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Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007508727
Sequel to the Smarties Award-winning title, The Wind Singer, read by the author.
Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898740
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.
Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0786814187
The people of Aramanth are finally free of the Morah, the evil power that controlled them for generations. But a ruthless attack by soldiers from a distant land destroys the city, and its people are driven off as slaves. During the invasion, Kestrel and Bowman are separated for the first time in their lives. Bowman becomes a slave of the Mastery. Kestrel escapes, then sets off to avenge the enslavement of her family. As the twins embark on their parallel adventures, their mother's prophetic dreams reveal their true identity and their dangerous fate. Bowman's mind power and Kestrel's fierce spirit are soon joined once again to fight for the freedom of their people.
Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1405285311
The first book in William Nicholson's award-winning fantasy adventure series, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Mortal Engines and Star Wars.In the walled city state of Aramanth, rules are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. Desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer, and she and her twin brother, Bowman, set out on a terrifying journey to the true source of evil that grips Aramanth...
Author : Jonathan D. Martin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040700
Divided Mastery explores a curiously neglected aspect of the history of American slavery: the rental of slaves. Though few slaves escaped being rented out at some point in their lives, this is the first book to describe the practice, and its effects on both slaves and the peculiar institution. Martin reveals how the unique triangularity of slave hiring created slaves with two masters, thus transforming the customary polarity of master-slave relationships. Drawing upon slaveholders' letters, slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, legislative petitions, and court records, Divided Mastery ultimately reveals that slave hiring's significance was paradoxical. The practice bolstered the system of slavery by facilitating its spread into the western territories, by democratizing access to slave labor, and by promoting both production and speculation with slave capital. But at the same time, slaves used hiring to their advantage, finding in it crucial opportunities to shape their work and family lives, to bring owners and hirers into conflict with each other, and to destabilize the system of bondage. Martin illuminates the importance of the capitalist market as a tool for analyzing slavery and its extended relationships. Through its fresh and complex perspective, Divided Mastery demonstrates that slave hiring is critical to understanding the fundamental nature of American slavery, and its social, political, and economic place in the Old South.
Author : Calvin Schermerhorn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421400365
Traces the story of how slaves seized opportunities that emerged from North Carolina's pre-Civil War modernization and economic diversification to protect their families from being sold, revealing the integral role played by empowered African-American families in regional antebellum economics and politics. Simultaneous.
Author : Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0749747501
The people of Aramanth have been enslaved by the army of the Mastery. If they disobey their masters, a member of their community is burned in an iron cage before their eyes.
Author : Ariela J. Gross
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400823840
In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. Double Character seeks to explain how communities dealt with an important dilemma raised by these trials: how could slaves who acted as moral agents be treated as commodities? Because these cases made the character of slaves a central legal question, slaves' moral agency intruded into the courtroom, often challenging the character of slaveholders who saw themselves as honorable masters. Gross looks at the stories about white and black character that witnesses and litigants put forth in court. She not only reveals the role of law in constructing "race" but also offers a portrait of the culture of slavery, one that addresses historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South. Gross maintains that witnesses and litigants drew on narratives available in the culture at large to explain the nature and origins of slaves' character, such as why slaves became runaways. But the legal process also shaped their expressions of racial ideology by favoring certain explanations over others. Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, looking at trials from the perspective of litigants, lawyers, doctors, and the slaves themselves. The author's approach combines the methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory.
Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : OCLC:1409364953
Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.
Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007508735
The final part of the Wind on Fire trilogy, read by the author.
Author : Nicolas W. Proctor
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0813920914
Regardless of color or class, men in the Old South hunted; the meat, hides, and furs they brought home reinforced the hunters' claims to patriarchal authority as providers for their households. During the antebellum era, many white men also began using the hunt as a venue for the display of increasingly complex ideas about gender, race, class, and community. Proctor (history, Simpson College) explores the social drama of the hunt as it was conducted between 1800 and 1860, through accounts in books, letters, journals, and periodicals. He looks at the historical developments that shaped hunting as well as interactions between men and women and between owners and slaves. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Good and evil
ISBN : OCLC:939649790
When the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery strike, the Manth people are taken into slavery. Kestral is separated from her brother Bowman and must find him again, while Bowman must learn the secrets of the Singer people. Only then will they break the power of the Mastery.
Author : L. T. Morrison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-18
Category : Bondage (Sexual behavior)
ISBN : 1463603525
"A fascinating look into the BDSM culture like never before, The Devil In The Detatils trilogy is a refreshing new perspective on the sustainability of power exchange relationships, in the 21st century."--Publisher's description.
Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0613682890
Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.
Author : Debra Blumenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463686
A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia. Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the varied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how men, women, and children were enslaved and brought to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the substance of slaves' daily lives: how they were sold and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival sources (including wills, contracts, as well as hundreds of civil and criminal court cases), Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical moment of transition. Arguing that the dynamics of the master-slave relationship both reflected and determined contemporary opinions regarding religious, ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal's close study of the day-to-day interactions between masters and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia but also offers clues to the development of "racialized" slavery in the early modern Atlantic world.
