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Author : Patrick Manning
Release : 1990-09-28
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 676/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Slavery and African Life by : Patrick Manning
Download or read book Slavery and African Life written by Patrick Manning. This book was released on 1990-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa.
Author : Stephanie E. Smallwood
Release : 2009-06-30
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 770/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Saltwater Slavery by : Stephanie E. Smallwood
Download or read book Saltwater Slavery written by Stephanie E. Smallwood. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.
Author : Deborah H. DeFord
Release : 2006
Genre : African Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 513/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Life Under Slavery by : Deborah H. DeFord
Download or read book Life Under Slavery written by Deborah H. DeFord. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the African people were first brought to the New World, estranged from their homeland, they adapted their native rituals, religions, customs, language, and arts to their new home. From the new set Slavery in the Americas, this book explores this intriguing time in American history.
Author : Jeffrey Brace
Release : 2005-02-16
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 430/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Blind African Slave by : Jeffrey Brace
Download or read book The Blind African Slave written by Jeffrey Brace. This book was released on 2005-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (né Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times.
Author : Eric Allina
Release : 2012
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 726/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Slavery by Any Other Name by : Eric Allina
Download or read book Slavery by Any Other Name written by Eric Allina. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization"--Law to practice: "certain excesses of severity"--The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below -- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages -- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder" -- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor -- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will" -- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition" -- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.
