Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books
Oxford University Press The Slaveholding Republic An Account of the United States Governments Relations to Slavery
Book SynopsisMany leading historians have argued that the Constitution of the United States was a proslavery document. But in The Slaveholding Republic, one of America''s most eminent historians refutes this claim in a landmark history that stretches from the Continental Congress to the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Fehrenbacher shows that the Constitution itself was more or less neutral on the issue of slavery and that, in the antebellum period, the idea that the Constitution protected slavery was hotly debated (many Northerners would concede only that slavery was protected by state law, not by federal law). Nevertheless, he also reveals that U.S. policy abroad and in the territories was consistently proslavery. Fehrenbacher makes clear why Lincoln''s election was such a shock to the South and shows how Lincoln''s approach to emancipation, which seems exceedingly cautious by modern standards, quickly evolved into a Republican revolution that ended the anomaly of the United States as a slaveholding republic. Advances our knowledge of the critical relationships of slavery to the American government, placing it in perspective and explaining its meaning.... One could hardly ask for more.--Ira Berlin, The Washington PostTrade ReviewDon E. Fehrenbacher's final book, ably completed and edited by his former student Ward M. McAfee, examines the U.S. government's relations with slavery from the founding of the republic through the Civil War ... because of its clear thesis, broad view, and lively narration, The Slaveholding Republic will surely make an influential contribution to the historiography of American politics and slavery. And, like all good books, it raises important questions that deserve further examination. * American Nineteenth Century History *The Slaveholding Republic not only advances our knowledge of the critical relationships of slavery to the American government, placing it in perspective and explaining its meaning, but it also helps frame contemporary debates over the perennial question about the relative power of the nation and the locality. One could hardly ask for more. * Ira Berlin, The Washington Post *A major historian addresses a major theme in the late Don Fehrenbacher's The Slaveholding Republic. Rigorously based on the original sources, this book accurately and soberly relates the shameful story of how the federal government treated human beings as property. * Daniel Walker Howe, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University *Engagingly written, thoughtfully conceived, and filled with flashes of insight. Here is a compelling contribution to the ongoing debate about the nation's ends and means, its better angels, and its fundamental law. * Phillip Shaw Paludan, author of "A People's Contest": The Union and the Civil War *Table of ContentsPreface ; I. Introduction ; II. Slavery and the Founding of the Republic ; III. Slavery in the National Capital ; IV. Slavery in American Foreign Relations ; V. The African Slave Trade, 1789-1842 ; VI. The African Slave Trade, 1842-1862 ; VII. The Fugitive Slave Problem to 1850 ; VIII. The Fugitive Slave Problem , 1850-1864 ; IX. Slavery in the Territories ; X. The Republican Revolution ; XI. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc Slave Religion
Book SynopsisSlave Religion remains the preeminent sythesis of the religious life of slaves in the United States. This new edition will consider the developments in the study of slavery, the religious encounter, religious culture, and reactions to the books over the past twenty five years, as well as the ways the author would write it differently today.
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Oxford University Press The Mighty Experiment
Book SynopsisBy the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pampTrade Review""Seymour Drescher's magnificent book on the British Act of Emancipation of 1833, and many other things besides, explains the role of the eighteenth-century scince of political economy in the anti-slavery movement."-EH-NET
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Oxford University Press Nat Turner
Book SynopsisNat Turner''s name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women and children, an inspired religious leader, a fanatic--this puzzling figure represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. And yet we do not know what he looked like, where he is buried, or even whether Nat Turner was his real name. In Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory, Kenneth S. Greenberg gathers twelve distinguished scholars to offer provocative new insight into the man, his rebellion, and his time, and his place in history. The historians here explore Turner''s slave community, discussing the support for his uprising as well as the religious and literary context of his movement. They examine the place of women in his insurrection, and its far-reaching consequences (including an extraordinary 1832 Virginia debate about ridding the state of slavery). Here are discussioTrade Review[A] dedicated effort by historians to unearth the rich particulars from which historical memory is created. * Richmond Times-Dispatch *Offer[s] new insight into the man, his rebellion and his time. * Publishers Weekly *An eclectic collection of perspectives about Nat Turner and his rebellion. * Times Literary Supplement *An illuminating stew of antebellum Southern history, ethnic relations, and contemporary social literature. * Kirkus Reviews *Informed by much new work on the context of slave life and rebellion, an understanding of African American folk and literary texts, and improved methods of psychobiography. No single vision of Nat Turner or meaning for his rebellion emerges, but all the essays repay several readings and remind us how central understanding of him is to any hope of getting hold of slavery's place in the American mind and conscience. * Library Journal *With the prospects of terror so much on our minds, the publication of this fascinating collection is especially appropriate. Kenneth Greenberg's engrossing introduction and the essays that follow explore from nearly every interpretive angle the dramatic events of Southampton County, Virginia (1831). The authors illustrate how a deep, incandescent loathing of slavery and desire for freedom led the visionary Turner and his slave band to slaughter white civilians, young and old, an effort that prompted equally terroristic vengeance by an outraged, frightened slaveholding population. Moral ambiguities abound, and the reader is compelled to ponder the tragedy of American race relations in a most profound way. * Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida *Nat Turner is no longer merely villain or hero in American memory. This splendid collection of scholarly essays and remembrances offers the most thorough understanding we have yet had of this pivotal slave rebel. We can see Turner here from multiple perspectives: historical, moral, psychological, literary, and especially the politics of memory and race. * David W. Blight, Yale University *
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Oxford University Press Inc Inhuman Bondage
Book SynopsisInhuman Bondage is the definitive study of slavery for our time, providing a global perspective on the subject with an emphasis on the United States. Davis is one of our preeminent historians and the authority on America's greatest historical problem.Trade ReviewA tour de force...Could not be more welcome...An invaluable guide to explaining what has made slavery's consequences so much a part of contemporary American culture and politics. * Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review *Impressive and sprawling...Davis's account is rich in detail, and his voice is clear enough to coax even casual readers through this dense history. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsMaps A Selective Calendar of Events Prologue 1: The Amistad Test of Law and Justice 2: The Ancient Foundations of Modern Slavery 3: The Origins of Anti-Black Racism in the New World 4: How Africans Became Integral to New World History 5: The Atlantic Slave System: Brazil and the Caribbean 6: Slavery in Colonial North America 7: The Problem of Slavery in the American Revolution 8: The Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions 9: Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century South, I: From Contradiction to Defense 10: Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century South, II: From Slaveholder Treatment and the Nature of Labor to Slave Culture, Sex and Religion, and Free Blacks 11: Some Nineteenth-Century Slave Conspiracies and Revolts 12: Explanations of British Abolitionism 13: Abolitionism in America 14: The Politics of Slavery in the United States 15: The Civil War and Slave Emancipation Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Oxford University Press Slavery in Africa
Book SynopsisThe role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological and archaeological research. Public remembrances - such as Abolition 2007 in Great Britain, which marked the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and which this volume also commemorates - have also stimulated considerable interest. There is a growing realisation that enslavement, whether as part of a sliding scale of ''rights in persons'' or due to acts of violence, has a history on the African continent that extends back in time long before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.The nature of such enslavement is obscured by the lack of resolution in historical sources before the middle of the second millennium AD. Ground-breaking archaeological research is now building models for approaching slave labour systems via collaboration with historians and the critical scrutiny of historical data. Generally, such new research focuses at the landscape scalTrade Reviewin Africa thus stands as a major addition to the literature on the archaeology of Africaâs recent past, and will find a welcomehomeon the bookshelves of students of African history and comparative slavery alike. * J. Cameron Monroe, South African Archaeological Bulletin *Table of ContentsSECTION 1: SLAVE SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION IN THE AFRICAN INTERIOR: CASE STUDIES FROM THE SUDANIC BELT ; SECTION 2: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: EVIDENCE FROM AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE PASSAGE ; SECTION 3: ELUSIVE SLAVERY: DETECTING ENSLAVEMENT IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF EASTERN AFRICA ; SECTION 4: REMEMBERING SLAVERY: CONTEMPORARY PERCEPTIONS
