Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.

Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080184259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.

Author: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107354781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.

Author: John Gabriel Stedman
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
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Author: Janet Schaw
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429016949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. ""Journal of a Lady of Quality"" is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.

Author: Tim Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521876265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author: Craig Thompson Friend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084202
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.

Author: John Reeves
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T109775 With a half-title. London: printed for J. Sewell; J. Debrett; and J. Downes, 1793. [8],167, [5], cxvip.; 8°

Author: John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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