Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books
Penguin Books Ltd Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery
Book SynopsisA freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slaveryBorn in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of African descent. Cugoano refutes pro-slavery arguments of the day, including slavery's supposed divine sanction; the belief that Africans gladly sold their own families into slavery; that Africans were especially suited to its rigors; and that West Indian slaves led better lives than European serfs. Exploiting his dual identity as both an African and a British citizen, Cugoano daringly asserted that all those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the same time he appealed to white England's better self.For more than seventy years, PenTrade Review"Vincent Carretta singlehandedly has transformed our understanding of the origins of the Anglo-African literary tradition. He has breathed new life into texts long thought dead" —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Table of ContentsEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Vincent CarrettaIntroduction by Vincent CarrettaAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIllustrationsSuggestions for Further ReadingThoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to The Inhabitants of Great-Britain, by Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa.London: 1787Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery; or, the Nature of Servitude as Admitted by the Law of God, Compared to the Modern Slavery of the Africans in the West-Indies; In an Answer to the Advocates for Slavery and Oppression. Addressed to the Sons of Africa, by a Native.London: 1791Explanatory Notes to the 1787 PublicationExplanatory Notes to the 1791 PublicationAppendix: Correspondence of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Slave Ship
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The University of Chicago Press Enduring Truths Sojourners Shadows and Substance
Book SynopsisRunaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling cartes de visite of herself at lectures and by mail. This book explores how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself.
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University of Chicago Press My Fathers Name
Book SynopsisArmed with only early boyhood memories, the author begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather's old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. This title tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at once a detective story and a moving historical memoir.Trade Review"Lawrence P. Jackson's matter-of-fact prose is accessible and is strangely and beautifully evocative of the Civil War era. We not only learn about the deprivations, inhumanity, and constant humiliations perpetrated on black people in the nineteenth century, but we gain a deeper understanding of what constitutes American culture and society today. It is amazing that Jackson's family survived to produce such a splendid writer able to share their story with us." -Edward P. Jones, author of The Known World"
£30.29
University of Chicago Press The Anthropology of Slavery The Womb of Iron and Gold
£112.87
University of Chicago Press The Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the
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The University of Chicago Press Memories of the Slave Trade Ritual and the
Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped (and been reshaped by) experiences of colonialism, postcolonialsm, and the country's ten-year rebel war.Trade Review"[This] is an extraordinary combination of ethnography and history that promises to reshape our understanding of West African cultures and the ways in which their insertion into history has affected such quotidian matters as gender and ideas about the person. Shaw provides an elegant analysis that shows how aspects of culture, such as ideas about secrecy and local concepts of agency, were fashioned under historical circumstances that are both transmitted and rethought in the present." - Ivan Karp, Emory University
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University of Illinois Press The Southern Debate over Slavery
Book SynopsisSlavery and southern society as documented in individual petitionsTrade Review“When your Orator returned Home he found his Wife in Tears, and upon inquiery of the cause, she informed your Orator that the aforesaid Haley had Grossly abused and insulted her, and amongst other terms of opprobriousness had called his said Wife a Damned Liar--upon which your Orator pusued the said Haley . . . and upon overtaking him, inflicted Several blows, for the gross and degrading insult offered his Wife--and your Orator hopes that such a State of insubbordination in a man of his Colour, would well justify the Deed.”--from “Joseph B. Abrahams to the Chancery Court, Henrico County, Virginia, 1806”"For serious scholars of both American slavery and pre-Civil War America this volume is essential."--H-CivWar"A landmark feat of historical discovery and retrieval. . . . A truly fascinating glimpse into the thoughts and personal conduct of otherwise obscure men and women of both races in the pre-emancipation south."--Civil War Book Review"A terrific addition to our knowledge about slavery."--The North Carolina Historical Review"Schweninger has compiled another extraordinary volume of primary source documents revealing the scope and details of the experience of slavery in the US South. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice“The documents reveal a number of complicated truths about the system of slavery. . . . Useful material for both lectures and discussions, the petitions collected here will serve as a valuable teaching resource.”--The Journal of Southern History
£103.00
MO - University of Illinois Press Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne
