Yale And Slavery

Author : David W. Blight
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300278248

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Yale and Slavery by David W. Blight Pdf

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University’s historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. This narrative history demonstrates the importance of slavery in the making of this renowned American institution of higher learning. Drawing on wide-ranging archival materials, Yale and Slavery extends from the century before the college’s founding in 1701 to the dedication of its Civil War memorial in 1915, while engaging with the legacies and remembrance of this complex story. The book brings into focus the enslaved and free Black people who have been part of Yale’s history from the beginning—but too often ignored in official accounts. These individuals and their descendants worked at Yale; petitioned and fought for freedom and dignity; built churches, schools, and antislavery organizations; and were among the first Black students to transform the university from the inside. Always alive to the surprises and ironies of the past, Yale and Slavery presents a richer and more complete history of Yale, the third-oldest college in the country, showing how pillars of American higher education, even in New England, emerged over time intertwined with the national and international history of racial slavery.

Author : Antony Dugdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
ISBN : IND:30000087958389

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Yale, Slavery and Abolition by Antony Dugdale Pdf

Describes Yale University's historical connection with slavery, beginning in colonial times, and with abolition, and questions why the university persisted, as late as the 1960s, to name buildings in honor of proponents of slavery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : New Haven (Conn.)
ISBN : LCCN:2004540232

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Yale, Slavery & Abolition by Anonim Pdf

In conjunction with the 300th anniversary of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Amistad Committee released an essay by Antony Dugdale, J.J. Fueser, and J. Celso de Castro Alves describing the history of the relationship between the university and slavery. The website also presents a bibliography, timeline, map, and other information resources.

Author : David Brion Davis,Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance and Abolition David Brion Davis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300088140

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In the Image of God by David Brion Davis,Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance and Abolition David Brion Davis Pdf

In this broad-ranging book, the preeminent authority on the history of slavery meditates on the orgins, experience, and legacy of this "peculiar institution." David Brion Davis begins with a substantial and highly personal introduction in which he discusses some of the major ideas and individuals that have shaped his approach to history. He then presents a series of interlocking essays that cover topics including slave resistance, the historical construction of race, and the connections between the abolitionist movement and the struggle for women's rights. The book also includes essays on such major figures as Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as appreciations of two of the finest historians of the twentieth century: C. Vann Woodward and Eugene D. Genovese. Gathered together for the first time, these essays present the major intellectual, historical, and moral issues essential to the study of New World slavery and its devastating legacy. Book jacket.

Author : Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300210439

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Amistad's Orphans by Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance Pdf

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children’s own letters, Lawrance recounts how their lives were inextricably interwoven by the historic drama, and casts new light on illegal nineteenth-century transatlantic slave smuggling.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307389695

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western culture Davis offers original and penetrating insights into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian Revolution respectively terrified and inspired white and black Americans, hovering over the antislavery debates like a bloodstained ghost. He offers a surprising analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance the project to move freed slaves back to Africa. He vividly portrays the dehumanizing impact of slavery, as well as the generally unrecognized importance of freed slaves to abolition. Most of all, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history.

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300225297

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass Pdf

A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass’s memoir of his life as a slave in pre-Civil War Maryland incorporates a wide range of supplemental materials to enhance students’ understanding of slavery, abolitionism, and the role of race in American society. Offering readers a new appreciation of Douglass’s world, it includes documents relating to the slave narrative genre and to the later career of an essential figure in the nineteenth-century abolition movement.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035987333

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis Pdf

David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and the second volume of a proposed trilogy, is a truly monumental work of historical scholarship that first appeared in 1975 to critical acclaim both academic and literary. This reprint of that important work includes a new preface by the author, in which he situates the book's argument within the historiographic debates of the last two decades.

Author : Allen Johnson,Gerhard Richard Lomer,Charles William Jeffreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : United States
ISBN : PSU:000047318007

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The Yale Chronicles of America Series by Allen Johnson,Gerhard Richard Lomer,Charles William Jeffreys Pdf

Author : Robert W. Harms,Bernard K. Freamon,David W. Blight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Freed persons
ISBN : 0300163878

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Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition by Robert W. Harms,Bernard K. Freamon,David W. Blight Pdf

"Published with assistance from the Kingsley Trust Association Publication Fund established by the Scroll and Key Society of Yale College and with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund."

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199726655

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Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis Pdf

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in what Stanley L. Engerman calls "a monumental and magisterial book, the essential work on New World slavery for several decades to come." Davis begins with the dramatic Amistad case, which vividly highlights the international character of the Atlantic slave trade and the roles of the American judiciary, the presidency, the media, and of both black and white abolitionists. The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more. But though centered on the United States, the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of American slavery that reaches back to ancient foundations (discussing the classical and biblical justifications for chattel bondage) and also traces the long evolution of anti-black racism (as in the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, among many others). Equally important, it combines the subjects of slavery and abolitionism as very few books do, and it illuminates the meaning of nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts, with a detailed comparison with 3 major revolts in the British Caribbean. It connects the actual life of slaves with the crucial place of slavery in American politics and stresses that slavery was integral to America's success as a nation--not a marginal enterprise. A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage offers a compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism. It is the ultimate portrait of the dark side of the American dream. Yet it offers an inspiring example as well--the story of how abolitionists, barely a fringe group in the 1770s, successfully fought, in the space of a hundred years, to defeat one of human history's greatest evils.

Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : 0300020414

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Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa by Frederick Cooper Pdf

Author : Manuel Barcia
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300215854

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The Yellow Demon of Fever by Manuel Barcia Pdf

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.

Author : William G. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0300261500

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A Question of Freedom by William G. Thomas Pdf

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history

Author : James G. Basker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300107579

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Amazing Grace by James G. Basker Pdf

This landmark volume is the first anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America, Britain and the Atlantic during the Englightenment - the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement.