Slave No More (eBook)

Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas

Aline Helg (Autor)

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2019
368 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4964-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized.While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2019
• Übersetzer: Lara Vergnaud
• Zusatzinfo: 6 halftones, 2 graphs, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • abolition of slavery • church and slavery • comparative history of slavery in the Americas • Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy • fugitive slaves • Gabriel Prosser’s conspiracy • Haitian Revolution • impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Americas • maroon societies • Muslim slave insurrection in Brazil • Nat Turner’s revolt • Simón Bolívar and slavery • slave insurrection in Barbados • slave insurrection in Berbice • slave insurrection in Demerara • slave insurrection in Suriname • slave insurrections in Jamaica • slave labor, urban and rural • slaves agency • slaves conspiracy • slaves family relationships • slaves in Argentina • slaves in Brazil • slaves in Canada • slaves in Central America • slaves in Colombia • slaves in Cuba • slaves in Florida • slaves in Georgia • slaves in Latin America • slaves in Louisiana • slaves in Mexico • slaves in New York • slaves in North America • slaves in Pennsylvania • slaves in Peru • slaves in South Carolina • slaves in Spanish America • slaves insurrection • slaves in the American Revolution • Slaves in the Americas, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century • slaves in the British Caribbean • slaves in the Caribbean • slaves in the Dutch Caribbean • slaves in the French Caribbean • slaves in the Guianas • slaves in the Spanish American wars of independence • slaves in the United States • slaves in Venezuela • slaves legal status • slaves manumission and emancipation • Slave soldiers • Slaves religion and evangelization • slaves resistance • slaves self-purchase • slaves social life and conditions • slaves trials, torture and execution • slaves writings and petitions • Toussaint Louverture and slavery • Transatlantic Slave Trade • violence against slaves • women, men and children slaves
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4964-0 / 1469649640
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4964-1 / 9781469649641