Celia A Slave

✏Book Title : Celia a Slave
✏Author : Melton A. McLaurin
✏Publisher : University of Georgia Press
✏Release Date : 2011-03-15
✏Pages : 160
✏ISBN : 0820341592
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Celia a Slave Book Summary : Illuminating the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society, this book tells the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her master and ultimately executed for his murder. Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower and one of the most prosperous and respected citizens of Callaway County, Missouri. The pattern of sexual abuse that would mark their entire relationship began almost immediately. After purchasing Celia in a neighboring county, Newsom raped her on the journey back to his farm. He then established her in a small cabin near his house and visited her regularly (most likely with the knowledge of the son and two daughters who lived with him). Over the next five years, Celia bore Newsom two children; meanwhile, she became involved with a slave named George and resolved at his insistence to end the relationship with her master. When Newsom refused, Celia one night struck him fatally with a club and disposed of his body in her fireplace. Her act quickly discovered, Celia was brought to trial. She received a surprisingly vigorous defense from her court-appointed attorneys, who built their case on a state law allowing women the use of deadly force to defend their honor. Nevertheless, the court upheld the tenets of a white social order that wielded almost total control over the lives of slaves. Celia was found guilty and hanged. Melton A. McLaurin uses Celia's story to reveal the tensions that strained the fabric of antebellum southern society. Celia's case demonstrates how one master's abuse of power over a single slave forced whites to make moral decisions about the nature of slavery. McLaurin focuses sharply on the role of gender, exploring the degree to which female slaves were sexually exploited, the conditions that often prevented white women from stopping such abuse, and the inability of male slaves to defend slave women. Setting the case in the context of the 1850s slavery debates, he also probes the manner in which the legal system was used to justify slavery. By granting slaves certain statutory rights (which were usually rendered meaningless by the customary prerogatives of masters), southerners could argue that they observed moral restraint in the operations of their peculiar institution. An important addition to our understanding of the pre-Civil War era, Celia, A Slave is also an intensely compelling narrative of one woman pushed beyond the limits of her endurance by a system that denied her humanity at the most basic level.

✏Book Title : Celia a Slave
✏Author : Barbara Seyda
✏Publisher : Yale University Press
✏Release Date : 2016-08-23
✏Pages : 112
✏ISBN : 9780300224597
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Celia a Slave Book Summary : The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London’s Royal Court. Barbara Seyda’s stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom, in 1855. Excavating actual trial transcripts and court records, Seyda bears witness to racial and sexual violence in U.S. history, illuminating the brutal realities of female slave life in the pre–Civil War South while exploring the intersection of rape, morality, economics, and gender politics that continue to resonate today.

✏Book Title : Celia a Slave
✏Author : Melton Alonza McLaurin
✏Publisher : Turtleback
✏Release Date : 1999-01-01
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 0606160868
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Celia a Slave Book Summary : Follows a landmark moment in American slavery as culled from court records, correspondence, and newspaper accounts that recorded the trial and execution of Celia, who killed her master in self-defense after five years of physical and sexual abuse

✏Book Title : Celia A Slave
✏Author : Melton A. Mclaurin
✏Publisher : Harper Collins
✏Release Date : 1999-02-01
✏Pages : 192
✏ISBN : 0380803364
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Celia A Slave Book Summary : Celia was an ordinary slave--until she struck back at her abusive master and became the defendant in a landmark trial that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South's "Peculiar Institution."

✏Book Title : Unveiling the Harem
✏Author : Mary Ann Fay
✏Publisher : Syracuse University Press
✏Release Date : 2012-08-27
✏Pages : 331
✏ISBN : 9780815651703
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Unveiling the Harem Book Summary : A history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century.

✏Book Title : Race on Trial
✏Author : Annette Gordon-Reed
✏Publisher : Oxford University Press
✏Release Date : 2002-09-05
✏Pages : 248
✏ISBN : 0198028660
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Race on Trial Book Summary : This book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America; cases that illustrate the treatment of race in American history; cases of great fame that became the trials of the century of their time; and cases that made important law. Some of the cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Scottsboro, Korematsu v. US, Brown v. Board, Loving v. Virginia, Regents v. Bakke, and OJ Simpson. All illustrate how race often determined the outcome of trials, and how trials that confront issues of racism provide a unique lens on American cultural history. Cases include African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Caucasians. Contributors include a mix of junior and senior scholars in law schools and history departments.

