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Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Release : 2018-05-10
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 892/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What is a Slave Society? by : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Download or read book What is a Slave Society? written by Noel Emmanuel Lenski. This book was released on 2018-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
Author : J. Mills Thornton
Release : 2014-11-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 158/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Politics and Power in a Slave Society by : J. Mills Thornton
Download or read book Politics and Power in a Slave Society written by J. Mills Thornton. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three decades after its initial publication, J. Mills Thornton's Politics and Power in a Slave Society remains the definitive study of political culture in antebellum Alabama. Controversial when it first appeared, the book argues against a view of prewar Alabama as an aristocratic society governed by a planter elite. Instead, Thornton claims that Alabama was an aggressively democratic state, and that this very egalitarianism set the stage for secession. White Alabamians had first-hand experiences with slavery, and these encounters warned them to guard against the imposition of economic or social reforms that might limit their equality. Playing upon their fears, the leaders of the southern rights movement warned that national consolidation presented the danger that fanatic northern reformers would force alien values upon Alabama and its residents. These threats gained traction when national reforms of the 1850s gave state government a more active role in the everyday life of Alabama citizens; and ambitious young politicians were able to carry the state into secession in 1861. Politics and Power in a Slave Society continues to inspire scholars by challenging one of the fundamental articles of the American creed: that democracy intrinsically produces good. Contrary to our conventional wisdom, slavery was not an un-American institution, but rather coexisted with and supported the democratic beliefs of white Alabama.
Author : Hilary Beckles
Release : 2016
Genre : Barbadians
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The First Black Slave Society by : Hilary Beckles
Download or read book The First Black Slave Society written by Hilary Beckles. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.
Author : Hilary Beckles
Release : 1993-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 850/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Caribbean Slave Society and Economy by : Hilary Beckles
Download or read book Caribbean Slave Society and Economy written by Hilary Beckles. This book was released on 1993-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the institution of slavery has exerted such momentous force in shaping the socioeconomic and political history of the Caribbean, much of the region's historical writing has focused on slavery. Caribbean Slave Society and Economy brings together into one volume the main themes of the recent research on slavery, and explores the patterns and forms of socioeconomic life and activity that molded the region's heterogeneous slave societies.
Author : Keith Bradley
Release : 1994-10-13
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 14X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Slavery and Society at Rome by : Keith Bradley
Download or read book Slavery and Society at Rome written by Keith Bradley. This book was released on 1994-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with revealing the impact the institution of slavery made on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome was a slave society through much of its history, considers how the Romans procured their slaves, discusses the work roles slaves fulfilled and the material conditions under which they spent their lives, investigates how slaves responded to and resisted slavery, and reveals how slavery, as an institution, became more and more oppressive over time under the impact of philosophical and religious teaching. The book stresses the harsh realities of life in slavery and the way in which slavery was an integral part of Roman civilisation.
