Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Series – serie
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Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
E-bok, 2010
443 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 …
Flush Times and Fever Dreams
A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
E-bok, 2012
519 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 …
Enterprising Women
Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Av Kit Candlin, Cassandra Pybus
E-bok, 2015
1354 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 …
Eighty-Eight Years
The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Av Patrick Rael
E-bok, 2015
594 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 …
Finding Charity's Folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
E-bok, 2015
470 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, …
Politics of Black Citizenship
Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
E-bok, 2016
849 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 …
Punishing the Black Body
Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
E-bok, 2017
1038 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
E-bok, 2018
1510 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 …
Vénus Noire
Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
E-bok, 2020
600 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 …
City of Refuge
Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856
E-bok, 2020
456 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 …
