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What Slaveholders Think
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Author : Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-07
What Slaveholders Think written by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-07 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India and asks: How do contemporary slaveholders rationalize the subjugation of other human beings, and how do they respond when their power is threatened? More than a billion dollars have been spent on antislavery efforts, yet the practice persists. Why? Unpacking what slaveholders think about emancipation is critical for scholars and policy makers who want to understand the broader context, especially as seen by the powerful. Insight into those moments when the powerful either double down or back off provides a sobering counterbalance to scholarship on popular struggle. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them. While they understand they are exploiting workers' vulnerabilities, slaveholders also feel they are doing workers a favor, often taking pride in this relationship. And when the victims share this perspective, their emancipation is harder to secure, driving some in the antislavery movement to ask why slaves fear freedom. The answer, Choi-Fitzpatrick convincingly argues, lies in the power relationship. Whether slaveholders recoil at their past behavior or plot a return to power, Choi-Fitzpatrick zeroes in on the relational dynamics of their self-assessment, unpacking what happens next. Incorporating the experiences of such pivotal actors into antislavery research is an immensely important step toward crafting effective antislavery policies and intervention. It also contributes to scholarship on social change, social movements, and the realization of human rights.
Buying Freedom
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Author : Anthony Appiah
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-22
Buying Freedom written by Anthony Appiah and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-22 with Philosophy categories.
In this examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption the authors deal with questions such as: Does redeeming slaves actually increase the demand for -and so the number of- slaves? And what about cases where it is far from clear that redemption will improve the material condition or increase the real freedom, of a slave?
River Of Blood
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Author : Richard Cahan
language : en
Publisher: Cityfiles Press
Release Date : 2020-01-20
River Of Blood written by Richard Cahan and has been published by Cityfiles Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with History categories.
In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they sing? What games did they play? Did they always think about escaping? The result was a remarkable compilation of interviews known as the Slave Narratives. This book highlights those narratives--condensing tens of thousands of pages into short excerpts from about 100 former slaves and pairs their accounts with their photographs, taken by the workers sent to record their stories. The book documents what slaves saw and remembered, and explains how they lived. It is an eye-opening account that details what it was like to be a slave--from everyday life to the overwhelming fear they harbored for their lives and for the lives of their family and loved ones. Their stories are clear and stirring. For some reason, the 700 photographs taken for the Slave Narrative Collection have been largely overlooked. The negatives are missing and the paperclip impressions used to attach the small prints to the typewritten interviews indicates that the photos were never valued or treated as art. By pairing 100 narratives and photographs, the material takes on a new life. Every word from every former slave comes alive when the reader can see exactly who told these accounts. The photographs--with the stories--are essential in helping us understand the humanity behind these stories. The words take on new meeting paired with the photographs. When you hear Bill Homer explain that he was given as a wedding present at the age of ten in 1860 and look at his photograph as a proud old man, the true meaning of slavery starts to sinks in. This book is designed so that all Americans will better understand this issue that plays such an important role in present day society. The words and the photographs are profound.
This Vast Southern Empire
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Author : Matthew Karp
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-12
This Vast Southern Empire written by Matthew Karp and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with History categories.
Most leaders of the U.S. expansion in the years before the Civil War were southern slaveholders. As Matthew Karp shows, they were nationalists, not separatists. When Lincoln’s election broke their grip on foreign policy, these elites formed their own Confederacy not merely to preserve their property but to shape the future of the Atlantic world.
They Were Her Property
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Author : Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-07
They Were Her Property written by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with History categories.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Compelling.”—Renee Graham, Boston Globe “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
What If White People Were Slaves
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Author : Honesty Brennan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-21
What If White People Were Slaves written by Honesty Brennan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with categories.
WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES is a story taking place between 1810 and1830 describing the lived experience of three adolescent-aged girls, and the challenges they faced in growing up during the days when white people were slaves here in America. Book One transports each reader to the early 1800s. WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES? Book One Yrs. 1810 - 1830 Racism. Classism. Disenfranchisement. Discrimination. Prejudice. Sexism. A total lack of empathy. The American Dream... N. D. Brennan and Honesty Brennan asks one of the most profound questions of our generation: Do you think white people would understand if they would have been born slaves, and if they're history was ours? WHAT IF WHITE PEOPLE WERE SLAVES? introduces a tale of American history that will shock your system. This book represents storytelling at its finest but in waters that no one has ever dared to tread until now. What If White People Were Slaves essentially provides you and your neighbor with an opportunity to walk in each other's shoes by vicariously exposing you to the privileges and prohibitions that he, she, or that particular sect of our global community finds themselves inadvertently trapped inside of today. Two decades ago, the authors began to imagine a history that was radically different from what we each have experiences: where the roles of the races were inverted, while hypothesizing the type of country that would have consequently resulted. What do you believe would go through the mind of David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, if he was forced to helplessly watch the likes of Kendrick Lamar or Idris Elba savagely yet legally beat and rape a young Taylor Swift, Surrey Cruise, or Elle Fanning in real life, and within a community where everyone knows but no ones cares? In the alternative, would Black Lives still Matter if those black lives were instead white lives, and people of color were the privileged and enfranchised majority? These are the questions that we are possibly incapable of answering truthfully because these hypotheticals are so far-reaching from our dysfunctional reality. But the story of What If White People Were Slaves disturbingly yet wonderfully elevates your imagination where the utterly unimaginable is suddenly realized. Authors Honesty Brennan and N. D. Brennan paint a picture of American history that begins where white people are the slaves, and people of color are the slave masters. Dare to read this amazing lesson in history but only if you are willing to test a paradoxical irony that most Americans have never even imagined. What If White People Were Slaves is America's history, and the saddest story never told. Now...imagine life as we know it, history as we have been taught, but suddenly in the reverse... PREVIEW OF THE BOOK As Nakia and Summer both attempt to adapt to life without Summer's slave master and half-sister, and Nakia's best friend, Yuri, the community is forced to conform to new standards of living after one of the Caulker slaves savagely snuffs out the 9-year old's young life. A new and severely more egregious degree of slavery and global treatment of whites is suddenly instituted, which alters America's history for generations to come. This story reveals how the decision of one, crazed Caulker slave ultimately changed the entire course of history forever...and this is only the first fifteen. What If White People Were Slaves is the saddest tale of America's history never told.
The Mind Of The Master Class
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Author : Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-17
The Mind Of The Master Class written by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 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 2005-10-17 with History categories.
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.
Slaves In The Family
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Author : Edward Ball
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2017-10-24
Slaves In The Family written by Edward Ball and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-24 with History categories.
Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"
Worse Than Slavery
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Author : David M. Oshinsky
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1997-04-22
Worse Than Slavery written by David M. Oshinsky and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-22 with Social Science categories.
In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.
The World The Slaveholders Made
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Author : Eugene D. Genovese
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1969
The World The Slaveholders Made written by Eugene D. Genovese and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with History categories.