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James Habersham : loyalty, politics, and commerce in colonial Georgia
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ISBN: 1280647817 9786613633866 0820343986 9780820343983 0820325392 9780820325392 Year: 2005 Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press,

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Keep the Days : Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women
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ISBN: 146964097X 1469640988 9781469640983 9781469640976 9781469640952 1469640953 9781469640969 1469640961 9798890854292 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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Delving into wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance - and the limits - of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past.


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Institutional slavery : slaveholding churches, schools, colleges, and businesses in Virginia, 1680-1860
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ISBN: 1316496449 1316496775 1316497100 1316497437 1316498751 1316498425 1316225488 1107105277 1107512565 1316494462 9781316225486 9781316498750 9781316497432 9781316498422 9781316497104 9781107512566 9781316496442 9781316496770 9781107105270 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The traditional image of slavery begins with a master and a slave. However, not all slaves had traditional masters; some were owned instead by institutions, such as church congregations, schools, colleges, and businesses. This practice was pervasive in early Virginia; its educational, religious, and philanthropic institutions were literally built on the backs of slaves. Virginia's first industrial economy was also developed with the skilled labor of African American slaves. This book focuses on institutional slavery in Virginia as it was practiced by the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, free schools, and four universities: the College of William and Mary, Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Virginia, and Hollins College. It also examines the use of slave labor by businesses and the Commonwealth of Virginia in industrial endeavors. This is not only an account of how institutions used slavery to further their missions, but also of the slaves who belonged to institutions.


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Indemniser les planteurs pour abolir l'esclavage : entre économie, éthique et politique, une étude des débats parlementaires britanniques et français (1788-1848) dans une perspective comparée
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ISBN: 2247175929 Year: 2013

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Slavery and social death : a comparative study
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ISBN: 0674810821 067481083X 9780674810822 9780674810839 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press,


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The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, an Enslaved Woman : An Exercise in Historical Imagination
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ISBN: 0773411208 9780773411203 9780773435285 077343528X Year: 2009 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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This book reconstructs the conviction of a slave girl found guilty of beating and burning to death her owner, the man who fathered her three children. The political climate of pre-Civil War Missouri did not favor justice for an enslaved girl who confessed to murdering her owner, even though those acquainted with the case believed she could not have committed the deed.


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Emancipation and the remaking of the British imperial world
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ISBN: 152610301X 1781707898 9781781707890 9781526103017 0719091837 9780719091834 1526103028 Year: 2014 Publisher: Manchester

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Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain. This book engages with current work exploring the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833. The contributors to this collection, drawn from Britain, the Caribbean and Mauritius, include some of the most distinguished writers in the field: Clare Anderson, Robin Blackburn, Heather Cateau, Mary Chamberlain, Chris Evans, Pat Hudson, Richard Huzzey, Zo{uml}e Laidlaw, Alison Light, Anita Rupprecht, Verene A. Shepherd, Andrea Stuart and Vijaya Teelock. The impact of slavery and slave-ownership is once again becoming a major area of historical and contemporary concern: this book makes a vital contribution to the subject.


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The slave master of Trinidad
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ISBN: 1613766165 9781613766170 1613766173 9781613766163 9781625343697 1625343698 9781625343703 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amherst

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"William Hardin Burnley (1780-1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone. In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's "founding father" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society"--

Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord : Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870
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ISBN: 9780813148793 0813148790 0813101875 Year: 1988 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky,

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Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized together, were subject to the same church discipline, and were buried in the same cemeteries. What was the black perception of white-controlled religious ceremonies? How did whites reconcile their faith with their racism? Why did freedmen, as soon as possible after the Civil War, withdraw from the biraci


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Legacies of British slave-ownership : colonial slavery and the formation of Victorian Britain
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ISBN: 1316056503 1316054144 1316082512 1316635260 1316080153 1316070697 1139626957 1316075419 131607305X 1316077780 1107040051 1322176841 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.

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