Author: Jane G. Landers
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: slave, societies, post, cultures, studies, americas, free, odds, blacks
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0714647101
ISBN-13: 9780714647104
The seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum
Author: Norman R. Yetman
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: slave, thrift, editions, dover, collection, memoirs, narrative
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $2.50
ISBN-10: 0486420701
ISBN-13: 9780486420707
More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information that not only tells about life in the South before, during, and after the Civil War but also preserves the opinions and perspectives of those who were enslaved.
Authors:Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: slave, post, cultures, societies, studies, emancipation, atlantic, world, slavery
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1999-05-31
List price: $198.00
ISBN-10: 0714649643
ISBN-13: 9780714649641
This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. The contributors discuss what slavery has to teach us about patterns of adjustment and change, black identity and the extent to which enslaved peoples succeeded in creating a dynamic world of interaction between the Americas. They examine how emancipation was defined, how it affected attitudes towards slavery, patterns of labour usage and relationships between workers as well as between workers and their former owners.
Authors:Harlan Greene, Harry S., Jr. Hutchins, Brian E. Hutc
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: slave, south, carolina, charleston, system, badges, hire
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2004-02
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786417293
ISBN-13: 9780786417292
The slave-hire system of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and the 1800s produced a curious object—the slave badge. The badges were intended to legislate the practice of hiring a slave from one master to another, and slaves were required by law to wear them. Slave badges have become quite collectible and have excited both scholarly and popular interest in recent years. This work documents how the slave-hire system in Charleston came about, how it worked, who was in charge of it, and who enforced the laws regarding slave badges. Numerous badge makers are identified, and photographs
Author: Hugh Thomas
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: slave, trade, atlantic, story
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 1999-02-03
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0684835657
ISBN-13: 9780684835655
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas’s
Authors:Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: slave, life, library, modern, market, paperbacks, girl, mass, amp, frederick, douglass, american, narrative, incidents
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-12-28
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0345478231
ISBN-13: 9780345478238
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass’s own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehen
Authors:James Irving, Suzanne Schwarz,
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: slave, liverpool, english, texts, studies, trade, irving, captain, career, james
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1846310679
ISBN-13: 9781846310676
One of the very few firsthand accounts written by a Liverpool slave ship captain to have survived, this unique and fascinating primary source navigates the reader through the remarkable story of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship captain who was shipwrecked off the coast of Morocco and subsequently enslaved. Schwarz skillfully supplements Irving’s personal journal and letters with useful notes, making this an essential volume for anyone interested in the relationship between the slave trade and the British Empire. Slave Captain is a compelling narrative that will be welcomed by the gener
