The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history.
Gutman, in Slavery and the Numbers Game (1975), charged them with underrepresenting the large plantations, incorrectly calculating data, and then making erroneous as- sumptions based on their misinterpretation of the evidence.
Gutman, in Slavery and the Numbers Game (1975), charged them with underrep- resenting the large plantations, incorrectly calculating data, and then making erroneous assumptions based on their misinterpretation of the evidence.
Alphabetical entries cover significant events, personalities, and documents associated with the Louisiana Purchase.
Abolitionist supporters later published his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America (1843), which describes in detail his experience as a former slave in Camden, North Carolina, ...
Slaves fought against their subhuman treatment in a myriad of ways, from passive resistance to armed insurrection.
In the late - 1600s , gold was discovered in Minas Gerais , sparking visions of El Dorado and a gold rush to the region . ... Reportedly , they would kill all of the white and mulatto men , while sparing the women .
... Cotton Kingdom " Emerges Settlement of the Old Southwest was marked by the creation of new slave states that joined the Union in rapid succession in the early nineteenth century . Louisiana ( 1812 ) , Mississippi ( 1817 ) , and Alabama ...
... Exploration . Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Wood , Richard G. 1966. Stephen Harriman Long , 1784-1864 : Army Engineer , Explorer , Inventor . Glendale , CA : Arthur Clark Company . LONG ( STEPHEN HARRIMAN ) EXPEDITION ( 1820 ) The ...
This work is the first encyclopedia on the labor practices that constitute modern-day slavery—and the individuals and organizations working today to eradicate them.