Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books

Book SynopsisWhen residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The book explores Jodi Skipper’s eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture. In laying out her experiences through an autoethnographic approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation. Table of Contents Foreword by Anne Valk and Teresa Mangum Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Thank You, Cousin Geneva! 2 Heritage Tourism in Mississippi 3 The Behind the Big House Program 4 Reconciling Race 5 Academic Values and Public Scholarship Epilogue What to Throw Away and What to Keep Appendix A Historic Site Evaluation Appendix B Small-Group Discussion Questions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of slave overseers. In eighteenth-century North America, major slaveowners typically hired overseers to manage their plantations. In addition to cultivating crops, managing slaves, and dispensing punishment, overseers were expected to maximize profits through increased productivity—often achieved through violence and cruelty. In Masters of Violence, Tristan Stubbs offers the first book-length examination of eighteenth-century overseers—from recruitment and dismissal to their relationships with landowners and enslaved people, as well as their changing reputations, which devolved from reliable to untrustworthy and incompetent.At the beginning of the eighteenth century, slaveowners regarded overseers as reliable enforcers of authority; by the end of the century, particularly after the American Revolution, plantation owners viewed them as incompetent and morally degenerate, as well as a threat to their power. Through a careful reading of plantation records, diaries, contemporary newspaper articles, and many other sources, Stubbs uncovers the ideological shift responsible for tarnishing overseers’ reputations.In Masters of Violence, Stubbs argues that this shift in opinion grew out of far-reaching ideological and structural transformations to slave societies in Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia throughout the Revolutionary era. Seeking to portray their own actions as positive and yet simultaneously distance themselves from slavery, plantation owners blamed overseers as incompetent managers and vilified them as violent brutalizers of enslaved people.

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Book SynopsisPublic debate and discussion was overshadowed by the slavery controversy during the period of the U.S. Civil War. Slavery was attacked, defended, amplified, and mitigated. This happened in the halls of Congress, the courts, the political debate, the public platform, and the lecture hall. This volume examines the issues, speakers, and venues for this controversy between 1850 and 1877. It combines exploration of the broad contours of controversy with careful analysis of specific speakers and texts.

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Book SynopsisWilliam Byrd II was a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian who at the time of his death owned over 180,000 acres and employed laborers and enslaved Africans to work his land. His letters, diaries, and surveying documents have become key texts in the study of American history, and he is one of the most quoted and discussed figures of his era. Byrd himself was perhaps the early colonial epitome of a patriarch, and typically, when historians examine Byrd and the prominence of patriarchal thought in colonial Virginia, they examine his relationships with his immediate family. In this book, however, Dennis Todd examines the patriarchal relations between Byrd and the workers on his plantations—his apprentices, his wageworkers, his overseers, his white servants, and especially his slaves. In doing so, this book illuminates a neglected stage in the formation of slavery in Virginia. Todd argues that patriarchal principles, which are often assumed to have justified slavery and to have offered a template for slave management, in fact did neither. Byrd was not the only Virginian to wrestle with the contradictions between patriarchal values and the realities of slavery, but few were as articulate. In examining Byrd through the twin lens of slavery and patriarchy, Patriarchy in Peril makes an important contribution to our understanding of the man and his place in Virginia society as well as the contentious formation of early America.

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Book SynopsisWilliam Hardin Burnley (1780-1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone.In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's ""founding father"" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.

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Book SynopsisDespite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have continued to the present day. To understand why, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine explores child trafficking, pawning, and marriages in Nigeria's Bight of Biafra, and the ways in which British colonial authorities and Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, and Ijaw populations mobilized children's labor during the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources that include oral interviews, British and Nigerian archival materials, newspaper holdings, and missionary and anthropological accounts, Chapdelaine argues that slavery's endurance can only be understood when we fully examine "the social economy of a child" -- the broader commercial, domestic, and reproductive contexts in which children are economic vehicles.The Persistence of Slavery provides an invaluable investigation into the origins of modern slavery and early efforts to combat it, locating this practice in the political, social, and economic changes that occurred as a result of British colonialism and its lingering effects, which perpetuate child trafficking in Nigeria today.Trade ReviewAn important, original contribution to the history of child trafficking in the twentieth century, the history of children globally, and to Nigerian and West African history, in general." —Benjamin N. Lawrance, editor in chief of African Studies Review and author of Amistad’s Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling"One of the few book-length studies on the history of children in colonial Africa, The Persistence of Slavery is necessary and timely. It will be a first choice for courses on African history and childhood studies." —Saheed Aderinto, author of When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1958

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Book SynopsisIndependence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back into New York’s frenzied harbor with the ship's black steward, William Tillman, at the helm. While the story of that ill-fated voyage is one of the most harrowing tales of captivity and survival on the high seas, it has, almost unbelievably, been lost to history. Now reclaiming Tillman as the real American hero he was, historian Brian McGinty dramatically returns readers to that riotous, explosive summer of 1861, when the country was tearing apart at the seams and the Union army was in near shambles following a humiliating defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Desperate for good news, the North was soon riveted by reports of an incident that occurred a few hundred miles off the coast of New York, where the Waring had been overtaken by a marauding crew of Confederate privateers. While the white sailors became chummy with their Southern captors, free black man William Tillman was perfectly aware of the fate that awaited him in the ruthless, slave-filled ports south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Stealthily biding his time until a moonlit night nine days after the capture, Tillman single-handedly killed three officers of the privateer crew, then took the wheel and pointed it home. Yet, with no experience as a navigator, only one other helper, and a war-torn Atlantic seaboard to contend with, his struggle had just begun. It took five perilous days at sea—all thrillingly recounted here—before the Waring returned to New York Harbor, where the story of Tillman's shipboard courage became such a tabloid sensation that he was not only put on the bill of Barnum’s American Museum but also proclaimed to be the "first hero" of the Civil War. As McGinty evocatively shows, however, in the horrors of the war then engulfing the nation, memories of his heroism—even of his identity—were all but lost to history. As such, The Rest I Will Kill becomes a thrilling and historically significant work, as well as an extraordinary journey that recounts how a free black man was able to defy efforts to make him a slave and become an unlikely glimmer of hope for a disheartened Union army in the war-battered North.Trade Review"Spectacular. . . . [A] carefully researched and expertly crafted book . . . . The Rest I Will Kill should enchant a wide audience: history buffs, Civil War enthusiasts, pirate junkies, readers who love action and adventure, and those interested in the seemingly unending quest for liberty. It’s difficult to imagine the person who can’t find something to admire in these pages" -- Michael Kleber-Diggs - Minneapolis Star Tribune"Vivid writing creates an exciting read, and McGinty’s use of primary sources such as newspapers and government documents is exceptional. . . . McGinty dubs Tillman a hero and a patriot, one of the first during the Civil War. An important contribution to the shelf of Civil War histories, this story will transfix readers." -- Patricia Ann Owens - Library Journal (Starred Review)

