Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Papers Presented to Parliament by His Majesty's Command
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
List of Works Relating to the West Indies
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Papers Presented to Parliament by His Majesty's Command, in Explanation of the Measures Adopted by His Majesty's Government, for the Melioration of the Condition of the Salve Population in His Majesty's Possessions in the West Indies, on the Continent of South America, and at the Mauritius
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Fugitive Movements
Author: James O'Neil SpadyPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In 1822, White authorities in Charleston, South Carolina, learned of plans among the city's enslaved and free Black population to lead an armed antislavery rebellion. Among the leaders was a free Black carpenter named Denmark Vesey. After a brief investigation and what some have considered a dubious trial, Vesey and thirty-five others were convicted of attempted insurrection and hanged. Although the rebellion never came to fruition, it nonetheless fueled Black antislavery movements in the United States and elsewhere. To this day, activists, politicians, writers, and scholars debate the significance of the conspiracy, how to commemorate it, and the integrity of the archival records it left behind. Fugitive Movements memorializes this attempted liberation movement with new interpretations of the event as well as comparisons to other Black resistance throughout the Atlantic World—including Africa, the Caribbean, and the Northern United States. This volume situates Denmark Vesey and antislavery rebellion within the current scholarship on abolition that places Black activists at the center of the story. It shows that Black antislavery rebellion in general, and the 1822 uprising by Black Charlestonians in particular, significantly influenced the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. The essays collected in this volume explore not only that history, but also the ongoing struggle over the memory of slavery and resistance in the Atlantic World. Manisha Sinha, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, provides the foreword.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Imperial Twilight
Author: Stephen R. PlattPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345803027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Transatlantic Africa
Author: Kwasi KonaduPublisher: Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN: 1937306496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through African and diasporic primary sources. Based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories, archival documents, and visual evidence, the book connects those experiences to local and international slaving systems. It also tackles the themes of commodification, capitalism, abolitionism, and reparations. By integrating these views with critical interpretations, Transatlantic Africa balances intellectual rigor with broad accessibility, helping readers to think anew about how transoceanic slaving made the modern world