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Narrative of Joanna, an Emancipated Slave of Surinam: From Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes...
The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life -- and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World ...
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official ...
8. University of Toronto, 1985. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bibb_henry_walton_8E.html. O'Gorman, James F. Accomplished in All Departments of Art: Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818–1874. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
committed the crime was long, like Hardy's, and that he was about the size of Hardy — not so large as I was, but black like me, and not yellow like Hardy. Some one now asked where Hardy was, and he was called for, but could not be found ...
Examining the lives of three distinctive Caribbean women (a maroon leader, a mulatto concubine and a fugitive slave), this study explains how the diasporic experience of slavery enabled black women...
This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.
In this book, the author invents a fictitious trial against Napoléon Bonaparte and several other actors involved in the slave trafficking while focusing on the wrongs of slavery of the time from the fifteenth century to the beginning of ...
Library of Congress Narrative of Joanna; an Emancipated Slave, of Surinam. (From Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam.) Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, 25, Cornhill. 16mo, pp.
This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific ...