This complex novel of race, history, slavery, and philosophy follows the journey of Andrew Hawkins, a biracial man born into slavery on the Cripplegate plantation. "Charles Johnson's comic philosophical novel takes the form of a picaresque, first-person narrative. It is the stor…
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Illustrates an individual's desperate flight from slavery in the antebellum South in which bondage is spiritual as well as physical, sexual as well as racial.
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated…
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated…
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated…
"Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These…
This volume is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the United States to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved. This work contradicted those historians who had interpreted history to suggest that African American slaves were docile and submissive who enj…
Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to main…
Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire
by Faroqhi, Suraiya, Królikowska-Jedlińska, Natalia, Hathaway, Jane, Frenkel, Yehoshua, Büssow, Johann, Toledano, Ehud R., Conermann, Stephan, Şen, Gül, Büssow, Sarah, Güneş Yağcı, Zübeyde, Ipsirli Argit, Betül, Wagner, Veruschka, White, Joshua, Witzenrath, Christoph
fromOttoman Studies / Osmanistische Studien
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Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America, telling the story of how America's ruling classes created the category of the "white race" as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, and that…
"In one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favored these revolts and the history of sl…
"Drawn from personal journals kept for more than fifty years and from a vast professional and family correspondence, the life story of William Barclay Napton offers an important perspective on the issues and events that turned this northerner into an avowed proslavery ideologue …