✏Book Title : Enslaved Women in America An Encyclopedia
✏Author : Daina Ramey Berry Ph.D.
✏Publisher : ABC-CLIO
✏Release Date : 2012-06-12
✏Pages : 381
✏ISBN : 9780313349096
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Enslaved Women in America An Encyclopedia Book Summary : This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War. Through essays, photos, and primary source documents, the female experience is explored, and women are depicted as central, rather than marginal, figures in history. • Dozens of photos of former enslaved women • Detailed historical timeline • Numerous rare primary documents, including runaway slave advertisements and even a plantation recipe for turtle soup • Profiles of noted female slaves and their works

✏Book Title : Rebels in Law
✏Author : John Clay Smith
✏Publisher : University of Michigan Press
✏Release Date : 2000
✏Pages : 323
✏ISBN : 0472086464
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rebels in Law Book Summary : The reflections on their lives in law of pioneer black women lawyers

✏Book Title : Black Slaves Indian Masters
✏Author : Barbara Krauthamer
✏Publisher : UNC Press Books
✏Release Date : 2013-08-01
✏Pages : 232
✏ISBN : 9781469607115
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Black Slaves Indian Masters Book Summary : From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved. Krauthamer's examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian women's gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives of black people and Indians both before and after removal.

✏Book Title : Fateful Lightning
✏Author : Allen C. Guelzo
✏Publisher : Oxford University Press
✏Release Date : 2012-05-11
✏Pages : 592
✏ISBN : 9780199939367
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Fateful Lightning Book Summary : The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it permanently ended the practice of slavery and proved, in an age of resurgent monarchies, that a liberal democracy could survive the most frightful of challenges. In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. And unlike other surveys of the Civil War era, it extends the reader's vista to include the postwar Reconstruction period and discusses the modern-day legacy of the Civil War in American literature and popular culture. Guelzo also puts the conflict in a global perspective, underscoring Americans' acute sense of the vulnerability of their republic in a world of monarchies. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and especially the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South. Written by a leading authority on our nation's most searing crisis, Fateful Lightning offers a vivid and original account of an event whose echoes continue with Americans to this day.

✏Book Title : African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill Clarence Thomas
✏Author : Geneva Smitherman
✏Publisher : Wayne State University Press
✏Release Date : 1995
✏Pages : 276
✏ISBN : 0814325300
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill Clarence Thomas Book Summary : An essential voice has been added to the ongoing national debate and public discourse on race, class, and gender. African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas is the first commentary on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confrontation written exclusively by African American women. Margaret Walker Alexander, Angela Y. Davis, Darlene Clark Hine, Harriette McAdoo, Julianne Malveaux, and other scholars and writers offer reflections and in-depth analyses on one of the most wrenching public dramas in recent history. Diverse and interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions clarify the significance of the event and examine the broader ramifications for the African American community and the nation.

✏Book Title : North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
✏Author : Paul D. Escott
✏Publisher : UNC Press Books
✏Release Date : 2012-09-01
✏Pages : 320
✏ISBN : 9780807837269
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction Book Summary : Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result. North Carolinians were divided over the issue of secession, and changes in race and gender relations brought new controversy. Blacks fought for freedom, women sought greater independence, and their aspirations for change stimulated fierce resistance from more privileged groups. Republicans and Democrats fought over power during Reconstruction and for decades thereafter disagreed over the meaning of the war and Reconstruction. With contributions by well-known historians as well as talented younger scholars, this volume offers new insights into all the key issues of the Civil War era that played out in pronounced ways in the Tar Heel State. In nine essays composed specifically for this volume, contributors address themes such as ambivalent whites, freed blacks, the political establishment, racial hopes and fears, postwar ideology, and North Carolina women. These issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras were so powerful that they continue to agitate North Carolinians today. Contributors: David Brown, Manchester University Judkin Browning, Appalachian State University Laura F. Edwards, Duke University Paul D. Escott, Wake Forest University John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia Chandra Manning, Georgetown University Barton A. Myers, University of Georgia Steven E. Nash, University of Georgia Paul Yandle, West Virginia University Karin Zipf, East Carolina University

✏Book Title : The Challenge of American History
✏Author : Louis P. Masur
✏Publisher : JHU Press
✏Release Date : 1999-04-20
✏Pages : 331
✏ISBN : 0801862221
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Challenge of American History Book Summary : In The Challenge of American History, Louis Masur brings together a sampling of recent scholarship to determine the key issues preoccupying historians of American history and to contemplate the discipline's direction for the future. The fifteen summary essays included in this volume allow professional historians, history teachers, and students to grasp in a convenient and accessible form what historians have been writing about.

