Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Books

Book SynopsisThis manuscript delves into the slaveholding Indians as secessionists, as participants in the Civil War, and as victims under reconstruction. This phase of American Civil War history which has been almost entirely neglected or, where dealt with, either misunderstood or misinterpreted is discussed in detail in this book.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface; General Situation in the Indian Country, 1830-1860; Indian Territory in its Relations with Texas and Arkansas; The Confederacy in Negotiation with the Indian Tribes; The Indian Nations in Alliance With the Confederacy; Appendix A: Fort Smith Papers; Appendix B: The Leeper or Wichita Agency Papers; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisSlavery has existed since the origins of written history and probably long before. It is discussed in the Hebrew Bible which set standards for enslaving persons and treatment of slaves. Excepting a few schools of philosophy, nearly all Greeks thought slavery was the natural condition of many human beings. Most important among those Greeks advocating slavery were two of humankind's greatest minds, Plato and Aristotle. Enslavement of one with a slave soul was considered just and freeing such a person was considered unjust. The Romans ignored the Greek philosophizing about slavery, but practiced it on a massive scale, frequently enslaving captives from various wars. Rome's greatest philosopher Cicero defended slavery. Rome was plagued by several servile revolts, the best known of which was led by Spartacus. Slavery was practiced throughout Europe and the Middle East following the fall of Rome. There was no racial dimension or consideration until Spain and Portugal began to enslave native aborigine in the newly discovered Western Hemisphere. To save these natives from involuntary servitude, the Church promoted importation of Africans. Following decades of profitable slave trade, England led the way in abolishing slavery. Other nations followed, including the United States, although that emancipation required a major internal war. Southern slave holders consistently defended the enslavement of presumed racial inferiors and claimed that slavery was beneficial to them. Southern slave holders produced volumes of literature supporting slavery, some of which referred to the Greek philosophers.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Slavery in the Hebrew Bible; Slavery in Greece; Plato and Socrates on Slavery; Aristotle on Slavery; Slavery in Rome; Slavery in the New Testament; Slavery in Europe; Some Philosophers on Slavery; Catholic Church on Slavery; Spain and New World Slavery; Great Britain and the Slave Trade; From Whence Commeth American Slaves; Slavery in the United States; The Slavery Advocates; Postscript: Slavery in the Modern World; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMary Ann Shadd’s pamphlet A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada West is, as the title promises, a settler guide designed to inform prospective immigrants of conditions in their proposed new home. But whereas most such works were addressed to potential white emigrants to North America from Britain or continental Europe, Shadd’s aimed to entice black Americans to emigrate to Canada.The introduction and background materials included in the volume situate Shadd’s pamphlet in its political and cultural context, and in the context of Shadd’s own remarkable life as an abolitionist, women’s rights activist, writer, and educator.Trade Review“Phanuel Antwi’s new edition of Mary Ann Shadd’s A Plea for Emigration is cause for celebration, for it brings the work of this fascinating nineteenth-century black feminist, abolitionist, journalist, editor, lawyer, and educational activist back into the wide circulation it deserves. Shadd’s groundbreaking pamphlet (accompanied in this edition by a rich selection of contextual materials) is every bit as foundational a work of Canadian literature as that other 1852 text, Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush; its re-publication in this edition represents a substantial contribution to the vitally important ongoing project of reaching beyond Moodie’s and other European settler-invader accounts of Canadian experience.” — Lorraine York, William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture, McMaster University“This new edition of Mary Ann Shadd’s A Plea for Emigration, with its fine introduction and stimulating contextual materials will … invigorate conversations about Canada’s complex relation to American slavery, as well as introduce its remarkable author to new generations of students and scholars. It is important and welcome.” — Leslie Sanders, Department of Humanities, York University“While much has been written about white settler populations in nineteenth-century Canada West (present-day Ontario), and a few authors have explored black populations in the region, most of whom were escaped African American slaves who had fled North via the “Underground Railroad,” much less is known about how black inhabitants felt about their land prospects, political rights, the Canadian climate and land. As one of the few settler guides aimed at nineteenth-century black readers, Shadd’s Plea for Emigration—now re-issued by Broadview with an informative introduction, explanatory notes, and a helpful selection of contextual materials—is an insightful, detailed description