Author: George ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Thompson in Africa, Or, An Account of the Missionary Labors, Sufferings, Travels, Observations, &c
Author: George ThompsonThompson in Africa: or, An account of the missionary labors, sufferings, travels, and observations, of George Thompson, in Western Africa, at the Mendi Mission. Second edition
Author: George THOMPSON (Missionary)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Thompson in Africa: Or, An Account of the Missionary Labors, Sufferings, Travels, and Observations, of George Thompson, in Western Africa, at the Mendi Mission
Author: George ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Smell of Slavery
Author: Andrew KettlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108490735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Slavery, capitalism, and colonialism were understood as racially justified through false olfactory perceptions of African bodies throughout the Atlantic World.
Thompson in Africa
Author: George ThompsonAmistad's Orphans
Author: Benjamin Nicholas LawrancePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210434
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children’s own letters, Lawrance recounts how their lives were inextricably interwoven by the historic drama, and casts new light on illegal nineteenth-century transatlantic slave smuggling.
Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865
Author: Harriet C. FrazierPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786418299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolition of slavery in 1865, liberty was always the goal of the vast majority of its enslaved people. The presence in eastern Kansas of a host of abolitionists from New England made slaveholding risky business. Many religiously devout persons were imprisoned in Missouri for "slave stealing." Based largely on old newspapers, prison records, pardon papers, and other archival materials, this book is an account of the legal and physical obstacles that slaves faced in their quest for freedom and of the consequences suffered by persons who tried to help them. Attitudes of both slave holders and abolitionists are examined, as is the institution's protection in both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution. The book discusses the experiences of particular individuals and examines the Underground Railroad on Missouri's borders. Appendices provide details from two Spanish colonial census reports, a list of abolitionist prison inmates with details about their time served, and the percentages of African Americans still in bondage in 16 jurisdictions from 1820 to 1860.
A Checklist of American Imprints for 1837
Author: Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818415
Category : Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Amistad Rebellion
Author: Marcus RedikerPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781685525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The dramatic story of a courageous rebellion against slavery On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless night, the captive Africans that comprised that cargo escaped from the hold, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the US navy and thrown into a Connecticut jail. Their legal battle for freedom eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where former president John Quincy Adams took up their cause. In a landmark ruling, they were freed and eventually returned to Africa. The rebellion became one of the best-known events in the history of American slavery, celebrated as a triumph of the US legal system in books and films, most famously Steven Spielberg’s Amistad. These narratives reflect the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved. In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its instigators: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence, Rediker reaches back to Africa to find the rebels’ roots, narrates their cataclysmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a prison story of great drama and emotive power. Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the Africans, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, The Amistad Rebellion shows how the rebels captured the popular imagination and helped to inspire and build a movement that was part of a grand global struggle for emancipation. The actions of that distant July night and inthe days and months that followed were pivotal events in American and Atlantic history, but not for the reasons we have always thought. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of Africans steered a course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This stunning book honours their achievement.
Thompson in Africa
Author: George ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description