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Book SynopsisCommemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century audience. From these pages—which include over 160 photographs of Douglass, as well as his previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics—we learn that neither Custer nor Twain, nor even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it was Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave-turned-abolitionist, eloquent orator, and seminal writer, who is canonized here as a leading pioneer in photography and a prescient theorist who believed in the explosive social power of what was then just an emerging art form. Featuring: Contributions from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. (a direct Douglass descendent) 160 separate photographs of Douglass—many of which have never been publicly seen and were long lost to history A collection of contemporaneous artwork that shows how powerful Douglass’s photographic legacy remains today, over a century after his death All Douglass’s previously unpublished writings and speeches on visual aesthetics Trade Review"These images don’t change your mind; they smash through some of the warped lenses through which we’ve been taught to see." -- David Brooks - New York Times"Beautifully crafted and contextualized.... the extant photographs illuminate American history and memory." -- The Washington Post"A terrific new book." -- The New Yorker"Striking…. The most exciting images in the book are those that show us how these 19th-century portraits became, over the decades that follow, a part of the symbolic surround of the modern American landscape…. The words in this highly visual book are perhaps even more powerful than the images…. Pictures conveyed a precision akin to religious truth, an affective prerequisite for social movements." -- Matthew Pratt Guterl - The New Republic"Nothing less than a masterpiece in the fields of biography, African-American history, and not least of all the neglected area of iconography…A riveting instant classic and a pure pleasure to behold." -- Harold Holzer, winner of the Lincoln Prize and author of Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion"Picturing Frederick Douglass marries all of my present interests: legacies of slavery; beautiful images of a beautiful man; and the first theory of photography as a democratic medium capable of social change. Stunningly original and elegantly written and designed, it will inspire anyone interested in the links between the visual and the verbal." -- Sally Mann, author of Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs"Douglass emerges here out of photographic technology's earliest years, with majestic beauty, and through the power of his own self-creations. The book is the result of intrepid research and brilliant analysis; it charts Douglass's life visually, allowing him to look back at us wryly, wistfully, wrathfully." -- David W. Blight, Yale University, and author of Frederick Douglass: A Life"In Picturing Frederick Douglass, Stauffer, Trodd, and Bernier offer exhilarating scholarship and our idea of Douglass and our sense of photography in nineteenth-century America are deepened. This is brilliant and very moving work." -- Darryl Pinckney, author of High Cotton, Out There and Black Balled: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy"Picturing Frederick Douglass marks a significant turn in the long history of Douglass’s reception. Both as a subject for photography and as a critical theorist who reflected on the democratic, humane, and truth-telling powers of the medium, Douglass emerges in this beautiful volume in a completely new light." -- W. J. T. Mitchell, author of Seeing Through Race"Picturing Frederick Douglass is to be shared, studied, read and repeated every six months, not only in the classroom but in our living rooms…Beautifully researched and storied…A true treasure!" -- Deborah Willis, author of Reflections in Black and the acclaimed documentary, Through a Lens Darkly"This stunning volume presents 160 photographs, some for the first time, and they not only follow Douglass throughout his life but also place him within the times he lived…. Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier point out that Douglass saw the truth-telling aspects of photography and how it could be used as a tool in the fight against slavery, as photos both humanized African Americans and revealed the horrors of their enslavement. This tour de force is a must-have that will enhance history and reference collections." -- Patricia Ann Owens - Library Journal, Starred review"This illustrious book collects all 160 photographs of renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass and astutely places Douglass’s personal interest in photography into the context of his career and legacy…. This study provides a multifaceted, unique look at one of the most influential figures of American history." -- Publishers Weekly"An impressive collection…give[s] a wonderful picture of the man, his intellect, and his devotion to his main cause, abolition…. The authors have pieced together an illuminating life portrait without extraneous biographical material, focusing intensely on their subject's belief in the strength of photographs." -- Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today. Yothers examines antislavery poetry in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical - Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville - to those whose influence has faded - Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell - to African American writers whose work has been recovered in recent decades - James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Present Valor 1: Anglo-American Poetry, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the Haitian Revolution in United States Poetry 2: Antislavery Poetry in Public: George Moses Horton, John Pierpont, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3: Witness against Slavery: John Greenleaf Whittier, William Wells Brown, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney 4: Present Valor and the Trauma of Slavery: James Russell Lowell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5: Frances E. W. Harper and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Preaching, Poetry, and Pedagogy 6: Aspects of America: James M. Whitfield, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman Epilogue: W. E. B. DuBois and the Legacy of Antislavery Poetry Index

