Short History of Slavery, Paperback - James Walvin

Presents an account of the Atlantic slave trade which helps us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful chapters in British hist...

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807....

Reducere. The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event On November ...

'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resista...

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Professor James Walvi...

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonpla...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Collection: Writing HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 38Cover type: Pape...

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and...

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): James WalvinPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 270 x 30Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii s...

Reducere. The modern historical theory of slavery is that white men brought Africans to the Western hemisphere, where they were sold for profit and put to wo...

Reducere. The Deus are not supposed to interfere with mortals. But when a prophecy foretells the fall of the entire galaxy, the gods must look beyond the pan...

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining templ...

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

Reducere. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many Af...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Allison PageIllustration(s): 3 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

Reducere. Description"Stokesbury's rare combination of scholarship and readability merits the highest recommendation."--Booklist In commemoration of the 150t...

Reducere. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we reall...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain...

Reducere. Explore How the Slaves Freed Themselves in the Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion that began in 1791 in the French col...

Presents the survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. This book offers examples from the 'abode of Islam', from the Philippines to Senegal and from...

Contributor(s): Author: Leon F. LitwackWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardBased on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews wit...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved receive...

DescriptionWhile children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Throughout the millennia, the age a...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. DescriptionOut of Slavery: A Novel of Harriet Tubman is a story that follows the perilous path of the Underground Railroad and the tragic costs of ...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

The dark history of sugar is taken stock of, from its central position in the slave trade to its debilitating role in the obesity crisis. An updati...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

Reducere. The abolitions of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the first dramatic blow...

Reducere. Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to ...