of the aforementioned, and so much more. The deliberate yet engaging writing of Mary Ann Shadd—educator, editor, feminist, abolitionist, and visionary—is … scarcely remembered in the annals of early African American literature; this pro-British, integrationist text shines a bright and long overdue light on Shadd’s unwavering activism and courage in challenging opposing attitudes about black liberation.” — Cheryl Thompson, University of TorontoTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Mary Ann Shadd: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text A Plea for Emigration; or Notes of Canada WestIn Context From Harriet Martineau, Society in America From Frederick Douglass, Life of an American Slave From William H. Smith, Smith's Canadian Gazetteer From The Fugitive Slave Act (1850) From The Provincial Freeman (24 March 1854) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMany thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history.Trade Review“Harvey Amani Whitfield, the leading authority on slavery in the Maritime provinces, here provides an extraordinary collection of documents on the subject. The cruelty of slavery, the harms that it did to enslaved and free Black people, and the myriad forms of slave resistance are fully on display, as much in banal deeds of sale as in powerful first-person accounts by slaves and former slaves.” — Elsbeth Heaman, Department of History, McGill University“Black Slavery in the Maritimes is a welcome and impressive addition to the historiography of slavery in Canada, and vitally necessary for school curricula. Teachers will find this sourcebook useful, as it is a ‘hands on’ tour of slavery in Canada. Additionally, scholars of Black Canadian history, both inside and outside the academy, will be delighted to have this sourcebook in hand.” — Afua Cooper, James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University“Not only does Black Slavery in the Maritimes provide a sourcebook that will be of enormous educational value, but it is also an exceptional work of scholarship. Whitfield combines clear-sighted historical expertise with deeply humane insights, notably in the general and sectional introductions and in the poignant commentaries on each document. This is a documentary history of rare quality.” — John G. Reid, Department of History, Saint Mary’s University“This remarkable collection of documents makes undeniable the everyday reality of Black slavery in the early Maritimes. Whitfield’s introduction and document glosses provide critical historical background while still reserving to the reader a sense of discovery about slavery and its penetration into diverse social, economic, legal, and political aspects of Maritime culture.” — Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies, University of New BrunswickTable of Contents Introduction Chronology Questions to Consider Part I: Runaway Slave Advertisements and Slave for Sale Notices Document 1: Halifax Slaves for Sale in Boston, 1751 Document 2: Slaves for Sale, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1752 Document 3: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Female Slave Named Thursday, Nova Scotia, 1772 Document 4: Slave Wanted Advertisement, Nova Scotia, 1776 Document 5: Runaway Advertisement, James, Nova Scotia, 1781 and 1786 Document 6: Female Slave to be Sold at Public Auction, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 7: Runaway Slave Advertisement, An African Slave, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 8: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dick, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 9: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, Nova Scotia 1783 Document 10: Slave for Sale, “Negro Boy,” New Brunswick, 1784 Document 11: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Hector, New Brunswick, 1784 Document 12: Runaway Advertisement, Unfree Black Laborers, 1784, New Brunswick Document 13: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Jupiter and Clarinda, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 14: A Family Escapes, Nova Scotia, 1785 Document 15: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year old, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 16: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year Old boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 17: Slaves for Sale Advertisement, A Man and boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 18: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, 1786, New Brunswick Document 19: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Five Slaves Escape Caleb Jones, New Brunswick 1786 Document 20: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, Nova Scotia 1786 Document 21: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Teenage Girl, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 22: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Woman, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 23: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Sam and Beller, (siblings) escape, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 24: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Abraham teenager, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 25: Runaway Slave Advertisement, London, Age 18, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 26: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Keziah, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 