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North to Bondage

2016-02-01 Social Science
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Release : 2016-02-01
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Book Synopsis North to Bondage by : Harvey Amani Whitfield

Download or read book North to Bondage written by Harvey Amani Whitfield. This book was released on 2016-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America. The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of survival, resistance, and kinship networks to negotiate their new reality. While some local judges chipped away at slavery, Maritime slaves fought against the institution of slavery by refusing to work, by running away, by reconstituting their families, and by challenging their owners in court. Harvey Amani Whitfield’s book, the first on slavery in the Maritimes, is a startling corrective to the enduring and triumphant narrative of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.

Black Bondage in the North

2001-11-01 Social Science
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Release : 2001-11-01
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Book Synopsis Black Bondage in the North by : Edgar J. McManus

Download or read book Black Bondage in the North written by Edgar J. McManus. This book was released on 2001-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks.

Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage

2014-11-17 History
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Release : 2014-11-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage by : Sherwin K. Bryant

Download or read book Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage written by Sherwin K. Bryant. This book was released on 2014-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal claims on the Americas and elemental to the process of Spanish colonization. Following enslaved Africans from their arrival at the Caribbean port of Cartagena through their journey to Quito, Bryant explores how they lived during their captivity, formed kinships and communal affinities, and pressed for justice within a slave-based Catholic sovereign community. In Cartagena, officials branded African captives with the royal insignia and gave them a Catholic baptism, marking slaves as projections of royal authority and majesty. By licensing and governing Quito's slave trade, the crown claimed sovereignty over slavery, new territories, natural resources, and markets. By adjudicating slavery, royal authorities claimed to govern not only slaves but other colonial subjects as well. Expanding the diaspora paradigm beyond the Atlantic, Bryant's history of the Afro-Andes in the early modern world suggests new answers to the question, what is a slave?

Complicity

2007-12-18 History
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Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Complicity by : Anne Farrow

Download or read book Complicity written by Anne Farrow. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery “The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco Chronicle The North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits—run, in some cases, by abolitionists—and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, are eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line. Culled from long-ignored documents and reports—and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings—Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America’s past.

Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents

2018-05-15 History
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Release : 2018-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents by : Harvey Amani Whitfield

Download or read book Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents written by Harvey Amani Whitfield. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history.

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