Challenging The Boundaries Of Slavery

Author : David Brion DAVIS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030257
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery written by David Brion DAVIS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book views slavery in a new light and underscores the human tragedy at the heart of the American story."--Jacket

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674019850
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery written by David Brion Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book views slavery in a new light and underscores the human tragedy at the heart of the American story."--Jacket.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195339444
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inhuman Bondage written by David Brion Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's lifetime of insight as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world is summed up in this compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism in a sweeping and compelling history of the institution of slavery in the United States. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture.

Author : Matthew Salafia
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208668
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery's Borderland written by Matthew Salafia and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical boundary and a unifying economic and cultural force that muddied the distinction between southern and northern forms of labor and politics. Countering the tendency to emphasize differences between slave and free states, Salafia argues that these systems of labor were not so much separated by a river as much as they evolved along a continuum shaped by life along a river. In this borderland region, where both free and enslaved residents regularly crossed the physical divide between Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, slavery and free labor shared as many similarities as differences. As the conflict between North and South intensified, regional commonality transcended political differences. Enslaved and free African Americans came to reject the legitimacy of the river border even as they were unable to escape its influence. In contrast, the majority of white residents on both sides remained firmly committed to maintaining the river border because they believed it best protected their freedom. Thus, when war broke out, Kentucky did not secede with the Confederacy; rather, the river became the seam that held the region together. By focusing on the Ohio River as an artery of commerce and movement, Salafia draws the northern and southern banks of the river into the same narrative and sheds light on constructions of labor, economy, and race on the eve of the Civil War.

Author : Ryan A. Quintana
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469641070
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making a Slave State written by Ryan A. Quintana and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving through the post–War of 1812 internal improvements boom, Quintana highlights the surprising ways enslaved men and women sat at the center of South Carolina's earliest political development, materially producing the state's infrastructure and early governing practices, while also challenging and reshaping both through their day-to-day movements, from the mundane to the rebellious. Focusing on slaves' lives and labors, Quintana illuminates how black South Carolinians not only created the early state but also established their own extralegal economic sites, social and cultural havens, and independent communities along South Carolina's roads, rivers, and canals. Combining social history, the study of American politics, and critical geography, Quintana reframes our ideas of early American political development, illuminates the material production of space, and reveals the central role of slaves' daily movements (for their owners and themselves) to the development of the modern state.

Author : Dale W. Tomich
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438458630
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers of Slavery written by Dale W. Tomich and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century. The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new analytical and interpretive approaches to the crisis of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century. By treating slavery within the framework of the modern world economy, they call attention to new zones of slave production that were formed as part of processes of global economic and political restructuring. Chapters by a group of international historians, economists, and sociologists examine both the global dynamics of the new slavery, and various aspects of economy-society and master-slave relations in the new zones. They emphasize the ways in which certain slave regimes, particularly in Cuba and Brazil, were formed as specific local responses to global processes, industrialization, urbanization, market integration, the formation of national states, and the emergence of liberal ideologies and institutions. These essays thus challenge conventional understandings of slavery, which often regard it as incompatible with modernity.

Author : George M. Fredrickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317261089
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diverse Nations written by George M. Fredrickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading historians of race relations, George Fredrickson in his newest book probes the history of racial and ethnic diversity in the United States and other parts of the world. Diverse Nations explores recent interpretations of slavery and race relations in the United States and introduces comparative perspectives on Europe, South Africa, and Brazil. Notably, the book features groundbreaking work comparing ethnoracial pluralism in France and the United States. In contrast to the similarities of race relations in the United States and South Africa, which both drew rigid domestic color lines, the United States and France have historically diverged greatly in their approaches to racial difference. Yet both are influenced by a common heritage of revolutionary republicanism, extensive immigration, and cultural pluralism. Fredrickson's rich comparisons provide stimulating new insights into the continuing impacts of slavery and beliefs about race upon our increasingly pluralistic societies.

Author : Julia O'Connell Davidson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137297298
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Slavery written by Julia O'Connell Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.

Author : Salamishah Tillet
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352613
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sites of Slavery written by Salamishah Tillet and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415153560
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questioning Slavery written by James Walvin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Walvin plots the story of black slavery and traces the intellectual and historical arguments which have swirled around its history in recent years. This comparative analysis of slavery in the English-speaking Americas offers new perspectives and a wide-ranging thematic organization which covers the racial, social, economic, political, cultural, gender and colonial dimensions of this complex subject.