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Author : B. Eugene McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613761274
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (612 download)
Download or read book From Bondage to Belonging written by B. Eugene McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thompson
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave written by John Thompson and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 1856 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Gloria McCahon Whiting
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151282450X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Belonging written by Gloria McCahon Whiting and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As winter turned to spring in the year 1699, Sebastian and Jane embarked on a campaign of persuasion. The two wished to marry, and they sought the backing of their community in Boston. Nothing, however, could induce Jane’s enslaver to consent. Only after her death did Sebastian and Jane manage to wed, forming a long-lasting union even though husband and wife were not always able to live in the same household. New England is often considered a cradle of liberty in American history, but this snippet of Jane and Sebastian’s story reminds us that it was also a cradle of slavery. From the earliest years of colonization, New Englanders bought and sold people, most of whom were of African descent. In Belonging, Gloria McCahon Whiting tells the region’s early history from the perspective of the people, like Jane and Sebastian, who belonged to others and who struggled to maintain a sense of belonging among their kin. Through a series of meticulously reconstructed family narratives, Whiting traces the contours of enslaved people’s intimate lives in early New England, where they often lived with those who bound them but apart from kin. Enslaved spouses rarely were able to cohabit; fathers and their offspring routinely were separated by inheritance practices; children could be removed from their mothers at an enslaver’s whim; and people in bondage had only partial control of their movement through the region, which made more difficult the task of maintaining distant relationships. But Belonging does more than lay bare the obstacles to family stability for those in bondage. Whiting also charts Afro-New Englanders’ persistent demands for intimacy throughout the century and a half stretching from New England’s founding to the American Revolution. And she shows how the work of making and maintaining relationships influenced the region’s law, religion, society, and politics. Ultimately, the actions taken by people in bondage to fortify their families played a pivotal role in bringing about the collapse of slavery in New England’s most populous state, Massachusetts.
Author : Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674043343
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Born in Bondage written by Marie Jenkins Schwartz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each time a child was born in bondage, the system of slavery began anew. Although raised by their parents or by surrogates in the slave community, children were ultimately subject to the rule of their owners. Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenkins Schwartz explores the daunting world of slave children, a world governed by the dual authority of parent and owner, each with conflicting agendas. Despite the constant threats of separation and the necessity of submission to the slaveowner, slave families managed to pass on essential lessons about enduring bondage with human dignity. Schwartz counters the commonly held vision of the paternalistic slaveholder who determines the life and welfare of his passive chattel, showing instead how slaves struggled to give their children a sense of self and belonging that denied the owner complete control. Born in Bondage gives us an unsurpassed look at what it meant to grow up as a slave in the antebellum South. Schwartz recreates the experiences of these bound but resilient young people as they learned to negotiate between acts of submission and selfhood, between the worlds of commodity and community.
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199875685
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative written by John Ernest and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The volume will begin with articles that consider the fundamental concerns of gender, sexuality, community, and the Christian ethos of suffering and redemption that are central to any understanding of slave narratives. The chapters that follow will interrogate the various agendas behind the production of both pre- and post-Emancipation narratives and take up the various interpretive problems they pose. Strategic omissions and veiled gestures were often necessary in these life accounts as they revealed disturbing, too-painful truths, far beyond what white audiences were prepared to hear. While touching upon the familiar canonical autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, the Handbook will pay more attention to the under-studied narratives of Josiah Henson, Sojourner Truth, William Grimes, Henry Box Brown, and other often-overlooked accounts. In addition to the literary autobiographies of bondage, the volume will anatomize the powerful WPA recordings of interviews with former slaves during the late 1930s. With essays on the genre's imaginative afterlife, its final essays will chart the emergence and development of neoslave narratives, most notably in Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, Toni Morrisons's Beloved and Octavia Butler's provocative science fiction novel, Kindred. In short, the Handbook will provide a long-overdue assessment of the state of the genre and the vital scholarship that continues to grow around it, work that is offering some of the most provocative analysis emerging out of the literary studies discipline as a whole.
Author : Amy Dru Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521635264
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (352 download)
Download or read book From Bondage to Contract written by Amy Dru Stanley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.
