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Book Slaves of the Mastery

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Nicholson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780007508723
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Slaves of the Mastery written by William Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to the Smarties Award-winning title, The Wind Singer, read by the author.

Book Mastery  Tyranny  and Desire

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  • Author : Trevor Burnard
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-11-17
  • ISBN : 9780807898741
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Mastery Tyranny and Desire written by Trevor Burnard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.

Book Divided Mastery

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  • Author : Jonathan D. Martin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 0674040708
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Divided Mastery written by Jonathan D. Martin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided Mastery explores a curiously neglected aspect of the history of American slavery: the rental of slaves. Though few slaves escaped being rented out at some point in their lives, this is the first book to describe the practice, and its effects on both slaves and the peculiar institution. Martin reveals how the unique triangularity of slave hiring created slaves with two masters, thus transforming the customary polarity of master-slave relationships. Drawing upon slaveholders' letters, slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, legislative petitions, and court records, Divided Mastery ultimately reveals that slave hiring's significance was paradoxical. The practice bolstered the system of slavery by facilitating its spread into the western territories, by democratizing access to slave labor, and by promoting both production and speculation with slave capital. But at the same time, slaves used hiring to their advantage, finding in it crucial opportunities to shape their work and family lives, to bring owners and hirers into conflict with each other, and to destabilize the system of bondage. Martin illuminates the importance of the capitalist market as a tool for analyzing slavery and its extended relationships. Through its fresh and complex perspective, Divided Mastery demonstrates that slave hiring is critical to understanding the fundamental nature of American slavery, and its social, political, and economic place in the Old South.

Book The Wind Singer

Download or read book The Wind Singer written by William Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in William Nicholson's award-winning fantasy adventure series, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Mortal Engines and Star Wars.In the walled city state of Aramanth, rules are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. Desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer, and she and her twin brother, Bowman, set out on a terrifying journey to the true source of evil that grips Aramanth...

Book Wind on Fire Trilogy Book Two  The Slaves of the Mastery  mass market

Download or read book Wind on Fire Trilogy Book Two The Slaves of the Mastery mass market written by William Nicholson and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Aramanth are finally free of the Morah, the evil power that controlled them for generations. But a ruthless attack by soldiers from a distant land destroys the city, and its people are driven off as slaves. During the invasion, Kestrel and Bowman are separated for the first time in their lives. Bowman becomes a slave of the Mastery. Kestrel escapes, then sets off to avenge the enslavement of her family. As the twins embark on their parallel adventures, their mother's prophetic dreams reveal their true identity and their dangerous fate. Bowman's mind power and Kestrel's fierce spirit are soon joined once again to fight for the freedom of their people.

Book Money Over Mastery  Family Over Freedom

Download or read book Money Over Mastery Family Over Freedom written by Calvin Schermerhorn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of how slaves seized opportunities that emerged from North Carolina's pre-Civil War modernization and economic diversification to protect their families from being sold, revealing the integral role played by empowered African-American families in regional antebellum economics and politics. Simultaneous.

Book Slaves of the Mastery   Wind on F

Download or read book Slaves of the Mastery Wind on F written by Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2001-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Aramanth have been enslaved by the army of the Mastery. If they disobey their masters, a member of their community is burned in an iron cage before their eyes.

Book Double Character

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  • Author : Ariela J. Gross
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 1400823846
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Double Character written by Ariela J. Gross and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. Double Character seeks to explain how communities dealt with an important dilemma raised by these trials: how could slaves who acted as moral agents be treated as commodities? Because these cases made the character of slaves a central legal question, slaves' moral agency intruded into the courtroom, often challenging the character of slaveholders who saw themselves as honorable masters. Gross looks at the stories about white and black character that witnesses and litigants put forth in court. She not only reveals the role of law in constructing "race" but also offers a portrait of the culture of slavery, one that addresses historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South. Gross maintains that witnesses and litigants drew on narratives available in the culture at large to explain the nature and origins of slaves' character, such as why slaves became runaways. But the legal process also shaped their expressions of racial ideology by favoring certain explanations over others. Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, looking at trials from the perspective of litigants, lawyers, doctors, and the slaves themselves. The author's approach combines the methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory.

