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For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom. Drawing on legislative and judicial materials, probate data, tax lists, church records, family papers, and more, Myers creates detailed portraits of individual women while exploring how black female Charlestonians sought to create a fuller freedom by improving their financial, social, an

African American women --- Freedmen --- History --- Social conditions --- Charleston (S.C.) --- Race relations --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- City of Charleston (S.C.) --- Slaves --- Women --- Charles-Town (S.C.) --- Freedpersons --- Freed persons --- Ex-enslaved persons --- Freed enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons

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While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery; Islamic law and slavery; and the bureaucracy of slave trading.

Slavery --- Slave trade --- Slavery and Islam --- Freedmen --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Slaves --- Islam and slavery --- Slavery (Islam) --- Islam --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- History --- Social conditions --- Freedpersons --- Freed persons --- Ex-enslaved persons --- Freed enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons

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Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation, not only were black men voting but they had elected thousands of ex-slaves to political offices. Historians have long noted the role of African American slaves in the fight for their emancipation and their many efforts to secure their freedom and citizenship, yet they have given surprisingly little attention to the system of governanc

Democracy --- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Freedmen --- African Americans --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Carpetbag rule (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Reconstruction (1865-1877) --- Postwar reconstruction --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Slaves --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- History --- Politics and government --- Natchez (Miss. : District) --- Natchez (District, Mississippi Ter.) --- Natchez (La. : District) --- Natchez (West Florida : District) --- Race relations --- Freedpersons --- Black people --- Freed persons --- Ex-enslaved persons --- Freed enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons

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"THE WORK OF RECOGNITION is the first comprehensive history of African-descended Colombians during the postemancipation period. Jason McGraw chronicles the history of Afro-Colombians--particularly along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where the African-descended populations were concentrated--beginning with final emancipation in the 1850s and ending with the country's first general labor strike in 1918. Revealing a number of previously little known labor struggles beginning as early as 1857, including a strike staged by Magdalena River boatmen, which may have been the first strike in Colombian history, McGraw demonstrates that Afro-Colombians were principal actors in the post-slavery labor environment during these years. He argues that comprehending their historical role opens up a new view on the practice and meaning of modern citizenship and the crucial concept of recognition as central to the assumption of citizenship status. Challenging the historical erasure of Afro-Colombians, McGraw demonstrates that, after slavery, the historical denial of the role of Black workers in the republic occurred at key turning points exactly when and because they demanded recognition as citizens. Connecting the history of Black Colombians to national development, McGraw also places the story within the broader contexts of Latin American popular politics, religion, and the African diaspora"--Provided by publisher.

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