Revisiting Slavery And Antislavery

Author : Laura Brace,Julia O'Connell Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319906232

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Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery by Laura Brace,Julia O'Connell Davidson Pdf

Despite growing popular and policy interest in ‘new’ slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million ‘modern slaves’, interdisciplinary and theoretical dialogue has been largely missing from scholarship on ‘modern slavery’. This edited volume will provide a space to reinvigorate the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binary between slavery and freedom in different historical and political contexts. The book takes a critical approach, interrogating the concept of modern slavery by exploring where it has come from, and its potential for obscuring and foreclosing new understandings. Including contributions from philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, and English literature scholars, it adds to the emerging critique of the concept of ‘modern slavery’ through its focus on the connections between the past of Atlantic World slavery, the present of contemporary groups whose freedoms are heavily restricted (prisoners, child labourers in the Global South, migrant domestic workers, and migrant wives), and the futures envisaged by activists struggling against different elements of the systems of domination that Atlantic World slavery relied upon and spawned. Revisiting Slavery & Antislavery will be of indispensable value to scholars, students, policy makers and activists in the fields of human rights, modern history, international politics, social policy, sociology and global inequality.

Author : Dale W. Tomich
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438458656

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New Frontiers of Slavery by Dale W. Tomich Pdf

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. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched – an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1707.

Author : Christopher Leslie Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0807830348

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Moral Capital by Christopher Leslie Brown Pdf

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism

Author : Julia O'Connell Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137297297

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Modern Slavery by Julia O'Connell Davidson Pdf

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 : James O'Neil Spady
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362663

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Fugitive Movements by James O'Neil Spady Pdf

In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion. Among the leaders was a free Black carpenter named Denmark Vesey. After a brief investigation and what some have considered a dubious trial, Vesey and thirty-five others were convicted of attempted insurrection and hanged. Although the rebellion never came to fruition, it nonetheless fueled Black antislavery movements in the United States and elsewhere. To this day, activists, politicians, writers, and scholars debate the significance of the conspiracy, how to commemorate it, and the integrity of the archival records it left behind. Fugitive Movements memorializes this attempted liberation movement with new interpretations of the event as well as comparisons to other Black resistance throughout the Atlantic World—including Africa, the Caribbean, and the Northern United States. This volume situates Denmark Vesey and antislavery rebellion within the current scholarship on abolition that places Black activists at the center of the story. It shows that Black antislavery rebellion in general, and the 1822 uprising by Black Charlestonians in particular, significantly influenced the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. The essays collected in this volume explore not only that history, but also the ongoing struggle over the memory of slavery and resistance in the Atlantic World. Manisha Sinha, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, provides the foreword.

Author : Eve Allegra Raimon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813534828

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The "tragic Mulatta" Revisited by Eve Allegra Raimon Pdf

This book focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbol for explorations of race and nation - both of which were in crisis in the mid-19th century. It suggests that the figure is a way of understanding the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period.

Author : Teresa A. Goddu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 9780812251999

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Selling Antislavery by Teresa A. Goddu Pdf

"Selling Antislavery maps the vast media archive generated by institutional antislavery in the antebellum era. By paying particular attention to the movement's foundational phase in the 1830s-when the American Anti-Slavery Society was at the height of its organizational powers and before it splintered into warring factions in 1840-Selling Antislavery locates the emergence of abolitionist mass media in an earlier era and traces that period's influence on subsequent decades. In providing the prehistory of Uncle Tom's Cabin, it shows how Stowe's novel and related products mark the apex rather than the birth of antislavery mass media"--

Author : Dr. H. J. Nieboer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401759984

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Slavery as an Industrial System by Dr. H. J. Nieboer Pdf

Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Slavery
ISBN : OXFORD:N10587803

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Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowan Helper Pdf

This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 039308082X

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner Pdf

“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.

Author : Jeannine Bischoff,Stephan Conermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110787047

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Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies by Jeannine Bischoff,Stephan Conermann Pdf

In der Buchreihe des "Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies" werden Monographien und Tagungsbände, die das Phänomen der Sklaverei und andere Formen asymmetrischer Abhängigkeiten in Gesellschaften untersuchen, veröffentlicht. Die Reihe folgt dabei der Forschungsagenda des BCDSS, die die vorherrschende dichotomische Vorstellung von "Sklaverei versus Freiheit" überwindet. Das Cluster hat dazu ein neues Schlüsselkonzept ("asymmetrische Abhängigkeiten") entwickelt, das alle Ausprägungen von ungleichen Dependenzen (wie etwa Schuldknechtschaft, Zwangsarbeit, Dienstbarkeit, Leibeigenschaft, Hausarbeit, aber auch gewisse Formen der Lohnarbeit und der Patronage) berücksichtigt. Dabei werden auch Epochen, Räume und Kontexte der Weltgeschichte bearbeitet, die nicht der europäischen Kolonisierung ausgesetzt waren (z.B. altorientalische Kulturen sowie vormoderne und moderne Gesellschaften in Asien, Afrika und den Amerikas).

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300094027

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Emerson's Antislavery Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A comprehensive collection of Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians - writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to social reform. Included are 18 works by Emerson, including speeches and lectures, on the subject of slavery, written between 1838 and 1863.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002779

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Legacies of slavery by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Sean D. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192573407

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Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries by Sean D. Moore Pdf

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486146935

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The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince Pdf

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.