Book SynopsisThe dynamic lives of three diverse women, fighting for and against slavery in antebellum MarylandTrade Review"A good read. Recommended."--Choice "A fascinating book."--Multicultural Review"The contributions ... to the studies of enslavement, gender politics, and the importance of place are substantial."--The Journal of Southern History"A fascinating, intellectually stimulating, and enlightening sociohistorical analysis."--The Journal of African American History"Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne is such an original and sophisticated examination across race and class boundaries of the lives of three antebellum women. It is illuminating, informative, provocative, and intellectually stimulating."--Darlene Clark Hine, coauthor of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America"This significant work represents an innovative, thoughtful, and creative consideration of intersections between gender, region, and slavery. I cannot overly stress this book's unique and important contributions to women's studies, African American studies, history, and cultural studies."--Walter Allen, coeditor of Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity, and ExcellenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Monster's Handsome Face 19 2. Maryland, My Maryland 43 3. Harriet Tubman, Called Moses of Her People 69 4. Political Economy and Marginalization 106 5. Rules, Laws, and the Rule of Law 123 6. The Mantle of Domesticity; Living within a Woman's Place and Space 139 7. Beginnings at the End 156 Notes 173 Index 201Illustrations begin after page 122
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MO - University of Illinois Press Free Black Communities and the Underground Railr
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad.Trade Review"In this book Cheryl Janifer LaRoche provides a corrective to this gap in the history by taking a broader landscape approach to 'geographies of resistance,' and she also traces in understated terms but powerful examples the silencing of the same history."--The Journal of American History "LaRoche deserves praise for her effort to situate free blacks firmly at the center of the scholarship on the Underground Railroad. She also makes contribution to that body of literature."--Civil War Book Review "This important addition to the scholarship on the Underground Railroad focuses on the role of free black communities. . . . Utilizing archaeology, previously untapped written sources, and oral history, the author makes a convincing argument for including black communities in the narrative about the Underground Railroad. Highly recommended."--Choice"The Geography of Resistance is carefully researched, tightly organized, and written from the heart. . . . LaRoche recognizes the natural environment as an agent of history, and she deftly weaves the landscape into each story. The book demonstrates the level of scholarship that is now possible thanks to research conducted in recent decades by federal archaeologists and by African American historical organizations, and the work that has been encouraged and guided by the National Park Service."--Annals of Iowa"An exemplary model of nuanced, interdisciplinary scholarship."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"By considering the land itself a ‘geography of resistance’ and using an interdisciplinary approach, LaRoche pushes the boundaries of traditional scholarship. LaRoche marshals significant historical evidence to connect black churches and the Underground Railroad. Quite notable indeed."--The Journal of Southern History"Of interest to lay readers and scholars alike. Anyone fascinated by the Underground Railroad and black resistance more broadly will profit from this volume."--Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains"The Geography of Resistance is carefully researched, tightly organized, and written from the heart.--The Annals of Iowa "LaRoche's well-written and carefully researched study provides new insight into the history of the Underground Railroad and will serve as an indispensable resource for anyone who is interested in the study of early nineteenth-century America."--The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "LaRoche's work contributes to a more complete understanding of the relationship between free black communities, the black church, and the Underground Railroad."--American Historical Review "Well researched and well written. . . . The Geography of Resistance: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad adds valuable new insights into the story of the migration of African Americans. It broadens the knowledge of a people who were fugitives in their own country, and it will allow future researchers to uncover other places of refuge for these African Americans."--Northern Terminus: The African Canadian History Journal "Employing the tools of archeology, LaRoche's study provides a powerful new window into the Underground Railroad and significantly enriches our understanding of it. She helps rescue some of the crucial Underground Railroad lore that scholars have been attempting to substantiate or refute for more than a century."--Keith Griffler, author of Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley
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MO - University of Illinois Press Gleanings of Freedom Free and Slave Labor along
