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by David R Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Born a slave in 1790 in the Virginia Panhandle Sarah, a beautiful woman, marries a supposedly free Negro, Lewis, whom she hopes will earn her freedom. Her husband is taken back to Kentucky from where he escaped and Sarah is sold to a neighbour who mistreats her. She is forced to escape with her three...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Ghana-for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years-remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading. The work assembled in this collection explores the history of slavery in Ghana and its...
New England Federalists
Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks on U.S. neutral trade in 1805, this book looks at crucial developments in national politics, public policy, and foreign relations from the perspective of New England Federalists. Through its focus on the partisan climate in Congress...
by Barbara L. Solow
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and...
Southern Outcast
Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper -- the...
Contemporary Slavery
The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might...
by Calentine Williams Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Dark like the skies on a moonless night, this is the color of our skin. Beautiful as the flowers on a spring day, this is the essence of my people. Black butterflies ... Watch us as we sail across the waters. No more can we spread our wings, for we are bound and shackled deep in the hull of a ship...
by Sitiki
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
Recently discovered as a hand-written document in the Buckingham Smith Collection at the New York Historical Society, this remarkable first-person narrative traces the life of Sitiki, whose name was changed to Jack Smith after his enslavement in America.
Captured and sold into slavery in Africa...
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
A James Boggs Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two...
Transformations in Slavery
A History of Slavery in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing...
Slave Hunter
One Man's Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Aaron Cohen left behind his closest friends, his dying father, and the rock-star life for an unyielding one-man global pursuit.
Aaron Cohen left behind his closest friends, his dying father, and the rock-star life for an unyielding one-man global pursuit.
At a time when more people than...
My Brother Slaves
Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days.
In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation...
Inheriting the Trade
A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle...
Slave against Slave
Plantation Violence in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until...