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Identity in the Shadow of Slavery

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050192775

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Identity in the Shadow of Slavery by Paul E. Lovejoy Pdf

Identity in the Shadow of Slavery addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic, and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendants interpreted their lives under slavery, thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The focus of the book is on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape slavery and its legacy continued to affect the lives of descendants of slaves. The introductory essay explores an approach to the study of the African diaspora that looks outward from Africa and places the following chapters, written by leading authorities from Europe and North and South America, in the context of the theoretical literature.

Identity in the Shadow of Slavery

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015084102105

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Identity in the Shadow of Slavery by Paul E. Lovejoy Pdf

Identity in the Shadow of Slavery addresses the issues relating to the gender, ethnic, and cultural factors affecting the ways in which enslaved Africans and their descendants interpreted their lives under slavery and thereby created communities with a shared sense of identity.

In the Shadow of Liberty

Author : Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627793124

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In the Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C. Davis Pdf

Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners? Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery played in the founding of America. From Billy Lee, valet to George Washington, to Alfred Jackson, faithful servant of Andrew Jackson, these dramatic narratives explore our country’s great tragedy—that a nation “conceived in liberty” was also born in shackles. These stories help us know the real people who were essential to the birth of this nation but traditionally have been left out of the history books. Their stories are true—and they should be heard. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.

In the Shadow of Slavery

Author : Leslie M. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226824864

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In the Shadow of Slavery by Leslie M. Harris Pdf

A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris draws on travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, and organizational records to extend prior studies of racial discrimination. She traces the undeniable impact of African Americans on class distinctions, politics, and community formation by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments over how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized, and acknowledged by governments.

Identity in the Shadow of a Giant

Author : Scott Gartner,Chin-Hao Huang,Yitan Li,Patrick James
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781529209884

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Identity in the Shadow of a Giant by Scott Gartner,Chin-Hao Huang,Yitan Li,Patrick James Pdf

Co-authored by four high-profile International Relations scholars, this book investigates the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic state. Examining an array of factors that affect identity formation, the authors consider the influence of the rapid military and economic rise of China on Taiwan's identity. Their assessment offers valuable insights into which policies have the best chance of resulting in peaceful relations and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait and builds a new theory of identity at elite and mass levels. It also possesses implications for the United States-led world order and today's most critical great power competition.

Slaves to Fashion

Author : Monica L. Miller
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822391517

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Slaves to Fashion by Monica L. Miller Pdf

Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century London, and Yinka Shonibare, a prominent Afro-British artist who not only styles himself as a fop but also creates ironic commentaries on black dandyism in his work. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora. Dandyism was initially imposed on black men in eighteenth-century England, as the Atlantic slave trade and an emerging culture of conspicuous consumption generated a vogue in dandified black servants. “Luxury slaves” tweaked and reworked their uniforms, and were soon known for their sartorial novelty and sometimes flamboyant personalities. Tracing the history of the black dandy forward to contemporary celebrity incarnations such as Andre 3000 and Sean Combs, Miller explains how black people became arbiters of style and how they have historically used the dandy’s signature tools—clothing, gesture, and wit—to break down limiting identity markers and propose new ways of fashioning political and social possibility in the black Atlantic world. With an aplomb worthy of her iconographic subject, she considers the black dandy in relation to nineteenth-century American literature and drama, W. E. B. Du Bois’s reflections on black masculinity and cultural nationalism, the modernist aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance, and representations of black cosmopolitanism in contemporary visual art.

Beyond Slavery's Shadow

Author : Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469664408

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Beyond Slavery's Shadow by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. Pdf

On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery's Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from a wide array of sources to demonstrate that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the growing influence of white supremacy and proslavery extremism created serious challenges for free persons categorized as "negroes," "mulattoes," "mustees," "Indians," or simply "free people of color" in the South. Segregation, exclusion, disfranchisement, and discriminatory punishment were ingrained in their collective experiences. Nevertheless, in the face of attempts to deny them the most basic privileges and rights, free people of color defended their families and established organizations and businesses. These people were both privileged and victimized, both celebrated and despised, in a region characterized by social inconsistency. Milteer's analysis of the way wealth, gender, and occupation intersected with ideas promoting white supremacy and discrimination reveals a wide range of social interactions and life outcomes for the South's free people of color and helps to explain societal contradictions that continue to appear in the modern United States.

