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 origins of Dismal Swamp maroonage -- Dismal Swamp maroons in the colonial era -- North American maroon wars, 1775-1831 -- Maroon life in the Great Dismal Swamp -- Dismal Swamp marronage triumphant -- Epilogue: From dismal freedom to the free dismal. "The massive and forebod…
"The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion…
"The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion…
"This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America"--
"This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America"--
"This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America"--
"This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America"--.
"This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America"
This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.
Enslaved Women's Fugitivity -- "A Negro Wench Named Lucia": Enslaved Women during the Eighteenth Century -- "A Mulatto Woman Named Margaret": Pre-Revolutionary Fugitive Women -- "A Well Dressed Woman Named Jenny": Revolutionary Black Women, 1776-1781 -- "A Negro Woman Called Bet…
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the stud…
"Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the stu…
"Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the stu…
This book is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of slavery continue…
"Excellent collection of essays highlights recent interpretive currents in the study of runaway slaves. While providing several perspectives on Palmares, the collection also examines runaway slave communities in the Amazon region, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, …
"Excellent collection of essays highlights recent interpretive currents in the study of runaway slaves. While providing several perspectives on Palmares, the collection also examines runaway slave communities in the Amazon region, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, …