Slave And Citizen

Author : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307826558

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Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer legal or even major social disabilities on account of color, and that a long history of acceptance and miscegenation has erased the sharp line between white and colored. Professor Tannenbaum, one of our leading authorities on Latin America, asks why there has been such a sharp distinction between the United States and the other parts of the New World into which Negroes were originally brought as slaves. In the legal structure of the United States, the Negro slave became property. There has been little experience with Negro slaves in England, and the ancient and medieval traditions affecting slavery had died out. As property, the slave was without rights to marriage, to children, to the product of his work, or to freedom. In the Iberian peninsula, on the other hand, Negro slaves were common, and the laws affecting them were well developed. Therefore, in the colonies of Spain and Portugal, while the slave was the lowest person in the social order, he was still a human being, with some rights, and some means by which he might achieve freedom. Only the United States made a radical split with the tradition in which all men, even slaves, had certain inalienable rights.

Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784781972

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Peasant-Citizen and Slave by Ellen Meiksins Wood Pdf

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture. From a survey of historical writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus of which distorted later debates, Wood goes on to take issue with influential arguments, such as those of G.E.M. de Ste Croix, about the importance of slavery in agricultural production. The social, political and cultural influence of the peasant-citizen is explored in a way which questions some of the most cherished conventions of Marxist and non-Marxist historiography.

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839027

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A Colony of Citizens by Laurent Dubois Pdf

The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights. But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti. The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights.

Author : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072694979

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Author : Richard Ennals
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780470061893

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From Slavery to Citizenship by Richard Ennals Pdf

Citizenship is not a spectator sport; it is all about engagement. From Slavery to Citizenship is part of a bigger picture - a development process which will enable us to gain more control over our own lives and to participate in decisions about the future direction of society and the organisations we are involved in. This book is unusual in suggesting that slavery is not a remote historical phenomenon, but a fundamental component of our present. People have been slaves in the past and some people are enslaved today. The subject of slavery is highly charged with emotion. From Slavery to Citizenship seeks to facilitate dialogue and to bridge gaps. This is not easy as people have been speaking different languages and working from diverse sets of assumptions. A first step is to listen and to learn from differences. In this book, a single author's voice brings together contributions from major public figures and respected thinkers. Within a rich tapestry of perspectives, there is no single line of argument, or one overall conclusion. There are contributions from Africa, North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe and Asia, and from discourses in work organisation, occupational health, psychiatry and human rights, as well as education. After reading the book, you are unlikely to conclude that all of the contributors have agreed, but you will find that they give you a starting point from which to reflect and begin discussion, as well as the tools to engage in active citizenship.

Author : Nathan Irvin Huggins
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 0673393429

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Slave and Citizen by Nathan Irvin Huggins Pdf

A biography of the escaped slave who became a renowned writer, orator, abolitionist, and diplomat.

Author : Gary Collison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029798

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Shadrach Minkins by Gary Collison Pdf

On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate Black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins’ life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary Black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins’ journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free Black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins’s arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of Black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston’s Black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee Blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain. Webster is just one of the familiar figures in this tale of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. Others, such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe (who made use of Minkins’s Montreal community in Uncle Tom’s Cabin), also appear throughout the narrative. Minkins’ intriguing story stands as a fascinating commentary on the nation’s troubled times—on urban slavery and Boston abolitionism, on the Underground Railroad, and on one of the federal government’s last desperate attempts to hold the Union together.

Author : Charles Manly Melden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022826361

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From Slave to Citizen by Charles Manly Melden Pdf

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416505525

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Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

Science fiction-roman.

Author : Jeff Fynn-Paul,Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004356481

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Slaving Zones by Jeff Fynn-Paul,Damian Alan Pargas Pdf

Through engagement with the ‘Slaving Zones' theory, our authors elucidate new and complimentary ways in which identity, law, custom, political organization, and definitions of ‘self’ and ‘other’ have impacted the course of global slavery from ancient times through the present

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Claude Steele,Lawrence D. Bobo,Michael Dawson,Gerald Jaynes,Lisa Crooms-Robinson,Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195188059

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The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Claude Steele,Lawrence D. Bobo,Michael Dawson,Gerald Jaynes,Lisa Crooms-Robinson,Linda Darling-Hammond Pdf

Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.

Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541617773

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South to Freedom by Alice L Baumgartner Pdf

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

Author : Bruce E. Baker,Brian Kelly
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048376

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After Slavery by Bruce E. Baker,Brian Kelly Pdf

Moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. This collection examines urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in Mississippi, armed insurrection along the Georgia coast, racial violence throughout the region, and much more in order to provide a well-rounded portrait of the era.

Author : Robert Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1490747648

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Citizen Slave by Robert Hart Pdf

Citizen/Slave: Understanding Liberty is a treatise that describes with acute accuracy what freedom, liberty, and justice really means, how the American people have been tricked out of their sovereignty by stealthy legal illusions, and how the people can repair America by regaining control of their individual unalienable rights. Citizen/Slave explains the problems in detail--how they evolved, how they became erroneously accepted by the people, what the legal illusions and realities are, and what the American people can do to save their individual sovereignty and country, thereby creating a totally free and prosperous society with safeguards that can never be corrupted again. Sprinkled liberally throughout this book are quotes from numerous well-known personages from history, which remind us of immutable principles that have been forgotten and overlooked in our fast-paced modern world. Citizen/Slave puts together the pieces of the puzzle for understanding the long-forgotten common-sense principles of creating justice and why governments and societies either succeed or fail. Without these organized foundational principles, like a boat without a rudder, societies and governments will waffle in the uncertain tides of confusion and injustice that has been the downfall of every great society. Citizen/Slave is a must-read for all people, young and old, lay people and professionals, students and professors alike. Understanding the principles expounded in Citizen/Slave is as important to the freedoms, liberties, and justice of people as reading, writing, and math is to functioning in the modern world. Citizen/Slave is a simple road map for catapulting society into the next step of human evolution.

Author : Carl N. Degler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0299109143

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Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler Pdf

A comparative study of slavery in Brazil and the United States, first published in 1971, looking at the demographic, economic, and cultural factors that allowed black people in Brazil to gain economically and retain their African culture, while the U.S. pursued a course of racial segregation.