"In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped…
In 'Brethren by Nature', Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shape…
"Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass also came to see how sit…
"Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass also came to see how sit…
"A comprehensive investigation of slave escape in antebellum Florida. This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and probate records, …
Chronicles the history of African enslavement in Latin America and the Caribbean and discusses how the slaves' experiences in Latin America differed from the experiences of slaves in the United States.
For review see: Chris Abel, in Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 20, part 2 (November 1988); p. 457-458.
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history ... Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dang…