This text tells the story of how the enslavement of Africans by Berbers, Arabs and other Africans became institutionalized and legitimized throughout Muslim Africa. It provides a portrait of domestic slavery from the 10th to 19th-centuries in a wider religious, social and economic context.
Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Planta
The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor to ......
Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Planta
Addresses the significance of Sylvester Manor's plantation history to American attitudes about diversity, Indian land politics, slavery and Jim Crow, in tension with idealized visions of white colonial community
How did the evil nature of slavery become enshrined in law in Great Britain? What drove the change in public perception? What were the key victories on the journey to abolition and who were the key players? What is to prevent a similar evil gaining acceptance again today? Just as Britain's industrial development in the eighteenth and early ......
This title shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the 17th and 18th centuries. It covers all aspects of the two labour systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies.
This title shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the 17th and 18th centuries. It covers all aspects of the two labour systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies.
In the U.S. Civil War, Mary Richards, a free Black woman, risked her life posing as an illiterate slave to spy in the home of rebel President Jefferson Davis. Whether as a Union agent sending vital intelligence to the U.S. military or facing down the Klan while teaching freed slaves in postwar Georgia, hers was a heroic one-woman fight for ......
Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora
Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora is the first comprehensive ethnographic and historical study of slavery and its outcomes in numerous geographic contexts. The contributors to this collection traverse region, theme, and time to construct a book of great scale and scope.
