Runaway Slaves

Runaway Slaves

Author: John Hope Franklin

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2000-07-20

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780195084511

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This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.


Black Slaves, Indian Masters

Black Slaves, Indian Masters

Author: Barbara Krauthamer

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1469607107

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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South


Runaway Masters

Runaway Masters

Author: Joseph Ford Cotto

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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For generations, they ruled over blacks and whites. They were-and still are-the Seminoles, the only American Indians who never surrendered to Uncle Sam. Runaways from other tribes, the Seminoles carved a kingdom for themselves out of the wilds of Florida, despite British and Spanish imperialists theoretically ruling the day. The Seminoles also enslaved fugitives from American plantations, creating a slaveholding society unlike any other. When the Americans wanted not only their slaves back, but unsurpassed control over Florida, the Seminoles formed a groundbreaking alliance with those who they held in bondage. What happened next is an epic story of victory, defeat, friendship, betrayal, hard truths, damnable lies, integration, segregation, heroism, cowardice, deep respect, blind hatred, and-above all else-the struggle for survival. This story has lessons for us all. It challenges the way we view race relations, enslavement in the land of the free, and the nature of American history itself. As many question all of these subjects, and much more, Runaway Masters provides no guidance as to what we should think. It does, however, offer valuable insight on a history oft-forgotten, or even hidden. This history, in so many ways, tells the story of our time.


Masters, Slaves, & Subjects

Masters, Slaves, & Subjects

Author: Robert Olwell

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780801484919

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While slavery was peculiar within a democratic republic, it was an integral and seldom questioned part of the 18th-century British empire. Examining the complex culture of the South Carolina law country from the end of the Stono Rebellion through the American Revolution, historian Robert Olwell analyzes the structures and internal dynamics of a world in which both masters and slaves were also imperial subjects.


Slavery and Emancipation

Slavery and Emancipation

Author: Rick Halpern

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 047075463X

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Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion. Each section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents drawn from plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports.


"Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region

Author: Kathleen J. Higgins

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 1999-12-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0271032707

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To studies of Brazilian slavery, this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared with slaves who worked in sugar-cane and coffee-growing areas. The interactions among masters, slaves, and royal officials were profoundly shaped by the accessibility and widespread dispersal of gold deposits, the emergence of small urban centers in which commercial activities thrived, the sexual division of labor among slaves working in mining and commerce, and the changing sex ratio within the population of free white colonists settling in the region. Focusing attention on the changing status, autonomy, and influence of non-White women, the author argues, is one of the most effective ways of understanding the economic, demographic, and cultural evolution of the slave society as a whole.