Slavery And Citizenship

Author : Richard Ennals
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307826558

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Slave and Citizen by Frank Tannenbaum Pdf

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 : Celso Thomas Castilho
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822981381

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Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship by Celso Thomas Castilho Pdf

Winner, 2018 AHA Bolton Prize (best book on Latin American History) Winner, 2018 AHA/CLAH Dean Prize (best book on Brazilian History) Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters’ mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil’s first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the passage of the abolition law in 1888. It also documents the previously ignored counter-mobilizations led by the landed elite, who saw the rise of abolitionism as a political contestation and threat to their livelihood. Overall, this study illuminates how disputes over control of emancipation also entailed disputes over the boundaries of the political arena and connects the history of abolition to the history of Brazilian democracy. It offers fresh perspectives on Brazilian political history and on Brazil’s place within comparative discussions on slavery and emancipation.

Author : Salamishah Tillet
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352617

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Sites of Slavery by Salamishah Tillet Pdf

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 : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807009130

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Slave and Citizen by Frank Tannenbaum Pdf

Originally published in 1947, Slave and Citizen is a classic in the field of comparative slave history and race relations.

Author : Barbara Krauthamer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469607108

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Black Slaves, Indian Masters by Barbara Krauthamer Pdf

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

Author : Charles Manly Melden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022826361

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From Slave to Citizen by Charles Manly Melden Pdf

Author : Brian Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469659787

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Fighting for Citizenship by Brian Taylor Pdf

In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of black veterans. Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment to support the cause of emancipation, hoping that a Northern victory would bring about the end of slavery. But others counseled patience and negotiation, drawing on a historical memory of unfulfilled promises for black military service in previous American wars and encouraging black men to leverage their position to demand abolition and equal citizenship. In doing this, they also began redefining what it meant to be a black man who fights for the United States. These debates over African Americans' enlistment expose a formative moment in the development of American citizenship: black Northerners' key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship, a term that had no precise definition prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. In articulating this demand, Taylor argues, black Northerners participated in the remaking of American citizenship itself—unquestionably one of the war's most important results.

Author : Elizabeth Ann Regosin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0813920965

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Freedom's Promise by Elizabeth Ann Regosin Pdf

Rogosin (history, St. Lawrence U.) uses the Civil War pension system as a rich source of documentation for enhanced understanding of how ex-slaves made the transition from slavery to freedom. She uses personal histories and pension narratives to show how former slaves negotiated the system, constructing and communicating their familial relationships for the bureaucracy in order to quality for the Union veteran benefits that were their entitlement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Frederick Cooper,Thomas Cleveland Holt,Rebecca J. Scott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469617374

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Beyond Slavery by Frederick Cooper,Thomas Cleveland Holt,Rebecca J. Scott Pdf

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the questions and the struggles that emerged in freedom's wake. Thomas Holt focuses on emancipation in Jamaica and the contested meaning of citizenship in defining and redefining the concept of freedom; Rebecca Scott investigates the complex struggles and cross-racial alliances that evolved in southern Louisiana and Cuba after the end of slavery; and Frederick Cooper examines the intersection of emancipation and imperialism in French West Africa. In their introduction, the authors address issues of citizenship, labor, and race, in the post-emancipation period and they point the way toward a fuller understanding of the meanings of freedom.

Author : Jeff Fynn-Paul,Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Alison Morretta
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502635952

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Slavery and Citizenship by Alison Morretta Pdf

As far back as the colonial period, slaves were considered property and not people. In 1857, a freedom lawsuit brought by Dred Scott turned into something much larger when the Supreme Court decided that not only was Scott not entitled to his freedom but that no black person, slave or free, could be an American citizen. The Dred Scott decision is frequently cited as one of several events that led to the Civil War, but the case's details are often overlooked. By examining the case from start to finish in this book, students will better understand the impact of Dred Scott v. Sandford on antebellum America.

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : D. J. Herda
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766034273

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The Dred Scott Case by D. J. Herda Pdf

Examines the issues leading up to the Dred Scott slavery and citizenship case, including the people involved and the present-day effects of the Court's decision.

Author : Bruce E. Baker,Brian Kelly
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.