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Oxford University Press Inc Sea and Land An Environmental History of the
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.Trade ReviewThe Caribbean was the first region in the Americas to bear the human and environmental stamp of European intervention, mainly through slavery and sugar monoculture. Further, it is the place from which modernity and European capitalism emergedthe modern industrial labor regime had its origin in the rigors of plantation slavery, and in the 18th century, the Caribbean became a center of European finance. This volume treats Caribbean environmental history from the first Indigenous settlement of 7,000 BCE to the mid-19th century. It comprises three sections, each with eminent authorship and a cooperatively written conclusion...[that] deals with the regions environmental history after 1850. An authoritative and accessible work for all libraries. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *The violence of natural phenomena like hurricanes, manmade horrors like African chattel slavery, and the destruction of the natural environment by planters,...the dangers of environmental destruction, deforestation, and climatic shocks...all of these subjects are excellently covered in Sea and Land, which, surprisingly, is the Caribbean's first twenty-first-century comprehensive environmental history....This book provides a standard account of Caribbean history but one that is done with such verve and with such authority that it is an essential guide to the dynamics of the Caribbean in a larger global system....Brilliantly executed. * Trevor Burnard, New West Indian Guide *This enticing and coherent volume is environmental history at its best, gracefully moving in scale from microscopic insects to massive global transformations during the last five hundred years. The research is innovative and the writing stellar. Together, the authors illustrate the centrality of the Caribbean to global phenomena such as slavery and the Atlantic world, ecological exchanges, and pandemics. * Charles F. Walker, University of California, Davis *This exceptional work brims with the richness, exuberance, and fragility of the creole ecologies of the Caribbean. Through its focus on the multifarious physical environments of the region and their amalgams of global biota, this volume fills a significant gap in the region's historiography. It demonstrates that thinking with the environment is essential for the historical understanding of the Caribbean and the violent worlds of modern colonialism, capitalism, and extractivism that emerged from the region. * Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison *An authoritative and accessible work for all libraries. * Choice *This book was overdue...This attempt to bring an environmental focus to the islands and the sea is an excellent place to start, a most enjoyable reading...This book delivers on its promise to document environmental changes in the Caribbean for the longue durée. Undergraduates will benefit from this knowledge, while graduate students should draw inspiration toward topics that demand further research. The collaboration that these scholars undertook has paid off handsomely. * Myrna Santiago, Saint Mary's College of California, H-Net *Sea and Land excels in balancing the broad, enduring themes of Caribbean environmental history alongside an analysis of particular events and their aftermaths. In the same convincing manner, it identifies the elements that make the Caribbean a unified space while also showing variations in diverse island environments and societie...It is a thorough, scholarly work that also speaks to a broader audience. * Rasmus Christensen, Journal of Early America *
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Oxford University Press Inc A Long Reconstruction
Book SynopsisAfter slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country''s institutions? Conventional historical timelines mark the end of Reconstruction in the year 1877, but the Methodist Episcopal Church continued to wrestle with issues of racial inclusion for decades after political support for racial reform had receded. An 1844 schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries and teachers into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M.E. Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination. A Long Reconstruction details the denomination''s journey with unification and justice. African Americans who joined did so inTrade ReviewDeeply researched and clearly written, Harris traces the hopes for African Americans in the Methodist Episcopal Church after the Civil War (including at the time about one in five black Methodists). The author traces the story of the hopes for creating an interracial movement and eventually a reconciliation with the MEC, South, to (later) the realization that racial justice and racial reconciliation would be at odds. The story is a vital but relatively little-known one, and Harris's book should stand as the standard account. * Paul Harvey, Department of History, University of Colorado *A Long Reconstruction explicates the largely untold story of African Americans within the Methodist Episcopal Church and in doing so, pushes us to rethink what we mean by the term "Black Church." Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in race and religion in the United. * Christopher Cameron, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte States. *In A Long Reconstruction, Harris relates the relationship between African Americans and the MEC over nine chapters. * Scott M.Anderson, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society *A Long Reconstruction is a daring work that revisits the complexities of the Reconstruction era, as it exposes the complicated methodologies Black people were forced to utilize in order to benefit their communities. * Aaron M. Treadwell, Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Wesley's Shadow 2. The Straitened Gate 3. Though I Walk Through the Valley 4. The Chattanooga Embarrassment 5. Our Brothers in White 6. The Southwestern Confronts the Nadir 7. "What Shall We Do with the Negro" 8. Turning Inward 9. Walk Together, Children Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Americas Book
Book SynopsisAmerica's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture.Trade ReviewNoll covers the contentious place the Bible had in shaping "a Bible civilization"...(i)f there was an issue of religious and public debate during the nineteenth century, the Bible was part of it, and Noll covers it. * John M. Mulder, a former president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and a historian of American Christianity, The Presbyterian Outlook *America's Book stands as a monumental scholarly achievement, but it is also valuable for lay readers. All future scholars who study this subject will cite and rely upon America's Book, and they will come to depend on its survey and synthesis of the primary sources, and for filling in and identifying important gaps in the existing scholarly literature. * Yisroel Ben-Porat, Ph.D. candidate in early American history at CUNY Graduate Center, Tradition Online *America's Book documents the extent of the Bible's reach -- from the printing and distribution of Bibles and the creation of Sunday schools to the intellectual dead ends into which unwise handlers of the Bible were led. The book's breadth is a tribute to Mr. Noll's career as an interpreter of Protestantism in North America * D.G. Hart, The Wall Street Journal *No one knows more about the Bible in American public life than Mark Noll. In this landmark volume, he shows how the Protestant dream of a Bible civilization collapsed in the exegetical impasse over slavery. He also brings his subtle insight and unflinching honesty to bear on other plot lines, producing an epic history worthy of Scripture itself. Everyone interested in American religion must reckon with this book. * Peter J. Thuesen, author of Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather *Mark Noll's America's Book recounts the public role of the Bible in the United States from the beginning of the republic through the early twentieth century. Noll tells a complex and fascinating story with measured judgments and penetrating insights. Filled with fascinating details, this book is a work of both original research and impressive synthesis. Noll is attuned to ironies and silences but is also deeply respectful of the human struggle with both the scriptures and the culture. Reviewers may run out of superlatives. * George C. Rable, author of God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War *Noll tells a story of extraordinary breadth and complexity both briskly and clearly. He consistently embeds the Bible's role in American life in the cultural conditions that made it possible. Noll's erudition is like old money: always present but tastefully held in the background. The book will provoke a host of responses, both popular and academic, but it is hard to imagine that any will rival, let alone surpass, the sheer brilliance of his achievement. * Grant Wacker, Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History, Duke Divinity School *America's Book shines as the magnum opus of arguably the most eminent historian of American Christianity during the past century. This magisterial volume is the authoritative study of how the Bible and American national history shaped each other. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and masterfully written, it belongs on every serious reader's bookshelf. * Candy Gunther Brown, author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880 *In a breathtaking scholarly work, Mark Noll explores the doomed experiment of a republic built on an unwritten law of sola scriptura. * Brad East, The Christian Century *It is well worth the time investment; it is an important contribution to the study of both the history of Christianity and American history. * Jennifer Wojciechowski, Lutheran Quarterly *The readability and very reasonable price of this lengthy tome open it to a wide audience, and the 150 pages of endnotes will make the book useful to scholars of American history as well as American religion. * Choice *In my institution, I am told, homiletics professors urge their students to remember one guideline: the Bible is more interesting than you are... America's Book comes as close to that benchmark as any work published in recent memory. The journey ahead promises both enlightenment and no small measure of pleasure. * Grant Wacker, Church History *America's Book drives to a concluding chapter titled "Still Under a Bushel" that gathers Black Church counter-examples to the book's central story of biblical conflict,... This is a perfect ending to a massive book of prodigious learning. * Gary Dorrien, Church History *Mark Noll's new book is a masterpiece. A monumental work of scholarship and erudition, America's Book merits respect for its artistry as well. The writing is lucid and well crafted. * Amanda Porterfield, Church History *Mark Noll's history of what he labels America's Protestant Bible civilization certainly has the feel of encyclopedic comprehensiveness. * Leigh E. Schmidt, Church History *Noll's erudition on the role of the Bible in American public life is absolutely stunning, and America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 will reward the reading of experts and nonexperts alike... [A]nyone who wishes to understand a multitude of American intellectual vectors in relation to the Bible, including those touching on politics, religion, science, race relations, law, and literature, will not find a better book than Noll's magisterial tome on America's book. * Journal of Religion *America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 will reward the reading of experts and nonexperts alike. * Paul C. Gutjahr, The Journal of Religion *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Creating a Bible Civilization 1) The Bible after Independence and before Paine 2) The Paine Provocation 3) Custodial Protestants vs. Sectarian Protestants 4) Francis Asbury and the Methodists Part II. A Protestant Bible Civilization 5) The Bible Civilization in American History 6) Naming, Writing, and Speaking in a Hebrew Republic 7) Publishing 8) Personal Religion 9) The African American Bible Part III. Fractures 10) Slavery and the Bible before the Missouri Compromise 11) Slavery and the Bible, 1819-1833 12) Democracy 13) The Law and a Christian America 14) The Common School Exception Part IV. The Eclipse of Sola Scriptura 15) 1844 16) Whose Bible? (Catholics) 17) Whose Bible? (Lutherans, Jews, Nay-sayers, Natives) 18) Whose Bible? (Women) 19) The War Before the War 20) Scriptural Arguments in Context 21) The Civil War Part V. After the Bible Civilization 22) 1865-1875 23) The Centennial Divide: 1876 and After 24) Protestant Wounds of War 25) Protestant Realignments 26) Marginal No More (Jews and Catholics) Part VI. Toward the Present 27) Still A Bible Nation 28) An Enduring Cultural Landmark 29) Civil Religion 30) Still Under a Bushel Epilogue Short Titles for Notes Notes Acknowledgments General Index Scripture Index Index of Scriptural Persons and Events
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Oxford University Press Inc The Dark Past
Book SynopsisFor most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. During America''s first two centuries, slavery was the law of the land. The Court initially avoided challenging it, and in 1857, it seemed that the justices were committed to defending it with the disastrous Dred Scott decision, which denied that Black Americans could claim any rights under the Constitution. The Court also failed to sustain Congress''s effort to accord rights and status to Black Americans during Reconstruction, and it accepted white supremacy in the 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which ratified the doctrine of separate but equal. It did better in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1972, but then again retreated in the face of political backlash. The Dark Past offers a historical overview and interpretive guide to all the major cases decided by US Supreme Court that have affected the freedom and rights of Black Americans since 1800. It lends coherence to what could otherwise be a disjointed chronicle of cases and connects the events of the past to the current era of racial inequality-most recently exhibited in the Shelby County v. Holder (2015) decision, which hobbled the Voting Rights Act. Throughout the six hundred volumes of the United States Reports the justices have almost never alluded to the reality of racism or used words that denote it. Only once has the phrase white supremacy appeared in an opinion of the Court, and only thirty or so times has a member of the Court referred to racism. The Dark Past, on the other hand, incorporates structural racism as a principal definition of inequality in the contemporary Black legal experience as it updates and enlarges our understanding of how the legal foundations of inequality structure American society.
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Oxford University Press The Interesting Narrative
Book SynopsisThe Interesting Narrative is a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, published on the eve of the British abolition debate in 1789. The most important African autobiography of the 18th century, it recounts Equiano's adventures on land and sea. This edition's introduction surveys recent debates about Equiano's birthplace and identity.Trade ReviewThe appetite for Equiano and his memoir shows no signs of abating, as this new edition shows. * James Walvin, The Times *The book adds to the body of knowledge about a great man, Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Students now have a wider chose of resources as they study his complex but interesting life. * Arthur Torrington, The Equiano Society *This book will change our assumptions about slavery and affect, and also change our sense of what works can be connected to this vast enterprise. It makes for what is sometimes surprising reading, but it also makes so much sense that the century will never again look quite the same as it did before this book. * George E. Haggerty, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *This edition of Equiano's The Interesting Narrative, paired with Carey's introduction and explanatory materials, provides a text that is meaningful across educational levels and backgrounds. It should help to ensure that Equiano's text, with its relevance to multiple disciplines and areas of inquiry, does not again disappear from our awareness. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
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Oxford University Press Britains Slavery Debt
Book SynopsisA concise, reasoned, practical case for why Britain should pay reparations for historic wrongs to present Caribbean inhabitants.Britain owes reparations to the Caribbean. The exploitation of generations of those trafficked from Africa, or born into enslavement, to work the immensely profitable sugars plantations, enriched both British individuals and the British nation. Colonialism, even after emancipation, perpetuated the exploitation. The Caribbean still suffers, and Britain still benefits, from these historic wrongs.There are some fairly standard objections to reparations -- ''slavery ended a long time ago''; ''Britain should be celebrating its role in abolishing slavery''; ''slavery was legal back then and we shouldn''t judge the past by the standards of the present''; ''you shouldn''t visit the sins of the fathers on the sons''; and so on. And there is a sense that the practical problems of who should pay what to whom are immensely difficult.Michael Banner carefully considers and
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Oxford University Press Inc Inhuman Traffick The International Struggle
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA must read for all those interested in nineteenth-century Atlantic history. * Ugo Nwojeki, University of California, Berkeley *Rafe Blaufarb and Liz Clarke have created an innovative and engaging teaching tool for the transatlantic slave trade in the era of suppression. It combines exhaustive research with accessibility, offers a superb overview of the traffic, and provides extensive original documentation of one of the most dramatic and poignant incidents in nineteenth-century maritime history. * David Eltis, Emory University *Drawing together Kru sailors, Sierra Leonean craftsmen, illegal French slavers, British anti-slavery patrol ships, a corrupt Guadeloupe governor, and British and French politicians, Blaufarb weaves a remarkable tapestry of the historical forces that transformed the slave trade in the nineteenth century. Inhuman Traffick offers a beautifully illustrated panorama of the Atlantic World during the age of emancipation, one that will appeal to students and experts alike. * James Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison *The use of graphic histories in the classroom is becoming widespread, and Inhuman Traffick shows why they can work so effectively to engage students. Like all of the best examples of the genre, Inhuman Traffick tells a compelling story through a complex interplay of image and text - it will keep students reading, and learning, to the very end. * Randy Sparks, Tulane University *Inhuman Traffick is a tour