The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity

The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity

Author: William Linn Westermann

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 1955

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780871690401

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Greek slavery from Homer to the Persian wars -- From the Persian wars to Alexander : slave supply and slave numbers -- From the Persian wars to Alexander : slave employment and legal aspects of slavery -- From the Persian wars to Alexander : the social setting of polis slavery -- The eastern Mediterranean lands from Alexander to Augustus : the Delphic manumissions : slave origins, economic and legal approaches -- The eastern area from Alexander to Augustus : basic differences between pre-Greek and Greek slavery -- Slavery in Hellenistic Egypt : pharaonic tradition and Greek intrusions -- War and slavery in the West to 146 B.C. -- The Roman republic : praedial slavery, piracy, and slave revolts -- The later republic : the slave and the Roman familia -- The later republic : social and legal position of slaves -- Slavery under the Roman empire to Constantine the Great : sources and numbers of slaves -- The Roman Empire in the West : economic aspects of slavery -- Slavery under the Roman Empire : the provenance of slaves, how sold and prices paid -- The Roman Empire : living conditions and social life of slaves -- Imperial slaves and freedmen of the emperors : amelioration of slavery -- The moral implications of imperial slavery and the "decline" of ancient culture -- In the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire -- From Diocletian to Justinian : problems os slavery -- From Diocletian to Justinian : the eastern and the western developments -- From Diocletian to Justinian : leveling of position between free workers and slaves -- Upon slavery and Christianity -- Conclusion.


Temple Slave

Temple Slave

Author: Robert Patrick

Publisher: Richard Kasak Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9781563331916

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The dawning of gay liberation as recorded by the unofficial stenographer of Espresso Buono, the New York hangout for the movement in the sixties. An autobiographical novel by the author of the stage play, Kennedy's Children.


Performing the Temple of Liberty

Performing the Temple of Liberty

Author: Jenna M. Gibbs

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-06-20

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1421413388

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How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of liberty in early America. Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half of the nineteenth century, examining controversies over the place of black people in the Anglo-American moral imagination. Taking a transatlantic and nearly century-long view, Performing the Temple of Liberty draws on a wide range of performed texts as well as ephemera—broadsides, ballads, and cartoons—and traces changes in white racial attitudes. Gibbs asks how popular entertainment incorporated and helped define concepts of liberty, natural rights, the nature of blackness, and the evils of slavery while also generating widespread acceptance, in America and in Great Britain, of blackface performance as a form of racial ridicule. Readers follow the migration of theatrical texts, images, and performers between London and Philadelphia. The story is not flattering to either the United States or Great Britain. Gibbs's account demonstrates how British portrayals of Africans ran to the sympathetic and to a definition of liberty that produced slave manumission in 1833 yet reflected an increasingly racialized sense of cultural superiority. On the American stage, the treatment of blacks devolved into a denigrating, patronizing view embedded both in blackface burlesque and in the idea of "Liberty," the figure of the white goddess. Performing the Temple of Liberty will appeal to readers across disciplinary lines of history, literature, theater history, and culture studies. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will also take an interest in this provocative work.


The Pictures of Slavery in Church and State (Complete Edition)

The Pictures of Slavery in Church and State (Complete Edition)

Author: John Dixon Long

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2018-03-21

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 8027240514

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This eBook edition of "The Pictures of Slavery in Church and State" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "Pictures of Slavery in Church and State" written by a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist at the time, John Dixon Long (1817 – 1894), is considered to be one of the most influential readings in abolitionist circles. Dixon debated in his book the issue of slavery, breaking the silence on what was openly discussed as hypocrisy and cowardice of the Methodist religious hierarchy, given their founders' adamant prescriptions against slavery in the early doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Contents: What Is Southern Slavery, and Who Are Slaves Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery The Conference Report The Mischievous Colt Abolitionist Love of Military Titles Going in Debt Aunt Phillis Popular Preachers in the South Rum and Slavery The Wicked Slave The Foreign Slave-trade The Great American Republic Tobacco and Slavery Slavery and Novels The Baltimore Conference Slavery and White Labor Maryland Hospitality Personal Incidents The Fourth of July A Dying Babe in Jail Testimony of John Wesley Against Slavery