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Book SynopsisPrior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked the Americas together. In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery John Garrison Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centers: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the lowcountry of North America's Atlantic coast. Marks reveals how skills, knowledge, reputation, and personal relationships helped free people of color improve their fortunes and achieve social distinction in ways that undermined whites' claims to racial superiority.Built upon research conducted on three continents, this book takes a comparative approach to understanding the contours of black freedom in the Americas. It reveals in new detail the creative and persistent attempts of free black people to improve their lives and that of their families. It examines how various paths to freedom, responses to the Haitian Revolution, opportunities to engage in skilled labor, involvement with social institutions, and the role of the church all helped shape the lived experience of free people of color in the Atlantic World.As free people of color worked to improve their individual circumstances, staking claims to rights, privileges, and distinctions not typically afforded to those of African descent, they engaged with white elites and state authorities in ways that challenged prevailing racial attitudes. While whites across the Americas shared common doubts about the ability of African-descended people to survive in freedom or contribute meaningfully to society, free black people in Cartagena, Charleston, and beyond conducted themselves in ways that exposed cracks in the foundations of American racial hierarchies. Their actions represented early contributions to the long fight for recognition, civil rights, and racial justice that continues today.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the history of black freedom, this comparative study of free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena is equally attentive to the broader Atlantic and to local economic, social, demographic, and institutional circumstances. The result is a rich, textured, and locally grounded reconstruction of people of African descent's relentless pursuit for standing, respectability, family and community in the Americas."—Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University"Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery makes a crucial contribution to the history of the Atlantic world. By linking the lives of free blacks in Charleston, South Carolina, and Cartagena, Colombia, Marks's work bridges the sites of Atlantic slavery, treating disparate geographies as fundamentally linked and raising broad and important questions about the nature of black freedom. Marks's deeply researched and beautifully written study is an important work that will impact the fields of Latin American history, North American history, the histories of slavery and freedom, and beyond."—Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University"In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery John Marks has produced a carefully researched and innovative study of how enslaved people in the Atlantic slave ports of Cartagena and Charleston achieved freedom and sought respectability under very different social, economic, and political systems. The key he argues, was the access to public institutions free people of color enjoyed in the Spanish city, and the commitment Charlestonians made to preserve slavery in perpetuity. Based on deep archival research in Colombia, Spain, and the United States, this is a welcome contribution to the study of slavery, racism, and emancipation."— Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

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Book SynopsisAccording to an Akan proverb, “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot’s work in Slavery in Zion, which combines genealogical and historical research to bring to light events and relationships unknown or misunderstood for well over a century. The total number of enslaved people in Utah’s early history has remained an open question for many years, due in part to the nature of nineteenth-century records, and an exact number is undetermined. But while writing this book Thiriot documented around one hundred enslaved or indentured Black men, women, and children in Utah Territory. Slavery in Zion has two major parts. The first section provides an introductory history, chapters on southern and western experiences, and information on life after emancipation. The second section is a biographical encyclopedia of names, relationships, and events. Although Slavery in Zion contains material applicable to legal history and the history of race and Mormonism, its most important contribution is as an archive of the experiences of Utah’s enslaved Black people, at last making their stories an integral part of the record of Utah and the American West—no longer forgotten or written out of history.Trade Review“Slavery in Zion is the most thorough and exhaustive treatment to date of the lives of Black Utahns in the nineteenth century. It should serve as an indispensable starting point for other researchers to explore all sorts of potentially fascinating and important topics."—Christopher C. Jones, assistant professor of history, Brigham Young University “An important addition to the study of slavery and (most importantly) enslaved peoples in early Mormon Utah. The author should be commended for her painstaking archival work to bring together well known documents as well as lesser-known documents related to this history."—Max Perry Mueller, author of Race and the Making of the Mormon PeopleTable of Contents Sankofa: Remembrance Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Bound for the Promised Land Part I: The Story of African American Slavery in Utah Territory 1. Southern Origins: Mississippi and Alabama 2. Southern Origins: Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky 3. Exodus and Escape 4. The Settlement of Utah 5. Going to California 6. Green Flake and the Tithing Myth 7. The Texans 8. Merchants, Army Officers, and Government Appointees 9. Free at Last Part II: Biographical Encyclopedia of the Enslaved 10. The Enslaved 11. Associated Enslaved Individuals 12. Black Residents of Utah Territory 13. Former or Unproven Enslavers 14. Related Topics Afterword Appendix 1: An Act in Relation to Service, Utah Territorial Legislature (1852) Appendix 2: Slave Registrations and Bill of Sale Appendix 3: Deeds of Consecration Appendix 4: Brigham Young Correspondence Appendix 5: Miscellaneous Documents Appendix 6: Selected Newspaper Articles Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes.Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes 'laying out' nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose.Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North.Readers will discover that along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the same opportunities afforded to most Americans.Trade ReviewWith profound insight and deep research, Fugitivism is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the role of escaped slaves in Louisiana and the Lower Mississippi Valley. It reveals complexities and nuances of the common practice of 'running away' and demonstrates how the violence of capture and punishment shaped the national discourse on slavery, freedom, and abolition. Bolton's book is exquisitely researched and thought-provoking in its account of the diverse experiences of fugitive slaves and their impact on the South and the nation." - Urmi Engineer Willoughby, author of Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

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Book SynopsisIn the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanization that they faced. In response, proslavery southerners attempted to counter these messages either through idealization or outright erasure of enslaved life. In Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, Rachel Stephens addresses an enormous body of material by tracing themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera, connecting long overlooked artworks with both the abolitionist materials to which they were responding and archival research across a range of southern historical narratives. Stephens begins her fascinating study with an examination of the ways that slavery was visually idealized and defended in antebellum art. She then explores the tyranny—especially that depicted in art—enacted by supporters of enslavement, introduces a range of ways that artwork depicting slavery was tangibly concealed, considers photographs of enslaved female caretakers with the white children they reared, and investigates a printmaker’s confidential work in support of the Confederacy. Finally, she delves into an especially pernicious group of proslavery artists in Richmond, Virginia. Reading visual culture as a key element of the antebellum battle over slavery, Hidden in Plain Sight complicates the existing narratives of American art and history.Trade Review“The story of art in service to abolition is common; Rachel Stephens offers a much-needed counterpoint—a consideration of how slavery’s supporters fought back against abolition through visual means. Carefully researched and meticulously written, Hidden in Plain Sight makes a significant contribution to shaping our current understanding of race in America.”—Naomi H. Slipp, New Bedford Whaling Museum