27: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Black Woman, New Brunswick, 1788 Document 28: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, 1788 Document 29: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Poll, 1791, New Brunswick Document 30: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Statia and Her Family, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 31: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 32: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Joseph Odel and Peter Lawrence, Nova Scotia, 1792 Document 33: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Bill/Belfast, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 34: Slave for Sale, Young Man, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 35: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Gill and Dick, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 36: Female Sold for a Term of Years, Nova Scotia, 1800 Document 37: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Two Slaves, 1802, New Brunswick Document 38: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, New Brunswick, 1806 Document 39: Slave for Sale, Nancy, New Brunswick, 1809 Document 40: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Lidge Escapes Again, New Brunswick 1816 Document 41: Runaway Advertisement, Samuel Hutchings, New Brunswick, 1818 Part II: Letters, Narratives, Newspapers, Petitions Document 42: John Wentworth Letter about his 19 Slaves, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 43: Petition of Zimri Armstrong about Re-enslavement, New Brunswick, 1785 Document 44: James MacGregor, A Letter to a Clergyman Urging him to set free a Black Girl he held in SLAVERY, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 45: Petition of Thomas Peters to the British Government, 1790 Document 46: John Clarkson’s Diary, Lydia Jackson’s Re-enslavement and Other Observations, 1791 Document 47: Thomas Clarkson, “Some Account of the New Colony at Sierra Leone,” Re-enslavement, 1792 Document 48: David George’s Narrative 1793 Document 49: Boston King’s Narrative, 1798 Document 50: Gradual Emancipation of Jack and Amelia in Prince Edward Island, 1800 Document 51: Joseph Aplin’s Racial Justification for Slavery, 1801 Document 52: Excerpts from OPINIONS OF SEVERAL GENTLEMEN OF THE LAW, ON THE SUBJECT OF NEGRO SERVITUDE IN THE PROVINCE OF NOVA-SCOTIA, 1802 Document 53: Digby Slave-owners’ Petition, Nova Scotia, 1807 Document 54: Petition of Isaac Willoughby, Former Slave, 1834, Nova Scotia Document 55: Article Supporting Slavery and Decrying Free Blacks, 1842, Nova Scotia Part III: Court Cases and Bills of Sale Document 56: Bill of Sale, Young boy from Maryland, 1779, Nova Scotia Document 57: Bill of Sale, Mintur, 1779 Document 58: King v. Jesse Gray, for whipping Pero 100 times, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 59: Mary Postell Affidavit, Nova Scotia 1791 Document 60: Grand Jury Complaint, Re-enslavement of black boy sent to the West Indies Illegally, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 61: James DeLancey Complaint Against William Woodin, 1803 Document 62: Supreme Court “Nancy” Case, New Brunswick, 1800 Document 63: Ward Chipman’s Slavery Brief, New Brunswick Supreme Court, 1800 Document 64: R v. Andrews (Indictment of Samuel Andrews Jr.), Slave-owners murder a female slave, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 65: Slave Returned to Owner, Supreme Court, Prince Edward Island, 1802 Document 66: Bill of Sale for Percilla, 8 Year Old Girl, 1804, Nova Scotia Document 67: Supreme Court Case, Newspaper Account, New Brunswick, 1806 Part IV: Government Documents Document 68: Governor Cornwallis discusses Captain Bloss and His slaves, 1750 Document 69: An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE, 1781, Prince Edward Island Document 70: Book of Negroes Document 71: Dick Hill, Re-Enslaved, Shelburne, 1787, Nova Scotia (will have to change number because of date) Document 72: An Act for the Regulation & Relief of the free Negroes within the Province of Nova Scotia, (Un-passed), 1789 Document 73: A Bill Relating to Negroes, 6 February 1801, (Un-passed), Legislative Assembly Records, New Brunswick Document 74: AN ACT to repeal an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of his late Majesty’s reign intituled “An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE,” Statutes of Prince Edward Island, 1825 Document 75: Prince Edward Island and Montserrat Connection, 1828 Part V: Wills and Church Records Document 76: Probate Record of Joseph Totten, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 77: Probate Record of Thomas Leonard, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 78: Probate Record of Anna Lillie (or Ann Lilie), Nova Scotia, 1789 Document 79: Teenage Slave Diana Bastian Burial Note-Her Rape and Pregnancy by George More, Member of Council, Cape Breton, 1792 Document 80: Probate Record of Caleb Fowler, Nova Scotia, 1793 Document 81: Probate Record of George Cornwall, Nova Scotia, 1799 Document 82: Probate Record of Jacob Ellegood Document 83: Probate Record of Benjamin Belcher, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 84: Probate Record of Jacob Troop, Nova Scotia, 1805 Document 85: Probate Record of Isaac Bonnell, Nova Scotia, 1806 Document 86: Probate Record of William Wanton, New Brunswick, 1812 Document 87: Probate Record of William Schurman (or Schurmann), Prince Edward Island, 1819 Additional Suggested Readings

