"Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes …
Varon blends political history with intellectual and cultural history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis. She focuses not only on politicians but also on a wide range of reformers, editors, writers, and commentators.
This book explains the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular relationships between slaves and their masters. It discusses the development of the slave trade and the slave society, the legal steps of abolition, and the reality after abolition. By focusing on the enslav…
The author explores the crucial roles Native Americans, African Americans, and white women played in the literal and rhetorical battle between proslavery and antislavery settlers in the region. She brings attention to the local debates and the diverse peoples who participated in…
In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre-Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature,…
"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali"-- "The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occur…
"This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali"-- "The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating - and intensifying - civil wars that have occur…
"Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bale's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of mu…
The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal labguage to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.
The author examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to 'try' the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media.
Glancy here situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting, arguing that modern scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early churches - and upon the bodies of t…
Glancy here situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting, arguing that modern scholars have consistently underestimated the pervasive impact of slavery on the institutional structures, ideologies, and practices of the early churches - and upon the bodies of t…
