Search results for “[Subject: slavery]”

• Author(s): Larry Koger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper...

• Author(s): Marlene D. Allen | Seretha D. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Since the election of President Ba...

• Author(s): Robert Olwell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThe slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the "Old South" of the e...

• Author(s): Alex Bontemps • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlThe Punished Self describes enslavement in the American So...

• Author(s): Joanne Pope Melish • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsFollowing the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed t...

• Author(s): Robert J. Cottrol • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlAn anthology of five autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England...

• Author(s): Steven A. Epstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyIn this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about ra...

• Author(s): Annie Bunting | Joel Quirk • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: SlaveryThis volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography...

• Author(s): Kevin Bales | Zoe Trodd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: SlaveryBoys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into b...

• Author(s): Muhammad A. Dandamaev • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralPresents an analysis of the economics of slavery and a picture of Neo-Babylonian ...

• Author(s): William J. Phalen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that "without cotton, you have no modern industry." Ind...

• Author(s): Harriet C. Frazier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issu...

• Author(s): Dale Edwyna Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: African American The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who ...

• Author(s): Harriet C. Frazier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolit...

• Author(s): Randy Decuir • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalThis is the real story behind the movie. This book was produced in...

• Author(s): Lucia C. Stanton • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dr...

• Author(s): Claude H. Nolen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks ...

• Author(s): Solomon Northup • Publisher: Quaint Press • Publisher Imprint: Quaint Press • BISAC: Personal MemoirsLured to the nation's capital by the prospect of work, Solomon Northup, a free man born in New York, is kidnapped and sold into slav...

• Author(s): Robert Alexander • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form ...

• Author(s): Virginia Department of Historic Resource • Publisher: Virginia Department of Historic Resources • Publisher Imprint: Virginia Department of Historic Resources • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American &...

• Author(s): Charles B. Dew • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: EducatorsIn this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particula...

• Author(s): Robert E. May • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyHow did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Chris...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery wa...

• Author(s): Margaret Ellen Newell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a...

• Author(s): Solomon Northup • Publisher: Stonewell Press • Publisher Imprint: Stonewell Press • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalFirst published in 1853, 12 Years a Slave is the riveting true story of a free black American who was sold into slavery...

• Author(s): Michael C. Thomsett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as Am...

• Author(s): Oscar Reiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies By the time of the American Revolution, blacks made up 20 percent of the colonial popula...

• Author(s): William M. Wiecek • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the ant...

• Author(s): Michael Craton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - Jamaica

• Author(s): Francois Furstenberg • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light...

• Author(s): Mary Louise Clifford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of...

• Author(s): Alex Dupuy | Jr. Robert Fatton • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin AmericanThis important book provides a critical reinterpr...

• Author(s): Owen W. Muelder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement gained remarkable momentum due in large measure to the establishm...

• Author(s): George Hendrick | Willene Hendrick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Slavery Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S. Civil War. While most refugees en...

• Author(s): Kevin C. Julius • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The years between America's founding and the cusp of the Civil War are often overlooked in discussions...

• Author(s): J. Blaine Hudson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped acro...