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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
Author | : Jeffrey Hummel |
Publisher | : Open Court |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812698444 |
This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America’s turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. While the chapters tell the story of the Civil War and discuss the issues raised in readable prose, each chapter is followed by a detailed bibliographical essay, looking at all the different major works on the subject, with their varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions. In his economic analysis of slavery, Professor Hummel takes a different view than the two major poles which have determined past discussions of the topic. While some writers claim that slavery was unprofitable and harmful to the Southern economy, and others maintain it was profitable and efficient for the South, Hummel uses the economic concept of Deadweight Loss to show that slavery was both highly profitable for slave owners and harmful to Southern economic development. While highly critical of Confederate policy, Hummel argues that the war was fought to prevent secession, not to end slavery, and that preservation of the Union was not necessary to end slavery: the North could have let the South secede peacefully, and slavery would still have been quickly terminated. Part of Hummel’s argument is that the South crucially relied on the Northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners. This new edition has a substantial new introduction by the author, correcting and supplementing the account given in the first edition (the major revision is an increase in the estimate of total casualties) and a foreword by John Majewski, a rising star of Civil War studies.
Twenty-two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
Author | : Austin Steward |
Publisher | : Rochester, N.Y. : W. Alling |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
The Freedman in the Roman World
Author | : Henrik Mouritsen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139495038 |
Freedmen occupied a complex and often problematic place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and freeborn citizens on the other. Playing an extremely important role in the economic life of the Roman world, they were also a key instrument for replenishing and even increasing the size of the citizen body. This book presents an original synthesis, for the first time covering both Republic and Empire in a single volume. While providing up-to-date discussions of most significant aspects of the phenomenon, the book also offers a new understanding of the practice of manumission, its role in the organisation of slave labour and the Roman economy, as well as the deep-seated ideological concerns to which it gave rise. It locates the freedman in a broader social and economic context, explaining the remarkable popularity of manumission in the Roman world.
The Rev. J.W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman
Author | : Jermain Wesley Loguen |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
Author | : Austin Steward |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781500525309 |
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward
My Bondage and My Freedom
Author | : Frederick Douglass |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 8026883217 |
"My Bondage and My Freedom" is the second of three autobiographies written by Frederick Douglass. It is mainly an expansion of his first autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Contents: Childhood Removed From My First Home Parentage A General Survey of the Slave Plantation Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd's Plantation Life in the Great House A Chapter of Horrors Personal Treatment Life in Baltimore "A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream" Religious Nature Awakened The Vicissitudes of Slave Life Experience in St. Michael's Covey, the Negro Breaker Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vice The Last Flogging New Relations and Duties The Run-away Plot Apprenticeship Life My Escape From Slavery Liberty Attained Introduced to the Abolitionists Twenty-One Months in Great Britain Various Incidents Reception Speech Dr. Campbell's Reply Letter to His Old Master to My Old Master, Thomas Auld The Nature of Slavery Inhumanity of Slavery What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? The Internal Slave Trade The Slavery Party The Anti-Slavery Movement
Twenty-Two Years A Slave, and Forty Years A Freeman (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author | : Austin Steward |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : |
Genre | : African American businesspeople |
ISBN | : 1442901373 |
In this compelling memoir and argument against the evils of slavery, author Austin Steward writes: "Some have attempted to apologize for the enslaving of the Negro, by saying that they are inferior to the Anglo-Saxon race in every respect. This charge I deny; it is utterly false. Does not the Bible inform us that 'God hath created of one blood all the nations of the earth?'" Read all about Steward's account of being born into a life of slavery, his eventual escape to Canada and his subsequent involvement in the anti-slavery and temperance campaigns. Austin Steward is an American hero not only because he survived and wrote about the brutal ordeal of slavery, but also because he was a strong and active opponent of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. Steward's autobiography, Twenty-Two Years a Slave is considered one of the best and most important slave narratives available today.
Freeman
Author | : Leonard Pitts |
Publisher | : Agate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1932841644 |
"At the end of the Civil War, an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife."--Provided by the publisher.