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  • Thy Will Be Done

    George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

    How should we remember George Washington’s entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington’s ties to slavery have vexed us. He enslaved more people than any of his fellow founders, yet he was the only one of them to emancipate the people he held in bondage. Since his death, Americans have grappled with this ... Leer más

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  • Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery

    Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    This historical study examines how free people of color in Charleston and Cartagena challenged the foundations of racial hierarchies in the Americas.Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority—and linked ... Leer más

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    Thy Will Be Done

    George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

    Narrado por Steve Marvel ...

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    11 hora 16 minutos

    How should we remember George Washington's entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington's ties to slavery have vexed us. He enslaved more people than any of his fellow founders, yet he was the only one of them to emancipate the people he held in bondage. Since his death, Americans have grappled with this ... Leer más

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  • Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations

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    Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation was an Atlantic event, it has been studied most often in geographically isolated ways. The ... Leer más

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  • Inhuman Bondage

    The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

    David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in ... Leer más

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  • More Than Chattel

    Black Women and Slavery in the Americas

    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to ... Leer más

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  • The American Yawp

    A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877

    Edición de Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright ...
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  • This Vast Southern Empire

    Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

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  • The American Crucible

    Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights

    The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization, silver mining, plantation agriculture, racial enslavement, colonial rebellion, slave witness and slave ... Leer más

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  • The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500–2000

    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, ... Leer más

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  • Our Sister Republics

    The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

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