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Scotland and the abolition of black slavery, 1756-1838
The Scots made a unique though not fully recognized contribution to the destruction of black slavery. This book begins with a Virginian slave seeking his freedom in Scotland in 1756 and ends with the abolition of the apprenticeship scheme in the West Indian colonies in 1838, including many stories told here for the first time.
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Chained to History
In Chained to History
, Steven J. Brady places slavery at the center of the story
of America's place in the world in the years prior to the
calamitous Civil War. Beginning with the immediate
aftermath of the War of the American Revolution, Brady follows the
military, economic, and moral lines of the diplomatic challenges of
attempting to manage, on the global stage, the actuality of human
servitude in a country dedicated to human freedom. Chained to
History shows how slavery was interwoven with America's
foreign relations and affected policy controversies ranging from
trade to extradition treaties to military alliances.
Brady highlights the limitations placed on American policymakers
who, working in an international context increasingly supportive of
abolition, were severely constrained regarding the formulation and
execution of preferred policy. Policymakers were bound to the slave
interest based in the Democratic Party and the tortured state of
domestic politics bore heavily on the conduct of foreign affairs.
As international powers not only abolished the slave trade but
banned human servitude as such, the American position became
untenable.
From the Age of Revolutions through the American Civil War,
slavery was a constant factor in shaping US relations with the
Atlantic World and beyond. Chained to History addresses
this critical topic in its complete scope and shows the immoral
practice of human bondage to have informed how the United States
re-entered the community of nations after 1865.
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Eighty-Eight Years
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a \"house divided against itself,\" as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont wrote slavery out of its state constitution, to 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide.
Rael immerses readers in the mix of social, geographic, economic, and political factors that shaped this unique American experience. He not only takes a far longer view of slavery's demise than do those who date it to the rise of abolitionism in 1831, he also places it in a broader Atlantic context. We see how slavery ended variously by consent or force across time and place and how views on slavery evolved differently between the centers of European power and their colonial peripheries-some of which would become power centers themselves.
Rael shows how African Americans played the central role in ending slavery in the United States. Fueled by new Revolutionary ideals of self-rule and universal equality-and on their own or alongside abolitionists-both slaves and free blacks slowly turned American opinion against the slave interests in the South. Secession followed, and then began the national bloodbath that would demand slavery's complete destruction.
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Forward Editors' Introduction
This is the editors' introduction to Forward, a curated selection of excerpts from important new publications in the field of transnational American studies. For this edition, we have chosen to explore the afterlives of empire and slavery through award-winning works by Jodi Kim, Heidi Kim, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Anita Gonzalez.
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