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Book Slaver s Challenge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy L. Huffman
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000-09
  • ISBN : 0595122272
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book Slaver s Challenge written by Timothy L. Huffman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a universe shaped by interstellar wars and the iron fist of a depraved Imperial family, Jac Kunig was alone and broke and running. Betrayed by his partner, desperate to find care for Lara, his horrifically injured lover, Jacster Kunig decided to go home... it was the last thing he should have done. In a galaxy spanning struggle, Jac will come face to face with his own weaknesses and find danger and defeat at every turn. With only a sword in his hand, with Lara's life and the fate of an entire world hanging in the balance, Jac Kunig must win Slaver's Challenge, no matter the cost. Failure is not an option.

Book Slaves of One Master

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  • Author : Matthew S. Hopper
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-08-25
  • ISBN : 0300213921
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Slaves of One Master written by Matthew S. Hopper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism. Whereas conventional historiography regards the Indian Ocean slave trade as fundamentally different from its Atlantic counterpart, Hopper’s study argues that both systems were influenced by global economic forces. The author goes on to dispute the triumphalist antislavery narrative that attributes the end of the slave trade between East Africa and the Persian Gulf to the efforts of the British Royal Navy, arguing instead that Great Britain allowed the inhuman practice to continue because it was vital to the Gulf economy and therefore vital to British interests in the region. Hopper’s book links the personal stories of enslaved Africans to the impersonal global commodity chains their labor enabled, demonstrating how the growing demand for workers created by a global demand for Persian Gulf products compelled the enslavement of these people and their transportation to eastern Arabia. His provocative and deeply researched history fills a salient gap in the literature on the African diaspora.

Book American Slavers

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  • Author : Sean M. Kelley
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2023-05-30
  • ISBN : 0300263597
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book American Slavers written by Sean M. Kelley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery. Engaging with both African and American history and addressing the trade over time, Kelley examines the experience of captivity, drawing on more than a hundred African narratives to offer a portrait of enslavement in the regions of Africa frequented by American ships. Kelley also provides a social history of the two American ports where slave trading was most intensive, Newport and Bristol, Rhode Island. In telling this tragic, brutal, and largely unknown story, Kelley corrects many misconceptions while leaving no doubt that Americans were a nation of slave traders.

Book Opposing the Slavers

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  • Author : Peter Grindal
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-04-25
  • ISBN : 0857725955
  • Pages : 896 pages

Download or read book Opposing the Slavers written by Peter Grindal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little known yet important part of the British, European and American history. Drawing on original sources to provide a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the naval operations against slavers of all nations - in particular Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil, he describes how illegal traders sought to evade treaty obligations, reveals the obduracy of the USA that prolonged the slave trade, and shows how, despite inadequate resources, the Royal navy's sixty-year campaign forced slavers to expend ever greater sums top conduct their business and confront the losses inflicted by capture and condemnation. A work that will transform our understanding of the Royal Navy's campaign against the Atlantic slave trade.

Book Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery

Download or read book Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery written by David Brion Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book views slavery in a new light and underscores the human tragedy at the heart of the American story."--Jacket.

Book A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies  Or  An Examination of Mr  Stephen s  Slavery of the British West India Colonies

Download or read book A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies Or An Examination of Mr Stephen s Slavery of the British West India Colonies written by Alexander Barclay and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Consolidated Slave Law  Passed the 22d December  1826     With a Commentary  Shewing the Difference Between the New Law and the Repealed Enactments  Marginal Notes     Second Edition  Etc   Extracts from the Code Rural of Hayti

Download or read book The Consolidated Slave Law Passed the 22d December 1826 With a Commentary Shewing the Difference Between the New Law and the Repealed Enactments Marginal Notes Second Edition Etc Extracts from the Code Rural of Hayti written by Augustus Hardin Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios

Download or read book A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios written by Brenda Griffith-Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios, Brenda Griffith-Williams offers a fresh insight, accessible to non-Greek readers, into four disputed inheritance cases from the Athenian courts in the 4th century B.C. The only comprehensive English language commentary on Isaios (Wyse, 1904) reflects a negative view of the Athenian legal system as one in which the judges, who had no legal training, could be easily outwitted by an unscrupulous speechwriter with no regard for the truth. By addressing the complex interplay of factual, legal, and rhetorical issues in the selected speeches, Brenda Griffith-Williams identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each speaker's case and presents a more balanced assessment of Isaios's work.

Book The Problem of Slavery as History

Download or read book The Problem of Slavery as History written by Joseph C. Miller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did slavery—an accepted evil for thousands of years—suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution. Tracing the global history of slaving over thousands of years, Miller reveals the shortcomings of Western narratives that define slavery by the same structures and power relations regardless of places and times, concluding instead that slaving is a process which can be understood fully only as imbedded in changing circumstances.

Book Slavery by Another Name

Download or read book Slavery by Another Name written by Douglas A. Blackmon and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Book The Prince of Slavers

Download or read book The Prince of Slavers written by Matthew David Mitchell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much scholarship on the British transatlantic slave trade has focused on its peak period in the late eighteenth century and its abolition in the early nineteenth; or on the Royal African Company (RAC), which in 1698 lost the monopoly it had previously enjoyed over the trade. During the early eighteenth-century transition between these two better-studied periods, Humphry Morice was by far the most prolific of the British slave traders. He bears the guilt for trafficking over 25,000 enslaved Africans, and his voluminous surviving papers offer intriguing insights into how he did it. Morice’s strategy was well adapted for managing the special risks of the trade, and for duplicating, at lower cost, the RAC’s capabilities for gathering information on what African slave-sellers wanted in exchange. Still, Morice’s transatlantic operations were expensive enough to drive him to a series of increasingly dubious financial manoeuvres throughout the 1720s, and eventually to large-scale fraud in 1731 from the Bank of England, of which he was a longtime director. He died later that year, probably by suicide, and with his estate hopelessly indebted to the Bank, his family, and his ship captains. Nonetheless, his astonishing rise and fall marked a turning point in the development of the brutal transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.

Book Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan

Download or read book Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan written by Susan M. Kenyon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical ethnography from Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar , spirit possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows that, despite very different social and cultural contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery.

Book Slavers  Traders and Privateers

Download or read book Slavers Traders and Privateers written by Frank Howley and published by Countyvise Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a factual and fascinating portrait of Liverpool during the slave trade.

Book Health and Slavery

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  • Author : Alison Fiander
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3031483197
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Health and Slavery written by Alison Fiander and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Resolution of Election Disputes  Legal Principles That Control Election Challenges  Second Edition

Download or read book The Resolution of Election Disputes Legal Principles That Control Election Challenges Second Edition written by Barry H. Weinberg and published by IFES. This book was released on 2008 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative written by Audrey Fisch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.

Book Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Download or read book Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Deborah M. Garfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a far-ranging study which contextualises both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art.