Runaway Virgins Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770 1848

Author : Enrique Corneiro
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359101450

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Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848 by Enrique Corneiro Pdf

Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848 uses more than 250 slavery related newspaper ads to help shine light on what life must have been like for the enslaved people of the U.S. Virgin Islands (former Danish West Indies). More than 300 specific individuals are identified and subjects related to runaway slaves are highlighted (i.e. punishment, laws, free men/women, country of origin, children, pardons, etc.)

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466804272

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Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder Pdf

One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.

Author : Unesco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050559676

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The African Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century by Unesco Pdf

Author : John C. Cobden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : NYPL:33433007275203

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The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden Pdf

Author : David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Craig Perry,David Richardson,Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Slavery
ISBN : LCCN:2009036356

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Dependence, servility, and coerced labor in time and space by David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Craig Perry,David Richardson,Seymour Drescher Pdf

"Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher.

Author : N. Rodgers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230625228

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Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 by N. Rodgers Pdf

This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.

Author : William M. Wiecek
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501726453

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The Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 by William M. Wiecek Pdf

This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to constitutional thought, William M. Wiecek surveys the antislavery societies, the ideas of their individual members, and the actions of those opposed to slavery and its expansion into the territories. He shows that the idea of constitutionalism has popular origins and was not the exclusive creation of a caste of lawyers. In offering a sophisticated examination of both sides of the argument about slavery, he not only discusses court cases and statutes, but also considers a broad range of "extrajudicial" thought—political speeches and pamphlets, legislative debates and arguments.

Author : Clive Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082754931

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Three Continents, One History by Clive Harris Pdf

The Three Continents One History project was launched on 25th March 2007 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The day marked our commemoration of the millions that were killed and enslaved. It is fitting that it began the start of our journey to uncover the role that Birmingham played in this. The project will inform all sections of society about one of the bleakest chapters in the history of humankind. It will explore the Caribbean experience of slavery as well as analyze the socio-economic links and legacies of the transatlantic era. Project from New Style Radio and the Frantz Fanon Research Unit - Using primary and secondary research, workshops, presentations and debates and a documentary series on New Style Radio 98.7fm.

Author : Bates Lowry,Isabel Barrett Lowry
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365364

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The Silver Canvas by Bates Lowry,Isabel Barrett Lowry Pdf

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

Author : William St. Clair
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906924003

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That Greece Might Still be Free by William St. Clair Pdf

When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the sympathy of the world. As Byron wrote, 'I dreamed that Greece might Still be Free'; and he died at Missolonghi trying to translate that dream into reality. William St Clair's meticulously researched and highly readable account of their aspirations and experiences was hailed as definitive when it was first published. Long out of print, it remains the standard account of the Philhellenic movement and essential reading for any students of the Greek War of Independence, Byron, and European Romanticism. Its relevance to more modern ethnic and religious conflicts is becoming increasingly appreciated by scholars worldwide. This new and revised edition includes a new Introduction by Roderick Beaton, an updated Bibliography and many new illustrations.

Author : James H. Billington
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765804716

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Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington Pdf

This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.

Author : Enrique Corneiro
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387432073

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The Legend of Cowfoot Woman and the Soldier Crab by Enrique Corneiro Pdf

The Legend of Cowfoot Woman and The Soldier Crab is a Virgin Islands tale about a little girl who gets lost in the woods and is forced to work for an old witch. The little girl is surprised to meet a friendly soldier crab that can speak and who offers to help her to get home.

Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289789

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Modern Peoplehood by John Lie Pdf

"[A] most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—'well-read' mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive, historically grounded theory of 'modern peoplehood,' which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names 'race,' 'ethnicity,' and nationality.'" Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls 'modern peoplehood.' His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

Author : W.E.B. Bu Bois
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625582102

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The Negro by W.E.B. Bu Bois Pdf

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. "The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archaeological research in Africa has just begun, and many sources of information in Arabian, Portuguese, and other tongues are not fully at our command; and, too, it must frankly be confessed, racial prejudice against darker peoples is still too strong in so-called civilized centers for judicial appraisement of the peoples of Africa. Much intensive monographic work in history and science is needed to clear mooted points and quiet the controversialist who mistakes present personal desire for scientific proof. Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair interpretation as shall enable the general reader to know as men a sixth or more of the human race. Manifestly so short a story must be mainly conclusions and generalizations with but meager indication of authorities and underlying arguments." - W. E. B. Du Bois

Author : Isaac Dookhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018200332

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A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States by Isaac Dookhan Pdf