de force. * Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A&M University *We are treated to the historical equivalent of 3D cinema as Dr. Blaufarb hits us from all angles: a traditional narrative that is concise and accessible; an innovative graphic history that brings the struggle against the slave trade to life; and a selection of primary sources that underscores the painstaking process by which historians explore the past. This is a truly groundbreaking approach to history. * Philippe Girard, McNeese State University *My students will be delighted to have Inhuman Traffick added to their reading list. * Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College *a welcome addition to booklists for courses on Atlantic and Caribbean history and the history of slavery, plus also those concerned with historical methodology and archival research. * Mary Wills, International Journal of Maritime History *Table of ContentsContents ; Maps and Figures ; Preface: The Making of Inhuman Traffick ; About the Author and Illustrator ; Part 1 ; Historical Context ; The Atlantic Environment ; The Slave Trades of Africa ; Who Were the Captives? ; Temporalities of the Trade ; The Middle Passage ; In America ; The Origins of Abolitionism ; Abolition in 1807 ; Internationalizing Abolitionism ; The West African Squadron ; Effects of Interdiction ; Beyond the 1817 Treaties ; Results of British Abolitionism ; How the End of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Effected African Society ; Emancipation in America and Africa ; The Neirsee Incident in Atlantic Context ; Cast of Characters ; Part 2 ; The Graphic History ; Chapter 1: International Efforts Against the Transatlantic Slave Trade ; Chapter 2: The Neirsee Incident ; Chapter 3: Sold into Slavery ; Chapter 4: An International Incident ; Chapter 5: From Happening to History ; Part 3 ; The Primary Sources ; Documents 1-4: West Africa: Seizure of the Neirsee ; Documents 5-10: Caribbean: Enslaved on Guadeloupe ; Documents 11-20: Caribbean: Colonial Authorities in Action ; Documents 21-37: Europe: A Diplomatic Incident ; Part 4 ; The Questions ; Time, space, and technology ; Identities ; Agency ; Slave Trade Database ; Primary Source Documents ; Making of the Graphic History ; Values ; Gaps and Silences ; Timeline of the Atlantic-Slave Trade ; Bibliography ; Glossary
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Oxford University Press The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law
Book SynopsisThere is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century''s absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in this novel interpretation of the roots of human rights law, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century''s central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Originating in England in the late eighteenth century, abolitionism achieved remarkable success over the course of the nineteenth century. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships. The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,00Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. International Law, Slavery and the Idea of International Human Rights ; 2. British Abolitionism and Diplomacy, 1807-1817 ; 3. The United States and the Slave Trade: 1776-1824 ; 4. The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade ; 5. Am I Not a Man and a Brother? ; 6. Hostis Humanis Generis: Enemies of Mankind ; 7. The Final Abolition of the Slave Trade ; 8. A Bridge to the Future: Links Between the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Modern International Human Rights Movement ; 9. International Human Rights Law and International Courts: Rethinking their Origins and Future
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Oxford University Press Inc In Battle for Peace The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
Book SynopsisW. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois''s sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history.One of the most neglected and obscure books by W. E. B. Du Bois, In Battle for Peace frankly documents Du Bois''s experiences following his attempts to mobilize Americans against the emerging conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. A victim of McCarthyism, Du Bois endured a humiliating trial-he was later acquitted-and faced political persecution for over a decadTrade Review"This set represents an invaluable assembly of the works of the pioneering African American scholar, activist, and creative genius....The introductions to the individual volumes are written by such distinguished scholars as to make those writings indispensable treasures in their own right. Recommended for all public libraries and essential for every academic institution."--Library Journal (starred review) "This set is a valuable contribution to African-American scholarship. It has the potential to introduce a new readership to the scope and breadth of a unique and seminal thinker. The works included can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the issues now facing contemporary Americans....[A] breathtaking collection."--School Library Journal "The general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas....The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book News "This set will be vital to all large university libraries with collections in African American history and American literature."--American Reference Books Annual "Examining Du Bois's oeuvre in its totality reveals an arc to his career, swinging from the formal scholarly writing of his early years to a trenchant and trademark blend of history, memoir, and polemic....Bringing together all of DuBois's work as a whole, observes [Lawrence D. Bobo of Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity], 'reveals the enormity of his intellect, and how it was ignored in his day."--The Chronicle of Philanthropy "W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) published 22 works during his long career, all of them contained within this impressive and painstaking collected set....[T]he general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas. Du Bois's conception of race and color in America is a central theme throughout his oeuvre, beginning with his seminal Souls of Black Folk of 1903. The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsSeries Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign ; Introduction ; I. About Birthdays ; II. The Council on African Affairs ; III. My Habit of Travel ; IV. Peace Congresses ; V. The Peace Information Center ; VI. My Campaign for Senator ; VII. The Indictment ; VIII. The Birthday Dinner ; IX. An Indicted Criminal ; X. The Pilgrimages for Defense ; XI. Oh! John Rogge ; XII. The Trial ; XIII. The Acquittal ; XIV. Interpretations ; Appendix ; Index ; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology ; Selected Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Dark Princess The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
Book SynopsisW. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois''s sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history.The Dark Princess is a story of magical love and radical politics, a romance facing obstacles in a white-dominated world. Du Bois''s allegorical tale follows Mathew Townes from his political disillusionment to his association with a powerful and seductive revolutionary leader, Kautilya, the princess of the Tibetan Kingdom of Bwodpur. With Dark Princess, Du Bois explores the coloTrade Review"This set represents an invaluable assembly of the works of the pioneering African American scholar, activist, and creative genius....The introductions to the individual volumes are written by such distinguished scholars as to make those writings indispensable treasures in their own right. Recommended for all public libraries and essential for every academic institution."--Library Journal (starred review) "This set is a valuable contribution to African-American scholarship. It has the potential to introduce a new readership to the scope and breadth of a unique and seminal thinker. The works included can provide a more comprehensive understanding of the issues now facing contemporary Americans....[A] breathtaking collection."--School Library Journal "The general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas....The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book News "This set will be vital to all large university libraries with collections in African American history and American literature."--American Reference Books Annual "Examining Du Bois's oeuvre in its totality reveals an arc to his career, swinging from the formal scholarly writing of his early years to a trenchant and trademark blend of history, memoir, and polemic....Bringing together all of DuBois's work as a whole, observes [Lawrence D. Bobo of Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity], 'reveals the enormity of his intellect, and how it was ignored in his day."--The Chronicle of Philanthropy "W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) published 22 works during his long career, all of them contained within this impressive and painstaking collected set....[T]he general introduction and the introductions to each of Du Bois's works form a valuable opus in their own right, as they convey the author's political and social theories and indicate the richness and development of his ideas. Du Bois's conception of race and color in America is a central theme throughout his oeuvre, beginning with his seminal Souls of Black Folk of 1903. The realities of slavery, racism, and segregation in the United States are always at the forefront, making these works (many of them out-of-print) continually pertinent and forceful reading....This set will be an essential addition to public and college libraries."--Reference and Research Book NewsTable of ContentsSeries Introduction: The Black Letters on the Sign ; Introduction ; Part I. The Exile ; Part II. The Pullman Porter ; Part III. The Chicago Politician ; Part IV. The Maharajah of Bwodpur ; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology ; Selected Bibliography
