Slave Counterpoint

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Slave Counterpoint

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Author : Philip D. Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Release Date : 1998

Slave Counterpoint written by Philip D. Morgan and has been published by Omohundro Institute and Unc Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.

On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South. Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior lives of blacks?their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nevertheless strove to create order in their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future.

Gender Taste And Material Culture In Britain And North America 1700 1830

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Author : John Styles
language : en
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Release Date : 2006

Gender Taste And Material Culture In Britain And North America 1700 1830 written by John Styles and has been published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.

Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

The Great New York Conspiracy Of 1741

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Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

The Great New York Conspiracy Of 1741 written by Peter Charles Hoffer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.

Almost 35 years before New York saw the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumours of a slave conspiracy spread in the city, leading to the conviction and execution of over 70 slaves. This text retells the dramatic story of these landmark trials.

The Horrible Gift Of Freedom

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Author : Marcus Wood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

The Horrible Gift Of Freedom written by Marcus Wood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Social Science categories.

Meditations on the paradoxes generated around the ending of western slavery. In his tour-de-force ""Blind Memory"", Marcus Wood read the visual archive of slavery in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and Britain with a closeness and rigor that until then had been applied only to the written texts of that epoch. ""Blind Memory"" changed the way we look at everything from a Turner seascape to a crude woodcut in a runaway slave advertisement. ""The Horrible Gift of Freedom"" brings the same degree of rigor to an analysis of the visual culture of Atlantic emancipation. Wood takes a troubled and troubling look at the iconography inspired by the abolition of slavery across the Atlantic diaspora. Why, he asks, did imagery showing the very instant of the birth of black slave freedom invariably personify Liberty as a white woman? Where did the image of the enchained kneeling slave, ubiquitous in abolitionist visual culture on both sides of the Atlantic, come from? And, most important, why was freedom invariably depicted as a gift from white people to black people? In order to assess what the inheritance of emancipation imagery means now and to speculate about where it may travel in the future, Wood spends the latter parts of this book looking at the 2007 bicentenary of the 1807 Slave Trade Abolition Act. In this context a provocative range of material is analyzed including commemorative postage stamps, museum exhibits, street performances, religious ceremonies, political protests, and popular film. By taking a new look at the role of the visual arts in promoting the 'great emancipation swindle', Wood brings into the open the manner in which the slave power and its inheritors have single-mindedly focused on celebratory cultural myths that function to diminish both white culpability and black outrage. This book demands that the living lies developed around the memory of the emancipation moment in Europe and America need to be not only reassessed but demolished.

Encyclopedia Of African American History 1619 1895

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Author : Paul Finkelman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Encyclopedia Of African American History 1619 1895 written by Paul Finkelman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with African Americans categories.

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The North Carolina Historical Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

The North Carolina Historical Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with North Carolina categories.

Tell All The Children Our Story

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Author : Tonya Bolden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Tell All The Children Our Story written by Tonya Bolden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Explores what it has meant to be young and black in America from the first recorded birth of a black child in Jamestown right on up until our own time.

The Measure Of The Market

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Author : Ellen L. Hartigan-O'Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

The Measure Of The Market written by Ellen L. Hartigan-O'Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Women categories.

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a time of great change in the politics of commerce. Women's actions in the marketplace shaped these changes, in spite of power inequities, legal restrictions on women, and an emerging language of "domesticity" that promised middle-class and well-to-do families a feminine haven from the cruel calculations of the marketplace. Political discourse minimized the larger significance of female buying, selling, and laboring even as the economy depended on these activities, offering women an expanded public and even international context for their lives.

The Atlantic World

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Author : Alfred Padula
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005

The Atlantic World written by Alfred Padula and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.

This important new contribution to the study of Atlantic history brings together eight original essays by such leading scholars as Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Paul Lovejoy, David Eltis, and Benjamin Schmidt on the many connections between the Old World and the New World in the early modern period. With an introduction by Wim Klooster, the four sets of paired essays examine the role of specific port cities in Atlantic history, aspects of European migration, the African dimension, and ways in which the Atlantic world has been imagined. Numerous maps and illustrations further enrich this vital new contribution to undergraduate and graduate courses of study in Atlantic history.

The Early American Table

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Author : Trudy Eden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

The Early American Table written by Trudy Eden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cooking categories.

An exploration in the history of biopolitics, The Early American Table offers a unique study of the ways in which English colonists in North America incorporated the "you are what you eat" philosophy into their conception of themselves and their proper place in society. Eden aptly demonstrates that ideas about the body--ideas that may seem irrelevant or even laughable today--not only guided day-to-day personal behavior but also influenced society and politics. According to the 17th- and 18th-century understanding of the body, food affected the blood, bones, mind, and spirit in ways other social markers (e.g. clothes, manners, speech) did not because food was directly assimilated by the consumer. A plentiful, varied diet of high-quality refined foods created virtuous, refined individuals fit to govern society. In contrast, a more restricted diet of poor quality, coarse foods made an individual coarse, even beastly, and unfit to lead. In the Old World, especially before 1600, poverty, legal restrictions, and the scarcity of land prohibited most individuals from purchasing or raising foods believed to produce refinement and virtue. Only the wealthy were able to enjoy such a diet. In turn, this elite diet marked their social status and reaffirmed their entitlement to power. The English men and women who colonized North America throughout the colonial period held the idea that diet shaped character. After only a few decades of settlement, many of them enjoyed the unprecedented prosperity enabled by the fertile environment. Lower and middling families could set their tables with a greater variety and higher quality of food than their social counterparts in England. As a result, in contrast to England where an aristocrat's dinner was far different than a laborer's, in America, the differences between the diets of artisans and urban laborers, of plantation owners and small farmers, were not as great. In short, the American diet was a democratic diet that had social and political consequences.