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16 produkter
To Live an Antislavery Life
Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
Inbunden, 2012
1215 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 …
African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry
The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
Inbunden, 2010
2134 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 As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry …
Almost Free
A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
Inbunden, 2012
1070 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 …
In Search of Brightest Africa
Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936
Inbunden, 2010
870 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 …
Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
Inbunden, 2009
894 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
Häftad, 2011
477 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
Häftad, 2011
443 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: …
Missing Links
The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector
Av Jeremy Rich
Häftad, 2012
457 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 …
Eighty-Eight Years
The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
Av Patrick Rael
Häftad, 2015
577 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 …
Almost Dead
Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807
Inbunden, 2022
2134 kr
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Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead reveals how the thousands of captives who lived, bled, and resisted in the Black Urban Atlantic survived to form dynamic communities. Michael Lawrence Dickinson uses cities with …
Race and Reproduction in Cuba
Inbunden, 2022
2134 kr
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Women’s reproduction, including conception, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and other physical acts of motherhood (as well as the rejection of those roles), played a critical role in the evolution and management of Cuba’s population. While existing scholarship has approached Cuba’s …
Escapes from Cayenne
A Story of Socialism and Slavery in an Age of Revolution and Reaction
Inbunden, 2023
2116 kr
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In September 1857, Léon Chautard, Charles Bivors, and Hippolyte Paon arrived in Salem, Massachusetts. These refugees from the French Revolution of 1848 were “homeless, penniless, friendless, strangers in a strange land, among a people of strange speech,” as one of their advocates, the abolitionist …
Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom
The Life of Elisha Tyson
Av Joshua D Rothman, Joshua D. Rothman
Häftad, 2025
423 kr
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Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern Maryland before moving in the early 1780s to Baltimore, where he grew even wealthier and established …
Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery
Inbunden, 2026
1846 kr
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By 1865, more than 750,000 enslaved Africans had arrived in Cuba, making it the leading Spanish American slave colony and the epicenter of slavery in the Atlantic. At the height of the global tobacco economy, tens of thousands of these slaves labored in Pinar del Río, Cuba—a region devoted …
We Are American Citizens
The Colored Conventions Movement and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights
Häftad, 2026
353 kr
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We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the emergence of Black transnationalism within this context. …
We Are American Citizens
The Colored Conventions Movement and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights
Inbunden, 2026
1827 kr
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We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the emergence of Black transnationalism within this context. …
