Slavery And Manumission
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The Price Of Freedom
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Author : T. Stephen Whitman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-15
The Price Of Freedom written by T. Stephen Whitman and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
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.
The Faces Of Freedom
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Author : Marc Kleijwegt
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006-05-01
The Faces Of Freedom written by Marc Kleijwegt and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with History categories.
This volume is concerned with the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern States of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century.
Paths To Freedom
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Author : Rosemary Brana-Shute
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009
Paths To Freedom written by Rosemary Brana-Shute and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
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.
Roadblocks To Freedom
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Author : Andrew Fede
language : en
Publisher: Quid Pro, LLC
Release Date : 2011
Roadblocks To Freedom written by Andrew Fede and has been published by Quid Pro, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
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 Manumission Of Slaves In Early Christianity
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Author : James Albert Harrill
language : en
Publisher: J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck)
Release Date : 1995
The Manumission Of Slaves In Early Christianity written by James Albert Harrill and has been published by J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Social Science categories.
Not Wholly Free
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Author : Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-07-31
Not Wholly Free written by Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-31 with History categories.
Based on a thorough investigation of the literary and epigraphic sources, this comprehensive study presents Greek manumission as a form of social relations, rooted in concepts of freedom and dependence and reflected by the terminology and the conditions of manumission.
Roadblocks To Freedom
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Author : Andrew Fede
language : en
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Release Date : 2012-01-20
Roadblocks To Freedom written by Andrew Fede and has been published by Quid Pro Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-20 with History categories.
This new book by Andrew Fede considers the law of freedom suits and manumission from the point-of-view of legal procedure, evidence rules, damage awards, and trial practicein addition to the abstract principles stated in the appellate decisions. The author shows that procedural and evidentiary roadblocks made it increasingly impossible for many slaves, or free blacks who were wrongfully held as slaves, to litigate their freedom. Even some of the most celebrated cases in which the courts freed slaves must be read as tempered by the legal realities the actors faced or the courts actually recognized in the process. Slave owners in almost all slave societies had the right to manumit or free all or some of their slaves. Slavery law also permitted people to win their freedom if they were held as slaves contrary to law. In this book, Fede provides a comprehensive view of how some enslaved litigants won their freedom in the courtand how many others, like Dred and Harriet Scott, did not because of the substantive and procedural barriers that both judges and legislators placed in the way of people held in slavery who sought their freedom in court. From the 17th century to the Civil War, Southern governments built roadblock after roadblock to the freedom sought by deserving enslaved people, even if this restricted the masters' rights to free their slaves or defied settled law. They increasingly prohibited all manumissions and added layers of procedure to those seeking freedomwhile eventually providing a streamlined process by which free blacks "voluntarily" enslaved themselves and their children. Drawing on his three decades of legal experience to take seriously the trial process and rules under which slave freedom cases were decided, Fede considers how slave owners, slaves, and lawyers caused legal change from the bottom up.
Becoming Free Remaining Free
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Author : Judith Kelleher Schafer
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Becoming Free Remaining Free written by Judith Kelleher Schafer and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with History categories.
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.
The Constitution Of The New York Society For Promoting The Manumission Of Slaves
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Author : New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1796
The Constitution Of The New York Society For Promoting The Manumission Of Slaves written by New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1796 with Slavery categories.
Gender Manumission And The Roman Freedwoman
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Author : Matthew J. Perry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014
Gender Manumission And The Roman Freedwoman written by Matthew J. Perry and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
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.