Through the Prism of Slavery - 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 Through the Prism of Slavery write by Dale W. Tomich. This book was released on 2004. Through the Prism of Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, he reinterprets the development of the world economy through the "prism of slavery." Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy. The author explores how particular slave systems were affected by their integration into the world market, the international division of labor, and the interstate system. He further examines the ways that the particular "local" histories of such slave regimes illuminate processes of world economic change. His deft use of specific New World examples of slave production as local sites of global transformation highlights the influence of specific geographies and local agency in shaping different slave zones. Tomich's cogent analysis of the struggles over the organization of work and labor discipline in the French West Indian colony of Martinique vividly illustrates the ways that day-to-day resistance altered the relationship between master and slave, precipitated crises in sugar cultivation, and created the local conditions for the transition to a post-slavery economy and society.
What is a Slave Society?
What is a Slave Society? - 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 What is a Slave Society? write by Noel Emmanuel Lenski. This book was released on 2018-05-10. What is a Slave Society? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
The Empire of Necessity
The Empire of Necessity - 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 Empire of Necessity write by Greg Grandin. This book was released on 2014-01-14. The Empire of Necessity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event—an event that already inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin, with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.
The Showman and the Slave
The Showman and the Slave - 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 Showman and the Slave write by Benjamin Reiss. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The Showman and the Slave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman who was said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. In piecing together the fragmentary and conflicting evidence of the event, Reiss paints a picture of people looking at history, at the human body, at social class, at slavery, at performance, at death, and always--if obliquely--at themselves. At the same time, he reveals how deeply an obsession with race penetrated different facets of American life, from public memory to private fantasy. Concluding the book is a piece of historical detective work in which Reiss attempts to solve the puzzle of Heth's real identity before she met Barnum. His search yields a tantalizing connection between early mass culture and a slave's subtle mockery of her master.
Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community
Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community - 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 Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community write by Raphaël Lambert. This book was released on 2018-12-24. Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert applies contemporary theories of community to works of fiction about the slave trade in order to both shed new light on slave trade studies and rethink the very notion of community.
