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In Slavery: A World History renowned author Milton Meltzer traces slavery from its origins in prehistoric hunting societies; through the boom in slave trading that reached its peak in the United States with a pre-Civil War slave population ...
Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner have been especially controversial. Almost four decades ago, in “The Vesey Plot: A Reconsideration,” Journal of Southern History, XXX (May 1964), 143—61, Richard C. Wade questioned whether the Vesey ...
Stephanie Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.
This story of slave liberation and American independence highlights the pivotal role of the “first emancipation” in the French Antilles in the 1790s, the parallel actions of slave resistance and metropolitan abolitionism, and the ...
. . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco Chronicle The North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now.
... Herman, 87 Merchants' Exchange Bank, 93 Mila 18 (Uris), 15 Missouri Compromise, 40, 80 mock slave auction, 13-14 Monmouth County (New Jersey), 63 Moore, Queen Mother, 35 Moore, Shiyanne, 100 Moore, Thomas, 54 Morris, Gouverneur, 64, ...
Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some...
Lucid, probing, captivatingly written, "New York Burning is a revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.
I have forgot the name of this infernal fort ; but we were taken in the ship that came for us , to another that was ... captive situation , as the similar cases of thousands , which suffer by this infernal traffic , are well known .
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