Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, Paperback - Keri Leigh Merritt

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keri Leigh MerrittAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess worker...

Reducere. DescriptionWidely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berli...

Reducere. This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally publ...

Reducere. In their daily struggles to forge lives of dignity and meaning within an inhuman system, slaves in the Antebellum South demonstrated creativity, re...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1, 000 e...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose ho...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

"The best sort of introductory study... packed with enlightening information." --The Times Literary SupplementPoor whites have been isolated from m...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

Reducere. "My own observation of the real condition of the people of our Slave States, gave me ... an impression that the cotton monopoly in some way did the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

DescriptionThe Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread...

Reducere. From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and...

Reducere. The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comp...

The emergence of slavery in the District of Columbia profoundly transformed constitutional interpretation. Gilhooley's account of this interaction,...

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title pr...

Reducere. Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteent...

Reducere. Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own per...

Reducere. DescriptionReverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 - October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. Biography: He was born in Salem, Mas...

Examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government ...

Reducere. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa its...

Reducere. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Wash...

Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two ...

Stolen Lives is an authoritative and compassionate investigation into human trafficking and slavery in Britain today, placing this appalling crime ...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. This title i...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

DescriptionOriginally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been ...