Fortune's Bones

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Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 1629795887
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (297 download)

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Book Synopsis Fortune's Bones by : Marilyn Nelson

Download or read book Fortune's Bones written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award For young readers comes a poetic commemoration of the life of an 18th-century slave, from a past poet laureate and three-time National Book Award finalist For over 200 years, the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut has housed a mysterious skeleton. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of an enslaved man named Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune’s death, the doctor rendered the bones. Further research revealed that Fortune had married, had fathered four children, and had been baptized later in life. His bones suggest that after a life of arduous labor, he died in 1798 at about the age of 60. The Manumission Requiem is Marilyn Nelson’s poetic commemoration of Fortune’s life. Detailed notes and archival photographs enhance the reader’s appreciation of the poem.

Roadblocks to Freedom

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Publisher : Quid Pro, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781610271080
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Roadblocks to Freedom by : Andrew Fede

Download or read book Roadblocks to Freedom written by Andrew Fede and published by Quid Pro, LLC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhaustively researched, Fede's study picks apart, categorizes, and contextualizes hundreds of cases and statutes addressing the efforts and abilities of slaves to obtain their freedom and of masters to manumit those they held in bondage.

The Freedman in the Roman World

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495038
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The Freedman in the Roman World by : Henrik Mouritsen

Download or read book The Freedman in the Roman World written by Henrik Mouritsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedmen occupied a complex and often problematic place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and freeborn citizens on the other. Playing an extremely important role in the economic life of the Roman world, they were also a key instrument for replenishing and even increasing the size of the citizen body. This book presents an original synthesis, for the first time covering both Republic and Empire in a single volume. While providing up-to-date discussions of most significant aspects of the phenomenon, the book also offers a new understanding of the practice of manumission, its role in the organisation of slave labour and the Roman economy, as well as the deep-seated ideological concerns to which it gave rise. It locates the freedman in a broader social and economic context, explaining the remarkable popularity of manumission in the Roman world.

The Price of Freedom

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813165091
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis The Price of Freedom by : T. Stephen Whitman

Download or read book The Price of Freedom written by T. Stephen Whitman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of Baltimore to show how the vigorous growth of the city required the exploitation of rural slaves. To prevent them from escaping and to spur higher production, owners entered into arrangements with their slaves, promising eventual freedom in return for many years' hard work. The Price of Freedom reveals how blacks played a critical role in freeing themselves from slavery. Yet it was an imperfect victory. Once Baltimore's economic growth began to slow, freed blacks were virtually excluded from craft apprenticeships, and European immigrants supplanted them as a trained labor force.

Paths to Freedom

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037740
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)

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Book Synopsis Paths to Freedom by : Rosemary Brana-Shute

Download or read book Paths to Freedom written by Rosemary Brana-Shute and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors investigate the cultural consequences of manumission as well as the changing economic conditions that limited the practice by the eighteenth century to understand better the social implications of this multifaceted aspect of the system of slavery.

Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004256628
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions by : Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

Download or read book Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions written by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, which record payments made to the poleis by manumitted slaves. In this original study the author explores the purpose of and the motivation behind these payments, apparently exacted as a federal impost, and places them in a wider historical and economic context. Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Taxing Freedom offers important insights into the nature and extent of slavery and manumission in Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, the Thessalian fiscal machinery, and the ways by which Thessalian poleis intervened in the economic life of their citizens to secure revenues.

Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040310
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman by : Matthew J. Perry

Download or read book Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman written by Matthew J. Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the institution of manumission-the freeing of slaves-in ancient Rome from a gendered perspective. Rome was unique among ancient polities in that it bestowed freed slaves with full citizenship, granting them rights nearly equal to those of freeborn individuals. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to reconcile a woman's experiences as a slave with the expectations and moral rigor required of the female citizen.

Slavery and Manumission

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Publisher : Ithaca Press (GB)
ISBN 13 : 9780863724381
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)

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Book Synopsis Slavery and Manumission by : Jerzy Zdanowski

Download or read book Slavery and Manumission written by Jerzy Zdanowski and published by Ithaca Press (GB). This book was released on 2013 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone," Manuy bint Khalfan, Speaking to a British Agency in Sharjah on 24th October 1938. Manuy bint Khalfan was a female slave who was sold and mortgaged several times before she finally escaped from her master.