£26.03
Oxford University Press Inc Death or Liberty
Book SynopsisIn Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain''s 1763 victory in the Seven Years'' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston''s elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the young nation fulfill its republican slogans. Although this struggle often unfolded in the corridors of power, Egerton pays special attention to what black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with compelling portraits of forgotten African American activists and rebels, who battled huge odds and succeeded in finding liberty--if never equality--onlTrade ReviewThe monumental accomplishments of Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington seem trivial in comparison to what many of their African American contemporaries achieved. Seizing the unprecedented opportunities presented by the Revolutionary War, thousands of enslaved Americans - including slaves owned by Jefferson and Washington - made their own declarations of independence and undertook the arduous and perilous journey from slave to freedom. Now, for the first time, the scores of recent investigations of black participation in the American Revolution have been synthesized into an elegant and seamless narrative. In Death or Liberty - a title taken not from Patrick Henry but from a participant in Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800 -Douglas Egerton shows that African Americans not only extracted the most liberty from the Revolutionary experience but also paid the highest price for it. * Woody Holton, University of Richmond *Slowly, American understanding of the vital Revolutionary era is becoming more open, subtle, and realistic. Douglas Egerton's suggestive book uses real lives to weave surprising new threads into this familiar old flag. * Peter H. Wood, author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America *In this highly readable account Douglas Egerton weaves together the stories of black and white men and women in a seamless and deeply human telling of the American Revolutionary war. Even scholars familiar with the subject matter will find fresh and original insights on virtually every aspect of American Revolutionary history. * Sylvia R. Frey, author of Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Trials of William Lee: A Life in the Age of Revolution ; One: Equiano's World: The British Atlantic Empire in 1763 ; Two: Richard's Cup: Slavery and the Coming of the Revolution ; Three: The Transformation of Colonel Tye: Black Combatants and the War ; Four: Quok Walker's Suit: Emancipation in the North ; Five: Absalom's "Meritorious Service": Antislavery in the Upper South ; Six: Captain Vesey's Cargo: Continuity in Georgia and the Carolinas ; Seven: Mum Bett Takes a Name: The Emergence of Free Black Communities ; Eight: Harry Washington's Atlantic Crossings: The Migrations of Black Loyalists ; Nine: A Suspicion Only: Racism in the Early Republic ; Ten: Eli Whitney's Cotton Engine: Expansion and Rebellion ; Epilogue: General Gabriel's Flag: Unsuccessful Coda to the Revolution ; Notes
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Oxford University Press Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Book SynopsisIn his extensive writings--editorials, speeches, autobiographies--Frederick Douglass revealed little about the private side of his life. His famous autobiographies were very much in the service of presenting and advocating for himself. But Douglass had a very complicated array of relationships with women: white and black, wives and lovers, mistresses-owners, and sisters and daughters. And this great man deeply needed them all at various turns in a turbulent life that was never so linear and self-made as he often wished to portray it.In this book, Leigh Fought aims to reveal more about the life of the famed abolitionist off the public stage. She begins with the women he knew during his life as a slave--his mother, whom he barely knew; his grandmother, who raised him; and his slave mistresses, including the one who taught him how to read. She shows how his relationships with white women seemed to fill more of a maternal role for Douglass than his relationships with his black kin. Readers will learn about Douglass''s two wives--Anna Murray, a free woman who helped him escape to freedom and become a famous speaker herself, and later Helen Pitts, a white woman who was politically engaged and played the public role of the wife of a celebrity. Also central to Douglass''s story were women involved in the abolitionist and other reform movements, including two white women, Julia Griffiths and Ottilia Assing, whom he invited to live in his household and whose presence there made him vulnerable to sexual slander and alienated his wife. These women were critical to the success of his abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, and to promoting his work, including his Narrative and My Bondage and My Freedom nationally and internationally. At the same time, white female abolitionists would be among Douglass''s chief critics when he supported the 15th amendment that denied the vote to women, and black women, such as Ida B. Wells-Barnett, would become some of his new political collaborators. Fought also looks at the next generation, specifically through Douglass''s daughter Rosetta, who was the focus of her father''s campaign to desegregate Rochester''s schools and who literally acted as a go-between for her parents, since her mother, Anna Murray, had limited literacy. This biography of the circle of women around Frederick Douglass promises to show the connections between his public and private life, as well as reveal connections among enslaved women, free black women, abolitionist circles, and nineteenth-century politics and culture in the North and South before and after the Civil War.Trade ReviewWhile Fought's approach provides insight into the subtleties of Douglass's beliefs and position, more importantly, it reveals the motivations and beliefs of the women who allied themselves with Douglass. * Julie Roy Jeffrey, Journal of American Ethnic History *[T]horoughly researched....Although the complex nature of Douglass's relationships with women will never be fully understood, Fought unveils how women were attracted to Douglass and how he equated the servitude of race to that of gender. * John David Smith, The North Carolina Historical Review *Fought's skill at teasing out Anna Murray Douglass's life and character without any documents written in her own hand is impressive. Anna comes to the reader not the shadowy figure she was to Douglass's acquaintences, but a well-rounded character whose motivations and reactions are grounded in the realities of life as a black woman in the nineteenth century. Overall, this book is not just a well-researched work of history, but an enjoyable read as well. * Stephanie J. Richmond, H-Net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: "A True Mother's Heart" Chapter 2: Anna Murray, Mrs. Frederick Douglass, 1810-1848 Chapter 3: "The Cause of the Slave Has Been Peculiarly Woman's Cause," 1841-1847 Chapter 4: "The Pecuniary Burdens," 1847-1853 Chapter 5 "I Wont Have Her in My House," 1848-1858 Chapter 6: The Woman's Rights Man and his Daughter, 1848-1861 Chapter 7: Principle and Expediency, 1861-1870 Chapter 8: "Her True Worth," 1866-1883 Chapter 9: Helen Pitts, Mrs. Frederick Douglass, 1837-1890 Chapter 10: Legacies, 1891-1895 Epilogue: Afterlife, 1895-1903 Appendix: Family Trees Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Index
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Oxford University Press White Mens Magic
Trade ReviewClearly, White Mens Magic is an ingenious, sophisticated piece of work. * Anthony G. Reddie, Theology *Table of ContentsPrologue ; Chapter One: "...unbounded influence over the credulity and superstition of the people...": Magic as Slavery, Slavery as Magic ; Chapter Two: "...the white men had some spell or magic...": A Black Stranger's First Contact with White Men's Magic ; Chapter Three: "...every person there read the Bible...": Scripturalization as Matrix of White Men's Magic ; Chapter Four: "...to the Britons first...the Gospel is preached...": Scripturalization in the Nationalization of White Men's Magic ; Chapter Five: "...in the Bible, I saw things new...": Scripturalization and the Mimetics of White Men's Magic ; Chapter Six: "...take the book...and tell God to make them dead...": Scripturalization as White Men's Hegemony ; Chapter Seven: "I could read it for myself": Scripturalization, Slavery, and Agency ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc American Slavery
Book SynopsisEuropeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and traces the development of American slavery until its abolition following the Civil War. Historian Heather Andrea Williams draws upon the rich recent scholarship of numerous highly-regarded academics as well as an analysis of primary documents to explore the history of slavery and its effects on the American colonies and later the United States of America. Williams examines legislation that differentiated American Indians and Africans from Europeans as the ideology of white supremacy flourished and became an ingrained feature of the society. These laws reflected the contradiction of America''s moral and philosophical ideology that valorized freedom on one hand and justified the enslavement of a population deemed inferior on another. She explores the tense and often violent relationships between the enslaved and the enslavers, and between abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates as those who benefited from the institution fought to maintain and exert their power. Williams is attentive to the daily labors that enslaved people performed, reminding readers that slavery was a system of forced labor with economic benefits that produced wealth for a new nation, all the while leaving an indelible mark on its history.Trade ReviewWilliam's study provides a concise overview of many of the key issues and topics surrounding the nature of American slavery * Review in History *Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1-OLD WORLDS COLLIDE THROUGH THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE; CHAPTER 2-PUTTING SLAVERY INTO PLACE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES; CHAPTER 3-EARLY CHALLENGES TO SLAVERY IN AMERICA; CHAPTER 4-AMERICA BUILT ON SLAVERY; CHAPTER 5-MAKING LIFE BEARABLE; CHAPTER 6-DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE; CHAPTER 7-TAKING SLAVERY APART; EPILOGUE
