Notes on the Two Reports from the Committee of the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica
Author : Stephen Fuller
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1789
Category : Black people
ISBN :
Contested Bodies
Author : Sasha Turner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 081229405X
Book Description
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.
Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade
Author : Eli Faber
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0814728790
Book Description
Lays to rest the controversial myth of Jewish involvement in the slave trade In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated legend, that Jews controlled and masterminded the slave trade and owned slaves on a large scale, well in excess of their own proportion in the population. In this groundbreaking book, likely to stand as the definitive word on the subject, Eli Faber cuts through this cloud of mystification to recapture an important chapter in both Jewish and African diasporic history. Focusing on the British empire, Faber assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves. His unprecedented original research utilizes shipping and tax records, stock-transfer ledgers, censuses, slave registers, and synagogue records. These materials reveal, once and for all, the minimal nature of Jews' involvement in the subjugation of Africans in the Americas. A crucial corrective, Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade lays to rest one of the most contested historical controversies of our time.
The Decline of the British West Indies, 1763-1833
Author : Lowell Joseph Ragatz
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 1928
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Difference and Disease
Author : Suman Seth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108418309
Book Description
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :
Book Description
F-O
Author : John Rylands Library
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Rare books
ISBN :
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Author : John Rylands Library
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :
Book Description
The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression
Author : Peter Hogg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1317792351
Book Description
A comprehensive bibliography dealing specifically with African slave trade. This volume has been sub-classified for easier consultation and the compiler has provided, where possible, descriptions and comments on the works listed.
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 10328 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
DigiCat presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including many recorded testimonies and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War. It is designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) The Underground Railroad Harriet Jacobs: The Moses of Her People Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! The History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William & Ellen Craft) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes: 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Fifty Years in Chains (Charles Ball) Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward) The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson) A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold) From the Darkness Cometh the Light (Lucy A. Delaney) Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Buried Alive Documents: The History of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade History of American Abolitionism from 1787-1861 Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address XIII Amendment Civil Rights Act of 1866 XIV Amendment ...