Slave of God

Slave of God

Author: Alissa Hall

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-02-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1847288464

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Abandoning her life as a medieval Indian princess, Lakshimi Cholan becomes Master Mananda's temple slave. Under his tutelage, she is introduced to the mysteries of Tantra, however when the scheming Swami Bhagwan forces Mananda's decision to leave the temple, Lakshimi must decide if her obedience to God, or her love for her Master will rule the decisions of her heart. Adult fiction.


Pictures of Slavery in Church and State

Pictures of Slavery in Church and State

Author: John Dixon Long

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2018-02-10

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 8026883306

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"Pictures of Slavery in Church and State" written by a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a leading U.S. abolitionist at the time, John Dixon Long (1817 – 1894), is considered to be one of the most influential readings in abolitionist circles. Dixon debated in his book the issue of slavery, breaking the silence on what was openly discussed as hypocrisy and cowardice of the Methodist religious hierarchy, given their founders' adamant prescriptions against slavery in the early doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Contents: What Is Southern Slavery, and Who Are Slaves Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery The Conference Report The Mischievous Colt Abolitionist Love of Military Titles Going in Debt Aunt Phillis Popular Preachers in the South Rum and Slavery The Wicked Slave The Foreign Slave-trade The Great American Republic Tobacco and Slavery Slavery and Novels The Baltimore Conference Slavery and White Labor Maryland Hospitality Personal Incidents The Fourth of July A Dying Babe in Jail Testimony of John Wesley Against Slavery


Slavery of Faith

Slavery of Faith

Author: Leslie Wagner-Wilson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0595512933

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Slavery Of Faith...the quietly kept story of a young woman's escape through the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana the morning of the massacre November 18, 1978 and her struggles to live in the aftermath. November 18, 2008 marks 30 years since the Jonestown, Guyana Massacre/Suicides and the death of its founder, the Reverend Jim Jones. Escaping Jonestown, Guyana the morning of November 18,1978 with nine others, Leslie Wagner-Wilson then twenty one years old, trekked thirty seven miles through the jungle with a 40-pound care package strapped to her back with a sheet, her son, later to be known as the youngest survivor of Jonestown. That evening, she would be told that Jonestown was gone along with her plan to escape and return with her father, Richard Wagner who was a part of the Concerned Relatives to free the rest of her family. Amongst the carnage would be her husband, mother, brother, sister, niece, nephew, sister in law, brother in law and the friends she had grown up and loved since 13. Slavery of Faith reveals the life of a thirteen year old coming of age in the heart of People's Temple Disciples of Christ Church where the pastor Jim Jones, exhorted his followers to consider him divine and to call him "Father" while he touted his extra-marital affairs from the pulpit. The world of Jim Jones was one of inverted ideals, isolation and alienation. However, what began as a church that appealed to peoples inner spirit to help others, was turned into a living hell. Yet it was a place she would go, half a continent away, to be with her 2 year old son, who'd been taken to Jonestown by Jim Jones as he made his exodus to Guyana. It shares the horrors of Jonestown - the labor punishment squads, suicide drills, sleep deprivation, drugging, and humiliations. It also takes the reader through the escape that she says was revealed to her in the spirit. Thirty years since Jonestown, Slavery of Faith also chronicles her return to the U.S. under a veil of secrecy in fear of the "death squads", her fight to maintain her faith in her most darkest hours; suffering survivors guilt, drug addiction, a family suicide, and finally redemption. It shares her journey through psychological and spiritual jungles to reach a place of remembrance-- to "live their love and not their deaths." Faith has allowed her the resiliency to as she states "tuck and roll" and discover that through pain, tragedy and joy, her life has found divine order.


Women, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society

Women, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society

Author: Elisabeth Meier Tetlow

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2004-12-28

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780826416285

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Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men.