Author : Jennifer Hull Dorsey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461154
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Hirelings written by Jennifer Hull Dorsey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing new identities, associations, and communities in the early nineteenth century. Free Africans and their descendants had lived in Maryland since the seventeenth century, but before the American Revolution they were always few in number and lacking in economic resources or political leverage. By contrast, manumitted and freeborn African Americans in the early republic refashioned the Eastern Shore's economy and society, earning their livings as wage laborers while establishing thriving African American communities. As free workers in a slave society, these African Americans contested the legitimacy of the slave system even while they remained dependent laborers. They limited white planters' authority over their time and labor by reuniting their families in autonomous households, settling into free black neighborhoods, negotiating labor contracts that suited the needs of their households, and worshipping in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Some moved to the cities, but many others migrated between employers as a strategy for meeting their needs and thwarting employers’ control. They demonstrated that independent and free African American communities could thrive on their own terms. In all of these actions the free black workers of the Eastern Shore played a pivotal role in ongoing debates about the merits of a free labor system.
Author : Michael LeBuffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199726159
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book From Bondage to Freedom written by Michael LeBuffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza rejects fundamental tenets of received morality, including the notions of Providence and free will. Yet he retains rich theories of good and evil, virtue, perfection, and freedom. Building interconnected readings of Spinoza's accounts of imagination, error, and desire, Michael LeBuffe defends a comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's enlightened vision of human excellence. Spinoza holds that what is fundamental to human morality is the fact that we find things to be good or evil, not what we take those designations to mean. When we come to understand the conditions under which we act-that is, when we come to understand the sorts of beings that we are and the ways in which we interact with things in the world-then we can recast traditional moral notions in ways that help us to attain more of what we find to be valuable. For Spinoza, we find value in greater activity. Two hazards impede the search for value. First, we need to know and acquire the means to be good. In this respect, Spinoza's theory is a great deal like Hobbes's: we strive to be active, and in order to do so we need food, security, health, and other necessary components of a decent life. There is another hazard, however, that is more subtle. On Spinoza's theory of the passions, we can misjudge our own natures and fail to understand the sorts of beings that we really are. So we can misjudge what is good and might even seek ends that are evil. Spinoza's account of human nature is thus much deeper and darker than Hobbes's: we are not well known to ourselves, and the self-knowledge that is the foundation of virtue and freedom is elusive and fragile.
Author : Isaac Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781508501558
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Life of Isaac Mason As a Slave written by Isaac Mason and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427051305
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book My Bondage and My Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography by Frederick Douglass. Douglass reflects on the various aspects of his life, first as a slave and than as a freeman. He depicts the path his early life took, his memories of being owned, and how he managed to achieve his freedom. This is an inspirational account of a man who struggled for respect and position in life.
Author : Julie McBrien
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983052
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book From Belonging to Belief written by Julie McBrien and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to peel away the multiple layers that have shaped the return of public Islam in the region. She explores belief and nonbelief, varying practices of Islam, discourses of extremism, and the role of the state, to elucidate the everyday experiences of Bazaar-Korgonians. McBrien shows how Islam is explored, lived, and debated in both conventional and novel sites: a Soviet-era cleric who continues to hold great influence; popular television programs; religious instruction at wedding parties; clothing; celebrations; and others. Through ethnographic research, McBrien reveals how moving toward Islam is not a simple step but rather a deliberate and personal journey of experimentation, testing, and knowledge acquisition. Moreover she argues that religion is not always a matter of belief—sometimes it is essentially about belonging. From Belonging to Belief offers an important corrective to studies that focus only on the pious turns among Muslims in Central Asia, and instead shows the complex process of evolving religion in a region that has experienced both Soviet atheism and post-Soviet secularism, each of which has profoundly formed the way Muslims interpret and live Islam.
Author : Faith Berry
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826418142
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (181 download)
Download or read book From Bondage to Liberation written by Faith Berry and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfolds a multifaceted literary history of race relations in the United States. This book features narratives on such well-known figures as Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and others.
Author : John Bodel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119162505
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book On Human Bondage written by John Bodel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Human Bondage—a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death—assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies. Discusses the novel ideas of social death and natal alienation, as Patterson first presented them 35 years ago and as they are understood today Brings together exciting new work by a group of esteemed historians of slavery, as well as a final chapter by Patterson himself that responds to and expands upon the other contributions Provides insights into slave societies around the world and across time, from classical Greece and Rome to modern Brazil and the Caribbean, and from Han China and pre-colonial South Asia to early modern Europe and the New World Delves into a wide range of topics, including the reformation of social identity after slavery, the new historicist approach to slavery, rituals of enslavement and servitude, questions of honor and dishonor, and symbolic imagery of slavery
Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831540
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Running from Bondage written by Karen Cook Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Congressional Globe written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Miers
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299073343
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Slavery in Africa written by Suzanne Miers and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).
Author : Louis B. Hughes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411672658
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Thirty Years a Slave: from Bondage to Freedom. the Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter by Louis B. Hughes written by Louis B. Hughes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
