Many Faces of Slavery

Lawrence Aje is Associate Professor of United States History at Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France.Catherine Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in American History at Loughborough University, UK. She is the author of Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century (2007) and, along with Laura M. Chmielewski, The Atlantic Experience: People, Places, Ideas (2013).

The plantation looms large in the historiography of American slavery. Yet, by focusing so heavily on plantation slavery, scholars have largely neglected numerous other forms of bondage ... The Many Faces of Slavery—an edited collection of 14 short chapters dedicated to different aspects of non-plantation slavery—is therefore a welcome addition to the historiography of American slavery.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction, Lawrence Aje (Montpellier University, France) and Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University, UK)Section I - Documenting non-traditional slavery and slaveholding in archival and archaeological records1. Many Faces of Slaveholding Sephardim, Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh, USA)2. Something Close to Freedom: The Case of the Black Seminoles in Florida, Brent R. Weisman (University of South Florida, USA)3. ‘Adventure in a Wigwam:’ Henry Bibb’s Account of Slavery among the Cherokees in Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave (1849), Sandrine Ferré-Rode (University of Versailles, France)4. To ‘make a good Mistress to my servants’: unmasking the meaning of maternalism in colonial South Carolina, Inge Dornan (Brunel University, UK)5. Resident Female Slaveholders in Jamaica at the End of Emancipation: Evidence from the Compensation Claims, Ahmed Reid (City University of New York, USA)Section II - The Politics and Economics of Non-traditional Slavery and Slaveholding6. Corporate Slavery in Seventeenth-Century New York, Anne-Claire Faucquez (University of Paris 8, France) 7. Militarized slavery: the creation of the West India Regiments, Tim Lockley (University of Warwick, UK)8. ‘A question between hiring and selling’: Slave Leasing at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, 1780 -1830, Christa Dierksheide (University of Missouri, USA)9. Turmoil in the Cocoa Groves: slave revolts in Ocumare de la Costa,Venezuela, 1837 and 1845, Nikita Harwich (University of Paris Nanterre, France)Section III - Social mobility on the margins of slavery and freedom 10. Keeper of the Keys: Creole Management of a Nineteenth-Century French Plantation in New Orleans, Nathalie Dessens (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France)11. João de Oliveira’s Atlantic World: Mobility and Dislocation in Eighteenth- Century Brazil and the Bight of Benin, Mary Hicks (Amherst College, USA)12. Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith: slavery, freedom, and fame in antebellum Richmond, Virginia, Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf (University of Saint Francis, USA)13. Nominal Slavery, Free People of Colour, and Enslavement Requests: Slavery and Freedom at the ‘edges’ of the regime, Emily West (University of Reading, UK)14. The Transition from Plantation Slave Labour to Free Labour in the Americas, Herbert S. Klein (Columbia University, USA)Index