An Antigua Plantation, 1769-1818
Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Sugar trade
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Author : Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Sugar trade
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Author : Edgar Tristram Thompson
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Plantations
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Page : 722 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 1926
Category : North Carolina
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John David Smith
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809328444
An Old Creed for the New South:Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865–1918 details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. Award-winning historian John David Smith argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor for how Americans interpreted contemporary race relations decades after the Civil War. Smith draws extensively on postwar articles, books, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and speeches to counter the belief that debates over slavery ended with emancipation. After the Civil War, Americans in both the North and the South continued to debate slavery’s merits as a labor, legal, and educational system and as a mode of racial control. The study details how white Southerners continued to tout slavery as beneficial for both races long after Confederate defeat. During Reconstruction and after Redemption, Southerners continued to refine proslavery ideas while subjecting blacks to new legal, extralegal, and social controls. An Old Creed for the New South links pre– and post–Civil War racial thought, showing historical continuity, and treats the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws in new ways, connecting these important racial and legal themes to intellectual and social history. Although many blacks and some whites denounced slavery as the source of the contemporary “Negro problem,” most whites, including late nineteenth-century historians, championed a “new” proslavery argument. The study also traces how historian Ulrich B. Phillips and Progressive Era scholars looked at slavery as a golden age of American race relations and shows how a broad range of African Americans, including Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, responded to the proslavery argument. Such ideas, Smith posits, provided a powerful racial creed for the New South. This examination of black slavery in the American public mind—which includes the arguments of former slaves, slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, novelists, and essayists—demonstrates that proslavery ideology dominated racial thought among white southerners, and most white northerners, in the five decades following the Civil War.
Author : Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1988-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819562043
A seminal and original work that delves deeply into what slaveholders thought.
Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9789766400101
Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
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Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1955
Category : America
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Author : David Barry Gaspar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1993-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822313366
Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.
Author : Christopher Michael Blakley
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807181005
In the early modern British Atlantic world, the comparison of enslaved people to animals, particularly dogs, cattle, or horses, was a common device used by enslavers to dehumanize and otherwise reduce the existence of the enslaved. Letters, memoirs, and philosophical treatises of the enslaved and formerly enslaved bear testament to the methods used to dehumanize them. In Empire of Brutality, Christopher Michael Blakley explores how material relationships between enslaved people and animals bolstered the intellectual dehumanization of the enslaved. By reconsidering dehumanization in the light of human–animal relations, Blakley offers new insights into the horrific institution later challenged by Black intellectuals in multiple ways. Using the correspondence of the Royal African Company, specimen catalogs and scientific papers of the Royal Society, plantation inventories and manuals, and diaries kept by slaveholders, Blakley describes human–animal networks spanning from Britain’s slave castles and outposts throughout western Africa to plantations in the Caribbean and American Southeast. They combine approaches from environmental history, history of science, and philosophy to examine slavery from the ground up and from the perspectives of the enslaved. Blakley’s work reveals how African captives who became commodified through exchanges of cowry sea snails between slavers in the Bight of Benin later went on to collect zoological specimens in Barbados and Virginia for institutions such as the Royal Society. On plantations, where enslaved people labored alongside cattle, donkeys, horses, and other animals to make the agricultural fortunes of slaveholders, Blakley shows how the enslaved resisted these human–animal pairings by stealing animals for their own purposes—such as fugitives who escaped their slaveholder’s grasp by riding stolen horses. Because of experiences like these, writers and thinkers of African descent who survived slavery later attacked the institution in public as fundamentally dehumanizing, one that corrupted the humanity of both slaveholders and the enslaved.