A dual portrait of robber baron John Brown and his social reformist Quaker brother, Moses, traces their lives in pre-Revolutionary War America and provides coverage of their political partnership, disparate views on slavery, and co-founding of Brown University. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish primary documents—as well as English-language material—to shed new light on the changing behavior of slave traders and their networks, particularly in Brazil and Cuba.
Slavery in these nations, as Marques shows, contributed to the mounting tensions that would ultimately lead to the U. Civil War. Taking a truly Atlantic perspective, Marques outlines the multiple forms of U. Author : Booker T. Booker Taliaferro Washington began life as a slave in Virginia shortly before emancipation, but rose to become one of the most celebrated leaders the African American community has ever had. His principal occupation was as president of the Tuskegee Institute, which he founded in , but he earned national renown as an orator, writer and political advisor.
His address at the Atlanta Exposition was a pivotal moment in race relations in America. Washington believed deeply in the dignity of physical labor, and that merit and talent are eventually rewarded regardless of race or class. The Tuskegee Institution was primarily a technical college, and aimed to teach industrial skills in addition to academic training. Students built many of the buildings on the campus, grew the food that was eaten there, and even made the furniture, tools and vehicles used by the school.
Up from Slavery was originally published as a serialized work in The Outlook, a Christian magazine based in New York, before being collected in a single volume in This edition includes an introduction by Walter H. Page, a future U. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Patrick H. On the evening of August 21, , Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had ever been killed in any slave revolt in American history.
Although a hastily assembled group of whites soon suppressed the violence, its repercussions had far-reaching consequences. Breen uses the dramatic events in Southampton to explore the terrible choices faced by members of the local black community as they considered joining the rebels, a choice that would likely cost them their lives, supporting their masters, or somehow avoiding taking sides.
Combining fast-paced narrative with rigorous analysis, Breen shows how, as whites regained control, slaveholders created an account of the revolt that saved their slaves from white retribution, the most dangerous threat facing the slaveholders' human property. By probing the stories slaveholders told that allowed them to get non-slaveholders to protect slave property, The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood reveals something surprising about both the fragility and power of slavery.
Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was not only instrmuental in achieving the passage of the Slave Trade Act of , which ended British trade in slaves, but also campaigned for the abolition of slavery worldwide.
Author : M. Patrick Sauer,David A. Gideon Jr. During his time at sea, Gideon penned dozens of letters to his wife, Lide, back home in Philadelphia. Recently discovered in the attic of his great-great-grandniece, were fifty-one letters penned by Gideon providing thorough and insightful commentary throughout the voyage. Employed as a surgeon on various slave ships, Falconbridge had first-hand knowledge of many aspects of the slave trade.
Writing as an abolitionist, he describes the slave trade's organisation and methods, and vividly relates the treatment and conditions of slaves and those employed on slave ships. A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States "A remarkable piece of scholarship, sophisticated yet crisply written, and deserves the widest possible audience. Astonishingly well-documented.
A signal contribution to U. Highly recommended for U. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in These traffickers were determined to make Lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around two hundred thousand African men, women, and children during the s and s.
John Harris explores how the U. Probes the mystery and controversy which surrounded the appearance of the slave ship off the United States coast in Examines events and opinions surround the case of United States v. Amistad, in which a group of Africans were put on trial for staging a revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad.
One other point deserves emphasis. While it is possible in most cases to know where the purchaser lived, and therefore where the captive lived, it is not always possible to know how long the captive stayed in that location. Some slaveholders moved. Others owned multiple properties and shifted slaves among them. Still others may have sold their captives. It displays the African name, age, gender, origin, country, and places of embarkation and disembarkation of each individual. Explore several hundred images of the people, places, vessels and manuscripts of the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trades.
Where available, each image contains a link to a corresponding slave voyage in the databases and a reference to the original source. Understanding the Database Database Essays Downloads.
Understanding the Database Database Downloads. Henry Louis Gates introduces Slave Voyages 2. Special features. Introductory maps.
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