Book SynopsisDrawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, the author reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.Trade Review"Grivno's carefully documented interpretation of rural life and labor challenges readers to think hard about the meanings of slavery, freedom, and borders in antebellum America."--The Journal of American History "A thickly descriptive and nuanced account of the 'evolution of race, class, and labor regimes' in Maryland from just after the American Revolution up to the Civil War."--Civil War Book Review "Max Grivno's engaging and often harrowing narrative of agricultural workers along the northern Maryland border, investigates a place where 'slavery's roots ran shallow,' yet where free landless laborers face severe constraints in a changing market. . . . Grivno's book brilliantly succeeds in analyzing local and regional changes in terms of broader developments, portraying the distinctiveness of an understudied corner of the South."--The Journal of Southern History"Grivno's significant study speaks to a number of themes in the recent historiography of slavery and labor: the similarities and differences between slavery and freedom, the important role of the interstate slave trade, and the importance of family and household as a key to workers' means of survival and employers' influence over them. A powerful analysis of these key topics that will shape debate in the field for some time."--Christopher Clark, author of Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War"Subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania."--Southern Spaces"Grivno has rescued some folk from oblivion, put some flesh on the statistical bones of history, and shown us just how hard scraping by could be."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"Gleanings of Freedom shines light on an important, underappreciated site in the history of slavery and makes a lasting contribution to the study of American workers and the slave South."--American Historical Review"A splendid volume, interestingly written, engaging a broad historiography, and formulating convincing arguments concerning the evolution and racial complexity of the rural labor force."--The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "A persuasive and powerful study of a rural labor system at a tender moment of transition. It should rightly enjoy pride of place alongside some of the best work recently published on slavery in the U.S.A."--Slavery and Abolition "Gleanings of Freedom tells a story at once wholly underappreciated and immensely important. In unprecedented detail, Max Grivno's impeccably researched study explains how slavery and freedom functioned in such close proximity and for so long. It is--and will remain--indispensable for scholars of slavery, wage labor, and the tangled history of America's antebellum working class."--Mark M. Smith, author of How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
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MO - University of Illinois Press Sex Sickness and Slavery
Book SynopsisIntegrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. This book argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period.Trade Review"A powerful case for the importance of medical men and ideas in undergirding slavery and white supremacy."--Southern Spaces "Weiner provides an ambitious and well-researched study of the relationship between the antebellum social order and medical discourse on race, gender, and illness in the South."--The Journal of Southern History"With a thorough analysis of a breadth of evidence, the authors effectively prove their thesis and raise many other striking points along the way… Especially valuable is their analysis of how African American slaves understood health and illness and how their views differed from those of white physicians."--Florida Historical Quarterly "Weiner and Hough excel at incorporating source material from collected African American folklore, medical journal articles, diary entries, and medical guidebooks into their narrative. An accessible and clear account of the unequivocal ties between the ascendancy of medical professionalism and authority by highlighting the experiences of traditionally marginalized bodies within the politically turbulent southern context."--The Journal of American History"This book is a valuable addition to existing scholarship on science, race, and sex. . . .Highly recommended."--Choice "A masterful guide to the particularities of southern medicine on the eve of the Civil War. Historians of the South, medicine, gender, and race will welcome it."--Ohio Valley History"A unique look at the role of the medical institution in fulfilling the antebellum Southern requirement of unquestionable categorization of bodies to continue a way of life. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery shows that the importance of one institution in maintaining a status quo cannot be taken for granted."--Southern Historian "In this beautifully written book, Weiner details how physicians wrote and thought about the illnesses of slaves and women. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery joines a distinguished body of scholarship that shows how intellectual power in the South was mobilized in support of slavery."--The Historian
£35.23
Legacy Lit Inheritance
Book SynopsisIn this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same. 'Bracing, candid, and rueful.' —Kirkus Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. But when a white guy from his hometown of Columbia, S.C.—also the birthplace of secession— massacred nine Black people in Charleston in the name of Southern whiteness, Woods began to delve into his family’s history—and the ways that history has affected his own life. Upon discovering that his family—both the Baynards and the Woodses—collectively claimed ownership of more than 700 people in 1860 and that his great-grandfather had assassinated a Black politician in 1871, Woods realized his own name was a confederate monument. With assiduous research and brutal self-analysis, Woods uncovers the details of his family’s crimes and all of the mundane ways he inherited them…and their coverup. Along with his name, he had inherited privilege, wealth, and all the lies that his ancestors passed down through the generations. At a time where Southern states are embracing a return to authoritarian, anti-democratic principles, Woods' analysis of how we inherited our whiteness from the twisted psychology of Southern slavers is both trenchant and urgent—but always cast against the foibles and failures of his own life. Unflinching and uninhibited, Inheritance is a no-holds-barred memoir that exposes the story from Trump country that you haven’t heard while excavating what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past.
£16.14
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Slaves in the Family FSG Classics
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WW Norton & Co Freedom National
Book SynopsisA powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.Trade Review"Brilliant in analysis and compelling in argument, this is now the book to read on how slavery died." -- Library Journal"This remarkable book offers the best account ever written of the complex historical process known as emancipation. The story is dramatic and compelling, and no one interested in the American Civil War or the fate of slavery can afford to ignore it." -- Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"Freedom National provides the best account we have of the process of emancipation and the ultimate abolition of slavery, on the ground in the South and in the halls of power at Washington. It also makes clear that from the beginning, nearly all participants recognized that the central issue of the war was slavery and that its likely outcome was a new birth of freedom." -- James M. McPherson, author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861—1865"A masterful piece of scholarship.... A must-read book for anyone seeking a greater understanding of the complicated and politically charged nature of emancipation." -- Robert I. Girardi - Washington Independent Review of Books
£22.79
WW Norton & Co Arnt I a Woman
Book Synopsis"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityTrade Review"Told with human sympathy and professional skill…Ar'n't I a Woman? moves well beyond mere revisionism; it is as important as it is overdue." -- James Oakes, author of Freedom National"This small but important book should be read by everyone interested in the subjects of freedom and equality. Which means most of us." -- Kirkus Reviews
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WW Norton & Co His Promised Land
Book Synopsis"Surpasses all previous slave narratives…Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article." —Joseph J. Ellis, CivilizationTrade Review"John P. Parker was an extraordinary man…He seems to have been that true American rarity, a person who spent much of his life facing racial battles yet saw the world through colorblind eyes…He lived a perpetual Perils of Paul and did so with unending zest…Now he can be given his due." -- Jonathan Yardley - Washington Post Book World"Riveting…Astonishing and believable." -- Nell Irvin Painter"A rip-roaring adventure yarn…History of the best kind." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Classic Slave Narratives
Book SynopsisA seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.Before the end of the Civil War, more than one hundred former slaves had published moving stories of their captivity and escape, joined by a similar number after the war. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of America's top experts in African American studies, presents four of these classic narratives that illustrate the real nature of black experience in slavery.Fascinating and powerful, this collection includes four of the best-known examples: the lives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (alias Linda Brent), Mary Price, and Olaudah Equiano (alias Gustavus Vassa). These amazing stories are not only first-person histories of the highest caliber, they are also a unique literary form that has given birth to the spirit, vitality, and vision of America's modern black writers.Updated with the ninth edition of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the last edition he revised and published in his lifetime.With a Revised and Updated Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
£9.20
The University of Michigan Press The Captive Stage
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Slaves War The Civil War in the Words of
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Mariner Books Bury the Chains
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Random House USA Inc Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
Book SynopsisIntroduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass’s own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs’s account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains essential reading.
