Download or read book Slavery As a Choice Yesterday and Today written by Rufus Jimerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to detail whether American slavery was a choice decided by African-American captives that was not resisted against enormous coercion when it was legal and today when this peculiar institution is prohibited by law. Kanye West, his mentor, Trump, far right/white nationalists, and mentally enslaved people of color, blame African-Americans for choosing to be enslaved for 400 years. To them, the slave could walk away from captivity with relative ease but chose not to do so. This absurd notion is linked to the proslavery notion that American slavery was preferred by the slave over cannibalism and savagery in the jungles of Africa. That notion argues that many slaves were treated better than most poor whites because slave masters were benevolent, kind, and caring. The proslavery notion of choice left out the fact that many bounded slaves preferred suicide rather than slavery. They were bound to prevent this fate and escape from this inhuman condition. Yet, large numbers managed to escape their restraints, slave hunters, and to set-up maroon communities to protect themselves, family, and friends who took flight or joined them on their own or from raids on plantations. The maroons of Haiti even fought back two French military expeditions to maintain their freedom. Many of these communities rose throughout the Western Hemisphere. Their stories were intentionally left-out of historical accounts or was mitigated as undeserving acts of racial savagery due to too much freedom or benevolence. Turning to the present, this book looks at whether slavery has actually disappeared in policy, practice, custom, tradition, and race relations in a nation where our government is high jacked by white nationalists, like Trump and Ayn Rand/Social Darwin Republicans. It looks at the media, incarceration, prison labor, unlivable and disparate wages, racially inferior schools, environmental racism, disparate health conditions, treatment and life expectancy. The book also looks at extra-legal killings by rogue policing on par with slave patrols of the past and vigilantism. The thesis treaded throughout the book is that slavery in terms of status, racial treatment, and injustice, has transformed from blatant chains and whips to psychological dependency on white supremacy encompassed in thinking like their masters or "Stockholm syndrome" with hyperbolic self-hatred, PTSS, rage, and detrimental stress and anxiety conducive to chronic illnesses.

Download or read book Slavery Today written by Kevin Bales and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses worldwide modern slavery and its effects, including the types of modern slavery, its relationship with globalization, and how the world can end slavery.

Download or read book The Half Has Never Been Told written by Edward E Baptist and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

Download or read book Conscious Choice written by Robert Zimmerman and published by Ebookit.com. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Zubrin: "Zimmerman's ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says." The human race is about to go to the stars. Big rockets are being built, and nations and private citizens worldwide are planning the first permanent settlements in space. When we get there, will we know what to do to make those first colonies just and prosperous places for all humans? Conscious Choice answers this question, by telling a riveting and accurate history of the first century of British settlement in North America. That was when those settlers were building their own new colonies, and had to decide whether to include slaves from Africa. In New England slavery was vigorously rejected. The Puritans wanted nothing to do with this institution, desiring instead to form a society of free religious families, a society that became the foundation of the United States of American, dedicated to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In Virginia however slavery was gladly embraced, resulting in a corrupt social order built on power, rule, and oppression. Why the New England citizens were able to reject slavery, and Virginians were not, is the story that Conscious Choice tells, a story with direct implications for all human societies, whether they are here on Earth or on the farflung planets across the universe. What others are saying: Rand Simberg: "In its '1619 Project, ' a false and libelous narrative of America's past has recently been promoted by the New York Times. In a useful corrective, Zimmerman's book provides well-documented and new historical insights into the true history of slavery in colonial English America, with a cautionary warning for future settlers off the planet." Douglas Mackinnon "When humankind finally does venture forth to colonize the moon, Mars, and beyond, it is essential that each colonist have this book downloaded onto their tablet. It will guide them and most likely save them." James Bennett: "How was slavery born in the deep south of the United States? Robert Zimmerman's book Conscious Choice provides the answer, in a well-researched, detailed, but readable book free of academic jargon. He shows that slavery was not predetermined but was instead a series of conscious choices made by key individuals of that day. He also shows that it was not necessary, as demonstrated by the decision of the northern British colonies to reject it. "Zimmerman then uses this history to show how it provides lessons to future explorers when they found their own new colonies in space."

Download or read book The Slave Next Door written by Kevin Bales and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that these horrific human rights violations are all around us; people sold into slavery are often hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store. In these pages we also meet some unexpected modern-day slave owners, such as a 27-year old middle-class Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences including slavery. Weaving together a wealth of voices—from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors, law enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and community leaders—this book is also a call to action, telling what we, as private citizens and political activists, can do to raise community awareness, hold politicians accountable, and finally bring an end to this horrific and traumatic crime.

Download or read book Report of the Select Committee on Slavery written by Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Slavery, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Action of the Federal Government Thereon and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slavery Yesterday Today But Not Tomorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thoughts Upon Slavery written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Negro Slave Revolts written by Herbert Aptheker and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first fully documented study of rebellions by enslaved Black people in the United States. Dr. Aptheker provides proof, obtained by painstaking research, that discontent and rebelliousness were not only exceedingly common, but were characteristic of enslaved African Americans. Special attention is paid to the famous slave rebellion of Nat Turner, into the revolts led by Denmark Vesey and Gabriel. This pioneering study remains a major contribution to dismantling the post-Civil War myth of African Americans' docility in the face of enslavement. (Adapted from publisher's original description)

Download or read book American Slavery as It Is written by American Anti-Slavery Society and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Slavery written by William J. Jr Connor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frank and open look at the worse abuse that one individual could inflict on another. Slavery is an evil that has been with mankind since the very beginning. Despite what many think, slavery is not dead, but alive and active. And today's most active slave owner is not some foreign entity.

Download or read book Religion and Slavery written by James Hugh McNeilly and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Slavery as It Is written by American Antislavery Society and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Slavery 2 0 written by Sherman Damon Rivers Sr and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think about slavery, we think of a barbaric practice of the past that has been wiped from mainstream existence. Of course, there are those few cases that we hear about that usually occur in some far off land or as an act perpetrated by some solitary mad man. But, what if I told you that slavery was still alive and well? What if I told you that it wasn't only just alive but that it was thriving? You might be surprised at what you read between the pages of this book.The concept of slavery, its' implementation, and even the reasons for it are all part of an energy. One thing that we know about energy is that it is neither created nor destroyed...it is merely transformed. This is exactly what happened to the energy that drove the practice of slavery in the form that we most recognize. It is the exact same energy that drives the activities that we don't recognize as slavery today. The powers that be recognized an important truth; as long as slavery existed under the perception of force, there would inevitably be resistance. How great would it be if we could get the slaves to volunteer? Slavery was never abolished, it was merely transformed. Welcome to slavery 2.0.

Download or read book The Slave s Cause written by Manisha Sinha and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Florida Courier Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. “A full history of the men and women who truly made us free.”—Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review “A stunning new history of abolitionism . . . [Sinha] plugs abolitionism back into the history of anticapitalist protest.”—The Atlantic “Will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.”—The Wall Street Journal “A powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States . . . as multifaceted as the movement it chronicles.”—The Boston Globe

Download or read book Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States Scholar s Choice Edition written by Ethan Allen Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Slave Narratives written by Work Projects Administration and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.