The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom write by Steven Hahn. This book was released on 2009-03-31. The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Steven Hahn opens our eyes to the scope of African American contributions to American political life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He explores the slave emancipation process in the U.S., slave rebelliousness during the Civil War, and popular forms of black nationalism in the 20th century beginning with Garveyism.
A Nation Under Our Feet
A Nation Under Our Feet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Nation Under Our Feet write by Steven Hahn. This book was released on 2005. A Nation Under Our Feet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of the Civil War, revealing a "nation" under construction.
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era write by Jonathan A. Noyalas. This book was released on 2022-11-01. Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now. Correcting previous assumptions that slavery was not important to the Valley, and that enslaved people were treated better there than in other parts of the South, Jonathan Noyalas demonstrates the strong hold of slavery in the region. He explains that during the war, enslaved and free African Americans navigated a borderland that changed hands frequently—where it was possible to be in Union territory one day, Confederate territory the next, and no-man’s land another. He shows that the region’s enslaved population resisted slavery and supported the Union war effort by serving as scouts, spies, and laborers, or by fleeing to enlist in regiments of the United States Colored Troops. Noyalas draws on untapped primary resources, including thousands of records from the Freedmen’s Bureau and contemporary newspapers, to continue the story and reveal the challenges African Americans faced from former Confederates after the war. He traces their actions, which were shaped uniquely by the volatility of the struggle in this region, to ensure that the war’s emancipationist legacy would survive. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
In the Shadow of Freedom
In the Shadow of Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Shadow of Freedom write by Paul Finkelman. This book was released on 2011-06-13. In the Shadow of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world’s most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet officials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there. While slaves quietly kept the nation’s capital running smoothly, lawmakers debated the place of slavery in the nation, the status of slavery in the territories newly acquired from Mexico, and even the legality of the slave trade in itself. This volume, with essays by some of the most distinguished historians in the nation, explores the twin issues of how slavery made life possible in the District of Columbia and how lawmakers in the district regulated slavery in the nation. Contributors: David Brion Davis, Mary Beth Corrigan, A. Glenn Crothers, Jonathan Earle, Stanley Harrold, Mitch Kachun, Mary K. Ricks, James B. Stewart, Susan Zaeske, David Zarefsky
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World write by Edward B. Rugemer. This book was released on 2018-11-12. Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrative sugar plantations and enslaved African labor, spawned the slave societies of Jamaica in the western Caribbean and South Carolina on the American mainland. These became the most prosperous slave economies in the Anglo-American Atlantic, despite the rise of enlightened ideas of liberty and human dignity. Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World reveals the political dynamic between slave resistance and slaveholders’ power that marked the evolution of these societies. Edward Rugemer shows how this struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other. In both Jamaica and South Carolina, a draconian system of laws and enforcement allowed slave masters to maintain control over the people they enslaved, despite resistance and recurrent slave revolts. Brutal punishments, patrols, imprisonment, and state-sponsored slave catchers formed an almost impenetrable net of power. Yet slave resistance persisted, aided and abetted by rising abolitionist sentiment and activity in the Anglo-American world. In South Carolina, slaveholders exploited newly formed levers of federal power to deflect calls for abolition and to expand slavery in the young republic. In Jamaica, by contrast, whites fought a losing political battle against Caribbean rebels and British abolitionists who acted through Parliament. Rugemer’s comparative history spanning two hundred years of slave law and political resistance illuminates the evolution and ultimate collapse of slave societies in the Atlantic World.
