Peters died of fever three months later. Some events have been omitted, but among people who featured were General Sir Henry Clinton; Granville Sharp; William Wilberforce; Tom’s wife, Sally, and his children, Clairie and John; Sir John Parr the Governor of Nova Scotia; Sir Guy Carleton, Governor General of Canada; and John Clarkson and William Dawes, Governors of Sierra Leone. Rumours surround his life, including his audience with Queen Victoria. Part one is fiction: Tom was born in Yorubaland (Nigeria) not in Ashanti (Ghana). But parts two, three and four are historically more accurate. Conversations throughout are imaginary.

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