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  • Writing the History of Slavery

    Edited by Dr. David Stefan Doddington, Enrico Dal Lago ...
    Series series Writing History
    Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world. The first part examines more recent attempts to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South

    by David Stefan Doddington ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South. David Stefan Doddington seeks to move beyond unilateral discussions of slave masculinity, and instead demonstrates how the repressions of slavery were both personal and political. Rather than ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Old Age and American Slavery

    by David Stefan Doddington ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Old Age and American Slavery explores how antebellum southerners, Black and white, adapted to, resisted, or failed to overcome changes associated with old age, both real and imagined. Slavery was a system of economic exploitation and a contested site of personal domination, both of which were affected by concerns with age. In examining how individuals, families, and communities felt about the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Sexuality and Slavery

    Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

    by Trevor Burnard, Stephanie M. H. Camp, David Doddington, Jim Downs, Thomas A. Foster, Marisa Fuentes, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Jessica Millward, Bianca Premo, Brenda Stevenson ...
    Series series
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

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  • Ar'n't I a Woman?

    Female Slaves in the Plantation South

    by Deborah Gray White ...
    "One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." —Anne Firor Scott, Duke UniversityLiving with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society.This revised edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the ... Read more

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  • Roll, Jordan, Roll

    The World the Slaves Made

    by Eugene D. Genovese ...
    A testament to the power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression, this landmark history of slavery in the South challenged conventional views by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society.Displaying keen insight into the minds of both enslaved persons and slaveholders, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that enslaved ... Read more

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    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

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  • Closer to Freedom

    Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

    by Stephanie M. H. Camp ...
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    Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, ... Read more

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    Series series New Directions in Southern History
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  • Within the Plantation Household

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