Book Slaves of the Mastery

Download or read book Slaves of the Mastery written by William Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.

Book PEM  The Art of Slavery

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : The Nazca Plains Corporatio
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1610981022
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book PEM The Art of Slavery written by and published by The Nazca Plains Corporatio. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slaves of the Mastery

Download or read book Slaves of the Mastery written by William Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery strike, the Manth people are taken into slavery. Kestral is separated from her brother Bowman and must find him again, while Bowman must learn the secrets of the Singer people. Only then will they break the power of the Mastery.

Book Slaves of the Mastery

Download or read book Slaves of the Mastery written by William Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery strike, the Manth people are taken into slavery. Kestral is separated from her brother Bowman and must find him again, while Bowman must learn the secrets of the Singer people. Only then will they break the power of the Mastery.

Book Bathed in Blood

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  • Author : Nicolas W. Proctor
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780813920917
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Bathed in Blood written by Nicolas W. Proctor and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regardless of color or class, men in the Old South hunted; the meat, hides, and furs they brought home reinforced the hunters' claims to patriarchal authority as providers for their households. During the antebellum era, many white men also began using the hunt as a venue for the display of increasingly complex ideas about gender, race, class, and community. Proctor (history, Simpson College) explores the social drama of the hunt as it was conducted between 1800 and 1860, through accounts in books, letters, journals, and periodicals. He looks at the historical developments that shaped hunting as well as interactions between men and women and between owners and slaves. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Master slave Mastery

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  • Author : Robert J Rubel Ph D
  • Publisher : Master/slave
  • Release : 2014-12-24
  • ISBN : 9780986352119
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Master slave Mastery written by Robert J Rubel Ph D and published by Master/slave. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About this book: A servant serves Master's needs or is fired; A slave serves Master's wants or is released. However, Master's wants must not trump slave's needs, Even when playing by RACK standards. slave is in service to Master; However, Master is in service to the relationship. Welcome to the complex and elegant World of Master/slave relations. This is a revised and substantially expanded version of my prior book, Master/slave Relations: Handbook of theory and practice. Even if you've read that one, this is substantially different. This is a book both for people starting out in M/s and also for people who have been involved for a few years. The second book in this series, Master/slave Mastery: Refining the Fire - ideas that matter is intended for those who have been involved with the Master/slave world for 5+ years. Together, these books are core readings for anyone interested in living in a structured, authority-imbalanced relationship.

Book Devil In The Details I   The Art of Mastery   A Mentoring Trilogy

Download or read book Devil In The Details I The Art of Mastery A Mentoring Trilogy written by L. T. Morrison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating look into the BDSM culture like never before, The Devil In The Detatils trilogy is a refreshing new perspective on the sustainability of power exchange relationships, in the 21st century."--Publisher's description.

Book Firesong

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Nicholson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780007508730
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Firesong written by William Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final part of the Wind on Fire trilogy, read by the author.

Book Masters and Slaves

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  • Author : Michael Palmer
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2001-06-20
  • ISBN : 0739157590
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Masters and Slaves written by Michael Palmer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays sheds light on the writings of leading figures in the history of political philosophy by exploring a nexus of questions concerning mastery and slavery in the human soul. To this end, Masters and Slaves elucidates archetypal human alternatives in their import for political life: the philosopher and king; the lover of wisdom and the lover of glory; the king and the tyrant; and finally, the master and the slave. Palmer re-examines these ideas as a framework for achieving a deeper understanding of the work of famous thinkers—from the ancient to modern times—including Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau. As well, the book addresses distinctions between the 'ancients' and the 'moderns,' and touches on the work of contemporary theorists such as Leo Strauss, George Parkin Grant, and Allan Bloom.