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Freedpeople in the tobacco South : Virginia, 1860-1900
Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom's younger generation who deserted the region's farms and plantations for Virginia's towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general. |Focusing on the transformation of relations between Virginia slaves and former masters, this book traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of black migration to towns and cities.
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Rebellious passage : the Creole revolt and America's coastal slave trade
In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus the Captain, one passenger, and most of the captives. Nineteen rebels had seized the US slave ship en route and steered it to the British Bahamas where the slaves gained their liberty. Drawing upon a sweeping array of previously unexamined state, federal, and British colonial sources, Rebellious Passage examines the neglected maritime dimensions of the extensive US slave trade and slave revolt. The focus on south-to-south self-emancipators at sea differs from the familiar narrative of south-to-north fugitive slaves over land. Moreover, a broader hemispheric framework of clashing slavery and antislavery empires replaces an emphasis on US antebellum sectional rivalry. Written with verve and commitment, Rebellious Passage chronicles the first comprehensive history of the ship revolt, its consequences, and its relevance to global modern slavery.
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Brothers & Tricksters
The two autobiographies and one biography under review provide us with some compelling, as well as disturbing, insights into this fascinating nineteenth-century world of slavery, fugitives, kidnapping, racial inequality, and cross-border travel. In 1997, it was digitalized for Documenting the American South collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.3 The 2013 movie version—which won academy awards for best picture, director, and supporting actress—has revived interest in Northup's odyssey. The New Orleans Daily Picayune featured a letter from one contributor who believed \"that Solomon was one of those cute Yankee niggers who permit themselves to be sold occasionally, pocketing half the proceeds, and then claiming and proving their freedom, under the plea of having been kidnapped\" (p. 240). [...]they were both dedicated to telling their different stories with the same aim of ending American slavery. According to his biographer, he was a trickster whose \"improvisation and dissembling played in his life as a border crosser.\"
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