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Modern slavery : A reference handbook / by Villegas, Christina G.,author.;
Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts in an accessible format for high school and college readers. Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook addresses essential questions about slavery in its contemporary manifestations. The book examines the growing epidemic and recent contexts of modern slavery in the United States and throughout the world, and describes in detail what caused it, whom it impacts, and what can be (and is being) done about it. It also explores the various contributing factors and how governmental and nongovernmental agencies can better engage in prevention and eradication. The volume opens with chapters providing information on contemporary slavery, followed by a discussion of the causes, consequences, and possible solutions. The next chapter includes essays from a diverse range of contributors, providing useful perspectives to round out the author's expertise. The book concludes with a collection of data and documents; an overview of important people, organizations, and resources relating to the issue; a chronology; and a glossary of key terms.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Slavery.;
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American slavery : a very short introduction / by Williams, Heather Andrea.;
"This short introduction to American slavery begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and, drawing upon the scholarship of numerous historians as well as the analysis of primary documents, explores the development of slavery in the American colonies and later, the United States of America. It analyzes early legislation in Virginia that differentiated Indians and Africans from Europeans and began the process of stratifying society based on racial categories. Unlike some recent scholarship, it is attentive to the actual labor that enslaved people performed, reminding us that more than anything else, slavery was a system of forced labor that produced wealth for a new nation. And, it considers the tensions that arose between enslaved and enslavers as they interacted with one another, exerting control and undermining efforts at domination. Throughout, it explores slavery within the context of moral contradiction that included the development of an ideology that valorized freedom alongside a practice and justification of slavery that deemed inferior and denied freedom to a large swath of the population. The book explores conflicts between abolitionists who worked to eliminate slavery and pro-slavery advocates who worked doggedly to sustain the power and wealth they derived from the institution. It ends with the abolition of slavery in America following the Civil War"--Includes bibliographical references and index.The Atlantic slave trade -- Putting slavery into place -- The work of slavery -- Struggles for control -- Surviving slavery -- Taking slavery apart -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Slavery;
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Slavery & the law / by Finkelman, Paul,1949-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Slavery; Slavery;
© 1997., Madison House,
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Up from slavery / by Washington, Booker T.,1856-1915.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages xliv-lii) and index.Introduction / Louis R. Harlan -- Notes to the introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Suggestions for further reading -- Note on the text -- Notes.Edited with an introduction and notes by Louis Harlan.Born a slave in Virginia in 1856, Booker T. Washington rose in prominence to become black America's foremost spokesman. This is the dramatic autobiographical account of Washington's struggle to succeed and prosper in a country that refused to acknowledge his existence. From his fight for an education to his founding of the world-renowned Tuskegee Institute, Up From Slavery is one of the most significant and defining works in American literature.
Subjects: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.; Tuskegee Institute.; African Americans; Educators;
© 1986., Penguin Books,
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North of slavery : the Negro in the free states, 1790-1860 / by Litwack, Leon F.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: African Americans; Freedmen.; African Americans;
© 1965, c1961., University of Chicago Press,
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Up from slavery : [electronic resource] : An autobiography. by Washington, Booker T.;
Delve into the turbulent roots of race relations in the United States with this inspirational account from Booker T. Washington, a one-time slave who became an important advocate for African-American education and founded several well-known institutions of higher learning, including the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Up From Slavery details Washington's life and outlines his sometimes-controversial views on education, social justice, and racial equality.Text Difficulty 7Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1178 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 305 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1177 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 301 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.; Tuskegee Institute.; African Americans ; Educators ; Nonfiction.; Biography & Autobiography.; Sociology.;
© 2012., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=787046 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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American slavery on film / by Knauer, Caron,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A comprehensive and timely resource on the depictions in film of enslaved African Americans and slavery from the Antebellum Period to Emancipation.American Slavery on Film highlights historical and contemporary depictions in film of the resistance, rebellion, and resilience of enslaved African Americans in the United States from the Antebellum period to Emancipation. In her study of such films as Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914), a silent movie adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel; the groundbreaking and successful television miniseries Roots (1977); and the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet (2019), Caron Knauer analyzes how African American slavery has been and continues to be portrayed in major studio blockbusters and independent films alike. Separating the romanticized and unrealistic depictions of slavery from the more accurate but often unflinching portrayals of its horrors, the author covers a wide range of topics, including the impact of slavery on popular culture, the Underground Railroad, Maroon communities, and the Los Angeles Film Rebellion of the 1960s. As a result, this book delivers a comprehensive, readable, and timely examination of enslaved African Americans and slavery in America's film history.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Slavery in motion pictures.; African Americans in motion pictures.; Motion pictures;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7193487 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Snow like ashes / by Raasch, Sara.;
Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Slavery; Orphans;
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Pudd'nhead Wilson / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.;
Roxana, a light-skinned slave nurse on a large Southern plantation, is desperate to give her son a better chance at life than she had ever enjoyed, and so she switches him with the master's son. Years later, when Roxana's real son has turned to gambling, murder, and theft, it is the country lawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson, who unmasks the true identity of the two. Considered Twain's most courageous work, this short novel is one of the most sensitive treatments of slavery in American fiction.