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Book SynopsisHaving its origins in the slave narratives and the folktales transmitted orally during that period, the literature of the African American has been rich and varied. Beginning with the first published work of fiction (Clotel; Or, the President''s Daughter) in 1853, continuing under the influence of W E B Du Bois during the first part of this century, and reaching a flowering during the Harlem Renaissance, major contributions have been made to American literature. Today African American writers , such as Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, and Maya Angelou are recognised as among the most significant and popular authors in this country. This new book presents an important overview of African-American literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography with easy access provided by title, subject, and author indexes.

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Book SynopsisArguably our most obscure president, and generally judged mediocre at best, Millard Fillmore came to the presidency in July 1850 when his predecessor, Zachary Taylor, unexpectedly died. Despite his relative anonymity, Fillmore was thrust into the nation''s greatest historical argument the great debate concerning the future of slavery in the republic. With considerable political aplomb, he helped guide the passage of the measures collectively known as the Compromise of 1850, including the sensitive and controversial Fugitive Slave Act. Rather than resolve the agitation, these measures gave way to a decade of rancorous conflict which brought about the Civil War. This interpretative study seeks to understand why this president remained anchored to a past that was no longer effective in his own time.

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Book Synopsis“My parents were slaves in New York State. My master’s sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long — it was dark there all the time.”Sophia Burthen’s account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century, was recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew’s interview to piece together Burthen’s life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story. In so doing, Hunter demonstrates the role that the slave trade played in pre-Confederation Canada and its continuing impact on contemporary Canadian society.Evocatively written with sharp, incisive observations and illustrated with archival images and contemporary works of art, It Was Dark There All the Time offers a necessary correction to the prevailing perception of Canada as a place unsullied by slavery and its legacy.Trade Review“It Was Dark There All the Time is exhaustively researched and intriguingly wide in scope. ... Out of the scant details that we have of an enslaved woman’s life, Hunter and his editors have built a kind of epic reckoning and, for Hunter, a personal one, drawing as he does on elements of his own life.” -- Jeff Mahoney * Hamilton Specter *“It Was Dark There All the Time is a book to read slowly, to think about and to learn from, to be read carefully more than once. Hunter brings a critical eye to the research and the emotional and mental work needed to share these stories.” -- Julie Kenter * Winnipeg Free Press *

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

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Book SynopsisThis is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in every good gothic novel, Louisa's father died, and having been deserted by her mother, she went to live with her maternal uncle in his early Tudor manor in the depths of the Devon countryside. Eight years later she left England to salvage her inheritance, a journey which took her to the Bahamas, and then to South Carolina. On her return to England she married a dashing naval officer, with whom she had ten children. Her affairs were much commented on at the time by relations and friends: we can occasionally be privy to the chaos around her dining table, or her distress at the death of one of her children. She had another traumatic adventure on the Atlantic at the age of thirty-five, when her ship was captured by French privateers. Over the years, despite her best endeavours, her fortune was demolished by the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, corrupt lawyers, fraudulent deeds, a spendthrift husband and profligate son.Table of Contents1. The Sovereign Lords Proprietors 2. Tell Mamma 3. Spurious Issue 4. Blue Gold 5. Mournful Event 6. It is all Over 7. Perfectly Fruitless 8. Hands of Kings 9. Our Little Queen 10. A Stranger in My Native Land 11. A Poor Match 12. Disallowed 13. 'Artillery of tears' 14. Cargo of Rice 15. Captured 16. Joy to Agony 17. Dark Scene 18. Upon Velvet 19. Corrupt Jobs 20. Trammels of Debt 21. Impossible 22. Forgery 23. Verses on the Cat 24. Heap of Dust Epilogue Postscript - The Yellow Portrait Acknowledgments Family Trees Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explores the links between Richard Oastlers extraordinarily influential campaign against child labour in Yorkshire after 1830 and the remarkably successful campaign to abolish the transatlantic slave trade led by Yorkshire MP William Wilberforce before 1807. With contributions from D. Colin Dews, Dr John Halstead, Dr John A. Hargreaves, Dr Janette Martin, Professor Edward Royle and Professor James Walvin, it evaluates the distinctively Yorkshire context of both movements and offers a re-assessment of Oastlers contribution to their success. It reveals how Oastlers associations with both evangelical Anglicanism and Nonconformity, especially Methodism, stimulated and sustained his involvement in the ten-hour factory movement and examines the role of the regional press, local grass-roots organisation and Oastlers powerful oratory in helping to secure a successful outcome to the campaign. In a foreword, the Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal, a leading figure in both the regional and national commemoration of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 2007, commends this wide-ranging historical study with its broad perspective as an important contribution to making us all more informed on the whole theme of slavery today.Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: 'Victims of slavery even on the threshold of our homes'; William Wilberforce, Yorkshire and the campaign to end transatlantic slavery 1787-1838; Richard Oastler: the Methodist background, 1789-1838; The Huddersfield Short Time Committee and its radical associations, c.1820-1876; Oastler's Yorkshire Slavery campaign in 1830-32; 'Oastler is welcome': Richard Oastler's triumphant return to Huddersfield, 1844; Treading on the edge of revolution?' Richard Oastler (1789-1861): a reassessment; Notes on contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisJohn R. Jewitt''s story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. On March 22, 1803, while anchored in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Boston was attacked by a group of Mowachaht warriors. Twenty-five of her 27 crewmen were massacred, their heads "arranged in a line" for survivor John R. Jewitt to identify. Jewitt and another survivor, John Thompson, became 2 of some 50 slaves owned by the chief known as Maquinna. Among other duties, they were forced to carry wood for three miles and fight for Maquinna when he slaughtered a neighbouring tribe. But their worst fear came from knowing that slaves could be killed whenever their master chose. Since most of the Mowachaht wanted the two whites dead, they never knew what would come first--freedom or death. After Jewitt was rescued, following 28 months in captivity, he wrote a book of his experiences. It appeared in 1815 and became known as Jewitt''s Narrative. It proved so popular that it is still being reprinted today.

