Description
While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt-along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.
About the Author
Aline Helg is professor of history at the University of Geneva and author of Our Rightful Share and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835.
Lara Vergnaud is a French-English translator based in Washington, D.C.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469649634
Author Aline Helg
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press