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Slaves and slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782
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ISBN: 0826260071 9780826260079 0826212271 9780826212276 Year: 1999 Publisher: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press,

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View of the Constitution of the United States
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ISBN: 1614878692 9781614878698 0865972001 9780865972001 086597201X 9780865972018 Year: 1999 Publisher: Indianapolis, IN Liberty Fund

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Encyclopedia of African American business history
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ISBN: 0313008647 9780313008641 0313295492 9780313295492 1280927828 9786610927821 Year: 1999 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,

Slavery and the demographic and economic history of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720-1888
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ISBN: 0521652669 0521028175 0511572700 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This 2000 book examines the demographic and economic history of slavery in Minas Gerais, the single largest slave-holding region in Brazil, from its settlement in the early eighteenth century until the abolition of Brazilian slavery in 1888. It utilizes the largest database ever assembled on a slave population in the Americas to reconstruct and analyse the unique history of slave labour in Minas Gerais. This slave population was remarkable in its ability to diversify economically as well as in increasing through natural reproduction, rather than through importation via the trans-atlantic slave trade. Minas Gerais therefore invites comparison with the patterns of slave reproduction found in the United States' South, heretofore considered unique. Extensively researched and finely documented, this book places the history of a unique Brazilian slave community into comparative perspective.

Unraveling Somalia : race, violence, and the legacy of slavery
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ISBN: 0812216881 1322510962 081229016X 081223488X Year: 1999 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990's suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various clans and subclans. In Unraveling Somalia, Catherine Besteman challenges this view and argues that the actual pattern of violence—inflicted disproportionately on rural southerners—contradicts the prevailing model of ethnic homogeneity and clan opposition. She contends that the dissolution of the Somali nation-state can be understood only by recognizing that over the past century and a half there emerged in Somalia a social order based on principles other than simple clan organization—a social order deeply stratified on the basis of race, status, class, region, and language.

Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
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ISBN: 0807876186 9780807876183 0807824909 9780807824900 0807847763 9780807847763 9798890871251 Year: 1999 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

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In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning culture that cast the southern planter in the role of benevolent Christian steward--even as slaveholders were brutally exploiting their slaves for maximum fiscal gain.Domesticating Slavery offers a surprising answer to the long-standing question about slaveholders' relationship with the proliferating capitalistic markets of early-nineteenth-century America. Whereas previous scholars have depicted southern planters either as efficient businessmen who embraced market economics or as paternalists whose ideals placed them at odds with the industrializing capitalist society in the North, Young instead demonstrates how capitalism and paternalism acted together in unexpected ways to shape slaveholders' identity as a ruling elite. Beginning with slaveowners' responses to British imperialism in the colonial period and ending with the sectional crises of the 1830s, he traces the rise of a self-consciously southern master class in the Deep South and the attendant growth of political tensions that would eventually shatter the union.

Spaniards, planters, and slaves
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ISBN: 0585376859 9780585376851 0890969043 9780890969045 Year: 1999 Publisher: College Station, Tex. Texas A & M University Press

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"Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is a provocative look at the institution of slavery and how it functioned as a part of Louisiana's culture during the years of Spanish rule. Gilbert C. Din challenges the idea that conditions under the Spaniards differed little from the years of French rule and examines how local culture merged with colonial government and residual laws to create a slave system unlike any other in the Deep South."--Jacket.

Terms of labor
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ISBN: 0804765332 058506282X 9780585062822 0804735212 9780804735216 9780804765336 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor—the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others—are of great significance for understanding the past and the emergence of the modern world. For long periods, much of the world’s labor could be considered under the coercive control of systems of slavery or of serfdom, with relatively few workers laboring under terms of freedom, however defined. Slavery and serfdom were systems that controlled not only the terms of labor, but also the more general issues of political freedom. The nine chapters in this volume deal with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and point to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change. The topics covered are European beliefs that rejected the enslavement of other Europeans but permitted the slavery of Africans (David Eltis), British abolitionism and the impact of emancipation in the British West Indies (Seymour Drescher), the consequences of the end of Russian serfdom (Peter Kolchin), the definition and nature of free labor as seen by nineteenth-century American workers (Leon Fink), the effects of changing legal and economic concepts of free labor (Robert J. Steinfeld), the antebellum American use of the metaphor of slavery (David Roediger), female dependent labor in the aftermath of American emancipation (Amy Dru Stanley), the contrast between individual and group actions in attempting to benefit individual laborers (David Brody), and the link between arguments concerning free labor and the actual outcomes for laborers in nineteenth-century America (Clayne Pope).

Rearing wolves to our own destruction : slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
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ISBN: 0813929172 9786613885203 1283572753 0585121613 9780585121611 9780813929170 6613885207 9781283572750 0813918340 9780813918341 0813918332 9780813918334 081392099X 9780813920993 Year: 1999 Publisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,

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Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction offers a valuable portrait of urban slavery in an individual city that raises questions about the adaptability of slavery as an institution to an urban setting and, more importantly, the ways in which slaves were able to turn urban working conditions to their own advantage.

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