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Book SynopsisThe edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of structural explanations like the model of state-building versus popular resistance, it wishes to put back the peasants themselves to the historical narratives of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom, which was a practical issue for them. Nonetheless, the language of lord-peasant negotiation was that of religion, just as official punishments used Christian symbols. The approach of revolts as the events of collective violence also highlights the experiences and memories of participants. How did individuals and groups use remembering and forgetting as a means of forging an identity for themselves? Instead of the narratives of the powerful that became the normative stories of history, the perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts more forcibly. Finally, contributors examine how later narrators used the rebels for their own purposes, in other words the subsequent representation of the revolts and their leaders in image, literature and historiography comes to the fore. The volume aims to overcome disciplinary boundaries by bringing together historians and scholars of related disciplines including the history of literature, the visual arts and anthropology. The central contention of the volume - the cultural imprint of peasant revolts - is fully addressed, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.

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Book SynopsisHelmut Meiers study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784-1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on the slave trade and slavery as such. Starting from the premise that, at the threshold from the early to the late modern period, the distinct image of Africans as slaves was instrumental in universalising a Eurocentric concept of capitalist wage labor both at the colonial centres and margins, Meier argues that, by portraying African slaves as suffering wretches, especially anti-slavery texts created colonial Others in an indistinct zone between inclusion and exclusion from humanity. The discourse on slavery thus constructs African slaves as mimetic Others which could subsequently become the objects of a discourse of colonial reform and betterment.

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a unique perspective that embraces the origin and afterlife of enslavement as well as the imaginaries and representations of slaves rather than the trade in slaves itself.

