Author: Evelyn RogersPublisher: Evelyn Rogers
ISBN: 0821730398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Wanton Slave
Author: Evelyn RogersPublisher: Evelyn Rogers
ISBN: 0821730398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Dark Work
Author: Christy Clark-PujaraPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479870420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Business of Slavery and the Making of Race -- 2. Living and Laboring under Slavery -- 3. Emancipation in Black and White -- 4. The Legacies of Enslavement -- 5. Building a Free Community -- 6. Building a Free State and Nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
People Without Rights (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Andrew FedePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136716106
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
First published in September 1992, the book traces the nature and development of the fundamental legal relationships among slaves, masters, and third parties. It shows how the colonial and antebellum Southern judges and legislators accommodated slavery’s social relationships into the common law, and how slave law evolved in different states over time in response to social political, economic, and intellectual developments. The book states that the law of slavery in the US South treated slaves both as people and property. It reconciles this apparent contradiction by demonstrating that slaves were defined in the law as items of human property without any legal rights. When the lawmakers recognized slaves as people, they burdened slaves with added legal duties and disabilities. This epitomized in legal terms slavery’s oppressive social relationships. The book also illustrates how cases in which the lawmakers recognized slaves as people legitimized slavery’s inhumanity. References in the law to the legal humanity of people held as slaves are shown to be rhetorical devices and cruel ironies that regulated the relative rights of the slaves’ owners and other free people that were embodied in people held as slaves. Thus, it is argued that it never makes sense to think of slave legal rights. This was so even when the lawmakers regulated the individual masters’ rights to treat their slaves as they wished. These regulations advanced policies that the lawmakers perceived to be in the public interest within the context of a slave society.
The Rescue of Desdemona
Author: William Hooper HowellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America: New England and the Middle Colonies
Author: Elizabeth DonnanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slave trade
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: The general index; also a list of all the acts of assembly
Author: South CarolinaThe Eighteenth Centuries
Author: David T. GiesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period’s breadth and depth. Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Reports of the Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations; submitting ... the evidence and information they have collected in consequence of His Majesty's Order in Council, dated the 11th of February, 1788, concerning the present state of the Trade to Africa, and particularly the Trade in Slaves, etc
Author: Race Relations at the Margins
Author: Jeff ForretPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807131458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret’s findings challenge historians’ long-held assumption that mutual violence and animosity characterized the two groups’ interactions; he reveals that while poor whites and slaves sometimes experienced bouts of hostility, often they worked or played in harmony and camaraderie. Race Relations at the Margins is remarkable for its focus on lower-class whites and their dealings with slaves outside the purview of the master. Race and class, Forret demonstrates, intersected in unique ways for those at the margins of southern society, challenging the belief that race created a social cohesion among whites regardless of economic status. As Forret makes apparent, colonial-era flexibility in race relations never entirely disappeared despite the institutionalization of slavery and the growing rigidity of color lines. His book offers a complex and nuanced picture of the shadowy world of slave–poor white interactions, demanding a refined understanding and new appreciation of the range of interracial associations in the Old South.