Subjects: Slavery;
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Between slavery and freedom : free people of color in America from settlement to the Civil War / by Winch, Julie,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the "borderlands" between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. However they had navigated their way out of bondage--through flight, through military service, through self-purchase, through the working of the law in different times and in different places, or because they were the offspring of parents who were themselves free--they were determined to enjoy the same rights and liberties that white people enjoyed. In a concise narrative and selected primary documents, noted historian Julie Winch shows the struggle of black people to gain and maintain their liberty and lay claim to freedom in its fullest sense. Refusing to be relegated to the margins of American society and languish in poverty and ignorance, they repeatedly challenged their white neighbors to live up to the promises of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.--From publisher description.Introduction: On liberty's borderlands -- Property or persons : black freedom in colonial America, 1513-1770 -- In liberty's cause : black freedom in revolutionary America, 1770-1790 -- Race, liberty and citizenship in the new nation, 1790-1820 -- "We will have our rights" : redefining black freedom, 1820-1850 -- "No rights which the white man was bound to respect": black freedom and black citizenship, 1850-1861 -- Epilogue: Black freedom, white freedom.Introduction: On liberty's borderlands ; Timeline -- Property or persons : black freedom in colonial America, 1513-1770 -- In liberty's cause : black freedom in Revolutionary America, 1770-1790 -- Race, liberty and citizenship in the new nation, 1790-1820 -- "We will have our rights" : redefining black freedom, 1820-1850 -- "No rights which the white man was bound to respect": black freedom and black citizenship, 1850-1861 -- Documents: [Laws on black freedom in Colonial Virginia and Massachusetts ; Passing as free (1736-1773) ; Free black people in Colonial Pennsylvania and Rhode Island (1751-1770) ; Free people of color in the South Carolina press (1760-1771) ; Petitioning for freedom in New Hampshire (1779) ; Richard Allen buys his freedom (1780) ; Benjamin Banneker's challenge to Thomas Jefferson (1791) ; African Americans petition Congress (1799) ; Free people of color in New Orleans react to the Louisiana Purchase (1804) ; Black voting rights in New York (1810) ; African-American cultural and religious life in Baltimore (1810) ; Protesting discriminatory legislation in Pennsylvania (1813) ; Protesting African colonization (1817) ; Schooling black children in the nation's capital (1818) ; South Carolina's black code (1822) ; The birth of the black press (1827) ; David Walker on the nature of black freedom (1829) ; An African-American shipowner visits Charleston (ca. 1830) ; Maria W. Stewart's speeches (1832-1833) ; Free blacks in business in Antebellum America ; On the impact of prejudice (1837) ; Kidnappers (1840-1841) ; Class differences among Antebellum black Philadelphians (1841) ; The antislavery cause and guilt by association (1843) ; A black Southerner's experiences in New York (ca. 1845) ; Tribute to a civic leader in California (1848) ; Martin R. Delany on African-American emigration (1852) ; Segregation on public transportation (1854) ; Black life in Charleston (1857) ; John S. Rock on the likelihood of war (1858) ; Using wealth to buy political influence (1858) ; "Being a citizen of the United States" (1859)]
Subjects: Free African Americans; Free African Americans; Free African Americans;
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