Author: Random House
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099817833
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Erica Bronte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781563339349
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Samantha Austen
Publisher: Silver Moon Books Limited, Leeds
ISBN: 9781897809778
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Anderssen Lia (author)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781005581114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times “Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective.”—Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.

Author: Daniel E. Beaumont
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838638743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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"Slave of Desire, through its analyses of various stories, reveals The 1001 Nights to be a very different sort of work, a sophisticated and subtle piece of literature that can provoke and disturb as much as it entertains and amuses.

Author: Lia Anderssen
Publisher: Silver Moon Books
ISBN: 9781786956156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Toni is a young girl who has been brought up by her straight-laced guardians and knows nothing of the world. Then she encounters Alex, a sexually active girl who takes her as her virtual slave. Under Alex's tuition Toni realizes her desires and willingly becomes a sex toy for the local men to enjoy. Toni's guardians find her in a sexual encounter with some of Alex's friends. They send her to a foreign country where Madame Lashenka runs a so-called finishing school for girls. Toni soon discovers that this school is in fact a front for a night club and sex club, and soon becomes a waitress and later an object for the men's sexual pleasure. Later she becomes the servant of the Count, obliged to do whatever he asks of her. In turn, the Count hands her over to the cruel Bastik, a powerful man who demands her use whilst he stays at the Count's mansion. Too late she discovers that Bastic intends to sell her into slavery. Can she escape this awful fate and get back to the Count?

Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803214359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 774

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Willa Cather’s twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather’s Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery—conflicts in which Cather’s family members were deeply involved, both as slave owners and as opponents of slavery. Cather, at five years old, appears as a character in an unprecedented first-person epilogue. Tapping her earliest memories, Cather powerfully and sparely renders a Virginia world that is simultaneously beautiful and, as she said, “terrible.” The historical essay and explanatory notes explore the novel’s grounding in family, local, and national history; show how southern cultures continually shaped Cather’s life and work, culminating with this novel; and trace the progress of Cather’s research and composition during years of grief and loss that she described as the worst of her life. More early drafts, including manuscript fragments, are available for Sapphira and the Slave Girl than for any other Cather novel, and the revealing textual essay draws on this rich resource to provide new insights into Cather’s composition process.

Author: Mark Schroeder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199299501
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires. Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.