"What happened to slaves after abolition? Work attempts to look beyond stereotypes of ex-slaves as marginalized victims to an examination of how they made their lives and constituted their families, how they 'constructed' and 'were constructed' by history. There were tremendous …
"What happened to slaves after abolition? Work attempts to look beyond stereotypes of ex-slaves as marginalized victims to an examination of how they made their lives and constituted their families, how they 'constructed' and 'were constructed' by history. There were tremendous …
"'When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, 'we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friends…
"In the summer of 1845, a man named Frederick Douglass disembarked ship in Dublin. It marked the start of a two-year lecture tour of Britain and Ireland by the celebrated author, orator - and escaped slave. Advised to leave America for his own safety after the publication of his…
"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"-- "In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting…
"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"--
After Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Herera's owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Herera's quest to rescue her children from bondage after the war. As the kidnapping case made its way through the courts, it…
Born into slavery in rural Louisiana, Rose Herera was bought and sold several times before being purchased by the De Hart family of New Orleans. Still a slave, she married and had children, who also became the property of the De Harts. But after Union forces captured New Orleans…