Behind the ""Big Houses"" of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves' environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves' own point of view. The plantation landscape was chiefly the creation of slaveholders, but Vlach argues convincingly that slaves imbued this landscape with their own...
Wages of Slavery, The: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England
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The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself
by Josiah Henson
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself Vol. I
by Olaudah Equiano
Ancient West African Women - Toppled Cornerstones
by Christiana Oware Knudsen
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery
by William A. Smith
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery AS EXHIBITED IN THE INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: WITH THE Duties of Masters to Slaves. By William A. Smith, D.D., PRESIDENT OF RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY. EDITED BY THOMAS O. SUMMERS, D.D. Nashville, Tenn.: STEVENSON AND EVANS. 1856. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by WILLIAM A. SMITH, In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Middle...
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
by Moses I Finley and Professor M I Finley
The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation. '
New Studies in the History of American Slavery
A new generation of scholars looks at the history of slavery in the New World. These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades, the relationships between Indians and enslaved people, and enslavement in Latin America. Inventive and stimulating, the essays model the blending of methods and styles that characterizes the new cultural history of slavery's socia...
Slave Ships and Slaving (Black Rediscovery S.) (African American)
by George Francis Dow
An Inquiry Into the Formation of Washington's Farewell Address
by Horace Binney