Author: William Augustus MilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A second letter from Legion to his Grace the Duke of Richmond ... containing an analysis of the antislavery evidence produced before the Committee
Author: William Augustus MilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Second Letter from Legion to His Grace the Duke of Richmond ... Containing an Analysis of the Antislavery Evidence Produced Before the Committee
Author: A Letter from Legion to His Grace the Duke of Richmond, &c., &c., &c., Chairman of the Slavery Committee of the House of Lords
Author: LegionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Second letter from Legion to His Grace the Duke of Richmond...Chairman of the Slavery Committee of the House of Lords, containing an analysis of the anti-slavery evidence produced before the Committee
Author: LegionA Second Letter from Legion to His Grace the Duke of Richmond Etc. Etc. Etc., Chairman of the Slavery Committee of the House of Lords
Author: LegionDictionary of Jamaican English
Author: Frederic G. CassidyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789766401276
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.
A Second Letter from Legion to His Grace the Duke of Richmond
Author: Legion (Writer)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders
Author: Don HerzogPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069122837X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Deftly weaving social and intellectual history, Herzog brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. In circulating libraries and Sunday schools, deferential subjects developed an avid taste for reading; in coffeehouses, alehouses, and debating societies, they boldly dared to argue about politics. Such conservatives as Edmund Burke gaped with horror, fearing that what radicals applauded as the rise of rationality was really popular stupidity or worse. Subjects, insisted conservatives, ought to defer to tradition--and be comforted by illusions. Urging that abstract political theories are manifest in everyday life, Herzog unflinchingly explores the unsavory emotions that maintained and threatened social hierarchy. Conservatives dished out an unrelenting diet of contempt. But Herzog refuses to pretend that the day's radicals were saints. Radicals, he shows, invested in contempt as enthusiastically as did conservatives. Hairdressers became newly contemptible, even a cultural obsession. Women, workers, Jews, and blacks were all abused by their presumed superiors. Yet some of the lowly subjects Burke had the temerity to brand a swinish multitude fought back. How were England's humble subjects transformed into proud citizens? And just how successful was the transformation? At once history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838
Author: Colleen A. VasconcellosPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820348031
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labor throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at how both colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhood—and how those ideas changed as the abolitionist movement gained power, the fortunes of planters rose and fell, and the nature of work on Jamaica's estates evolved from slavery to apprenticeship to free labor. Vasconcellos explores the experiences of enslaved children through the lenses of family, resistance, race, status, culture, education, and freedom. In the half-century covered by her study, Jamaican planters alternately saw enslaved children as burdens or investments. At the same time, the childhood experience was shaped by the ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse slave community. Vasconcellos adds detail and meaning to these tensions by looking, for instance, at enslaved children of color, legally termed mulattos, who had unique ties to both slave and planter families. In addition, she shows how traditions, beliefs, and practices within the slave community undermined planters' efforts to ensure a compliant workforce by instilling Christian values in enslaved children. These are just a few of the ways that Vasconcellos reveals an overlooked childhood—one that was often defined by Jamaican planters but always contested and redefined by the slaves themselves.
George Lisle: A Faith That Couldn't Be Denied
Author: Doreen MorrisonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666740365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
George Lisle: A Faith That Couldn’t Be Denied documents the pioneers of a nation. Three generations of men and women who, led and inspired by the ministry of George Lisle, advocated for a nation, from enslavement to emancipation and beyond. This work offers insight into a people and a movement who, in facing the most heinous and violent conditions, demonstrated boldness, bravery, self-sacrifice, and faith beyond measure as they sought to achieve freedom for generations of people who they knew they would never meet.