Slavery

This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different "spaces of freedom" they inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or...

Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist the world is now plagued by the contemporary equivalent of transatlantic slavery, and call on us to combat "modern slavery". Others hold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603061384Author Edward PattilloFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 1225g

A survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and their descendants have lived in North America...

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...

Many nineteenth-century women got their first taste of political activism in small-town societies advocating temperance and other moral causes. Alongside national organizations with charismatic male leaders, these grassroots efforts by ordinary women...

This timely book trains graduate-level social workers, mental health counselors, and health psychologists to step into the role of the Behavioral Health Specialist in primary care settings, a role that will see increased demand under the Patient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830841875Author Shayne MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 18mm

Contemporary Slavery will be of interest to students and scholars of international law, human rights and social movements, along with civil society activists and policy-makers.Book InformationISBN 9780774832434Author Annie BuntingFormat HardbackPage...

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...

Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong...

Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects, including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic disorders, malnutrition, mental health problems, and violence. The scientific...

The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467836Author Anne FarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957572522Author Clifford HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Wilberforce PublicationsPublisher Wilberforce PublicationsWeight(grams)...

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...

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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...

Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347794Author National Museum of African American History andFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos,...

Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008446581Author Hannah DurkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint William CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

Provides a new theoretical model, which extends and improves the range of responses to the problem by analysing trafficking and exploitation as a pattern that emerges from the interactions between the victim, the perpetrators of the exploitation and the...

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and...

This book addresses a neglected aspect of the history of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery. For a half century after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, individual Britons and British enterprises continued to own enslaved...

Hierarchies at Home traces the experiences of Cuban domestic workers from the abolition of slavery through the 1959 revolution. Domestic service – childcare, cleaning, chauffeuring for private homes – was both ubiquitous and ignored as formal labor in...

Keith M. Finley's From Slavery to Segregation explores the key features shaping southern politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as explained in the South's defense of its racial systems. It treats slavery and segregation as part of the...