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Book SynopsisIlluminating the activism of Black women during Cuba’s prerevolutionary periodIn Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political history of the era, examining how Black women’s engagement with questions of Cuban citizenship intersected with racial prejudice, gender norms, and sexual politics, incorporating Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist perspectives.Brunson demonstrates that between the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba and the 1959 Revolution, Black women—without formal political power—navigated political movements in their efforts to create a more just society. She examines how women helped build a Black public sphere as they claimed moral respectability and sought racial integration. She reveals how Black women entered into national women’s organizations, labor unions, and political parties to bring about legal reforms. Brunson shows how women of African descent achieved individual victories as part of a collective struggle for social justice; in doing so, she highlights how racism and sexism persisted even as legal definitions of Cuban citizenship evolved.Trade ReviewBrunson’s study of over 75 years of complex change . . . does its intellectual work from a distinct and critical vantage. . . . Her work innovatively centers racial analysis by locating the Afro-descended women contributing to political discourse across a range of mediums and carefully piecing together their contributions."—Hispanic American Historical Review"What distinguishes this study of race and gender in early Republican Cuba is its nuanced focus on how Black male veterans, elite white women’s civic clubs, and women of African descent shaped different citizenship practices in the public sphere."—Choice"In putting together this compelling story, Brunson undertook research in archives in Cuba and the United States. . . . Brunson builds on the work of Latin American and Cuban history as well as Black feminist scholarship to center Black women as critical protagonists in the struggle for Black rights and freedom."—New Books Network

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Book SynopsisLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2 Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility 3 Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing 4 The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisLong after slavery was officially abolished, the practice not only continues but thrives. An estimated 40 million people are modern-day slaves, more than ever before in human history. Whether they are women in electronics or apparel sweatshops, children in brick kilns or on cocoa farms, men trapped in bonded labour working on construction sites, or girls forced into domestic servitude or sex work, millions of people are forced to perform labour through the use of force, intimidation or deceit.Modern slavery is an integral part of the global economy. It even becomes part of our daily lives when we use or buy products that are made through exploitative labour practices. In a world of growing inequality, consumers and business are both part of the problem and the solution. While we have all become accustomed to fast fashion and cheap consumer goods, we must take responsibility for exploitation at different points along complex supply chains. This important book examines slavery in the modern world and outlines ways it can be stopped. Book includes discussion of new anti-slavery legislation in Australia, theUK, France and California Fresh analysis by renowned experts in the field and written in a clear andaccessible style Includes information on how consumers, investors and shareholderscan make more informed choices Examples and case studies show the extent of exploitative labourpractices worldwide Directed at individuals concerned about the real cost of cheap goods andfast fashion as well as corporations concerned about their procurementpractices Growing consumer and corporate awareness of need to buy ethically,whether it’s fashion, chocolate, coffee, electronic goods etc Modern slavery is a growing component of human rights campaignsaround the world

