"Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, pri…
"Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, pri…
Soul by Soul takes us inside the New Orleans slave market -- the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold.
"Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, pri…
"Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, pri…
Chapter 1. Meroe -- Slavery in Sudanese Christian kingdoms -- Slaves of Sudan and Mamluks of Egypt -- Chapter 2. Pioneers of enslavement and the slave trade in Africa -- Portugal, Spain, England, France, Denmark -- The abolition act -- Chapter 3. Slavery and enslavement in the F…
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 Slave Ship' focuses on the so-called 'golden age' of the slave trade, the period of 1700-1808, when more than six million people were transported out of Africa, most of them on British and American ships, across the Atlantic, to slave on New World plantations.
Charts the history of slave ships, their crews, and their enslaved passengers, documenting such stories as those of a young kidnapped African whose slavery is witnessed firsthand by a horrified priest from a neighboring tribe responsible for the slave's capture.
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave sh…
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave sh…