Slavery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164163Author Ben HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

W. 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...

W. 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...

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined...

This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement.Today's...

Late antique and early medieval normative sources frequently employ Roman legal terminology to denote a person's legal inferiority, and thus suggest the continued relevance of the concepts associated with these terms. However, it is far from clear to...

The colonial Jamaican state was immensely wealthy, but it was a society consumed by fear. The White population feared the possibility of enslaved rebellion and foreign invasion, and the Black population feared their cruel treatment as overworked...

"Transforming Spirit Bodies" is an edited volume that focuses on the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and their bodily transformations. The anthropological, sociological and archaeological contributions draw attention to the...

Scholars from the humanities and social sciences have repeatedly faced the challenge of writing history beyond the constraints and frameworks set by grand narratives and established historiographies. This book addresses the intentional invisibilization...

Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the...

From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only...

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of 'Creolization' in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that...

This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with those from slavery studies often for the first time, this collection provides new and important perspectives...

During the past decade, the problem of British slave emancipation has generated considerable historiographical debate. Yet, until now, this debate has emphasized the relative importance of ideals and material self-interest in the British emancipation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorwby /f Idus /i A.Book InformationISBN 9780313223532Format HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Waite details the history of the community of Oberlin, Ohio, which demonstrated a commitment to the education of blacks during the antebellum period that was rare at the time. By the end of Reconstruction, however, black students at Oberlin were becoming...

Carefully documenting African American slave foods, this book reveals that slaves actively developed their own foodways-their customs involving family and food. The authors connect African foods and food preparation to the development during slavery of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorrteis /f Louis /i S.Book InformationISBN 9780837163727Author Louis GerteisFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury...

There has been recent controversy in the African American community about youth and their lack of appreciation for the gains of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This stellar biography is a superb introduction to the foremost leader of...

This volume is based on a lecture series that was held during the academic year 2021-2022 at the University of Bonn. Its contributors explore the role of religion in overcoming and creating structures of dependency from different disciplines and academic...

Winner of the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Historical-Academic Nonfiction In Chained to History, Steven J. Brady centers slavery in America's pre-Civil War foreign relations. From the aftermath of the American Revolution, Brady examines how slavery...

What is the nature of slavery as practiced and at times reintroduced over the past two centuries in the Middle East and North Africa? In spite of the rich regional diversity of the areas studied - from Morocco to the Indian Ocean to Iran - this anthology...

In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representation and cultural contacts. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765129685Author Christina G. VillegasFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217052Author Behnaz A. MirzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 525g

Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of...

The Water Cries represents an ambitious search for the location of the slave auction houses in one of America's most storied cities. The author plumbs historical documentation, sifting historical advertisements and archiving familial connections.The book...

An Open Access edition is available. The murder of George Floyd in 2020, the renewed international take up of the cry Black Lives Matter and the subsequent toppling of a statue commemorating slave-merchant-turned-philanthropist Edward Colston in Bristol...

A bold rereading of Augustinian thought for a world still haunted by slavery Over the last two decades, scholars have made a striking return to the resources of the Augustinian tradition to theorize citizenship, virtue, and the place of religion in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991377954Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737048Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century...

Dutch historiography has traditionally concentrated on colonial successes in Asia. However, the Dutch were also active in West Africa, Brazil, New Netherland (the present state of New York) and in the Caribbean. In Africa they took part in the gold and...

Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, Worthy Park, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213580Author Carolyn A. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 628g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439177587Author Aaron CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 155mm * 23mm

At the turn of the twentieth century, Cadbury Bros. Ltd. was a successful, Quaker-owned chocolate manufacturer in Birmingham, England, celebrated for its model village, modern factory, and concern for employees. In 1901 the firm learned that its cocoa...

In January 1856, Margaret Garner and her family were at the center of one of the most dramatic and intensely contested fugitive slave cases in the nation's history. Just hours after escaping slavery in Kentucky and taking refuge in a home in Cincinnati,...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826222923Author Sydney J. NortonFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams) 272g