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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain''s colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) and undertook this work. Based on a belief in the essential unity of humankind, the Society''s missionaries advocated for the conversion and better treatment of enslaved people. Yet, only a minority of enslaved people embraced Anglicanism, while a majority rejected it. Mastering Christianity closely explores these missionary encounters. The Society hoped to make slavery less cruel and more paternalistic but it came to stress the ideas that chattel slavery and Christianity were entirely compatible and could even be mutually beneficial. While important early figures saw slavery as troubling, over time the Society accommodated its messageTrade ReviewWhile the book is constructed largely as a study of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, religion, race, and the institution of slavery, it also has broader importance to the study of the often surprisingly complex and multifaceted world of imperial and colonial society where religion functioned with a motivational power only misleadingly reduced to material or social forces. Nevertheless, Glasson also impressively demonstrates the degree to which economic, worldly realities forged the environment of empire and influenced religious beliefs, often in ways that contradicted and corroded Christian ethical precept, and in the eighteenth century, reinforced the emergence of new racial hierarchies while providing support for the institution of slavery. * Steven S. Maughan, Journal of Early Modern History *This important book by Travis Glasson extends and deepens our understanding of the earliest English Protestant missionary society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. ... To read Glasson's book is to glimpse an age when Anglicans sought to forge a new, expansive imperial identity, but also struggled to square their commitment to maintaining social order with supporting the radical Christian notion of the equality of souls. ... Mastering Christianity represents an important addition to our knowledge of the spread of multiple, competitive forms of Christianity in the developing British imperial framework. With a sure command of the historiography and sources, Glasson's careful scholarship has produced the first full history of one of the most important institutional forces in the British Empire in the eighteenth century in its relationship to slavery. * Journal of Early Modern History *Mastering Christianity is a welcome addition to the burgeoning historical literature on slavery and the Atlantic world. ... [It] provides a rich if sobering introduction to how a Christian organization dedicated to the salvation of 'heathen' servants became a servant to the status quo, supporting slavery and its perpetual extension. ... His book provides a compelling explanation for that wavering trajectory. * Dee E. Andrews, Journal of American History *Travis Glasson's marvelous new study of the SPG's operations among African slave populations in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Atlantic world is such a welcome addition to our understanding of the dynamics of imperial Christianity. Deeply researched and thoroughly engaging Glasson's thesis is an original and compelling one. * Brent S. Sirota, Journal of British Studies *Over the years the tangled story of the changing relationship of the Anglican Church with the institution of slavery between the late seventeenth century and the eventual ending of that institution by the British in 1838 has received its fair share of scholarly attention. This ambitious study fully succeeds in its objective of casting the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, its activities and shifting perceptions of slavery and African peoples, in an entirely fresh light. It is scholarship of the very highest quality, of immense intellectual power and authority, and promises to stand as the definitive study for many years to come. * Betty Wood, Girton College, Cambridge *At last we have a history of the Anglican missions that appreciates the scale and impact of their religious enterprise. Mastering Christianity provides the best analysis yet of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a crucial instrument in the cultivation of a British Atlantic world made possible by enslaved laborers. By closely examining the entanglement of Anglicanism and slavery, rather than skipping forward to the evangelical revivals, Glasson offers fresh insight into why so many black people joined the Church of England * and why most did not.Vincent Brown, author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery *Travis Glasson's pioneering and revisionist Mastering Christianity reconstructs the always vexed and increasingly corrosive relationship between the evangelical agenda of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and the reality of its economic and ideological involvement with black chattel slavery. Mastering Christianity is a significant contribution to studies of race, religion, slavery, and abolition in the British circum-Atlantic empire. * Vincent Carretta, co-editor of The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary *Travis Glasson has written the definitive history of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel's evangelization mission to enslaved Africans and their descendants in the British Atlantic World. Brilliantly conceived and exhaustively researched, Mastering Christianity explores the intellectual and practical evolutions of the SPG mission from the dawn of the eighteenth century to the abolition of British West Indian slavery in 1838. Glasson's readable prose yields fresh insights about the work of Anglican missionaries, the people they sought to convert, and the impact these missions had upon the struggles over Atlantic slavery's future. * Edward B. Rugemer, author of The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War *Mastering Christianity is an important reconsideration of the intersection of religion, race and slavery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic. Like few others, Glasson takes us inside the complex world of missions to enslaved people and of Christianity's complicity in slavery and racial hierarchies. * Jon F. Sensbach, author of Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World *We can be very grateful to Travis Glasson for showing us what can happen when we turn our voices from the service of our Lord to the service of our own corps and ourselves. * Elena Thompson, Anglican Theological Review *Glasson's excellent new book repositions the eighteenth-century Church of England as a critical imperial institution with an Atlantic reach…[and] its struggles to engage and convert enslaved and native people while also sustaining its relationship with the Atlantic planter class."-Rebecca A. Goetz, Journal of Religion<"Mastering Christianity examines why Anglican authorities came (belatedly) to the missionary impulse, how they sought to put this desire into practice, and why they proved so ineffectual, at least in regard to the conversion of the Africans who lived under British rule. This is a fascinating, if also somewhat depressing, study of an institution whose religious and moral principles, and potential for doing good, were fatally compromised by its social and political ties and ambitions.>"-Robert Olwell, American Historical ReviewMastering Christianity presents a deeply informative account of contemporary beliefs and activities; it is both rigorously researched and clearly (and dispassionately) argued. Broadly speaking, it adds perspective to how Anglicanism has struggled to adapt to historical change, and one suspects that the stalwarts of the SPG would be surprised by the Church's modern demographics. * Charles W. A. Prior, Church History *In this richly detailed study the author sets out to revise the conventional wisdom about Anglican humanitarianism...and to explain Anglicanism's failure to draw into its fold the black peoples who were the focus of its missionary efforts....The book succeeds....Highly useful and is likely to stand as the definitive work on the subject for years to come. * Sylvia R. Frey, English Historical Review *An important contribution to the literature on the intersection of race and religion in the Atlantic world. * Edward L. Bond, Anglican and Episcopal History *The book's strength is in engaging with the questions of SPG intellectual contributions to growing racial awareness, and in recognizing and giving a place to the agency of non-Europeans who both resisted and adopted missionary Anglicanism in the eighteenth century....An unquestionably important intervention into the literature on missionary humanitarianism and the missionary relationship with slavery and abolition. * Bronwen Everill, Britain and the World *Glasson's excellent study reveals how devout men came to put profits and the perspective of slave masters ahead of concern for the souls and the bodies of the enslaved people it might have helped. * Carla Gardina Pestana, Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Institutional and Intellectual Foundations 1. "My Constitution is Constellated for Any Meridian": Creating Trans-Atlantic Missionary Anglicanism 2. Natural Religion and the Sons of Noah: The Society, Human Difference, and Slavery Part II: The Society and Colonial Slavery 3. "The Two Great Articles of Faith and Obedience": Anglican Missionaries and Slavery, 1701-1740 4. Masters and Pastors: Anglicanism, Revivalism, and Slavery, 1740-1765 Part III: Sites of Missionary Encounter 5. "A Sett of Possitive Obstinate People": Missionary Encounters on Codrington Plantation 6. "One of their Own Color and Kindred": Philip Quaque and the SPG Mission to Africa Part IV: Responses to Antislavery 7. "Themselves Under this Very Predicament": The Society and the Antislavery Movement, 1765-1838 Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Trade Review"This magisterial study is a triumph of scholarship....Must reading for anyone interested in American legal history or the Civil War."--Virginia Quarterly Review

