Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 – serie
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Finding Charity's Folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Inbunden, 2015
870 kr
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Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, …
Almost Free
A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Häftad, 2012
422 kr
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In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After ten …
Eighty-Eight Years
The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Av Patrick Rael
Inbunden, 2015
1551 kr
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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 …
Contentious Liberties
American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
Inbunden, 2010
870 kr
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The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, …
Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
Häftad, 2010
477 kr
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This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian institutions and practices in Britain’s Caribbean and southern American colonies. Focusing on the plantation societies of Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina, Nicholas M. Beasley finds that the tradition of liturgical worship in these …
We Are the Revolutionists
German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
Inbunden, 2011
1215 kr
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Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, …
American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader
Inbunden, 2011
1249 kr
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As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788–1848) expressed outrage over slavery, but by the end of his life he had transported thousands of enslaved persons from the upper to the lower South. Kari J. Winter’s life-and-times portrayal of a slave trader illuminates the clash between two American dreams: …
In Search of Brightest Africa
Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936
Häftad, 2011
516 kr
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In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them. Jeannette Eileen Jones traces the history of the …
Contentious Liberties
American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
Häftad, 2011
434 kr
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The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, …
Missing Links
The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector
Av Jeremy Rich
Inbunden, 2012
1253 kr
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Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848–1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution.Garner was a self-taught zoologist and …
African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry
The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
Häftad, 2011
608 kr
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The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants—people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry …
To Live an Antislavery Life
Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
Häftad, 2012
443 kr
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In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.Through innovative readings of slave narratives, sermons, fiction, convention …
Flush Times and Fever Dreams
A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
Häftad, 2014
373 kr
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In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the “Arkansas morass” in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart’s adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread …
Diplomacy in Black and White
John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Häftad, 2014
443 kr
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From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with …
Finding Charity's Folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, …
Punishing the Black Body
Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
Inbunden, 2017
1020 kr
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Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and …
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
Av Whitney Nell Stewart, John Garrison Marks
Inbunden, 2018
1500 kr
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Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation …
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
Av Whitney Nell Stewart, John Garrison Marks
Häftad, 2018
527 kr
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Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation …
Mulatta Concubine
Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
Häftad, 2018
494 kr
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Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave …
Enterprising Women
Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Av Kit Candlin, Cassandra Pybus
Häftad, 2018
467 kr
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In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the …
Vénus Noire
Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Häftad, 2020
614 kr
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Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions …
Vénus Noire
Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2020
1819 kr
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Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions …
Politics of Black Citizenship
Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
Häftad, 2019
523 kr
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Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics—it was an effort that sought to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship …
City of Refuge
Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856
Inbunden, 2020
819 kr
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City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave’s economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived …
Punishing the Black Body
Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
Häftad, 2020
608 kr
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Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and …
In Search of Liberty
African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Av Ronald Johnson, Ousmane K. Power-Greene
Inbunden, 2021
2134 kr
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In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World …
In Search of Liberty
African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Av Ronald Johnson, Ousmane K. Power-Greene
Häftad, 2021
707 kr
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In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World …
American Color
Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2022
2134 kr
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For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every “rule” of accepted U.S. historiography. A frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, the popular image of New Orleans has remained a vestige of North America’s European colonial …
American Color
Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World
Häftad, 2022
551 kr
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For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every “rule” of accepted U.S. historiography. A frontier town of the circum-Caribbean, the popular image of New Orleans has remained a vestige of North America’s European colonial …
City of Refuge
Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave’s economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived …