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Book Synopsis‘There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery’ (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied or excused? By exploring Britain's ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India, and the official, evangelical and popular discourses which surrounded them, she seeks to uncover the various political, economic and ideological agendas that allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart. In doing so, she uncovers tensions in the relationship between colonial policy and the so-called 'civilising mission', elucidating the intricate interactions between humanitarian movements, colonial ideologies and imperial imperatives in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The work draws on a range of sources from Britain and India to provide a trans-national perspective on this little known facet of the story of slavery and abolition in the British Empire, uncovering the complex ways in which Indian slavery was encountered, discussed, utilised, rationalised, and reconciled with the economic, political and moral imperatives of an empire whose focus was shifting to the East.Trade ReviewReviews 'A most impressive work of scholarship which will come to occupy a major and important niche in this area.' Stanley Engerman'This will remain the standard history of British abolitionism and Indian slavery for years to come.' Enrico Dal Lago, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol 55, 4'This will remain the standard history of British abolitionism and Indian slavery for years to come.'Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol 55, Issue 4Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Some Prominent Figures in the British Parliament, the Abolitionist Movement and the East India Company Part I. Other Slaveries Introduction 1. ‘To Call a Slave a Slave’: Recovering Indian Slavery Part II. European Slaveries Introduction: Slavery and Colonial Expansion in India 2. ‘A Shameful and Ruinous Trade’: European Slave-trafficking and the East India Company 3. Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays: European Slave-holding and Early Colonial Society Part III. Indian Slaveries Introduction: Locating Indian Slaveries 4. ‘This Household Servitude’: Domestic Slavery and Immoral Commerce 5. ‘Open and Professed Stealers of Children’: Slave-trafficking and the Boundaries of the Colonial State Part IV. Imagined Slaveries Introduction: Evangelical Connections 7. ‘Satan’s Wretched Slaves’: Indian Society and the Evangelical Imagination 8. ‘The Produce of the East by Free Men’: Indian Sugar and Indian Slavery in British Abolitionist Debates, 1793–1833 Conclusion: ‘Do Justice to India’: Abolitionists and Indian Slavery, 1839–1843 Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. The book enriches our understanding of French and Atlantic history in the revolutionary and postrevolutionary years when Haiti was menaced with the re-establishment of slavery and when class, race, and gender identities were being renegotiated. It offers in-depth readings of works by Germaine de Staël, Claire de Duras, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. In addition to these now canonical French authors, it calls attention to the lives and works of two lesser-known but important figures—Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin. Approaching these five women through the prism of paternal authority, Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves explores the empathy that daughters show toward blacks as well as their resistance against the oppression exercised by male colonists and other authority figures. The works by these French women antislavery writers bear significant similarities, which the book explores, with twentieth and twenty-first century Francophone texts. These women’s contributions allow us to move beyond the traditional boundaries of exclusively male accounts by missionaries, explorers, functionaries, and military or political figures. They remind us of the imperative for ever-renewed gender research in the colonial archive and the need to expand conceptions of French women’s writing in the nineteenth century as being a small minority corpus. Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves contributes to an understanding of colonial fiction, Caribbean writing, romanticism, and feminism. It undercuts neat distinctions between the cultures of France and its colonies and between nineteenth and twentieth-century Francophone writing.Trade ReviewReviews'Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves explores a fascinating corpus of texts that straddle French and colonial history. It contains many wonderfully narrated passages that convey Kadish’s commitment to telling the story of empire “from below".' H-France Review Vol. 13, No. 192'Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves is a valuable contribution to scholars committed to illuminating the gender issues at play in the understanding of white and black women in the French and Francophone colonial and postcolonial world.' New West Indian Guide, 88Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Patriarchy and Abolition: Germaine de Stael 2. Fathers and Colonization: Charlotte Dard 3. Daughters and Paternalism: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore 4. Voices of Daughters and Slaves: Claire de Duras 5. Uniting Black and White Families: Sophie Doin Postscript 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 Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehicle through which the Haitian Revolution was interpreted by nineteenth-century Haitians, Europeans, and U.S. Americans alike. Through its author's contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly racialized by four constantly recurring tropes—the 'monstrous hybrid', the 'tropical temptress', the 'tragic mulatto/a', and the 'colored historian'—Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti's revolution in primarily racial terms has affected present day demonizations of Haiti and Haitians. In the end, this new archive of Haitian revolutionary writing, much of which has until now remained unknown to the contemporary reading public, invites us to examine how nineteenth-century attempts to paint Haitian independence as the result of a racial revolution coincide with present-day desires to render insignificant and 'unthinkable' the second independent republic of the New World.Trade ReviewReviews 'Groundbreaking and ambitious, expressively written and expertly researched, Tropics of Haiti creates a new canon of historical Haitian literary and cultural materials, and establishes the author as a scholar of outstanding import in studies of the African diaspora in Western modernity.'Duke University'The body of literature that Daut covers is vast: memoirs, pamphlets, tracts, and early histories as well as conventional literary writings. Tropics of Haiti is a major intervention, offering the first exhaustive study of the transatlantic print culture of the Haitian Revolution.' Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia'Tropics of Haiti is an incredibly well-organized and meticulously researched work, supported by the scholarship of authorities in literary criticism and history such as Chris Bongie,Doris Garraway, Wernor Sollors, and Pierre Boulle. Scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature will find Tropics of Haiti a valuable addition to their libraries.'Tomaz Cunningham, L'Esprit Créateur'Conceived in what can be described as a comparative, transatlantic, and hemispheric framework, Tropics of Haiti is part of a crucial wave of literary criticism that seeks to not only refocus our attention on nineteenth-century Haitian studies but expand the U.S. American literary canon and contribute to the transnational turn in American Studies by exposing cultural links across the Atlantic and the Caribbean.'Michael Dash, Postcolonial Text'We must applaud researchers like Marlene Daut who offer substantive means with which to rethink and rewrite our stories of the Haitian past.'Kaiama L. Glover, North West Indian Guide Review'A literary tour-de-force, Daut’s Tropics of Haiti offers an Atlantic counterpart to Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978). Peeling back the layers of the mulatto/a vengeance narrative, Daut reveals how authors from across the Atlantic world contributed to the creation of racialized tropes about Haiti and its founding event.'Erin Zavitz, Small Axe'Tropics of Haiti shines a bright light on the way nineteenth-century thinking about “race” as biology-cum-ontology has crept into present-day understandings of “race.” Daut illuminates how “race” as metaphor and “race” as pseudoscientific category function in tandem to determine the writing of Haitian revolutionary history.'Kaiama L. Glover, New West Indian Guide'Daut’s masterful, extensive literary history of the Haitian Revolution in Tropics of Haiti enacts many of the principles she previously set out in her assessment of the emerging field of US-Haitian scholarship.' Chelsea Stieber, Early American Literature'May her [Daut's] influence continue to power our society out of its systemic racism, and into a more humane, luminous future.' Julia Douthwaite Viglione, A Revolution in FictionTable of Contents Introduction: The “Mulatto/a” Vengeance of ‘Haitian Exceptionalism’ Part One: Monstrous Hybridity and Enlightenment Literacy 1. Monstrous Hybridity in Colonial and Revolutionary Writing from Saint-Domingue 2. Baron de Vastey, Colonial Discourse, and the Global “Scientific” Sphere 3. Victor Hugo and the Rhetorical Possibilities of Monstrous Hybridity in 19th-century Revolutionary Fiction Part Two: Transgressing the Trope of the Tropical Temptress 4. Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Daughter and the Anti-Slavery Muse of La Mulâtre comme il y a beaucoup de blanches (1803) 5. 'Born to Command:’ Leonora Sansay and the Paradoxes of Female Benevolence as Resistance in Zelica; the Creole 6. 'Theresa' to the Rescue!: African American Women’s Resistance and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution Part Three: The Trope of the Tragic "Mulatto/a" and the Haitian Revolution 7. “Black” Son, “White” Father: The Tragic “mulatto/a” and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’ 8. Between the Family and the Nation: Toussaint Louverture and the “Interracial” Family Romance of the Haitian Revolution 9. A ‘Quarrel Between Two Brothers:’ Eméric Bergeaud’s Ideal History of the Haitian Revolution Part Four: Requiem for the 'Colored Historian;' or the 'Mulatto Legend of History' 10. The Color of History: The Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement and the ‘never-to-be-forgiven course of the mulattoes’ 11. Victor Schoelcher, ‘L’Imagination Jaune,’ and the Francophone Genealogy of the ‘Mulatto Legend of History’ 12. ‘Let us be humane after the victory:’ Pierre Faubert’s New Humanism Coda: Today's Haitian Exceptionalism Bibliography Index

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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 SynopsisReconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears’ social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.Trade ReviewReviews 'This stimulating collection for West African scholars provides an abundance of examples of the transformations in traditional forms of slavery covering the range of possibilities, from formerly subjugated groups that now have the upper hand over their former masters to situations where traditional forms of symbolic and financial domination still prevail.' * Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number 5 *'This is an exceptionally interesting book. It breaks new ground and makes a significant contribution to slavery and, more particularly, post-slavery studies.' Suzanne Miers'An important contribution to Africanist scholarship ... it has every chance of achieving the reconfiguration prefigured in its title.' P. F. Moraes Farias, University of Birmingham * University of Birmingham *'Reconfiguring Slavery has broad academic and non-academic appeal.' * African Affairs, vol 110, no 440 *'Benedetta Rossi’s analysis bridges an important gap in the conceptualisation of slavery in the history and contemporary politics of West Africa.' Paul Lovejoy, Slavery and Abolition, vol. 31, no. 4 * Slavery and Abolition, vol. 31, no. 4 *'In a varied but coherent collection of case studies to which Benedetta Rossi’s stimulating introduction does full justice, the red thread is that of the multitude of ways in which the descendants of slaves attempt to evade the heritage of the past, how they negotiate the vestiges of the stigma in their contemporary lives, often in paradoxical and ambiguous ways.' Roger Botte, Africa, Vol. 80, No, 3 * Africa, Vol. 80, No, 3 *'Reconfiguring Slavery is an important book that provides rich insight into processes of emancipation and the legacies of slavery in West Africa. Most chapters draw heavily on the testimony of former slaves or slave descendants, which gives special liveliness to the difficult conceptual issues under consideration. The book has much to offer for comparisons between slavery in West Africa and in other world regions, in particular perhaps in Asian settings. Many chapters in the volume also shed light on the impact and reach of Western imperialism in Africa. Reconfiguring Slavery will find its readers mainly among scholars specializing in African studies and slave studies, but teachers of world history courses interested in Africa will also find the book rewarding and stimulating even though the chapters do not make for suitable readings in undergraduate college courses.' Claus K. Meyer, World History ConnectedTable of Contents Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface A note on Language 1. Introduction: Rethinking Slavery in West Africa - Benedetta Rossi 2. Slave descent and Social Status in Sahara and Sudan - Martin A. Klein 3. African American psychologists, the atlantic Slave trade and Ghana: a History of the present - Tom McCaskie 4. After abolition: Metaphors of Slavery in the political History of the Gambia - Alice Bellagamba 5. Islamic patronage and republican emancipation: The Slaves of the Almaami in the Senegal river valley - Jean Schmitz 6. Curse and Blessing: on post-slavery Modes of perception and agency in Benin - Christine Hardung 7. Contemporary trajectories of Slavery in Haalpulaar Society (Mauritania) - Olivier Leservoisier 8. Slavery and politics: Stigma, decentralisation and political representation in Niger and Benin - Eric Komlavi Hahonou 9. Slavery and Migration: Social and physical Mobility in ader (Niger) - Benedetta Rossi 10. Discourses on Slavery: reflections on forty years of research - Philip Burnham Glossary of Foreign Words Index

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Book SynopsisHow the death of a fifteen-year-old girl aboard the slave ship Recovery shook the British establishment. On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging a fifteen-year-old African girl to death. The story, caricatured in a contemporary Isaac Cruikshank print, raced across newspapers in Britain and Ireland and was even reported in America. Soon after, Kimber was indicted for murder - but in a trial lasting just under five hours, he was found not guilty. This book is a micro-history of this important trial, reconstructing it from accounts of what was said in court and setting it in the context of pro- and anti-slavery movements. Rogers considers contemporary questions of culpability, the use and abuse of evidence, and why Kimber was criminally indicted for murder at a time when kidnapped Africans were generally regarded as 'cargo'. Importantly, the book also looks at the role of sailors in the abolition debate: both in bringing the horrors of the slave trade to public notice and as straw-men for slavery advocates, who excused the treatment of enslaved people by comparing it to punishments meted out to sailors and soldiers. The final chapter addresses the question of whether the slave-trade archive can adequately recover the experience of being enslaved. NICHOLAS ROGERS is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at York University, Toronto.Trade ReviewThis was the cold and callous pragmatism that informed so much of British imperial policy; there was no room for sentiment here, and this is the world that Rogers exposes in recounting the death of a teenage girl. It is this history - and not the triumphalist accounts of abolition and later emancipation - that we must heed; it is this history that reveals the darker, shameful, but essential truths of our imperial past. * GUARDIAN *In this absorbing book, distinguished social historian Nicholas Rogers uses the 1792 trial of Captain John Kimber for the murder of a young woman on board Recovery [...] Rogers honors this thoughtful, respectful refusal to project his own politics onto victims of slavery who are silent in the archive, instead building a world around the murder case while drawing attention to the silence at its center. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *Roger's well-written forensic account of a notorious murder on a slave ship is much more than a case study. It is an important revelation about the very nature of slave trading and the first flush of British abolition. Here is a micro-history exposing the wider realities of Atlantic slavery. JAMES WALVIN is Professor emeritus of History at the University of York and author and editor of over thirty books including Freedom: The Overthrowing of the Slave Empires, Sugar: The World Corrupted, from Slavery to Obesity and Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits. * . *This work will benefit the field for years to come. . . . This microhistory allows readers a deeper understanding of not only the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, but further of how a ship's crew was held to ship's standards even within the perimeter of a port city. By doing so, Rogers demonstrates a glimpse into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. -- Jane Plummer * The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord *Table of ContentsPreface Ship shape, Bristol fashion The Accusation The Man and His Crew The Trial Abolition and Revolution Afterthoughts Appendix Bibliography