£11.39
Random House USA Inc Mod Lib John Brown Modern Library
Book SynopsisA moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: 'When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand.' DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is a neglected classic.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Moralists and Modernizers Americas PreCivil War
Book SynopsisIt emphasizes the duality of antebellum reform, which blended impulses toward social and moral uplift with impulses to impose new codes of personal conduct, shape character, and construct new institutions of social control."-from Moralists and ModernizersTrade Review[A] well-written, attention-grabbing synethesis of the antebellum reform movement in the US... Mintz makes accessible to readers of all levels a good, solid historical study comparing all of these important movements. Choice This text stands tall, offering historical perspective to issues that still baffle the American people and demonstrating how perennial are the battles for equal justice and social transformation. Cross Currents: Religion and Intellectual LifeTable of ContentsEditor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Specter of Social BreakdownChapter 2. The Promise of the MillenniumChapter 3. Making the United States a Christian Republic: The Politics of VirtueChapter 4. The Science of Doing Good: Creating Crucibles of Moral Character Chapter 5. Breaking the Bonds of Corrupt CustomEpilogue: Antebellum Reform and the American Liberal TraditionBibliographical EssayIndex
£27.76
Johns Hopkins University Press Maryland Voices of the Civil War
Book SynopsisMaryland Voices of the Civil War illuminates the human complexities of the Civil War era and the political realignment that enabled Marylanders to abolish slavery in their state before the end of the war.Trade ReviewMitchell's remarkable new book lets us listen and understand how the great war was fought to save the union, this state and our national soul. -- Michael Olesker Baltimore Examiner 2007 Using excerpts from personal correspondence, journals, and newspapers from that period, Mitchell frames the issues (states' rights, slavery, secession) and the state's role in the conflict in both political and personal terms. There's plenty of bravado from the warriors, but Mitchell also does an excellent job including the voices of people who are simply snagged by the war... giving it more diversity and range. -- John Lewis Baltimore Magazine 2007 A generously illustrated history of Maryland during the Civil War using documents from the time... Mitchell records gore for purpose and with meaning. Urbanite 2007 Both fascinating and illuminating... Maryland Voices of the Civil War belongs not only in libraries and schools, but also on the bookshelves of everyone interested in this state or that era. -- William Evitts Maryland Historical Magazine 2007 Unlike other Civil War books, Voices focuses on the civilians that left behind written documentation about their experiences. -- Anny Hoge City Paper 2008 The voices of Maryland flow freely off the pages of this work... This is not just a book for Maryland. It is a work that belongs in all academic institutions' Civil War collections. Highly recommended. Choice 2008 A model of this genre... highly recommended for its masterful presentation of primary sources... Maryland Voices of the Civil War deserves to be in the library of anyone interested in mid-19th century American history. -- Michael Russert Civil War News 2008 A handsomely designed book, the author tells the story of the divisions that kept Marylanders in contention with one another during the Civil War. -- Glenn W. LaFantasie Historian 2009 This book would be of special interest to those interested in African American history or genealogy; anyone seeking data on those border states which were so deeply conflicted by the war; and those whose forebears were resident in Maryland in the years immediately preceding, during and after the Civil War. It is well-written, and would add detail to any research conducted on the period. -- Rev. Dr. David McDonald Federation of Genealogical SocietiesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditorial MethoIntroductionPart I: Indecision1. Fall 1860–Winter 18612. April 18613. May 18614. Summer 1861Part II: "Occupation"5. Federals6. Recruits7. Arrests8. Prison9. RebelsPart III: Liberation10. Slaves11. Black Troops12. Freedom?13. MurderEpilogueAbbreviations for Frequently Cited SourcesNotesBibliographic NoteIndex
£44.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Captives and Countrymen
Book SynopsisThis first systematic study of how the United States responded to Barbary Captivityshows how public reaction to international events shaped America domestically and its evolving place in the world during the early nineteenth century.Trade ReviewPeskin's splendid book gives the reader a new way to look at the Barbary piracy. -- John A. C. Greppin Times Literary Supplement 2009 Peskin's work should be welcomed as providing an important piece to the larger unfolding story of Western interaction with the Arab world. -- Paul Baepler New England Quarterly 2009 After September 11 2001, many books have explored the clash between the United States and the Barbary States in the years bridging the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, seeking the traces of early national engagement in the Muslim world... [Peskin] finally moves beyond these publications, bringing both new sources and new ideas into play... The debate over the Barbary Wars was pivotal in American contemporary politics and public opinion. -- Marco Sioli Journal of American Studies 2010 Captives and Countrymen is an important contribution to our understanding of the public sphere, nationalism, and imperiialism in the early republic. -- Andrew M. Schocket Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2009 Peskin provides an important contribution to the understanding of the development of American nationalism. -- Paul A. Gilje American Historical Review 2010 A well-researched, closely argued book from which both general readers and specialists alike will benefit. -- Franklin T. Lambert Diplomatic History 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Captivity and the Public Sphere1. Captivity and Communications2. The Captives Write Home3. Publicity and SecrecyPart 2: The Impact of Captivity at Home4. Slavery at Home and Abroad5. Captive Nation: Algiers and Independence6. The Navy and the Call to ArmsPart 3: Captivity and the American Empire7. Masculinity and Servility in Tripoli8. Between Colony and Empire9. Beyond Captivity: The Wars of 1812Conclusion: Captivity and GlobalizationAppendix: Lists of Letters from CaptivesNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Caning of Charles Sumner Honor Idealism and
Book SynopsisHe addresses the importance of the event in the national crisis and shows why such actions are not quite as alien to today's politics as they might at first seem.Trade ReviewThis will be a valuable addition to Civil War collections. Booklist 2010 An extraordinary and valuable study of what these events of history reveal not only about America of the past, but also America of today, The Caning of Charles Sumner is highly recommended especially for college library collections and American Civil War shelves. Midwest Book Review The short length, subject, and writing style of The Caning of Charles Sumner will make this text a staple in survey and upper-level American history classes alike. -- Mary Ellen Pethel Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction1. One Minute2. A Machine That Would Go of Itself?3. Immediate Aftermath4. A Long, Winding Road5. Honor, Idealism, and InevitabilityEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£25.15
Louisiana State University Press Freedoms Seekers Essays on Comparative
Book SynopsisOffers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phenomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.