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Book SynopsisThis textbook has been designed to confront a central issue in the study of 19th-century Afro-American literature - the question of how to analyse and evaluate the autobiographical tradition of ex-slaves.Trade Review`An imnpressive collection.' New York Times Book Review`This important collection of essays provides the most complete and cogent analysis of the slave narratives to date, and it demonstrates, again, that the narratives had and continue to have many uses ... The essays make a strong case for opening the historical and literary canon to include the slave narratives and testify to their enduring significance.' Library Journal`The Slave's Narrative is the most sophisticated and comprehensive book we have yet on the central issue facing students of 19th Century Afro-American literature: the question of how to analyse and evaluate the autobiographical tradition of ex-slaves. ...it is unlikely that any single collection of essays could do greater justice than The Slave's Tale has to the breadth, vitality, and untapped potential of this topic and the discourse it has generated.'William L. Andrews, University of Wisconsin, (BALF Spring/Summer 1986)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Language of Slavery, xi 1. Written by Themselves, Views and Reviews, 1750-1861 The Life of Job Ben Solomon, 4 - Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; Written by Himself, 5 The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave, 6 - Anonymous Narrative of James Williams, 8 - Anonymous The Narrative of Juan Manzano, 15 - Anonymous Narratives of Fugitive Slaves, 19 - Ephraim Peabody Life of Henry Bibb, 28 - Anonymous The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass, 30 - Anonymous Kidnapped and Ransomed, 31 - - Anonymous Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, 32 - Anonymous 2. The Slave Narratives as History On Dialect Usage, 37 - Sterling A. Brown The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives, 40 - Paul D. Escott History from Slave Sources, 48 - C. Vann Woodward Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and the Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature, 59 - John Edgar Wideman Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems, 78 - John W. Blassingame Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic, 98 - Gerald Jaynes The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom -- A Case Study, 112 - Robin W. Winks 3. The Slave Narratives as Literature "I Was Born": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature, 148 - James Olney Three West African Writers of the 1870s, 175 - Paul Edwards Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery, 199 - Susan Willis I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives, 225 - Robert Burns Stepto Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave, 242 - Houston A. Baker, Jr. Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, 262 - Jean Fagan Yellin The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae, 283 - Charles H. Nichols Singing Swords: The Literary Legacy of Slavery, 298 - Melvin Dixon Bibliography, 319 Index, 331

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Book SynopsisThe book represents a close study of slavery in the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia. The emphasis is principally on the human relations of slavery, both black and white. The book presents unique insights on how the institution of slavery actually functioned in the Antebellum American South.Trade ReviewThe majority of Dusinberre's research is based upon a careful reading and close analysis of a variety of published sources. Dusinberre's description of life and death at Gowne between 1833 and 1865 constitutes one of the most fully realized and horrific portraits of slavery on a single North American plantation ever written ... Them Dark Days is often so combative and polemical in its interpretation that its author must have expected to provoke controversy. I hope and expect that students of the subject will be reading and debating Them Dark Days for years to come. * Robert Olwell, University of Texas at Austin, Slavery & Abolition, Vol. 18, No. 2, August '97 *The sheer weight of evidence employed to support this thesis is impressive, and sobering ... as the first full-length study devoted to a reassessment of this contentious and important topic, Dusinberre's work stands out as a significant achievement, a timely reminder that even modern assessments of slavery do not yet tell the whole story of 'them dark days' in the antebellum South. * S-M. Grant, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Historical Association 1997 *

