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In the early 19th century, abolitionists began to organize. While some gave speeches and wrote articles, others turned to violence. it took a war and an amendment to the constitution to end slavery, but it was abolitionists who helped blaze the trail to freedom.
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Durante las últimas décadas, el trabajo intelectual y la actividad política de Angela Davis se han centrado en lo que ella denomina el «abolicionismo de la prisión». Este comprende una triple abolición: la abolición de la pena de muerte; la abolición del complejo industrial-penitenciario, que debe también incluir la abolición de sus componentes militares, como la tortura y el terror, y la abolición de todos los rastros y herencias de la...
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By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French Caribbean colony offered a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility to free people of color. Covering the period 1776-1791, this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingue's free black elites on the eve of the colony's transformation into the republic of Haiti.
Stewart R. King identifies two distinctive groups that shared...
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Amistad
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2024.
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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 are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American's personal sovereignty. And yet, millions...
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Although slavery was a practice of forced labor and restricted liberties, as a teenager that was not a part of my consciousness. During the summer months, I enjoyed the outdoors and being with family. Fast forward 50 years, I can only imagine the mounting debt that families endured.
Heads of households had to prioritize cash crops and could not spend time planting personal gardens for daily food consumption. Cash crops included tobacco, rice, and...
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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 struggling, they were happy and better off than the poor in England and the idea of hideous enslavement was a prejudiced distortion. Evidence presented was the universal singing, dancing and carousing of the...
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Legacy of the Lash is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil. Focusing on non-elite, mostly black enlisted men and the oppressive labor regimes under which they struggled, the book is an examination of the four-day Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash) of November 1910, during which nearly half of Rio de Janeiro's enlisted men rebelled...
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'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, Guardian
In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail bars, we're told that modern slavery is all around us, operating in plain sight.
But is this really slavery, and is it even a new phenomenon? Why has the British Conservative Party called it 'one of...
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"In a time of division, we can have no better prophetic voice to frame today's discussions of justice and freedom than a one-legged fugitive slave who came to a Capitol without a Dome to tell how the Constitution could be made more perfect, in the name of God."
-from a letter sent by the President of the Presbyterian Historical Society to the President of the Maryland State Senate
In February 1865, just days after the adoption of the Thirteenth...
10) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah
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"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African" is a significant autobiographical work written by Olaudah Equiano, a former enslaved African who became a prominent figure in the movement to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. The book was first published in 1789 and is considered one of the earliest and most influential slave narratives.
Olaudah Equiano was born in what is now Nigeria, around 1745. He...
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This abridgment of Richard and Sally Price's acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on John Gabriel Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic.
The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life-and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World...
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This volume of letters, articles, and speeches displays the deep wisdom and varied concerns of this influential yet little-known Founding Father.
A physician and humanitarian from Pennsylvania, Benjamin Rush was both a learned intellectual and a radical revolutionary. He was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and a Continental Congress attendee. And unlike many of his more famous contemporaries, he was a early and vehement opponent of...
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This groundbreaking Civil War history illuminates the unique development of antislavery sentiment in the border region of south central Pennsylvania.
During the antebellum decades every single fugitive slave escaping by land east of the Appalachian Mountains had to pass through south central Pennsylvania, where they faced both significant opportunities and substantial risks. While the hundreds of fugitives traveling through Adams, Franklin, and...
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates...
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Ballantine Group
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2024.
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The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
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We think of the American Revolution as the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population-African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century.
Drawing on first-person accounts and primary sources, Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary War, to realize that while white Americans were fighting for...
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From trusted to tainted, an examination of the shifting perceived reputation of overseers of enslaved people during the eighteenth century.
In the antebellum southern United States, major landowners typically hired overseers to manage their plantations. In addition to cultivating crops, managing slaves, and dispensing punishment, overseers were expected to maximize profits through increased productivity-often achieved through violence and cruelty....
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Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.
Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.
The contributors...
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The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Yet even this reckoning...
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The little-known history of how enslaved African Americans contributed to the building of the White House and other landmarks. In 1791, President George Washington appointed a commission to build the future capital of the nation. Workers flocked to the city-but the commission found that paying masters of faraway Maryland plantations sixty dollars a year for their slaves made it easier to keep their payroll low. In 1798, half of the two hundred workers...
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