£40.45
Hill & Wang American Slavery 16191877
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The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln before Lincoln
Book SynopsisDespite a wealth of biographical material, relatively few full-length motion pictures have taken Abraham Lincoln and his life as a primary subject. In this detailed study, Brian J. Snee provides a sweeping overview of the cinematic representations of the sixteenth president from the silent era up to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).
£39.15
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Invisible Slaves The Victims and Perpetrators of
Book SynopsisDiscusses slavery around the world, with research and firsthand stories that reframe slavery as a modern-day crisis, not a historical phenomenon or third-world issue. Identifying four types of slavery - chattel slavery, debt bondage, forced labour, and sex slavery - W. Kurt Hauser examines the efforts and failures of governments to address them.
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Holiday House Inc Buried Lives
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University of Missouri Press London Metropolis of the Slave Trade
Book SynopsisBringing together material from James A. Rawley's three decades of work, this volume depicts the slave trade from 1700 to the American Civil War. It considers the role of London in the trade, and focuses on a number of important figures in the slave industry, including Humphry Morice.
£55.10
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Finding Freedom
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Enslaved Indentured Free
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Rising Sun Publications Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch The Science of
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Maryland Historical Society Stealing Freedom Along the MasonDixon Line
Book SynopsisMcCreary and his community provide a framework to examine slave catching and kidnapping in the Baltimore-Wilmington-Philadelphia region and how those activities contributed to the nation's political and visceral divide.Table of ContentsPreface & AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Maelstrom2. A Failed Compromise3. "Hanging the First Abolitionist that They Catch in Maryland"4. The Trials of Rachel Parker5. Kidnapping . . . or Slave Catching?6. End of an EraAfterwordReferencesIndex
£23.40
Penguin Putnam Inc Spying on the South An Odyssey Across the
Book SynopsisThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times.For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name Yeoman, the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmste
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St Martin's Press Robert E Lee and Me A Southerners Reckoning with
Book SynopsisSoldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy - and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed.
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St Martin's Press Flee North
Book SynopsisA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the YearA riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history.Born into slavery, by the 1840s Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. He recruited a young white activist, Charles Torrey, and together they began to organize mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding counties to freedom in the north.They were racing against an implacable enemy: men like Hope Slatter, the region's leading slave trader, part of a lucrative industry that would tear one million enslaved people from their families and sell them to the brutal cotton and sugar plantation
£24.00
WW Norton & Co Black Majority
Book SynopsisPeter H. Wood’s groundbreaking history of Blacks in colonial South Carolina, with a new foreword by National Book Award winner Imani Perry.Trade Review"By devoting thorough research and thoughtful attention to a long-neglected place and time, Peter H. Wood single-handedly altered the direction of early American history and our views of American slavery and racism. Black Majority vividly captures the endurance and influence of enslaved people in the face of intensifying repression, and it makes crystal clear why those formative years of American enslavement matter to all of us. This anniversary edition is both timely and inspirational." -- Daniel H. Usner, Vanderbilt University"As a native of the South Carolina Lowcountry, I encountered this meticulously researched book as an undergrad. Seeing my ancestral community given impressive agency and represented in such a deeply engaged way moved me profoundly. Black Majority is a must-read that will inspire generations to come." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"Mr. Wood has gone beyond any previous study of the history of slavery in the colonial period.… He has given us new perspectives not only on slavery but on human relationships in early America." -- Edmund S. Morgan, author of American Slavery / American Freedom"Easily the most thorough and the most penetrating case study yet written of the Afro-American population during the slave period.… Fascinating and instructive." -- Jack P. Greene
£16.14
Johns Hopkins University Press Money over Mastery Family over Freedom
