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Author : Tamara J. Walker
Release : 2017-07-03
Genre : Design
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Book Rating : 032/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Exquisite Slaves by : Tamara J. Walker
Download or read book Exquisite Slaves written by Tamara J. Walker. This book was released on 2017-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.
Author : Tamara J. Walker
Release : 2017
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Book Rating : 636/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Exquisite Slaves: Race by : Tamara J. Walker
Download or read book Exquisite Slaves: Race written by Tamara J. Walker. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Release : 2013-09-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World by : Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Download or read book Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World written by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz. This book was released on 2013-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Author : Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Release : 2017-04-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 55X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ties That Bound by : Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Download or read book Ties That Bound written by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. This book was released on 2017-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington. The widow Washington ; Martha Dandridge ; Married lady ; Mistress of Mount Vernon ; Revolutionary war ; First lady ; Slaves in the president's house ; Home again -- Jefferson. Martha Wayles ; Mistress of Monticello I ; War in Virginia ; Birth and death at Monticello ; Patsy Jefferson and Sally Hemings ; First lady ; Mistress of Monticello II ; The Hemingses ; Death of Thomas Jefferson -- Madison. Dolley Payne ; Mrs. Madison ; First lady ; Mistress of Montpelier ; Decline of Montpelier ; The widow Madison ; Sale of Montpelier ; In Washington ; Death of Dolley Madison -- Epilogue inside and outside
Author : Greg Grandin
Release : 2014-01-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Empire of Necessity by : Greg Grandin
Download or read book The Empire of Necessity written by Greg Grandin. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event—an event that already inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin, with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.