✏Book Title : The Claims of Kinfolk
✏Author : Dylan C. Penningroth
✏Publisher : UNC Press Books
✏Release Date : 2004-07-21
✏Pages : 320
✏ISBN : 9780807862131
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Claims of Kinfolk Book Summary : In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among blacks, as well as on the more familiar struggles between the races, Penningroth exposes a dynamic process of community and family definition. He also includes a comparative analysis of slavery and slave property ownership along the Gold Coast in West Africa, revealing significant differences between the African and American contexts. Property ownership was widespread among slaves across the antebellum South, as slaves seized the small opportunities for ownership permitted by their masters. While there was no legal framework to protect or even recognize slaves' property rights, an informal system of acknowledgment recognized by both blacks and whites enabled slaves to mark the boundaries of possession. In turn, property ownership--and the negotiations it entailed--influenced and shaped kinship and community ties. Enriching common notions of slave life, Penningroth reveals how property ownership engendered conflict as well as solidarity within black families and communities. Moreover, he demonstrates that property had less to do with individual legal rights than with constantly negotiated, extralegal social ties.

✏Book Title : Quentin Tarantino s Django Unchained
✏Author : Oliver C. Speck
✏Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
✏Release Date : 2014-07-31
✏Pages : 328
✏ISBN : 9781623567804
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Quentin Tarantino s Django Unchained Book Summary : Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American writers have defended the white auteur. The use of extremely graphic violence in the film, even by Tarantino's standards, at a time when gun control is being hotly debated, has sparked further controversy and has led to angry outbursts by the director himself. Moreover, Django Unchained has become a popular culture phenomenon, with t-shirts, highly contentious action figures, posters, and strong DVD/BluRay sales. The topic (slavery and revenge), the setting (a few years before the Civil War), the intentionally provocative generic roots (Spaghetti Western and Blaxploitation) and the many intertexts and references (to German and French culture) demand a thorough examination. Befitting such a complex film, the essays collected here represent a diverse group of scholars who examine Django Unchained from many perspectives.

✏Book Title : Continental America Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
✏Author : Oxford University Press
✏Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
✏Release Date : 2010-06-01
✏Pages : 20
✏ISBN : 0199808260
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Continental America Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide Book Summary : This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

✏Book Title : The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
✏Author : Larry J. Griffin
✏Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
✏Release Date : 2012-07-01
✏Pages : 528
✏ISBN : 9780807882542
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Book Summary : This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a timely, authoritative, and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the South from the colonial era to the present. With introductory essays by J. Wayne Flynt and by editors Larry J. Griffin and Peggy G. Hargis, the volume is a comprehensive, stand-alone reference to this complex subject, which underpins the history of the region and shapes its future. In 58 thematic essays and 103 topical entries, the contributors explore the effects of class on all aspects of life in the South--its role in Indian removal, the Civil War, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement, for example, and how it has been manifested in religion, sports, country and gospel music, and matters of gender. Artisans and the working class, indentured workers and steelworkers, the Freedmen's Bureau and the Knights of Labor are all examined. This volume provides a full investigation of social class in the region and situates class concerns at the center of our understanding of Southern culture.

✏Book Title : Mourning Sex
✏Author : Peggy Phelan
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2013-07-23
✏Pages : 208
✏ISBN : 9781136184901
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Mourning Sex Book Summary : This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what she calls "performative writing", she creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creative thinking which erodes the distinction between art and theory, fact and fiction. The bodies she examines here include Christ's, as represented in Caravaggio's painting The Incredulity of St Thomas, Anita Hill's and Clarence Thomas's bodies as they were performed during the Senate hearings, the disinterred body of the Rose Theatre, exemplary bodies reconstructed through psychoanalytic talking cures, and the filmic bodies created by Tom Joslin, Mark Massi, and Peter Friedman in Silverlake Life: The View From Here. This new work by the highly-acclaimed author of Unmarked makes a stunning advance in performance theory in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies.

✏Book Title : The Slaves War
✏Author : Andrew Ward
✏Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
✏Release Date : 2008
✏Pages : 386
✏ISBN : 0618634002
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Slaves War Book Summary : Interweaving hundreds of interviews with excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs, a narrative history of the American Civil War captures the story of the conflict from the perspective of the African-American slaves who played a role, documenting the carnage of the battlefield, assessment of the military leaders of both sides, attitudes toward masters and liberators alike, and more.

