A comparative analysis of the complex interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women's lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery.
The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom.
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this biography, the author mines this remarkable document - and many other sources - to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging pat…
Landon Carter was a Virginia planter who kept one of the most complete diaries written in the 18th century. Rhys Isaac brings the journal together as a thematic and narrative whole, reconstructing Landon's world and that of his children and slaves.
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this biography, the author mines this remarkable document - and many other sources - to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging pat…
"En 1937 el dictador dominicano Leónidas Trujillo desata una feroz persecución contra los haitianos. En ella pierden la vida cientos de hombres, mujeres y niños que han llegado a República Dominicana buscando trabajo. Algunos pocos logran huir y salvar su vida. Pero será una vid…
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their…
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their…
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their …
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their…
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their …
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their…
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their…