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Out of Slavery

Author : Carol Ann Trembath

Publisher : Lakeside Publishing Mi

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 46,63 MB

Release : 2019-05-10

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 9780990744689

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Out of Slavery: A Novel of Harriet Tubman is a story that follows the perilous path of the Underground Railroad and the tragic costs of the Civil War. This compelling tale is seen through the eyes of Cece, Tilly, and Lou, as Harriet conducts them north to safety along the Underground Railroad. The journey continues when they, along with Harriet, enlist in the Union Army. The War of the Rebellion propels Harriet and her companions to act together along with Frederick Douglass, Colonel Robert Shaw, and Sergeant William Carney to preserve a divided nation and free a people caught in the web of slavery. It is a story of romance and realism, and the triumphs and tragedies of war. As Cece says of Harriet, "Along our escape route, I saw wanted posters of Harriet. Who Harriet really was never fit the description that I saw on those ragged pieces of paper. They all missed telling about her great heart. She would never free a whole nation of slaves like Moses, but I knew she had the desire and will to do so." Through Harriet we can feel our true history and in her strong voice we hear the echoes of freedom.



Greatest Emancipations

Author : Jim Powell

Publisher : St. Martin's Press

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 49,96 MB

Release : 2008-06-24

Category : History

ISBN : 0230612989

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For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows that while the abolition of slavery was essential to any free society, it wasn't the sole determing factor, since some societies that abolished slavery later embraced dictatorships. Jim Powell reveals the process and tremendous influence that slavery's eradication had on individual societies in the west.



The Mark of Slavery

Author : Jenifer L. Barclay

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 36,43 MB

Release : 2021-04-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0252052617

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Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore. Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail, The Mark of Slavery is a powerful addition to the intertwined histories of disability, slavery, and race.



A Brief History of Slavery

Author : Jeremy Black

Publisher : Robinson

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 28,8 MB

Release : 2011-08-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1849017328

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A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day. In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the present in the form of contemporary crimes such as trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms throughout history and across the world - from the uprising of Spartacus, the plantations of the West Indies, and the murderous forced labour of the gulags and concentration camps. Slavery helped to consolidate transoceanic empires and helped mould new world societies such as America and Brazil. Black charts the long fight for abolition in the nineteenth century, looking at both the campaigners as well as the harrowing accounts of the enslaved themselves. Slavery is still with us today, and coerced labour can be found closer to home than one might expect.



Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

Author : W. G. Clarence-Smith

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 11,51 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780195221510

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Slavery by Another Name

Author : Douglas A. Blackmon

Publisher : Icon Books

Page : 429 pages

File Size : 48,33 MB

Release : 2012-10-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1848314132

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.



Bury the Chains

Author : Adam Hochschild

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 500 pages

File Size : 13,87 MB

Release : 2006

Category : History

ISBN : 9780618619078

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This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.



The Escape of Robert Smalls

Author : Jehan Jones-Radgowski

Publisher :

Page : 41 pages

File Size : 41,24 MB

Release : 2019-09

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1543512895

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The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to carry out a perilous plan of escape. Standing at the helm of the ship, Smalls impersonated the captain as he and his crew passed heavily armed Confederate forts to enter Union territory, where escaped slaves were given shelter. The suspenseful escape of the determined crew is celebrated with beautiful artwork and insightful prose, detailing the true account of an unsung American hero.



Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters

Author : R. Davis

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 32,24 MB

Release : 2003-09-16

Category : History

ISBN : 9781403945518

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This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.



The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible

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Page : 578 pages

File Size : 14,75 MB

Release : 2019-10-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9781936533800

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The Slave Bible was published in 1807. It was commissioned on behalf of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves in England. The Bible was to be used by missionaries and slave owners to teach slaves about the Christian faith and to evangelize slaves. The Bible was used to teach some slaves to read, but the goal first and foremost was to tend to the spiritual needs of the slaves in the way the missionaries and slave owners saw fit.