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Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam written by John Gabriel Stedman and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080184259X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Stedman's Surinam written by John Gabriel Stedman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. 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 slavery.
Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504028945
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam written by John Gabriel Stedman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman’s work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions. The Prices’ acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman’s horror at the Dutch planters’ use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that “in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar.” Freed from its original publisher’s censorship, Stedman’s Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Author : Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079349
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Slavery and the Politics of Place written by Elizabeth A. Bohls and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 0918222842
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Mourt's Relation written by Anonymous and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account, first published in 1622, of the Pilgrim's journey to the new world.
Author : Richard Price
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203720
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Rainforest Warriors written by Richard Price and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140124781
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Mind-forg'd Manacles written by Roy Porter and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101666641
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Sweetness and Power written by Sidney W. Mintz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-08-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354781
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World written by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Author : Sally Price
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807085516
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Maroon Arts written by Sally Price and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora Lavishly illustrated with more than 350 images, this groundbreaking new book traces traditions in woodcarving, textiles, clothing, and jewelry created by the Maroon people of Suriname and French Guiana.
Author : Emily Senior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416810
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834 written by Emily Senior and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.
Author : Leila Pendleton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Narrative of the Negro written by Leila Pendleton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early history of African Americans by an African American woman.
Author : John Reeves
Publisher : Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book History of the Government of the Island of Newfoundland written by John Reeves and published by Johnson Reprint Corporation. This book was released on 1793 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T109775 With a half-title. London: printed for J. Sewell; J. Debrett; and J. Downes, 1793. [8],167, [5], cxvip.; 8°
Author : Sidney Wilfred Mintz
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807009178
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Birth of African-American Culture written by Sidney Wilfred Mintz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Original Stories from Real Life written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Walker
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ISBN 13 : 9780996135979
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Sexual Stealing written by Wendy Walker and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronan Beckman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (639 download)
Download or read book An Actress of Repute written by Ronan Beckman and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1803 in the Bloomsbury district of London. Miss Elizabeth Searle has been trained in the theatrical arts throughout her childhood. She has mastered dancing, acting, and singing through her efforts, hard work and natural talent. Proficient in all forms of entertainment, the young and beautiful Miss Searle finds herself relying on these skills unexpectedly. Thrust upon the stage opposite the most famous names in theatre, Elizabeth must find courage within herself in order to support her family whilst keeping her reputation intact. Attempting to sidestep her scheming rival and trying to avoid the temptations offered by the wealthy and handsome men that inhabit the world of London's most prestigious theatres, will Elizabeth succeed with her endeavours and become admired and feted for her abilities on the stage? At the beginning of the 19th Century, the theatre could be a most dangerous career for a woman trying to maintain her honour. Will Elizabeth succeed and manage to become An Actress of Repute?Those who love historical fiction set in the times of the 'Long Regency' will find much to appeal to them in this novel. Enriched with real-life characters from Britain's theatrical past, the reader will soon find themselves immersed in the world of Late Georgian theatrical drama - both onstage and off. Richly illustrated with contemporary artwork and images, it will appeal to those who enjoy reading the works of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer.
