The many faces of slavery : new perspectives on slave ownership and experiences in the Americas /

The many faces of slavery : new perspectives on slave ownership and experiences in the Americas /

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While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its multifarious forms and complex dynamics in the region. The Many Faces of Slavery explores non-tradit...

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Other Authors: Aje, Lawrence (Editor), Armstrong, Catherine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Subjects:
Slavery > United States > History.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Many faces of slaveholding Sephardim / Seymour Drescher
  • Something close to freedom: the case of the Black Seminoles in Florida / Brent R. Weisman
  • 'Adventure in a wigwam': Henry Bibb's account of slavery among the Cherokees in Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave (1849) / Sandrine Ferré-Rode
  • To 'make a good Mistress to my servants': unmasking the meaning of maternalism in colonial South Carolina / Inge Dornan
  • Resident female slaveholders in Jamaica at the end of emancipation: evidence from the compensation claims / Ahmed Reid
  • Corporate slavery in seventeenth-century New York / Anne-Claire Faucquez
  • Militarized slavery: the creation of the West India regiments / Tim Lockley
  • 'A question between hiring and selling': slave leasing at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, 1780-1830 / Christa Dierksheide
  • Turmoil in the cocoa groves: slave revolts in Ocumare de la Costa, Venezuela, 1837 and 1845 / Nikita Harwich
  • Keeper of the keys: Creole management of a nineteenth-century French plantation in New Orleans / Nathalie Dessens
  • João de Oliveira's Atlantic world: mobility and dislocation in eighteenth-century Brazil and the Bight of Benin / Mary E. Hicks
  • Gilbert Hunt, the city blacksmith: slavery, freedom and fame in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia / Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf
  • Nominal slavery, free people of colour and enslavement requests: slavery and freedom at the 'edges' of the regime in the Antebellum South / Emily West
  • The transition from plantation slave labour to free labour in the Americas / Herbert S. Klein

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