Break Every Yoke

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ISBN 13 : 9780965872102
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis Break Every Yoke by : Roger N. Kirkman

Download or read book Break Every Yoke written by Roger N. Kirkman and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1810s, North Carolina Quakers used a vagary in North Carolina law to protect slaves under their care and provide them with as much education and training as the law would allow. By 1826, these anti-slavery advocates took steps to give these ex-slaves, approximately 2,000, opportunities for freedom outside the South or to remain under the care of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting. By 1830 the Manumission Society had completed this task and went on to attempt to convince the North Carolina Legislature to abolish slavery, to little effect. About half of the Manumission Society delegates left the state for Indiana, where they continued to work for freedmen and abolition.

Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107115442
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy by : Cameron Hawkins

Download or read book Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy written by Cameron Hawkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly reconstructs economic conditions in ancient Roman cities and the socio-economic strategies of artisans who lived in them.

Becoming Free, Remaining Free

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807128800
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (288 download)

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Book Synopsis Becoming Free, Remaining Free by : Judith Kelleher Schafer

Download or read book Becoming Free, Remaining Free written by Judith Kelleher Schafer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways New Orleans slaves used the legal system to gain their independence and find a voice in a society that ordinarily gave them none. Showing that remaining free was often as challenging as becoming free, Schafer also recounts numerous cases in which free people of color were forced to use the courts to prove their status. She further documents seventeen free blacks who, when faced with deportation, amazingly sued to enslave themselves. Schafer’s impressive detective work achieves a rare feat in the historical profession—the unveiling of an entirely new facet of the slave experience in the American South.

Not Wholly Free

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Publisher : Mnemosyne, Supplements
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Not Wholly Free by : Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

Download or read book Not Wholly Free written by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz and published by Mnemosyne, Supplements. This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Wholly Free is a comprehensive study of manumission in the Greek world, based on a thorough appraisal of the extant evidence and on a careful examination of manumission terminology. R. Zelnick-Abramovitz investigates the phenomenon of manumission in all its aspects and features, by analyzing modes of manumission, its terminology, the group composition of manumittors and freed slaves, motivation, procedures and conditions of manumission, legal actions and laws concerning manumitted slaves, and the latter s legal status and position in society. A very important work for all those interested in social history of ancient Greece , slavery, and manumission, as well as ancient historians and classical philologists.

Finding Charity’s Folk

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820348791
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Finding Charity’s Folk by : Jessica Millward

Download or read book Finding Charity’s Folk written by Jessica Millward and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.

The Blind African Slave

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299201430
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blind African Slave by : Jeffrey Brace

Download or read book The Blind African Slave written by Jeffrey Brace and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005-02-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (né Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times.

The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporus Kingdom

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Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161470417
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporus Kingdom by : Elizabeth Leigh Gibson

Download or read book The Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporus Kingdom written by Elizabeth Leigh Gibson and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. Leigh Gibson analyses a little-known group of Greek inscriptions that record the manumission of slaves in synagogues located on the hellenized north shore of the Black Sea in the first three centuries of the common era. Through a comparison of this corpus with manumission inscriptions from elsewhere in the Greco-Roman world and an analysis of Greco-Roman Judaism's own interaction with slavery, she assesses the degree to which the Black Sea Jewish community adopted classical traditions of manumissions. In so doing, she tests the often-repeated assumption that these Jewish communities developed idiosyncratic slave practices under the influence of biblical injunctions regarding Israelite ownership of slaves. More generally, she reconsiders the extent of Jewish isolation from or interaction with Greco-Roman culture.Against the backdrop of Greek manumission inscriptions, the Jewish manumissions of the Bosporan Kingdom are unremarkable; they follow the basic outlines of Greek manumission formulae. A review of Greco-Roman Jewish sources demonstrates that biblical precepts on slaveholding were not implemented, even if they were still admired. One element of the manumissions, the ongoing obligation required of the slaves, is somewhat enigmatic and possibly indicates that the Bosporan Jewish community indeed had distinctive manumission practices. These obligations have been commonly interpreted as requiring the slave to participate in the religious life of the community as a condition of his manumission and possibly his concurrent conversion. A close analysis of the clause reveals a more straightforward interpretation: the obligation was a kind of paramone clause, a common feature of Greek manumission inscriptions.E. Leigh Gibson demonstrates that the Jews of this region incorporated Greek manumission practices into their communal life. The execution of private legal contract with the community of Jews as witness in turn suggests that the wider Bosporan community extended respect and recognition to its local Jewish community.

Manumisión

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manumisión written by Archivo General de la Nación (Colombia) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-91: v. 1

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315502399
Total Pages : 1313 pages
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Book Synopsis Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-91: v. 1 by : David Y Miller

Download or read book Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900-91: v. 1 written by David Y Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 1313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of 20th century literature focuses on slavery and slave-trading from ancient times through the 19th century. It contains over 10,000 entries, with the principal sections organizing works by the political/geographical frameworks of the enslavers.