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The long song
The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until a recently transplanted English widow decides to move her into the great house and rename her. She remains bound to the plantation despite her \"freedom.\" The arrival of a young English overseer dramatically changes life in the great house.
Paying the Price of Freedom
Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records--including the testimony of the slaves themselves--she uncovers the various strategies slaves invented to gain their freedom. Hünefeldt pays particular attention to marriage relations and family life. Slaves used their family solidarity as a strategy, while slaveowners used the conflicts within families to prevent manumission. The author's focus on gender relations between slaveowners and slaves, as well as between slaves, is particularly original. Her eye for ethnographic detail and her perceptive reading of the documentary evidence make this book a rich and important contribution to the study of slavery in Latin America. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.
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Slaves in Paris : hidden lives and fugitive histories
\"Enslaved people from the French colonies were deeply woven into the fabric of revolutionary Paris, occupying domestic positions in wealthy homes and suffusing every corner of city life. Miranda Spieler examines this complex dimension of revolutionary society, ignored in standard histories but integral to a transformative moment.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Creation of a Crusader
The story of one Ohio senator's impact on the early abolition movement More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and constitutional antislavery without a biography devoted to him.In this first expansive study of Morris's life and contributions, David C.
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Built by the People Themselves
The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization
shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in
Arlington
In Built by the People Themselves , Lindsey
Bestebreurtje traces the history of the Black community in
Arlington, Virginia, from the first days of emancipation through
the civil rights era in the twentieth century. A core insight of
her account is how common people developed strategies to survive
and thrive despite systems of oppression in the Jim Crow South.
Moving beyond the standard story of suburbanization that focuses on
elite white community developers, Bestebreurtje analyzes African
American-led community development and its effects on Arlington
County.
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Night flyer : Harriet Tubman and the faith dreams of a free people
\"From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero-the woman who, despite being barely five-feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others North to freedom, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some 750 people without loss of life. You could almost say she's America's Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles's extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman's life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman's surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges, uncannily, is a human being whose mysticism becomes the more palpable the more we understand it-a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, inner and outer. Now, thanks to Tiya Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enslaved Archives
Explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States.It is extraordinarily difficult for historians to reconstruct the lives of individual enslaved people. Records—where they exist—are often fragmentary, biased, or untrue. In Enslaved Archives, Maria R. Montalvo investigates the legal records, including contracts and court records, that American antebellum enslavers produced and preserved to illuminate enslavers' capitalistic motivations for shaping the histories of enslaved people. The documentary archive was not simply a by-product of the business of slavery, but also a necessary tool that enslavers used to exploit the people they enslaved. Building on Montalvo's analysis of more than 18,000 sets of court records, Enslaved Archives is a close study of what we can and cannot learn about enslaved individuals from the written record. By examining five lawsuits in Louisiana, Montalvo deconstructs enslavers' cases—the legal arguments and rhetorical strategies they used to produce information and shape perceptions of enslaved people. Commodifying enslaved people was not simply a matter of effectively exploiting their labor. Enslavers also needed to control information about those people. Enslavers' narratives—carefully manipulated, prone to omissions, and sometimes false—often survive as the only account of an enslaved individual's life. In working to historicize the people at the center of enslavers' manipulations, Montalvo outlines the possibilities and limits of the archive, providing a glimpse of the historical and contemporary consequences of commodification. Enslaved Archives makes a significant intervention in the history of enslaved people, legal history, and the history of slavery and capitalism by adding a qualitative dimension to the analysis of how enslavers created and maintained power.
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The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
\"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
How the suppression of the slave trade and the \"disposal\"
of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern
humanitarianism Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy's
Atlantic squadrons seized nearly two thousand slave ships,
\"re‑capturing\" almost two hundred thousand enslaved people and
resettling them as liberated Africans across sites from Sierra
Leone and Cape Colony to the West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, and beyond.
In this wide-ranging study, Maeve Ryan explores the set of imperial
experiments that took shape as British authorities sought to order
and instrumentalise the liberated Africans, and examines the dual
discourses of compassion and control that evolved around a people
expected to repay the debt of their salvation. Ryan traces the
ideas that shaped \"disposal\" policies towards liberated Africans,
and the forms of resistance and accommodation that characterized
their responses. This book demonstrates the impact of
interventionist experiments on the lives of the liberated people,
on the evolution of a British antislavery \"world system,\" and on
the emergence of modern understandings of refuge, asylum, and
humanitarian governance.
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