Slavery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997917901Author K P FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Flat Pond PublishingPublisher Flat Pond PublishingWeight(grams) 694g

How do Americans reckon with slavery? America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the culture wars over the way that slavery is remembered and taught have...

First published in 1971, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's comparison of two developing sugar plantation systems - St. Domingue's (Haiti) in the eighteenth century and Cuba's in the nineteenth century - changed the focus in comparative slavery studies. Hall...

By 1860, the value of the slave population in the United States exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South's lucrative farmland. The slave was not only a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEric Burin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Dakota.Book InformationISBN 9780813032733Author Eric BurinFormat PaperbackPage Count...

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space-its roads and canals,...

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

Buttressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and...

Responses to enslavement are automatically seen as struggles (heroic or otherwise), but in the case of the English Caribbean colonies, the claim was irately made by pro-planter factions, reacting to criticism, that the enslaved Africans were not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692079003Author Joshua RobisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Anny DonewaldPublisher Anny DonewaldWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615973517Author Through Gods Grace MinistryFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Through God's Grace MinistryPublisher Through God's Grace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997560336Author Roger-Claude LiwangaFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Alpha Academic PressPublisher Alpha Academic PressWeight(grams)...

When Pueblo Indians say, "The first white man our people saw was a black man," they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban's importance in America's early history...

"Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."Book InformationISBN 9780820338750Author JoynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia Press

Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was born to an enslaved woman named Mildred Jackson in Shelby County, Kentucky. His father was a state senator who never acknowledged him. His narrative documents his persistent attempts to escape to freedom, beginning at age ten,...

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space-its roads and canals,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986115806Author Dennis MaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint JublioPublisher JublioWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966733648Author John Solomon SandridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Free the MindPublisher Free the MindWeight(grams) 152g

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records,...

Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves' economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the...

'A masterly analysis of slavery and republicanism from the left. A stunning achievement' - Gerald Horne Timely and controversial, The Patriots' Dilemma confronts longstanding interpretations of U.S. history that emphasize a fundamental conflict between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195380859Author Page DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 135mm * 13mm

This is a story about a dangerous idea—that all men are created equal—which ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition...

In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it...

In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is...

When people encounter consumer goods-sugar, clothes, phones-they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain...

Abraham Lincoln is widely renowned for his stance on the emancipation of enslaved people in a period when America was sorely divided over the subject. However, at the same time, there was a little-known event that took place--one that left a stain on...

Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated...

Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of previously unpublished essays exposes the global...

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who-as...

The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who-as...

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...

Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories...

In Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America, Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labor systems, including...

This fascinating history will capture the imaginations of scholars and students of Canadian, American, African Diaspora, and Black Atlantic history, particularly those interested in slavery, race relations, forced migration, and war.Book InformationISBN...

This fascinating history will capture the imaginations of scholars and students of Canadian, American, African Diaspora, and Black Atlantic history, particularly those interested in slavery, race relations, forced migration, and war.Book InformationISBN...

Illinois is the fifth largest state in the country with 12.4 million people in 2000; the population increased by almost 9% or about one million people in the past decade. About 12% of the state's population is age 65 and older -- 1.5 million people in...

A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America’s obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times–bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality...

Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing women's labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit...

From Slavery to Freedom remains the most revered, respected, and honored text on the market. The preeminent history of African Americans, this best-selling text charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in Africa, through slavery in the...