Slavery S Ghost

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626345

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Tales from the Haunted South by Tiya Miles Pdf

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.

Author : Jenny Sharpe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Enslaved persons' writings
ISBN : 145290507X

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Ghosts of Slavery by Jenny Sharpe Pdf

Author : Richard Follett,Eric Foner,Walter Johnson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421402352

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Slavery's Ghost by Richard Follett,Eric Foner,Walter Johnson Pdf

President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? Slavery’s Ghost explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. They ask important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these essays offer fresh approaches to questions of local political power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the history of black freedom. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery’s Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Nancy Rhyne
Publisher : Sandlapper Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African-Americans
ISBN : 0878441646

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Slave Ghost Stories by Nancy Rhyne Pdf

A compilation of stories borrowed from former slaves of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. These tales were gathered by the WPA in the years 1935-1939. The slaves were asked questions about their family history and the widespread belief in spirits of various sorts. According to these stories, the five main creatures that "walked the night" were hags, hants, boo-daddies, plat-eyes and ghosts. All had separate characteristics. Hags disguised themselves as regular people, but a midnight they would shed their skin and torment their enemies, draining them of their energy. Hants lived in trees and would torture their victims day and night. Boo-daddies were reincarnations of witch doctors. Plat-eyes could take the form of an animal, sometimes changing from one animal to another. Ghosts were seen coming out of graveyards at night. This book relates the stories of these spirits based upon eyewitness accounts of former slaves.

Author : Jenny Sharpe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Enslaved persons' writings
ISBN : 145290507X

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Ghosts of Slavery by Jenny Sharpe Pdf

Author : Avi
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545214919

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Something Upstairs by Avi Pdf

When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.

Author : Geordie Buxton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439614129

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Haunted Plantations by Geordie Buxton Pdf

Chilling stories of the antebellum era, ranging from Savannah, Georgia to the Carolina coast, with photos included. Members of a shackled West African tribe drag themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join the faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America’s past—real lives of people on plantations from Savannah to Charleston and the coast of the Carolinas. Richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary images, most deal with the hub of the East Coast slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina. Sifting through folklore, legends, and emotionally raw history, these stories relate encounters with the supernatural—and reminds us that what actually happened here doesn’t always need a ghost to be disquieting.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982123505

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Black Ghost of Empire by Kris Manjapra Pdf

If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system—instead of obliterating it. To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the way it ended. Between the 1770s and 1880s, emancipation processes took off across the Atlantic world. But far from ushering in a new age of human rights and universal freedoms, these emancipations further codified the racial caste systems they claimed to disrupt. In this paradigm-altering book, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipations across the globe and reveals that their perceived failures were not failures at all, but the predictable outcomes of policies designed first and foremost to preserve the status quo of racial oppression. In the process, Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers’ understanding of the world in which we live. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of contemporary society, this book shines a light into the gap between the idea of slavery’s end and the reality of its continuation—exposing to whom a debt was paid and to whom a debt is owed.

Author : Fred D'Aguiar
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478632399

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Feeding the Ghosts by Fred D'Aguiar Pdf

A literary venture into the economic shadow that slavery cast, Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African “stock,” is headed to the New World. When illness threatens to disable all on board and cut potential profits, the ship’s captain orders his crew to throw the sick into the ocean. After being hurled overboard, Mintah, a young female slave taken from a Danish mission, is able to climb back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she rouses the remaining slaves to rebel and stirs unease among the crew with a voice and conscience they seem unable to silence. Mintah’s courage and others’ reactions to it unfold in a suspenseful story of the struggle to live even when threatened by oblivion.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307264886

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Beloved by Toni Morrison Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Picador
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760785208

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King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Pdf

With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1642592749

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Haunted by Slavery by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Pdf

A stirring memoir by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: historian of slavery, veteran political activist, and widow of Black Bolshevik author Harry Haywood.

Author : Luke Wallin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595192777

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The Slavery Ghosts by Luke Wallin Pdf

Jake, thirteen, and his sister, twelve, live at Tapalyla Hill, a Mississippi mansion built before the Civil War. In their garden they meet Sarantha, a ghost who’ll do anything to free her daughter, Darcy, from the evil beneath the house. Jake and Livy pass through a timegate to attempt the rescue. They will bring back a far better grasp of their own family and culture than they could have imagined.

Author : Michael H. Cottman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004290708

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The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie by Michael H. Cottman Pdf

The author offers an account of the slave ship Henrietta Marie and its role in his ancestors' history.

Author : Lawrence Woods
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728344980

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William Jefferson Hardin and the Ghost of Slavery by Lawrence Woods Pdf

Early in his life, Hardin knew he was born a free person of color, and by the time he was twenty, he knew he had a more comprehensive education than most of the white men of his age. In the West, he actually looked French or Spanish, but he still was proud that he was of one-eighth African descent. In 1850 Hardin was twenty, when the Fugitive Slave Law created a terrible threat to a free person of color, as slave-catchers then roamed the northern states, seeking people they could seize, process through the poor enforcement of the law, and resell southward. He soon moved to Canada, as a safer place to live, but “didn’t like” that country, and returned to Wisconsin (a part of the old Northwest Territory, where slavery was illegal). Then in 1857, the Supreme Court said that people of African descent were “inferior,” whether slave or free. In Colorado in 1863, Hardin was a barber, that favorite occupation of African American men, who associated with the upper classes of white men, and if personable—as Hardin was—made valuable friends. Soon he was speaking to “overflow” crowds, even though he was telling the story of a Haitian slave’s successful revolt against the French. He even got a job with the Denver mint. But although he had never been a slave, the ghost of slavery still lurked behind him, and an editor, writing about the mint job, said that Hardin had an ”ugly black mug.”