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Oxford University Press Inc The World of Thomas Jeremiah
Book SynopsisThis book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It focuses on the dramatic hanging and burning of Thomas Jeremiah, a free black harbor pilot and firefighter accused by the patriot party of plotting a slave insurrection during the tumultous spring and summer of 1775. To examine the world of this wealthy, slave-holding African American through his trial and execution, William R. Ryan uses a wide array of letters, naval records, personal and official correspondence, memoirs, and newspapers. He shows that the black majority of the South Carolina Low Country managed to assist the British in their invasion efforts, despite patriot attempts to frighten Afro-Carolinians into passivity and submission. Although Whigs attempted, through brutality and violence, to keep their slaves from participating in the conflict, Afro-Carolinians became actively involved in the struggle between colonists and the Crown as spiTrade ReviewRyan has created a work that gets to the heart of revolutionary movements. His study reveals the divisions and social stresses in the southern colonies, delves into the psychology of slaveholders in pre-revolutionary Charleston, highlights the dilemmas of the free and enslaved laborers in the Low Country of South Carolina, and determines the motivations of those who participated in the Revolution. As such, it will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, cultural studies scholars, and historians alike. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *There have been a number of books published about colonial and revolutionary South Carolina. However, not since Richard Walsh's Charleston's Sons of Liberty (1959) has a scholar so effectively dealt with the city's underclasses and their relationship with the colony's ruling elite. Ryan not only enters the world of Thomas Jeremiah effectively, but he convinces the reader that Jeremiah and his world had a tremendous impact on the wealthiest elite in colonial America. * Walter B. Edgar, University of South Carolina *This is an important, interesting, informative, well researched, and well-conceived book. It is concrete, using sources which bring the early years of the American Revolution in and near Charleston to life. It has several important strengths. It leaves the usual New England focus behind. It emphasizes the racial, class, and regional dimensions of the American Revolution in the Southeast, emphasizing the strength of Afro-Americans within the context of demography and their maritime skills, especially as pilots in treacherous and ever changing channels and harbor entrances. * Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Rutgers University *Recommended. * CHOICE *The great strengths of this book lie in the provocative issues raised but left unresolved and in the reminder that the revolutionary era offered...new opportunities to challenge both the institution of chattel bondage and the allied structures of white supremacy. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction: A Different Port of Entry ; Ch 1: White Divisions (June 1774-March 1775) ; Ch 2: A Great War Coming (April 1775-June 1775) ; Ch 3: Under the Color of Law (July 1775-August 1775) ; Ch 4: Charles Town Harbor (September 1775-October 1775) ; Ch 5: Lowcountry/Backcountry: The Volatile Geopolitics of Revolutionary South Carolina (November 1775-December 1775) ; Ch 6: The Greatest Hope and the Deepest Fear (December 1775-January 1776) ; Ch 7: The Masters were Still in Charge (January 1776-August 1776) ; Conclusion: Simple Spectators? ; Epilogue ; Appendix I: Documents Relating to the Trials and Execution of Thomas Jeremiah ; Appendix II: Documents Relating to the Slave Shadwell and the Free Black Scipio Handley
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Oxford University Press Slave Culture
Book SynopsisTwenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey''s ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion that has had profound implications for theories of black liberation and race relations in America.Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. Du Trade ReviewA splendid addition to the rich literature on the lives of blacks under slavery. * The Philadelphia Inquirer *Table of ContentsForeword by John Stauffer ; 1. Introduction: Slavery and the Circle of Culture ; 2. David Walker: In Defense of African Rights and Liberty ; 3. Henry HIghland Garnet: Nationalism, Class Analysis, and Revolution ; 4. Identity and Ideology: The Names Controversy ; 5. W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Cultural Reality and the Meaning of Freedom ; 6. On Being African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice ; Notes ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press White Slaves African Masters An Anthology of
Book SynopsisA selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans, whose plight became fodder for pro- and anti-slavery writers.
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The University of Chicago Press Slaves and Other Objects
Book SynopsisExplores both the material culture of slavery as well as its representation in literature. This book considers the place of slaves in Plato's Meno, Aristotle's Politics, Aesop's Fables, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Orestes.Trade Review"[This] timely and passionate book reinstates slaves at the center of the ancient household and psyche.... Page duBois has certainly achieved her stated goal in making it far more difficult for classicists anywhere to avoid looking ancient slaves in the face when examining the artifacts, literature, and thought of the societies which denied them liberty." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement"
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The University of Chicago Press Slaves and Other Objects
Book SynopsisExplores both the material culture of slavery as well as its representation in literature. This book considers the place of slaves in Plato's Meno, Aristotle's Politics, Aesop's Fables, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Orestes.Trade Review"[This] timely and passionate book reinstates slaves at the center of the ancient household and psyche.... Page duBois has certainly achieved her stated goal in making it far more difficult for classicists anywhere to avoid looking ancient slaves in the face when examining the artifacts, literature, and thought of the societies which denied them liberty." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement"
£26.60
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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The University of Chicago Press American Taxation American Slavery
Book SynopsisShows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. This book reveals how the heated battles over taxation, the power to tax, and the distribution of tax burdens were rooted not in debates over personal liberty but rather in the rights of slaveholders to hold human beings as property.Trade Review"For those seeking to understand complex and ever-changing systems of taxation, their relationship to local and national politics, and how the state and local systems were shaped by the 'peculiar institution,' this seminal and innovative investigation will provide many answers." - Loren Schweninger, American Historical Review "[Einhorn] tells what might have been a complicated story in an engaging and accessible manner. It is her contention that slavery and the reaction to it to a great extent shaped the kind of nation we are today, because it shaped the kind of tax policies we constructed to fund the kind of government we got.... Required reading for anyone who ponders the impact of slavery on our lives today." - James Srodes, Washington Times"
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The University of Chicago Press Arbitrary Rule
Book SynopsisWhat, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? The author explores connections between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing tyranny.Trade Review"Impressively researched, persuasively argued, and clearly written. Anyone who is concerned with freedom, tyranny, and servitude in the modern or ancient world would do well to read Arbitrary Rule." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
£22.80
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"
£29.52
The University of Chicago Press The Electronic Word
Book SynopsisThe personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them. The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh. This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking pages, annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press North of Slavery
Book Synopsis. . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service.John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . .C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar
£26.60
University of Chicago Press The Anthropology of Slavery The Womb of Iron and Gold
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The University of Chicago Press The Caribbean A History of the Region and Its
Book SynopsisTraces the Caribbean from its pre-Columbian state through European contact and colonialism to the rise of US hegemony and the economic turbulence of the twenty-first century. This volume begins with a discussion of the region's diverse geography and challenging ecology and features an in-depth look at the transatlantic slave trade.
