Описание: Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide.Rael immerses readers in the mix of social, geographic, economic, and political factors that shaped this unique American experience. He not only takes a far longer view of slavery’s demise than do those who date it to the rise of abolitionism in 1831, he also places it in a broader Atlantic context. We see how slavery ended variously by consent or force across time and place and how views on slavery evolved differently between the centers of European power and their colonial peripheries—some of which would become power centers themselves.Rael shows how African Americans played the central role in ending slavery in the United States. Fuelled by new Revolutionary ideals of self-rule and universal equality—and on their own or alongside abolitionists—both slaves and free blacks slowly turned American opinion against the slave interests in the South. Secession followed, and then began the national bloodbath that would demand slavery’s complete destruction.
Описание: The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery.
Автор: Cima Название: Performing Anti-Slavery ISBN: 1107644607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107644601 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offering readers a fresh perspective on the history of women and activism, Performing Anti-Slavery recaptures the affective practices of black and white American women in the antebellum abolitionist movement. Gay Gibson Cima demonstrates that these women imagined new ways to think about the relationship between the self and the other.
Автор: Cima Название: Performing Anti-Slavery ISBN: 1107060893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107060890 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offering readers a fresh perspective on the history of women and activism, Performing Anti-Slavery recaptures the affective practices of black and white American women in the antebellum abolitionist movement. Gay Gibson Cima demonstrates that these women imagined new ways to think about the relationship between the self and the other.
Описание: A collection of reports and correspondence compiled by the Anti-Slavery Society concerning the British government`s investigation into evasion of the anti-slavery laws in 1837, published in 1842. It highlights the severe exploitation of South Asian labourers duped into accepting `contracts` for work in Mauritius and British Guiana.
Автор: Vandervelde Lea Название: Redemption Songs: Courtroom Stories of Slavery ISBN: 0199927294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199927296 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4038.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Dred Scott case is the most notorious example of slaves suing for freedom. Most examinations of the case focus on its notorious verdict, and the repercussions that the decision set off-especially the worsening of the sectional crisis that would eventually lead to the Civil War-were extreme. In conventional assessment, a slave losing a lawsuit against his master seems unremarkable. But in fact, that case was just one of many freedom suits brought by slaves in the antebellum period; an example of slaves working within the confines of the U.S. legal system (and defying their masters in the process) in an attempt to win the ultimate prize: their freedom. And until Dred Scott, the St. Louis courts adhered to the rule of law to serve justice by recognizing the legal rights of the least well-off. For over a decade, legal scholar Lea VanderVelde has been building and examining a collection of more than 300 newly discovered freedom suits in St. Louis. In Redemption Songs, VanderVelde describes twelve of these never-before analyzed cases in close detail. Through these remarkable accounts, she takes readers beyond the narrative of the Dred Scott case to weave a diverse tapestry of freedom suits and slave lives on the frontier. By grounding this research in St. Louis, a city defined by the Antebellum frontier, VanderVelde reveals the unique circumstances surrounding the institution of slavery in westward expansion. Her investigation shows the enormous degree of variation among the individual litigants in the lives that lead to their decision to file suit for freedom. Although Dred Scott's loss is the most widely remembered, over 100 of the 300 St. Louis cases that went to court resulted in the plaintiff's emancipation. Beyond the successful outcomes, the very existence of these freedom suits helped to reshape the parameters of American slavery in the nation's expansion. Thanks to VanderVelde's thorough and original research, we can hear for the first time the vivid stories of a seemingly powerless group who chose to use a legal system that was so often arrayed against them in their fight for freedom from slavery.
Автор: Harris Leslie M., Berry Daina Ramey Название: Slavery and Freedom in Savannah ISBN: 0820344109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820344102 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city`s founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, the volume includes a mix of longer thematic essays and shorter sidebars focusing on individual people, events, and places.
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