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Slave Women in the New World : Gender Stratification in the Caribbean
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ISBN: 0700631143 0700603948 Year: 1989 Publisher: University Press of Kansas

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In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean from 1600 through the mid 1800s.Morrissey examines a wide spectrum of experience among Caribbean slave women, including their work at home, in the fields, and as domestics; their roles as wives and mothers; their health, sexuality, and fertility; and their decline in status with the advent of industrialization and the abolition of slavery.Life for these women, Morrissey shows, was much more hazardous, brutal, and fragmented than it was for their counterparts in the American South. These women were in a constant, dynamic struggle with men—both masters and fellow slaves—over the foundations of their social experience. This experience was defined both by their status as slaves and by gender inequality. On the one hand, their slave status gradually robbed them of their domain—the household economy—and created a kind of perverse equality in which slave women—like slave men—became “units of agricultural labor.” One the other hand, slave women were denied the access that slave men eventually gained to skilled agricultural work. The result of this gender inequality, as Morrissey convincingly demonstrates, was a further erosion of the status and authority of slave women within their own culture.Morrissey’s study, which addresses significant issues in women’s history and black history, will go far toward reshaping our perceptions of slave life in the new world.

From capture to sale : the Portuguese slave trade to Spanish South America in the early seventeenth century
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ISBN: 1281921165 9786611921163 9047419367 9004156798 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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From Capture to Sale illuminates the experience of African slaves transported to Spanish America by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. It draws on exceptionally rich accounts of one of the most prominent slave traders, Manuel Bautista Pérez. These papers cover the whole journey of the slaves from Africa, through Colombia and Panama to their final sale in Peru. The prime focus of the study is on the diet, health and medical care of the slaves. It will not only be of interest to scholars of the slave trade, but also to those interested in the impact of the Columbian Exchange on diets, medicine and medical practice in the early modern period. The book is well illustrated and contains over thirty tables and seven appendices. From Capture to Sale has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2007).


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Revisiting slave narratives II =
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ISBN: 2367811180 9782367811185 9782842698119 2842698118 2367813965 2367813973 2367811199 Year: 2007 Publisher: Montpellier

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This collection offers a follow up to the first collection of essays Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les Avatars des récits d’esclaves (2005), whose purpose was to bring together African-merican and Caribbean neo-slave novels. In 2007, the year of the bicentennial anniversary of the official abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British colonial Empire, the memorialisation and commemoration events should not obliterate the fact that, through the prison of slave narratives and neo-slave novels, it is our present that is at stake. In order to show how our societies and minds still need to be manumitted, the essays in this collection examine books of fiction by André Brink, Octavia Butler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Cristina Garcia, Edward P. Jones, Paule Marshall, Phyllis Perry, Susan Straight, and books of non-fiction by Malcom X or John Edgar Wideman ; as well as works by poets like Fred D’Aguiar or Marilyn Nelson, by playwrights like Robbie Mc Cauley, Derek Walcott or August Wilson, and by visual artists like David Boxer, Christopher Cozier, Glenn Ligon, or Kara Walker. Ce recueil propose une suite au premier recueil d’articles Revisiting Slave Narratives · Les avatars contemporains des récits d’esclaves (2005) dont le but était de rapprocher les écrivains afro-américains et caribéens qui revisitent la littérature de l’esclavage. En cette année 2007, bicentenaire de l’abolition de la traite dans l’empire britannique, c’est dans son rapport à notre présent que le travail de mémoire doit continuer d’être effectué. De façon à montrer à quel point la relecture de ce passé de l’esclavage est encore nécessaire pour libérer les sociétés et les esprits, les articles de cette collection analysent des œuvres de fiction d’André Brink, Octavia Butler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Cristina Garcia, Edward P. Jones, Paule Marshall, Phyllis Perry, Susan Straight, et des œuvres de non-fiction de Malcolm X ou John Edgar Wideman ; ainsi que l’œuvre de poètes comme Fred D’Aguiar ou…


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The politics of slavery
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ISBN: 1474445128 1474401155 1474404936 9781474445122 9781474401159 9781474404938 9781474401142 1474401147 Year: 2018 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.


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Undoing Slavery : American Abolotionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865)
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ISBN: 2728809674 2728827826 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris : Éditions Rue d’Ulm,

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Détruire l’esclavage. Perspectives transnationales sur l’abolitionnisme américain (1776-1865) est un recueil de sept essais rédigés par des spécialistes français de l’abolition de l’esclavage aux États-Unis. Les auteurs placent l’abolitionnisme américain dans un contexte transnational et montrent comment des esclaves fuyant au Canada, des Noirs libres émigrant à Haïti et des activistes se retrouvant dans un salon parisien ont influencé, chacun à leur façon, le destin de l’esclavage aux États-Unis. Dans le prolongement de récentes tendances historiographiques, l’abolitionnisme y est abordé sur le temps long. Une attention particulière est également apportée à la culture imprimée abolitionniste - romans, journaux, livres-albums et almanachs antiesclavagistes, brochures et sermons rédigés par des activistes noirs. L’ouvrage est préfacé par Manisha Sinha, auteure d’un livre remarqué sur l’abolitionnisme aux États-Unis, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition Undoing Slavery: American Abolitionism in Transnational Perspective (1776-1865) is a collection of seven essays by leading and emerging scholars of abolition in France. Contributors to the volume situate American abolitionism in a transnational framework, pointing out how slaves running away to Canada, free African Americans emigrating to Haiti and activists meeting in a Paris salon all influenced the fate of slavery in the United States. In the wake of recent historiographical trends, they extend not only the geography but also the chronology of abolitionism, attending to its development and evolutions over the longue durée. Special emphasis is also placed on the varied print culture of abolition, from antislavery novels, newspapers, gift books and almanacs to black-authored pamphlets and printed orations on the abolition of the slave trade. Undoing Slavery is prefaced by Manisha Sinha, author of the award-winning The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.


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Antiracism Inc. : Why the Way We Talk about Racial Justice Matters
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ISBN: 1950192245 1950192237 9781950192243 Year: 2019 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY punctum books

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"Antiracism Inc. traces the ways people along the political spectrum appropriate, incorporate, and neutralize antiracist discourses to perpetuate injustice. It also examines the ways organizers continue to struggle for racial justice in the context of such appropriations. Antiracism Inc. reveals how antiracist claims can be used to propagate racism, and what we can do about it. While related to colorblind, multicultural, and diversity discourses, the appropriation of antiracist rhetoric as a strategy for advancing neoliberal and neoconservative agendas is a unique phenomenon that requires careful interrogation and analysis. Those who co-opt antiracist language and practice do not necessarily deny racial difference, biases, or inequalities. Instead, by performing themselves conservatively as non-racists or liberally as ‘authentic’ antiracists, they purport to be aligned with racial justice even while advancing the logics and practices of systemic racism.Antiracism Inc. therefore considers new ways of struggling toward racial justice in a world that constantly steals and misuses radical ideas and practices. The collection focuses on people and methods that do not seek inclusion in the hierarchical order of gendered racial capitalism. Rather, the collection focuses on aggrieved peoples who have always had to negotiate state violence and cultural erasure, but who work to build the worlds they envision. These collectivities seek to transform social structures and establish a new social warrant guided by what W.E.B. Du Bois called “abolition democracy,” a way of being and thinking that privileges people, mutual interdependence, and ecological harmony over individualist self-aggrandizement and profits. These aggrieved collectivities reshape social relations away from the violence and alienation inherent to gendered racial capitalism, and towards the well-being of the commons. Antiracism Inc. articulates methodologies that strive toward freedom dreams without imposing monolithic or authoritative definitions of resistance. Because power seeks to neutralize revolutionary action through incorporation as much as elimination, these freedom dreams, as well as the language used to articulate them, are constantly transformed through the critical and creative interventions stemming from the active engagement in liberation struggles."


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Liberata : a lei da ambigüidade as ações de liberdade da Corte de Apelação do Rio de Janeiro no século XIX
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ISBN: 9788599662762 Year: 2008 Publisher: SciELO Books - Centro Edelstein

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Liberata was a real-life character. Slave, then free, mother as a slave and mother already released, finally defunct, all in the first half of the 19th century. In this book, Liberata is almost fiction, or rather, an author of fiction. She proposes the enigma of her life, as recorded in the centenary documents kept by the National Archives in Rio de Janeiro, and she guides the investigator through the labyrinths of interpretation and evidence that will allow to decipher the enigma itself.


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Bondage : labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries
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ISBN: 9781782382508 178238250X 9781782382515 1306405998 1785336606 1782382518 Year: 2014 Volume: 24 Publisher: Berghahn Books

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For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perf


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Escravidão e subjetividades : no Atlântico luso-brasileiro e francês (Séculos xvii-xx)
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ISBN: 2821855834 2821855877 9782821855878 Year: 2016 Publisher: OpenEdition Press

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Para além do Atlântico negro de Paul Gilroy, o Atlântico da escravidão, noção abrangente cujas fronteiras vão ao coração dos continentes, ainda que constantemente retrabalhado por subdivisões linguísticas (o Atlântico lusófono, francófono, anglófono...) ou hemisféricas (Atlântico Sul, Norte). Este livro, no entanto, desafia essas fronteiras: surge como uma história cruzada entre o Atlântico Sul e o Atlântico Norte, entre um espaço lusófono e um outro, francófono; entre datas da abolição da escravatura separadas no tempo. Busca definir os vínculos, os efeitos de convergência, bem como as diferenças entre esses mundos. O livro reúne 12 historiadores para pensar as ligações entre escravidão, pós-escravidão, cidadania e subjetividade, entre os séculos XVII e XX, no Atlânticoda Escravidão.


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De la libertad y la abolición : africanos y afrodescendientes en Iberoamérica
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ISBN: 6070219783 2821819595 2821828217 Year: 2010 Publisher: Centro de estudios mexicanos y centroamericanos

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La libertad, antónimo de la esclavitud, fue el objectivo esencial de vida de aquellos seres humanos sometidos a tan aberrante práctica. Distintas fueron las formas que, tanto ellos y quienes por motivos diversos los alentaron, usaron para obtener su propósito, que a fin de cuentas era ineludible. Esta recopilación es muestra de algunas de las vías por las que los esclavos lograron sus fines. El itinerario seguido para obtener la libertad habría de ser difícil, los obstáculos, muchas veces vistos como insalvables, sin embargo fueron vencidos con acciones de participación directa que involucraba la violencia, hasta la sutil intervención que con ingenio y astucia desplegaron quienes carentes de todo pusieron en este propósito toda su imaginación e ingenio. Acciones comunes que se repiten sin límites fronterizos con fines similares, pero que a pesar de ello adquieren rasgos propios de su entorno, entre otros muchos: las formas de dominio y la cohabitación étnica. En esta breve muestra se recogen experiencias iberoamericanas acaecidas en periodos diferentes que cubren desde los tempranos destellos de rebelión del siglo XVI hasta las luchas sistematizadas del siglo XVIII. Juan Manuel de la Serna H., investigador de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, asignado al Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe tiene como líneas de investigación la historia social regional de México y el Caribe. Ha trabajado sobre la esclavitud de los africanos y sus descendientes desde varias perspectivas.

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