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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 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 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 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 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 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 SynopsisThroughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in Africa and Asia. But, despite the Royal Navy's success in eradicating the transatlantic commerce in captive Africans, the forced migration of labour and other forms of people trafficking persisted. This collection of essays by specialist international, naval and slave trade historians examines the role played by individuals and institutions in the diplomacy of suppression, particularly the personnel of the Slave Trade Department of the Foreign Office and of the Mixed Commission Courts; the changing socio-religious character and methods of anti-slavery activists and the lobbyists; and the problems faced by the navy and those who served with its so-called 'Preventive Squadron' in seeking to combat the trade. Other contributions explore the difficulties confronting British diplomats in their efforts to reconcile their moral objections to slavery and the slave trade with Britain's imperial and strategic interests in Ottoman Turkey, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula; British reactions to the continued exploitation of forced labour in Portugal's African colonies; and the apparent reluctance of the Colonial Office to attempt any systematic reform of the 'master and servant' legislation in force in Britain's Caribbean possessions. The final chapter brings the story through the twentieth century, showing how the interests of the Foreign Office sometimes diverged from those of the Colonial Office, and considering how the changing face of slavery has made it the world-wide issue that it is today.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Zealots & Helots: the slave trade department of the nineteenth-century Foreign Office; Judicial Diplomacy: British officials & the mixed commission courts; Slavery, free trade & naval strategy, 1840-1860; Anti-slavery activists & officials: "influence", lobbying & the slave trade, 1807-1850; "A course of unceasing remonstrance": British diplomacy & the suppression of the slave trade in the East; The British "official mind" & nineteenth-century Islamic debates over the abolition of slavery; The "taint of slavery": the Colonial Office & the regulation of free labour; The Foreign Office & slavery & forced labour in Portuguese west Africa, 1894-1914; The anti-slavery game: Britain & the suppression of slavery in Africa & Arabia, 1890-1975; Index.

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Book SynopsisThroughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in Africa and Asia. But, despite the Royal Navy's success in eradicating the transatlantic commerce in captive Africans, the forced migration of labour and other forms of people trafficking persisted. This collection of essays by specialist international, naval and slave trade historians examines the role played by individuals and institutions in the diplomacy of suppression, particularly the personnel of the Slave Trade Department of the Foreign Office and of the Mixed Commission Courts; the changing socio-religious character and methods of anti-slavery activists and the lobbyists; and the problems faced by the navy and those who served with its so-called 'Preventive Squadron' in seeking to combat the trade. Other contributions explore the difficulties confronting British diplomats in their efforts to reconcile their moral objections to slavery and the slave trade with Britain's imperial and strategic interests in Ottoman Turkey, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula; British reactions to the continued exploitation of forced labour in Portugal's African colonies; and the apparent reluctance of the Colonial Office to attempt any systematic reform of the 'master and servant' legislation in force in Britain's Caribbean possessions. The final chapter brings the story through the twentieth century, showing how the interests of the Foreign Office sometimes diverged from those of the Colonial Office, and considering how the changing face of slavery has made it the world-wide issue that it is today.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Zealots & Helots: the slave trade department of the nineteenth-century Foreign Office; Judicial Diplomacy: British officials & the mixed commission courts; Slavery, free trade & naval strategy, 1840-1860; Anti-slavery activists & officials: "influence", lobbying & the slave trade, 1807-1850; "A course of unceasing remonstrance": British diplomacy & the suppression of the slave trade in the East; The British "official mind" & nineteenth-century Islamic debates over the abolition of slavery; The "taint of slavery": the Colonial Office & the regulation of free labour; The Foreign Office & slavery & forced labour in Portuguese west Africa, 1894-1914; The anti-slavery game: Britain & the suppression of slavery in Africa & Arabia, 1890-1975; Index.

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Book SynopsisReconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears’ social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.Trade ReviewReviews 'This stimulating collection for West African scholars provides an abundance of examples of the transformations in traditional forms of slavery covering the range of possibilities, from formerly subjugated groups that now have the upper hand over their former masters to situations where traditional forms of symbolic and financial domination still prevail.' * Current Anthropology Volume 51, Number 5 *'This is an exceptionally interesting book. It breaks new ground and makes a significant contribution to slavery and, more particularly, post-slavery studies.' Suzanne Miers'An important contribution to Africanist scholarship ... it has every chance of achieving the reconfiguration prefigured in its title.' P. F. Moraes Farias, University of Birmingham * University of Birmingham *'Reconfiguring Slavery has broad academic and non-academic appeal.' * African Affairs, vol 110, no 440 *'Benedetta Rossi’s analysis bridges an important gap in the conceptualisation of slavery in the history and contemporary politics of West Africa.' Paul Lovejoy, Slavery and Abolition, vol. 31, no. 4 * Slavery and Abolition, vol. 31, no. 4 *'In a varied but coherent collection of case studies to which Benedetta Rossi’s stimulating introduction does full justice, the red thread is that of the multitude of ways in which the descendants of slaves attempt to evade the heritage of the past, how they negotiate the vestiges of the stigma in their contemporary lives, often in paradoxical and ambiguous ways.' Roger Botte, Africa, Vol. 80, No, 3 * Africa, Vol. 80, No, 3 *'Reconfiguring Slavery is an important book that provides rich insight into processes of emancipation and the legacies of slavery in West Africa. Most chapters draw heavily on the testimony of former slaves or slave descendants, which gives special liveliness to the difficult conceptual issues under consideration. The book has much to offer for comparisons between slavery in West Africa and in other world regions, in particular perhaps in Asian settings. Many chapters in the volume also shed light on the impact and reach of Western imperialism in Africa. Reconfiguring Slavery will find its readers mainly among scholars specializing in African studies and slave studies, but teachers of world history courses interested in Africa will also find the book rewarding and stimulating even though the chapters do not make for suitable readings in undergraduate college courses.' Claus K. Meyer, World History ConnectedTable of Contents Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface A note on Language 1. Introduction: Rethinking Slavery in West Africa - Benedetta Rossi 2. Slave descent and Social Status in Sahara and Sudan - Martin A. Klein 3. African American psychologists, the atlantic Slave trade and Ghana: a History of the present - Tom McCaskie 4. After abolition: Metaphors of Slavery in the political History of the Gambia - Alice Bellagamba 5. Islamic patronage and republican emancipation: The Slaves of the Almaami in the Senegal river valley - Jean Schmitz 6. Curse and Blessing: on post-slavery Modes of perception and agency in Benin - Christine Hardung 7. Contemporary trajectories of Slavery in Haalpulaar Society (Mauritania) - Olivier Leservoisier 8. Slavery and politics: Stigma, decentralisation and political representation in Niger and Benin - Eric Komlavi Hahonou 9. Slavery and Migration: Social and physical Mobility in ader (Niger) - Benedetta Rossi 10. Discourses on Slavery: reflections on forty years of research - Philip Burnham Glossary of Foreign Words Index

