Author: Orlando Patterson Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674916131 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 528
Book Description
In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South.
Author: Enrico Dal Lago Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009113847 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 389
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A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space.
Author: Laird W. Bergad Publisher: ISBN: Category : Slavery Languages : en Pages :
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"This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rural and urban elites. Yet long after it had been abolished elsewhere in the Americas, slavery stubbornly persisted in the three nations. It took a destructive Civil War in the United States to bring an end to racial slavery in the southern states in 1865. In 1886 slavery was officially ended in Cuba, and in 1888 Brazil finally abolished this dreadful institution, and legalized slavery in the Americas came to an end."--Print book jacket.
Author: Orlando Patterson Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674744144 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 528
Book Description
This is the first full-scale comparative study of the nature of slavery. In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery is shown to he a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a natally alienated, or socially dead, person. The phenomenon of slavery as an institution, the author argues. is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death.
Author: Joel Quirk Publisher: United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 154
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Child labor ; Comparative analysis ; Contemporary history ; Forced labor ; Government policy ; Human trafficking ; Liberation movements ; Modern history ; Prostitution ; Slavery.
Author: Frank Tannenbaum Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 9780394752310 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Originally published in 1947, Slave and Citizen is a classic in the field of comparative slave history and race relations."A significant historiographic milestone in the study of American slave systems. It has been a point of departure for most studies done on slavery and race relations since World War II."-Franklin W. Knight
Author: Justine K. Collins Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000515672 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these “borrowed” laws from England not only developed colonial slavery laws within the English-speaking Caribbean but also inspired the slavery codes of a number of North American plantation systems. The cusp of the work focuses on the interconnectivities among the English-speaking slave holding Atlantic and how persons, free and unfree, moved throughout the system and brought laws with them which greatly affected the various enslaved societies. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in colonial slavery, Caribbean studies and Black and Atlantic history.
Author: Vera D. Rubin Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 636
Book Description
Verzameling onderzoekspapers over slavernij in de Amerika's die bij elkaar zijn gebracht in het kader van een in 1976 in New York gehouden conferentie.
Author: James Walvin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113474112X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 218
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For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on slavery. Yet these systems were mainly brought to a very rapid end. This text surveys the key questions of slavery, and traces the arguments which have swirled around its history in recent years. The latest findings on slavery are presented, and a comparative analysis of slavery in the English-speaking Americas is offered.
Author: Orlando Patterson
Author: Enrico Dal Lago
Author: Laird W. Bergad
Author: Orlando Patterson
Author: Laura Foner
Author: Joel Quirk
Author: Frank Tannenbaum
Author: Justine K. Collins
Author: Vera D. Rubin
Author: James Walvin