£84.08
University of Chicago Press The Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the
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The University of Chicago Press The Freedom of Speech
Book SynopsisThe institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the policing of words themselves. Offering a compelling new lens on transatlantic slavery, this book gathers rich historical data from Barbados, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, and North America to delve into the complex relationships between voice, slavery, and empire. From the most quotidian encounters to formal rules of what counted as evidence in court, the battleground of slavery lay in who could speak and under what conditions. But, as Ogborn shows through keen attention to the narratives and silences in the archives, if slavery as a legal status could be made by words, it could be unmade by them as well. A masterful look at the duality of domination, The Freedom of Speech offers a rich interpretation of oral cultures that both supported and
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The University of Chicago Press Cul de Sac
Book SynopsisIn the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inTrade Review"The strength of Cheney's book lies in its in-depth insight into the affairs of the Saint-Domingue plantation aristocracy and their associates. The reader gets tantalizing glimpses of the lives and voices of the enslaved Africans whose labor underpinned the whole fragile edifice."--American Historical Review "This deeply researched and richly detailed study of one plantation reconstructs and illuminates the complex world of colonial Saint-Domingue. Through the story of the Cul de Sac plain, Cheney offers a layered and insightful analysis of the relationship between slavery, trade, and policy in the eighteenth-century French Atlantic."--Laurent Dubois, author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution "Providing great historical detail, Cheney discusses how international conflicts; the struggles among metropolitan elites, Creole elites, and the French crown; and the ethical tensions between humaneness and business interests in the treatment of slaves contributed to the fragility and ultimate unsustainability of plantation capitalism. . . the text is well-written and organized, and the details help illustrate and reflect the complex layers of plantation capitalism in colonial France."--Choice "Cul de Sac takes us deep within the global center of one of the most brutal forms of capitalism in history. Masterfully reconstructing plantation life from newly discovered sources, Cheney exposes the fragility of a family enterprise riven by racial and ideological tensions as it confronted war and revolution. This is a must-read for students of Caribbean, Atlantic, and French history."--Michael Kwass, author of Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground "Until now, we had very few detailed accounts of plantations and how they operated. This book takes an especially rich set of records on a large absentee-owned plantation in Cul de Sac, a major sugar-planting region near Port-au-Prince, and creates a compelling account of slavery, capitalism, and family in this interesting society. Entertaining as well as informative, Cul de Sac will make a signal contribution to the scholarship of slavery and capitalism in the Atlantic World."--Trevor Burnard, author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 "One of the most important books on colonial and revolutionary Haiti (Saint-Domingue) of the past several decades. . . . Subtle and creative . . . . This book not only fills a gap in the literature of Haitian history but also aims to revise our understanding of early modern North Atlantic capitalism by demonstrating its reliance on unstable but persistent patrimonial alliances. In that objective, Cul de Sac succeeds magnificently, giving us a more revealing and finely drawn portrait of the economic and social relationships in which the Caribbean sugar plantation was embedded than we have previously known. . . . No one can come away from this book with anything less than a sense of gratitude and awe for the great achievement that it represents." --Journal of Modern History "Cul de Sac is written with extraordinary clarity and dexterity. The movements between micro-analysis and wider political economic and social forces, between culture and capitalism and between metropole and colony are ambitious and exemplary. It is elegantly constructed, beautifully written, and persuasively argued. It will no doubt serve as a model for further study. . . Cheney's portrait, which draws on an extraordinarily wide range of contextual scholarship, is finely calibrated, ambitiously capacious and thoroughly illuminating. His analysis links clearly the internal operations of the Ferronnays sugar estate--over time--to the global structuring contexts of French imperial policy, colonial empire, fluctuating world markets, the international division of labour and, ultimately, the dramatic upheavals of the Haitian Revolution. . .a meticulously researched and detailed account."--French History
£26.60
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
£80.00
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
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press Value in Art
Book SynopsisArt historian Henry M. Sayre traces the origins of the term value in art criticism, revealing the politics that define Manet's art. How did art critics come to speak of light and dark as, respectively, high in value and low in value? Henry M. Sayre traces the origin of this usage to one of art history's most famous and racially charged paintings, Édouard Manet'sOlympia. Art critics once described light and dark in painting in terms of musical metaphorhigher and lower tones, notes, and scales. Sayre shows that it was Émile Zola who introduced the new law of values in an 1867 essay on Manet. Unpacking the intricate contexts of Zola's essay and of several related paintings by Manet, Sayre argues that Zola's usage of value was intentionally double codedan economic metaphor for the political economy of slavery. In Manet's painting, Olympia and her maid represent objects of exchange, a commentary on the French Empire's complicity in the ongoing slave trade in the Americas. ExpertlyTrade Review“Henry M. Sayre’s Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade is an impressive, insightful, and thoroughly persuasive work. Impeccably researched and wide-ranging in its breadth of discussion, Sayre’s highly perceptive analysis centers on Manet but proceeds outward with masterful expertise and nuance, incorporating poetry, music, fiction, prose, French and American history and culture, politics, and––naturally––art. With sensitivity and imagination, with balance and tact, Sayre employs floating signifiers to track the insidious path of colonialism and slavery that underlie modernist art and culture. What he reveals of this depraved heart of darkness inspires the reader to new modes of understanding about the complexity of modernist representation––both its achievements and its shame.” * Geoffrey Green, San Francisco State University *“Value is a difficult art historical term, too often reduced to questions of price or hue. In Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade, Sayre achieves an eye-opening feat, namely, the unveiling of the term’s true political economy. Focused on Édouard Manet’s key 1860s paintings, Sayre articulates the period’s commodification of the black and female body—through slavery and prostitution—as the true subject of early modernist painting in France. This is indispensable reading for all scholars of Manet, the 1860s, and the politics of representation, as well as modernism’s fraught relationship to the history of slavery.” * André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania *"The art historian Henry Sayre promises to “reveal the politics that define the art of Édouard Manet” in this analysis of the French artist’s famous painting Olympia (1863), which shows a white prostitute and her black maid bringing her flowers. . . . Sayre explains in the preface: 'Almost all textbooks—and almost all art teachers, for that matter—refer to the light reflective nature (high or low) of light and dark colours in terms of their relative value, and I decided to look at the history of this usage.'" * The Art Newspaper *
£36.00
The University of Chicago Press Stations of the Lost The Treatment of Skid Row
Book SynopsisWhen first published in 1970, Stations of the Lost won the C. Wright Mills Award for Best Book in the Area of Social Problems. The study considers the Skid Row alcoholic from two points of view, that of the alcoholic himself and that of the agents of social control who treat him. A major discovery of Wiseman's research was that Skid Row men spend only about one third of the year on Skid Row. The rest of the time is spent making the loopgoing from Skid Row to city jail, to county jail, to the state mental hospital, to the missions, and back to Skid Row. While these facilities are designed to handle or rehabilitate Skid Row men, they are actually used by these men as a means of survival.
£33.02
The University of Chicago Press Lincoln Douglas and Slavery In the Crucible of
Book SynopsisWinner of the Speech Communication's Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address.Zarefsky examines the dynamics of the seven 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, placing them in historical context and explaining the complicated issue of slavery in the territories, their focal point. He elucidates the candidates' arguments, analyzes their rhetorical strategies, and shows how public sentiment is transformed.
