Slavery

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,...

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) 417gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm *...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of...

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...

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...

WINNER, NEW JERSEY STUDIES ACADEMIC ALLIANCE BOOK AWARD James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now...

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...

Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first...

Herbert Klein's book makes several distinctive contributions to our understanding of the slave trade. It offers us the first systematic comparative study of major European slave traders based exclusively on archival sources. The author's minimization of...

Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia,...

They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage as a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary...

Unknown function: Edited by William H. FreehlingReviewsHaving these pieces all together...makes the entire subject...look strikingly new and different. * Stanley Elkins, New York Review of Books *Book InformationISBN 9780195029697Author Willie Lee...

"Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in terms of both time and place. His chapters on East African and Mediterranean slavery are especially valuable,...

This is the first book to explore national representations of slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions span a wide geographical range, covering Europe, North America, West and South Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.Book...

This powerful narrative tells the triumphant story of the men and women who spent their lives and fortunes trying to abolish the institution of slavery in the United States. The practice of African slavery has been described as the United States's most...

The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life the key events, leading figures, and socioeconomic forces in the history of American antislavery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024720Author Paul E. LovejoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 759g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440844980Author Laura J. LedererFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Greenwood Publishing Group IncPublisher Greenwood Publishing Group Inc

This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the...