Early American Places Series – serie
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On Slavery's Border
Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865
E-bok, 2010
582 kr
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On Slavery’s Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri’s strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of the Atlantic world. By the time of statehood …
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
E-bok, 2012
582 kr
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When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America''s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic …
Everyday Life and the Construction of Difference in the Early English Caribbean
Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference
Av Jenny Shaw
E-bok, 2013
1934 kr
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Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial …
Natchez Country
Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
E-bok, 2015
582 kr
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At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom. This mistaken perception lulled them into permitting these outsiders to settle among them. Within two decades conditions in Natchez Country had taken a turn …
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838
E-bok, 2015
411 kr
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This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island’s slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at …
Privateers of the Americas
Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic
Av David Head
E-bok, 2015
472 kr
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Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. These activities were sanctioned by, and conducted on behalf of, republics in Spanish America aspiring to independence from Spain. Among the available histories of privateering, …
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era
E-bok, 2016
939 kr
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Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with “niceness”—a set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long-term economic and social progress and a close, nurturing family life. Goloboy’s case study of merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, looks to an …
Anglo-Native Virginia
Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722
E-bok, 2016
959 kr
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The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virginia. Virginians were unique in their interaction with Native peoples in part because of their tributary system, a practice that became codified with …
Slavery on the Periphery
The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras
Av Kristen Epps
E-bok, 2016
1038 kr
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Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War, exploring how its presence shaped life on this critical geographical, political, and social fault line. Kristen Epps explores how …
In the Shadow of Dred Scott
St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America
E-bok, 2017
959 kr
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The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like …
Brothers and Friends
Kinship in Early America
E-bok, 2017
849 kr
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By following key families in Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Anglo-American societies from the Seven Years’ War through 1845, this study illustrates how kinship networks—forged out of natal, marital, or fictive kinship relationships—enabled and directed the actions of their members as they decided the …
Patrolling the Border
Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770–1796
E-bok, 2018
519 kr
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Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that …
Borderless Empire
Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750–1800
E-bok, 2020
1038 kr
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Borderless Empire explores the volatile history of Dutch Guiana, in particular the forgotten colonies of Essequibo and Demerara, to provide new perspectives on European empire building in the Atlantic world. Bram Hoonhout argues that imperial expansion was a process of improvisation at the colonial …
Southern Underground Railroad
Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country
E-bok, 2024
472 kr
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Despite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final years of the antebellum period. From the …