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Book SynopsisThe Haitian Revolution has generated responses from commentators in fields ranging from philosophy to historiography to twentieth-century literary and artistic studies. But what about the written work produced at the time, by Haitians? This book is the first to present an account of a specifically Haitian literary tradition in the Revolutionary era. Beyond the Slave Narrative shows the emergence of two strands of textual innovation, both evolving from the new revolutionary consciousness: the remarkable political texts produced by Haitian revolutionary leaders Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and popular Creole poetry from anonymous courtesans in Saint-Domingue's libertine culture. These textual forms, though they differ from each other, both demonstrate the increasing cultural autonomy and literary voice of non-white populations in the colony at the time of revolution. Unschooled generals and courtesans, long presented as voiceless, are at last revealed to be legitimate speakers and authors. These Haitian French and Creole texts have been neglected as a foundation of Afro-diasporic literature by former slaves in the Atlantic world for two reasons: because they do not fit the generic criteria of the slave narrative (which is rooted in the autobiographical experience of enslavement); and because they are mediated texts, relayed to the print-cultural Atlantic domain not by the speakers themselves, but by secretaries or refugee colonists. These texts challenge how we think about authorial voice, writing, print culture, and cultural autonomy in the context of the formerly enslaved, and demand that we reassess our historical understanding of the Haitian Independence and its relationship to an international world of contemporary readers.Trade ReviewColonial and postcolonial studies will gain significant new breadth and depth with the publication of Deborah Jenson’s Beyond the Slave Narrative: Sex, Politics, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution. This pathbreaking book brings to light the rich but largely neglected Francophone record of black literacy from the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Rectifying the anglocentric view that slave narratives were the only or most authentic form of black voices from the past, Jenson provides probing analyses of Creole poetry, political discourse, and other materials. Deeply committed to improving present-day conditions in Haiti, Jenson finds in the cultural heritage of the past the basis for a fuller understanding of current problems and for hope in the future. Doris Y. KadishTable of ContentsIntroduction Race and Voice in the Archives: Mediated Testimony and Interracial Commerce in Saint-Domingue PART ONE: Voicing the Political Sphere Chapter 1 Toussaint Louverture, “Spin Doctor”? The Politics of Media in the Haitian Revolution Chapter 2 Dessalines’ American Proclamations of the Haitian Independence Chapter 3 Before Malcolm X, Dessalines: A French-Language Tradition of Black Atlantic Radicalism Chapter 4 Dessalines’ Anticolonial Imperialism: Santo Domingo, Trinidad, Venezuela Chapter 5 Kidnapped Narratives: The Lost Heir of Henry Christophe and the Imagined Communities of the African Diaspora PART TWO: Voicing the Libertine Sphere Chapter 6 Traumatic Indigeneity: The (Anti)Colonial Politics of “Having” A Creole Literary Culture Chapter 7 Mimetic Mastery and Colonial Mimicry: The Candio in the Popular Creole Literary Tradition Chapter 8 Dissing Rivals, Love for Sale: The Cocotte’s Rap and the Not-So Tragic Mulatta

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Book SynopsisBetween 1500 and 1870, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic by European traders to work as slaves in the Americas. They were shipped in conditions of great cruelty to lead lives of hard, unremitting labour, subject to degradation and violence. The products of their labour – primarily sugar, coffee and tobacco – were sent back to Europe and the profits derived from slavery helped fuel European economic development in the 18th and 19th centuries. The cost in lives and human suffering was enormous. First published to accompany a permanent gallery in the Merseyside Maritime Museum, this reissue of Transatlantic Slavery with new material documents this era through essays on women in slavery, the impact on West and Central Africa, and the African view of the slave trade. Richly illustrated, it reveals how the slave trade shaped the history of three continents—Africa, the Americas, and Europe—and how all of us continue to live with its consequences.Trade Review…very readable collection of articles from leading experts in the field of slavery studies. Walvin’s account of the move towards abolition makes particularly pertinent reading as we approach the 2007 bicentenary of the ending of the slave trade in Britain, but perhaps most relevant are the essays on how, and why, we should commemorate this difficult aspect of our history. David Musgrove, BBC History magazineThe essays consistently challenge the lay reader to reconsider received wisdom about slavery and its consequences, and cause the specialist to rethink approaches to primary sources, the categories we use, and the meaning of our research… a good introduction to the questions and themes that drive scholarship about the waxing and waning of the international enslavement of Africans. Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Department of Anthropology, DePaul UniversityTable of Contents Contents Foreword – Reverend Jesse Jackson What is slavery? A history of transatlantic slavery African pasts Why Africans? Why slavery? Operation of the slave trade Liverpool: Capital of the transatlantic slave trade Reasons for Liverpool’s success Economic benefits of slavery Tropical goods and the rise of the consumer society Enslavement and the Middle Passage The Middle Passage: voyage through death Impact on Africa Life and death in the Americas Sale and ‘seasoning’ Chattel slavery Plantation life Pioneers of the Americas Resistance Maroons Pro-slavery arguments The end of slavery Abolition of the British slave trade Freedom in the Americas The legacy of slavery Racism The fight for civil rights Global inequalities Since colonisation Reparations Cultural transformations ‘The sun never sets on the children of Africa’ An unquenchable spirit The International Slavery Musuem Further Reading Museums and websites to visit Acknowledgements

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