Book SynopsisSlaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade.Trade ReviewThis elegantly written and engaging monograph is required reading for students of nineteenth-century North Carolina history. -- Sean Condon North Carolina Historical Review There is much to admire in Schermerhorn's book... A compelling, finely grained study. -- Max Grivno Journal of American History [A] valuable study... Anyone interested in slavery and the antebellum South will profit from reading it. -- Frank Towers Journal of the Early Republic Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom displays exhaustive research, a well-crafted argument, and is a valuable addition to antebellum slave historiography. -- Brett J. Derbes H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews Elegantly argued and sharply written Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom convincingly shows the centrality of enslaved men and women to the transformation of the coastal upper South's commercial life and the ways they mitigated this modernizing project. -- Ted Pearson Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrologue1. Networkers2. Watermen3. Domestics4. Makers5. RailroadsEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£33.88
Johns Hopkins University Press Wolf by the Ears
Book SynopsisWolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic.Trade ReviewVan Atta produces an incredibly readable and engaging work perfect for classroom use or as a refresher for those historians who need a compact summation of the latest scholarship surrounding this important historical moment in the early nation. -- James J. Gigantino II Missouri Historical Review In this engaging work, Van Atta... provides an in-depth analysis of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, a seminal event on the road to the Civil War... Choice Wolf by the Ears should be valued by scholars seeking a quick overview of antebellum American political history. More than just short, yet comprehensive, Van Atta's account is comprehensible, which should make it especially valuable to students, who should welcome its inclusion on course syllabi. Middle West Review Van Atta expertly outlines the intellectual and ideological ramifications of slavery's expansion--which can often become quite complex and convoluted--with an engaging style...This text is particularly suited for college students, nonspecialists, and those wanting a refresher on the sectional conflict of the antebellum period. Western Historical Quarterly Van Atta has written the clearest narrative of the Missouri crisis to date. students and scholars alike will profit from reading this brief yet thorough survey of a seminal moment in the history of the early republic. Louisiana History The meticulous translation and excellent editorial annotations make this a deeply valuable scholarly contribution. Louisiana History John R Van Atta has written a fine synthesis on the Missouri crisis that incorporates some of the best scholarship in the field. It serves as a wonderful introduction to the subject. Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Origins2. The West3. Impasse4. Compromises5. AftermathEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£43.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Plantation Kingdom
Book SynopsisWritten for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.Trade ReviewA concise presentation of some of the best recent scholarship in agricultural history...Environmental historians will find the book useful as an introduction to southern agricultural history, exploring the economic, political, and environmental factors that influenced plantation agriculture. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction by Richard FollettThe Road to Commodity Hell: The Rise and Fall of the First American Rice IndustryCotton and the US South: A Short HistoryThe Rise and Fall of American SugarTobacco's Commodity RouteConclusionNotesGuide to Further ReadingIndex
£43.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Plantation Kingdom
Book SynopsisWritten for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.Trade ReviewA concise presentation of some of the best recent scholarship in agricultural history...Environmental historians will find the book useful as an introduction to southern agricultural history, exploring the economic, political, and environmental factors that influenced plantation agriculture. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction by Richard FollettThe Road to Commodity Hell: The Rise and Fall of the First American Rice IndustryCotton and the US South: A Short HistoryThe Rise and Fall of American SugarTobacco's Commodity RouteConclusionNotesGuide to Further ReadingIndex
£24.35
Johns Hopkins University Press John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule 18351850
Book SynopsisA lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.Table of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. "Slavery Cannot Be Abolished"2. "Am I Gagged?"3. "He Knew That They All Abhorred Slavery"4. "How Can the Union Be Preserved?"EpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£22.77
Amberley Publishing I Was Transformed Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisA vivid and compelling account of the famous escaped slave Frederick Douglassâs tour of Britain and Ireland, 1845-7
£20.00
Arcadia Publishing Slavery the Underground Railroad in New
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£18.69