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the 1823 slave rebellion in Demerara (now Guyana) - one of the largest in history. The 60,000 black slaves who rose up against their British masters were brutally put down. The book looks at the conflict which gave the rebellion life and the forces which finally ended slavery.Trade ReviewIn Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood Emilia Viotti da Costa tells the story of the Demerara slave rebellion of 1823, and she tells it very well. Her narrative, vividly written, utilizes multiple sources to tell the story from different points of view. Her book comes out of a tradition of writing inspired both by marxist and nationalist historiographies and has none of the trappings of a postcolonial text. The older questions of historical determination, of causality and of agency meet the new agendas of cultural history in a deeply satisfying narrative. * History Workshop Journal *

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Book SynopsisCovering the colonial period to the Civil War and spanning all of the northern United States, this text documents the antebellum northern black experience. It demonstrates the central role of the black community in successfully managing the tensions born of assimilation and cultural difference.Trade Reviewwhat makes In Hope of Liberty so stimulating is the juxtaposition of the broad historical sweep with individual experience. * S-M Grant, American Studies, 33:2, 1999. *it is the Horton's ability to pull together such a wide and varied range of individual voices that makes this work so approachable. * S-M Grant, American Studies, 33:2, 1999. *Given the amount of scholarship to-date on the themes of black culture, community and protest, the Hortons have set their sights high in attempting a single-volume study covering all three topics. They have nevertheless succeeded in producing a work of synthesis which is both broad in scope and, most importantly, accessible to a wide readership. * S-M Grant, American Studies, 33:2, 1999. *

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Book SynopsisWhile the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. In this, the first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present, George Reid Andrews deftly synthesizes the history of people of African descent in every Latin American country from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. He examines how African peooples and their descendants made their way from slavery to freedom and how they helped shape and responded to political, economic, and cultural changes in their societies. Individually and collectively they pursued the goals of freedom, equality, and citizenship through military service, political parties, civic organizations, labor unions, religious activity, and other avenues. Spanning two centuries, thiTrade Review...a thoughtful account that should change the way we view and teach the role of Africans in the New World. * Colin M. Maclachlan, Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsMaps Introduction 1. 1800 2. "An Exterminating Bolt of LIghtning": The Wars for Freedom, 1810-1890 3. "Our New Citizens, the Blacks": The Politics of Freedom, 1810-1890 4. "A Transfusion of New Blood": Whitening, 1880-1930 5. Browning and Blackening, 1930-2000 6. Into the Twenty-First Century: 2000 and Beyond Appendix: Population Counts, 1800-2000 Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisThis is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.

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Book Synopsis"A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders."—David Herbert DonaldTrade Review"Invaluable." -- Los Angeles Times

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Book SynopsisIn one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and students of the antebellum South. The Ideology of Slavery includes excerpts by Thomas R. Dew, founder of a new phase of proslavery militancy; William Harper and James Henry Hammond, representatives of the proslavery mainstream; Thornton Stringfellow, the most prominent biblical defender of the peculiar institution; Henry Hughes and Josiah Nott, who brought would-be scientism to the argument; and George Fitzhugh, the most extreme of proslavery writers.The works in this collection portray the development, mature essence, and ultimate fragmentation of the proslavery argument during the era of its greatest importance in the American South. Drew Faust provides a short introduction to each selection, giving information about the author and an account of the origin and publication of the document itself.Faust's introduction to

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Book SynopsisThis text tells the story of how the enslavement of Africans by Berbers, Arabs and other Africans became institutionalized and legitimized throughout Muslim Africa. It provides a portrait of domestic slavery from the 10th to 19th-centuries in a wider religious, social and economic context.Trade Review"Will be welcomed by all interested in African history and anthropology. A valuable contribution and a rich mine of material." -Journal of African History

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Book SynopsisDuring the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a 29-year-old slave, was arrested, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed 46 buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone, Angelique's condemners tortured her after the trial. This work tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angelique.

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