Social Science : Slavery

An annotated edition of an English captain's account of the slave trade. Publisher: Indiana University Press Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: A Slaving ......

Probes the relationship between the slave trade and one of Africas most vibrant centers Author: Mann, Kristin Publisher: Indiana University Press Illustrati......

The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (né Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the a......

In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and ......

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelli......

An examination of what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the ......

Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slave......

Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They......

2005 saw a mass mobilisation around the world, calling for 'trade justice'. The campaigners were lobbying for the introduction and implementation of new worl......

Dans le gouvernement de ce bas monde, la force ne devroit intervenir que lorsque la raison l'invoque; malheureusement celle-ci est presque toujours réduite à......

Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was...

Booker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm which, despite its small......

James Walvin plots the story of black slavery and traces the intellectual and historical arguments which have swirled around its history in recent years. Thi......

Essays by Susan V. Donaldson, Lael Gold, Adam Gussow, Martin Kreiswirth, Jay Parini, Noel Polk, Judith L. Sensibar, Jon Smith, and Priscilla Wald William Fau......

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and trans......

In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten ......

Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western He......

In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In ......

The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathere......

Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic......