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29 Ιουλ 2010 · The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers authoritative articles on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With articles on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Indies, and South America, this book has impressive geographic and temporal coverage.
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In the last three decades, gender has become an...
- Acknowledgments
A volume of this sort—a decidedly multi-year...
- List of Contributors
Douglas Ambrose co‐founded the Alexander Hamilton Institute...
- Dedication
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of...
- Class and Slavery
Search in this book. Chapter 16 Class and Slavery ... While...
- Archaeology and Slavery
Slaves used these sub‐floor pits for the storage of food and...
- Spanish Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Abstract. This article reviews scholarship on the history...
- Slave Culture
Historians of the American South have had an interest in...
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The descriptions of the slave trade and treatment of slaves are brought to life by seven strikingly vivid vignettes depicting slaves being whipped, sold, tortured, and separated from their families. A full transcript is available.
orlando Patterson s thesis is as simple as it is abstract. 'Archetypically,' he writes, 'slavery was a substitute for death in war. But almost as frequently, the death commuted was punishment for some capital offense, or death from exposure or starvation. The condition of slavery did not absolve or erase
4 Σεπ 2019 · Joe William Trotter Jr’s Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America describes how, because of their violent uprooting from agrarian communities, African persons brought to America to serve as slaves had to adapt to industrial work under extreme conditions. They succeeded.
Kolchin's book holds up fairly well today, ten years after its initial publication, his conclusion that new scholarship has not challenged some of the older inter pretations on slavery is debatable.
In comparing North American and Latin American slavery, Elkins adds to Tannenbaum's earlier treatment. The legal status of the slave in "the liberal, Protestant, secularized, capitalist culture of America" is contrasted with that of the slave in "the conservative, paternalistic, Catholic, quasi-medieval cul-
Black Americans quickly took full advantage of their newfound freedom in a myriad of ways. Alfred Islay Walden’s story is a particularly remarkable example of this. Born a slave in Randolph County, North Carolina, he only gained freedom after Emancipation.
