Download or read book Julio the Slave written by Mrs. J.B. Webb and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship written by Celso Thomas Castilho and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters' mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil's first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the passage of the abolition law in 1888. It also documents the previously ignored counter-mobilizations led by the landed elite, who saw the rise of abolitionism as a political contestation and threat to their livelihood. Overall, this study illuminates how disputes over control of emancipation also entailed disputes over the boundaries of the political arena and connects the history of abolition to the history of Brazilian democracy. It offers fresh perspectives on Brazilian political history and on Brazil's place within comparative discussions on slavery and emancipation.
Download or read book Constructing Autocracy written by Matthew B. Roller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome's transition from a republican system of government to an imperial regime comprised more than a century of civil upheaval and rapid institutional change. Yet the establishment of a ruling dynasty, centered around a single leader, came as a cultural and political shock to Rome's aristocracy, who had shared power in the previous political order. How did the imperial regime manage to establish itself and how did the Roman elites from the time of Julius Caesar to Nero make sense of it? In this compelling book, Matthew Roller reveals a "dialogical" process at work, in which writers and philosophers vigorously negotiated and contested the nature and scope of the emperor’s authority, despite the consensus that he was the ultimate authority figure in Roman society. Roller seeks evidence for this "thinking out" of the new order in a wide range of republican and imperial authors, with an emphasis on Lucan and Seneca the Younger. He shows how elites assessed the impact of the imperial system on traditional aristocratic ethics and examines how several longstanding authority relationships in Roman society--those of master to slave, father to son, and gift-creditor to gift-debtor--became competing models for how the emperor did or should relate to his aristocratic subjects. By revealing this ideological activity to be not merely reactive but also constitutive of the new order, Roller contributes to ongoing debates about the character of the Roman imperial system and about the "politics" of literature.
Download or read book Copper Sun written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) In this “searing work of historical fiction” (Booklist), Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon M. Draper tells the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ever known—except hope. Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village, it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an instant. But that was what happened when her village was invaded by slave traders. Her family was brutally murdered as she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present". Now, survival is all Amari can dream about. As she struggles to hold on to her memories, she also begins to learn English and make friends with a white indentured servant named Molly. When an opportunity to escape presents itself, Amari and Molly seize it, fleeing South to the Spanish colony in Florida at Fort Mose. Along the way, their strength is tested like never before as they struggle against hunger, cold, wild animals, hurricanes, and people eager to turn them in for reward money. The hope of a new life is all that keeps them going, but Florida feels so far away and sometimes Amari wonders how far hopes and dreams can really take her.
Download or read book The Bluesman written by Julio Finn and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1986 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a meticulously researched study of the roots, spiritual, social and anthropological, of the Afro-American musical form known as the blues. Despite its being arguably the twentieth century's most influential popular art form, the blues' significance and a lot of its vocabulary remain obscure for the majority of its millions of listeners. The author remedied the situation with a learned and wide-ranging survey of the subject, embracing African animist religion, the slave trade, voodoo, hoodoo, the early country blues and its modern urban electric equivalent. The major figures in the music and, most importantly, in the African-American tradition generally, such as Macandal, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Marie Laveau, are all given their rightful place in the history of the blues' development and the book culminates in a moving study of the music's greatest exponent, Robert Johnson, the very personification of the book's title.
Download or read book Entangled Coercion written by Paola A. Revilla Orías and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bolivia) in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Download or read book The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos Brazil 1822 1888 written by Ian Read and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the inherent brutality of slavery, some slaves could find small but important opportunities to act decisively. The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888 explores such moments of opportunity and resistance in Santos, a Southeastern township in Imperial Brazil. It argues that slavery in Brazil was hierarchical: slaves' fleeting chances to form families, work jobs that would not kill or maim, avoid debilitating diseases, or find a (legal or illegal) pathway out of slavery were highly influenced by their demographic background and their owners' social position. By tracing the lives of slaves and owners through multiple records, the author is able to show that the cruelties that slaves faced were not equally shared. One important implication is that internal stratification likely helped perpetuate slavery because there was the belief, however illusionary, that escaping captivity was not necessary for social mobility.
Download or read book Art and Nature written by James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free At Last written by Teresa Ramsby and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on recent dynamic visual, literary and archaeological work on Roman freedmen, this book examines the impact of freed slaves on Roman society and culture.
Download or read book Undercurrents of Power written by Kevin Dawson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Download or read book Roman Literary Cultures written by Alison Keith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws. Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.
Download or read book Madalena written by Theodore Davenport Warner and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slavery Mobility and Networks in Nineteenth Century Cuba written by Daylet Domínguez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After being forcibly taken across the Atlantic, enslaved Africans were moved within Cuba, and sometimes sold to owners in other Caribbean islands or the U.S. South. The chapters included in this book, written by historians and literary critics, pay special attention to debates between abolitionists and proslavery ideologues, the ways in which people and ideas moved from the countryside to the city, from one Caribbean Island to the next, and from the United States or the coasts of West Africa to the sugarcane fields. They examine how enslaved persons ran away or were captured and coerced to relocate; how they mobilized information and ideas to ameliorate their situation; and how they were used to advance other people’s interests. Movement, these chapters show, was regularly deployed to reinforce enslavement and the suppression of rights, while at times helping people in their struggle for freedom. This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Latin American Literature, Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies. The chapters were originally published in the journal Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.
Download or read book The Slavery Reader written by Gad J. Heuman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.
Download or read book Familia Caesaris A Social Study of the Emperor s Freedmen and Slaves written by P. R. C. Weaver and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HSC Ancient History written by Peter Roberts and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study guide covers everytopic in the last two sect ions of the HSC Ancient History course and has been specifically created to maximise exam success. This guide has been designed to meet all stud y needs, providing up-to-date information in an easy-to-use format. This is the second of the two new Ancient History study guides. E xcel Ancient History Book 2 contains: a chapter on eve ry topic available in the last two sections of the HSC course: Section I II - Personalities in their Times, and Section IV - Historical Periods an introductory section on how to use the book, with an explanat ion of exam requirements revision questions in each chapter wit h answers and guidelines comprehensive bibliography and further reading lists key terms defined in each chapter, plus a glossa ry of terms cross-referencing between chapters for further info rmation Also available is Excel Ancient History B ook 1 which covers comprehensive coverage of Sections I and II of the HS C course: Section I - Personalities in the Times and Section II - Ancien t Societies.
Download or read book The New York Mirror written by Theodore Sedgwick Fay and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