£28.50
James Clarke & Co. Ltd Send Back the Money The Free Church of Scotland
Book Synopsis'Send back the Money!' throws light upon nineteenth-century culture, British and American Abolitionists, and ecclesiastical politics.Trade Review'Iain Whyte's study of this little known episode in Scottish history makes for an engrossing read. [...] Popular ballads and songs, many written in a lively and earthy Scots, contrasted dry theological argument. Dr Whyte captures the excitement and emotion of these times.[...]...excellent...' Dr James Robertson, University of Glasgow '...An accessible, scholarly, and enjoyably-readable monograph[...] ...A fine miniature of the perils of moral decision-making...' David Cornick, Reform Magazine, April 2013 '...In 'Send Back the Money!' Iain Whyte has pulled off the difficult feat of making a piece of pure historical research amusing as well as enlightening. Reading his book, we can hear those passionate Nineteenth Century voices and their echoes today...' Richard Holloway, author and former Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church 'Iain Whyte gives us a book here whose absorbing story echoes far beyond its immediate space and time of Scotland and the USA before the American Civil War. It is a lesson, often tragic, of the international demands on the conscience of moral men and women, and the perpetual temptation to ignore cruelty beyond our own horizons. But God knows no frontiers.' Owen Dudley Edwards, Reader at the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh "Thoroughly researched and compelling written book." John S. Ross, The Record, June 2013 "Thank you, Iain Whyte. Through the clarity of your history lesson you have reduced our wriggle-room!" Jim Wilkie, Coracle 2013 "The author provides interesting insight into this all-but-forgotten episode of Scottish history, carefully detailing the incidents and issues as the story unfolds. The book is attractively produced and reads very fluently." Don Martin, Scottish Local History, Issue 86, Autumn 2013 'Dr Whyte has taken his research on an obscure and not very creditable part of Free Church history and given it a relevance for today in a book which is short enough not to scare the non-historian, readable, well-founded in original sources, thought-provoking and much to be welcomed by general reader and historian alike.' Andrew Muirhead, The Innes Review, Vol. 64, No. 2, 2013 "This book not only explains the context and the evolution of public opinion with regards to slavery in both countries, but the author situates as well many other events related with the Free Church, the American Presbyterianism, and religions in general, following the methods of comparative studies, in the tradition of Atlantic Studies. 'Send Back the Money' The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery is neither a mere history book, nor entirely focused on theology; it is rather an interdisciplinary account about how political, ethnical, religious ideas were confronted with the issue of slavery during an epoch when it was considered as 'normal' and even 'necessary'." Yves Laberge, Université Laval, in Theological Book Review (tbr), Vol. 25, No.1, 2013 A short, narrative and interesting tale of a few years in the history of a new branch of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, yet the story develops into a multi-layered tale featuring well-known international speakers, major ethical dilemmas, and the fickleness of popular support ... Overall, with this study Whyte continues to cement his position as the historian of Scottish anti-slavery. Paula E. Dumas, Journal of Scottish historical studies, Issues 1, 2014 "By drawing attention to this little-known episode Whyte undermines hagiographic depictions of the Free Church's struggles, pointing to the politicking which lay beneath the Church's avoidance of the candid abolitionism [...] this is a balanced and well-researched account which sheds new light on Scotland's complex relationship with slavery." Valerie Wallace, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol 65, Issue 4, (October 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction : A church with freedom but no money Chapter 1. A delegation warmly received Chapter 2. The elephant in the room Chapter 3. Chalmers and Smyth - tensions across the atlantic Chapter 4. Keeping a lid on the volcano Chapter 5. 'Douglass has blawn sic a flame' Chapter 6. War, drink, the Sabbath, and the 1846 Assembly Chapter 7. Ballads and broadsheets Chapter 8. The Irish take a firmer stand Chapter 9. Evangelicals and abolitionists - houses divided Chapter 10. The last battles and the hunting of 'the Brave Macbeth' Chapter 11. A passing storm in a teacup or the shape of things to come? Bibliography Index
£28.82
McGill-Queen's University Press Ordinary People Extraordinary Times
Book SynopsisA collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.Trade Review“Sheryllynne Haggerty introduces us to a terrific archive of letters, making brand new insights into colonial Jamaican history and wrangling an incredibly disparate set of sources into a lively examination of the desires, political interests, consumption patterns, family organizations, and restricted options of both free and enslaved people in the Caribbean. While previous scholarship tends to focus on the elite classes, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times extends our understanding of colonial Jamaican society through an exploration of the everyday.” Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna College and author of Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733–1833
£91.80
Palgrave Macmillan White Women Captives in North Africa
Book SynopsisA fascinating anthology of narratives from the period 1735-1830, by European women who recount their enslavement in North Africa. The first such collection, it includes an extensive introduction which links the discourse on contemporary Western women captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments A Note on the Texts Introduction PART I: NARRATIVES Remarkable History of the Countess Du Bourk's Shipwreck, and Her Daughter's Captivity, 1735 Notable History of a Spanish Girl, Slave to Ali Dey, 1735 Maria van Ter MEETELEN: The Exact Narrative of the Voyage and Strange and Sad Captivity during Twelve Years of Myself Maria Ter Meetelen, 1748 Elizabeth MARSH: The Female Captive, 1769 Mary VELNET: An Affecting History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Mary Velnet, 1806 Maria MARTIN: History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Maria Martin, 1807 Eliza BRADLEY: An Authentic Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley,1820 Viletta LARANDA: Neapolitan Captive: Interesting Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Miss Viletta Laranda, 1830 PART II: APPENDICES Accusations and Confessions of Ana de Melo, a Free Christianized Muslim Woman, 1559 Maria de Morales' Captivity, Release and Confessions before the Inquisitional Tribunal, 1610 Relation of the Fidelity of a Husband, and the Unfaithfulness of his Wife, 1666 My Corsair Emerges up above the Full Main The Bey Weds His Genoise Slave, 1720s The Irish Mrs. Jones and the lascivious Janissary, 1747 An Empress of Morocco Born at Mill of Steps, Parish of Muthill, 1769 A Particular Account of the Royal Harem, 1791 Letter from a Muslim Female Captive in Malta to the Sultan of Morocco, 1790s Ali and the Christian Captive, 1891 Notes Bibliography
£107.99
Palgrave Macmillan Slave in the White House Paul Jennings and the
Book SynopsisThe true story of Paul Jennings, a slave in the household of America's fourth president James Madison, and an extraordinary man in his own right - he taught himself to write and read and purchased his freedom. This accessible and original narative history was a bestseller in the US.Table of ContentsPreface; A.Gordon-Reed Introduction Raised and Nurtured Presidential Household Enamoured with Freedom Not Even Paul Change of Mind His Own Free Hands First Families of Color The Right to Rise Appendix: A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£17.09
Columbia University Press In Service and Servitude
Book SynopsisExamining how the shared interests of state elites and the middle classes rationalize mistreatment of domestic workers, the author argues that the "premodern" exploitation of migrant domestic workers is at odds with the global expansion of open markets and free trade.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Arranging and Rearranging the Interior Frontiers of Society 3. "Boys, Amahs, and Girls": Domestic Workers of the Past and Present 4. The Malaysian-Philippine-Indonesian Maid Trade 5. Infrapolitics of Domestic Service: Strategies of, and Resistances to, Control 6. Modernity Via Consumption: Domestic Service and the Making of the Modern Malaysian Middle Classes 7. Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£27.20
Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
£73.60
Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
£25.50