✏Book Title : Scenes of Subjection
✏Author : Saidiya V. Hartman
✏Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
✏Release Date : 1997
✏Pages : 281
✏ISBN : 9780195089837
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Scenes of Subjection Book Summary : Hartman shows how the violence of captivity and enslavement was embodied in many of the performance practices that grew from, and about, slave culture in antebellum America. Using tools of anthropology, history, and literary criticism, Hartman examines a wealth of material, including songs, dance, stories, diaries, narratives, and journals. Hartman analyses the presentations of slavery and blackness in minstrelsy; the constructions of slave culture in 19th centuryethnographic writings and the political consciousness of folklore.

✏Book Title : Cecelia and Fanny
✏Author : Brad Asher
✏Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
✏Release Date : 2011-10-07
✏Pages : 240
✏ISBN : 9780813140322
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Cecelia and Fanny Book Summary : Cecelia was a fifteen-year-old slave when she accompanied her mistress, Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard, on a holiday trip to Niagara Falls. During their stay, Cecelia crossed the Niagara River and joined the free black population of Canada. Although documented relationships between freed or escaped slaves and their former owners are rare, the discovery of a cache of letters from the former slave owner to her escaped slave confirms this extraordinary link between two urban families over several decades. Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress is a fascinating look at race relations in mid-nineteenth-century Louisville, Kentucky, focusing on the experiences of these two families during the seismic social upheaval wrought by the emancipation of four million African Americans. Far more than the story of two families, Cecelia and Fanny delves into the history of Civil War--era Louisville. Author Brad Asher details the cultural roles assigned to the two women and provides a unique view of slavery in an urban context, as opposed to the rural plantations more often examined by historians.

✏Book Title : Race Law and American Society
✏Author : Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2013-05-02
✏Pages : 480
✏ISBN : 9781135087937
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Race Law and American Society Book Summary : This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent battles for equal rights and economic equality. From the colonial period to the present, this book examines education, property ownership, voting rights, criminal justice, and the military as well as internationalism and civil liberties by analyzing the key court cases that established America’s racial system and demonstrating the impact of these court cases on American society. This edition also includes more on Asians, Native Americans, and Latinos. Race, Law, and American Society is highly accessible and thorough in its depiction of the role race has played, with the sanction of the U.S. Supreme Court, in shaping virtually every major American social institution.

✏Book Title : Talking Animals Dictio Grex
✏Author : Harve E. Rawson
✏Publisher : AuthorHouse
✏Release Date : 2010-03-30
✏Pages : 104
✏ISBN : 9781452000367
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏ Talking Animals Dictio Grex Book Summary : "If you want to know what a slave looks like, look in the mirror!" Thus begins this rather unique primer on world slavery that was written by a psychologist (rather than a historian) who has visited many places in the world where historically slavery was a fact of life - from the ancient Babylonians to Nazi Germany. As such, there is considerable emphasis on how slaves were controlled physically, psychologically, and socially; how slaves dealt with their lack of freedom; the psychological price of their slavery; and why most slaves' attempts to free themselves failed. This book was designed for anyone interested in the topic of world slavery (especially as a supplemental reading for a world history course) and mankind's continual attempts to totally control others to the point of actually owning them. In addition to reviewing other disciplines's viewpoints of holding humans in bondage, the book aspires to give a more psychological view of slavery, attempts to view slavery from a slave's perspective, examines various myths about slavery that have arisen over the years, and separately addresses slavery as related to world religions, race, economics, and humans' latent needs to control others. Also briefly reviewed are sources of slaves, types of slaves, uses of slaves, etc. The author emphasizes that he makes no attempt to cover all aspects of slavery or offer the typical scholarly thoroughness on the subject. It is simply a primer on world slavery to give the reader an quick overview of man's worst crime against humanity - slavery - and how the system worked. It is a quick, but fascinating read about an important part of our history that most people know little about.

✏Book Title : Runaway Slaves
✏Author : John Hope Franklin
✏Publisher : OUP USA
✏Release Date : 2000-07-20
✏Pages : 455
✏ISBN : 0195084519
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Runaway Slaves Book Summary : Presents details about plantation life before the Civil War when slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and escaped

✏Book Title : Huck s Raft
✏Author : Steven Mintz
✏Publisher : Harvard University Press
✏Release Date : 2004
✏Pages : 445
✏ISBN : 0674015088
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Huck s Raft Book Summary : Explores many aspects of the changing societal role of children throughout American history, and credits the impact that children have had on major historical events.

