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Letters Sent Within the Colony, Apr - Jul 1825
Author: Letters Sent Within the Colony, Jul - Nov 1825
Author: Letters Sent Within the Colony, Nov - Dec 1825
Author: Records of the Cape Colony: Nov.-Dec. 1825
Author: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)Publisher:
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Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Letters Sent Within the Colony, 1824-1825
Author: Letters Sent Within the Colony, Apr - Jul 1824
Author: Speech ... Upon the Arrangement of the Colonial Trade with Great Britain. Delivered in the Senate ... 8 Apr. 1832
Author: Elias Kent KANERecords of the Cape Colony, from February 1793 to April 1831
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Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom
Author: Gregory MayPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 132409222X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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The untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally comes to light. Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773–1833), which—almost inexplicably—freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in American history. So famous is the case that Ta-Nehisi Coates has used it to condemn Randolph’s cousin, Thomas Jefferson, for failing to free his own slaves. With this groundbreaking investigation, historian Gregory May now reveals a more surprising story, showing how madness and scandal shaped John Randolph’s wildly shifting attitudes toward his slaves—and how endemic prejudice in the North ultimately deprived the freedmen of the land Randolph had promised them. Sweeping from the legal spectacle of the contested will through the freedmen’s dramatic flight and horrific reception in Ohio, A Madman’s Will is an extraordinary saga about the alluring promise of freedom and its tragic limitations.
British West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery
Author: Andrew LewisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040041051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region. Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival research, this volume provides an in-depth history of early nineteenth-century British West Indian newspapers and potted biographies of the journalists who produced them. The author examines the economics underpinning newspapers, and a political spectrum, unique to the West Indian press, is also posited. Towards one end sat a small group of ‘liberal’ newspapers that outraged white colonists by arguing for civil and political rights to be extended to so-called free coloureds and for the abolition of slavery; scattered at various points towards the other end of the spectrum were newspapers still best collectively described as the ‘planter press’—the traditional term used in the literature. Starting from this basic conceptual framework, the volume shows how the press landscape in the British Caribbean at this time was more volatile and complex than has been previously thought. This volume will be of value to academics, undergraduates and postgraduates studying Caribbean and media history and those interested in modern history.