Dark Work

Author : Christy Clark-Pujara
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479855636

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Dark Work by Christy Clark-Pujara Pdf

Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode Island Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so important. During the colonial period trade with West Indian planters provided Rhode Islanders with molasses, the key ingredient for their number one export: rum. More than 60 percent of all the slave ships that left North America left from Rhode Island. During the antebellum period Rhode Islanders were the leading producers of “negro cloth,” a coarse wool-cotton material made especially for enslaved blacks in the American South. Clark-Pujara draws on the documents of the state, the business, organizational, and personal records of their enslavers, and the few first-hand accounts left by enslaved and free black Rhode Islanders to reconstruct their lived experiences. The business of slavery encouraged slaveholding, slowed emancipation and led to circumscribed black freedom. Enslaved and free black people pushed back against their bondage and the restrictions placed on their freedom. It is convenient, especially for northerners, to think of slavery as southern institution. The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction—that North has no history of racism to overcome. But we cannot afford such a delusion if we are to truly reconcile with our past.

Neo-slave Narratives

Author : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780195125337

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Neo-slave Narratives by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Pdf

After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--BOOK JACKET.

The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade

Author : Jorge Canizares-Esguerra,Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra,Matt D. Childs,James Sidbury
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208139

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The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra,Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra,Matt D. Childs,James Sidbury Pdf

During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though Africans continued to be exchanged as chattel, urban frontiers allowed a number of enslaved blacks to negotiate the right to hire out their own time, often greatly enhancing their autonomy within the Atlantic commercial system. In The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, eleven original essays by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America chronicle the black experience in Atlantic ports, providing a rich and diverse portrait of the ways in which Africans experienced urban life during the era of plantation slavery. Describing life in Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Africa, this volume illuminates the historical identity, agency, and autonomy of the African experience as well as the crucial role Atlantic cities played in the formation of diasporic cultures. By shifting focus away from plantations, this volume poses new questions about the nature of slavery in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, illustrating early modern urban spaces as multiethnic sites of social connectivity, cultural incubation, and political negotiation. Contributors: Trevor Burnard, Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Matt D. Childs, Kevin Dawson, Roquinaldo Ferreira, David Geggus, Jane Landers, Robin Law, David Northrup, João José Reis, James H. Sweet, Nicole von Germeten.

Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives

Author : Jane Landers,Barry Robinson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0826323979

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Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives by Jane Landers,Barry Robinson Pdf

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana

Author : Brandi Simpson Miller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030884031

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Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana by Brandi Simpson Miller Pdf

This book investigates how cooking, eating, and identity are connected to the local micro-climates in each of Ghana’s major eco-culinary zones. The work is based on several years of researching Ghanaian culinary history and cuisine, including field work, archival research, and interdisciplinary investigation. The political economy of Ghana is used as an analytical framework with which to investigate the following questions: How are traditional food production structures in Ghana coping with global capitalist production, distribution, and consumption? How do land, climate, and weather structure or provide the foundation for food consumption and how does that affect the separate traditional and capitalist production sectors? Despite the post WWII food fight that launched Ghana’s bid for independence from the British empire, Ghana’s story demonstrates the centrality of local foods and cooking to its national character. The cultural weight of regional traditional foods, their power to satisfy, and the overall collective social emphasis on the ‘proper’ meal, have persisted in Ghana, irrespective of centuries of trade with Europeans. This book will be of interest to scholars in food studies, comparative studies, and African studies, and is sure to capture the interest of students in new ways.

An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

Author : Mariana Candido
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107328389

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An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World by Mariana Candido Pdf

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Benguela, located on the central coast of present-day Angola, was founded by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. In discussing the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on African societies, Mariana P. Candido explores the formation of new elites, the collapse of old states and the emergence of new states. Placing Benguela in an Atlantic perspective, this study shows how events in the Caribbean and Brazil affected social and political changes on the African coast. This book emphasizes the importance of the South Atlantic as a space for the circulation of people, ideas and crops.

The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

Author : Toyin Falola,Matt D. Childs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003010

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The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World by Toyin Falola,Matt D. Childs Pdf

This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, provide a detailed study of how the Yoruba were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Yoruba identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Yoruba in the New World. The contributors are Augustine H. Agwuele, Christine Ayorinde, Matt D. Childs, Gibril R. Cole, David Eltis, Toyin Falola, C. Magbaily Fyle, Rosalyn Howard, Robin Law, Babatunde Lawal, Russell Lohse, Paul E. Lovejoy, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Robin Moore, Ann O'Hear, Luis Nicolau Parés, Michele Reid, João José Reis, Kevin Roberts, and Mariza de Carvalho Soares. Blacks in the Diaspora -- Claude A. Clegg III, editor Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, and John McCluskey, founding editors

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba

Author : Manuel Barcia,Manuel Barcia Paz
Publisher : Past and Present Book
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198719038

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West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba by Manuel Barcia,Manuel Barcia Paz Pdf

"Examines the extent to which a series of African-led plots and armed movements that took place in western Cuba and Bahia between 1807 and 1844 were the result--or a continauation--of events that had occurred in and around the Yoruba and Hausa kingdoms in the same period."--Book jacket.