✏Book Title : Inconvenient Testimony
✏Author : Carol Jean Cooper
✏Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
✏Release Date : 2014-08-06
✏Pages : 116
✏ISBN : 9781499011562
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Inconvenient Testimony Book Summary : Do you ever wish that you had the freedom to do what you wanted to do and be friends with whomever you choose? To dress however you wish and eat only the foods you like? Third century Carthage was a dangerous place for Christians, but Christianity is only one of the problems standing in the way of Marcus and Elissa’s friendship. Elissa, a Christian, is a slave and her owner is Marcus’ grandfather, Verbius. Their friendship is further complicated by their discovery that, when they were infants, their mothers, Perpetua and Felicitas, were best friends who were martyred because of their faith. Verbius’ hostility toward Christians has grown since then. If Marcus becomes a Christian, his grandmother, Elissa, and all their Christian friends will be at risk, and he will lose his inheritance. Elissa nudges Marcus closer to accepting faith, but his questions and concerns still have not been resolved. His journey remains difficult, until his grandmother is injured and near death.

✏Book Title : The Raintree
✏Author : Toni Sears
✏Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
✏Release Date : 2012-04-09
✏Pages : 130
✏ISBN : 9781469190563
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Raintree Book Summary : The Raintree (The Legend Unfolds) is a great story that is full of surprises. It begins in a small town with a lot of small-minded people. It then ends in a very big town and a lot of beautiful people. This story is about a woman who is examining her life. Coedette Raintree, the main character who is telling the story, will take you on an adventure of enormous proportions. You will relive it all with her, what her fears were as well as her failures. Coedette is trying to figure out if it was all worth it. Did she make the right decisions? Before it is all over, you have already gone to this breathtaking adventure. You will be introduced to some amazing people. You will know what it really is to love someone. This story takes you away as soon as you step foot on Peabody County. There are so many stories within this one story. It will take you on a spiritual journey. Enjoy!

✏Book Title : African American Voices
✏Author : Steven Mintz
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
✏Release Date : 2009-04-03
✏Pages : 264
✏ISBN : 1444310771
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏African American Voices Book Summary : A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery thatplaces American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on thehistory of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviewswith former slaves, and letters by African Americans that documentthe experience of bondage Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement thewritten documents Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay

✏Book Title : Gender Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America
✏Author : Rebecca Fraser
✏Publisher : Springer
✏Release Date : 2012-11-16
✏Pages : 218
✏ISBN : 9781137291851
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Gender Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America Book Summary : Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

✏Book Title : The Kentucky Anthology
✏Author : Wade Hall
✏Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
✏Release Date : 2010-09-12
✏Pages : 896
✏ISBN : 9780813128993
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Kentucky Anthology Book Summary : Long before the official establishment of the Commonwealth, intrepid pioneers ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains into an expansive, alluring wilderness that they began to call Kentucky. After blazing trails, clearing plots, and surviving innumerable challenges, a few adventurers found time to pen celebratory tributes to their new homeland. In the two centuries that followed, many of the world’s finest writers, both native Kentuckians and visitors, have paid homage to the Bluegrass State with the written word. In The Kentucky Anthology, acclaimed author and literary historian Wade Hall has assembled an unprecedented and comprehensive compilation of writings pertaining to Kentucky and its land, people, and culture. Hall’s introductions to each author frame both popular and lesser-known selections in a historical context. He examines the major cultural and political developments in the history of the Commonwealth, finding both parallels and marked distinctions between Kentucky and the rest of the United States. While honoring the heritage of Kentucky in all its glory, Hall does not blithely turn away from the state’s most troubling episodes and institutions such as racism, slavery, and war. Hall also builds the argument, bolstered by the strength and significance of the collected writings, that Kentucky’s best writers compare favorably with the finest in the world. Many of the authors presented here remain universally renowned and beloved, while others have faded into the tides of time, waiting for rediscovery. Together, they guide the reader on a literary tour of Kentucky, from the mines to the rivers and from the deepest hollows to the highest peaks. The Kentucky Anthology traces the interests and aspirations, the achievements and failures and the comedies and tragedies that have filled the lives of generations of Kentuckians. These diaries, letters, speeches, essays, poems, and stories bring history brilliantly to life. Jesse Stuart once wrote, “If these United States can be called a body, Kentucky can be called its heart.” The Kentucky Anthology captures the rhythm and spirit of that heart in the words of its most remarkable chroniclers.