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Race and Slavery in the Middle East
From the days before Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was one of the last regions to renounce slavery, how do we account for its--and especially Islam's--image of racial harmony? How did these long years of slavery affect racial relations? In Race and Slavery in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis explores these questions and others, examining the history of slavery in law, social thought, practice, and literature and art over the last two millennia.
Negro Slavery, Or, a View of Some of the More Prominent Features of that State of Society
A list of works, containing important information on the subject of slavery --p. [119]
A Historical Guide to World Slavery
Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from ancient times to the present day. Drawing on the virtual explosion of empirical research and theoretical discussion of the subject over the past thirty years, many of the articles overturn conventional wisdom and illuminate little-known aspects of the subject, with essays on topics such as concubinage, eunuchs, and occupational mobility.
Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in rebellion
This classic and controversial volume provides extensive coverage of slave resistance and revolt in Jamaica.
Slaves and Slavery
Om negerslaveriets start i Afrika allerede i romertiden, men især om slaveriet og slavernes forhold i de engelske kolonier i Vestindien og USA op til frigivelsen i 1838.
Setting Slavery's Limits
Using slave trials from antebellum Virginia, Christopher H. Bouton offers the first in-depth examination of physical confrontations between slaves and whites. These extraordinary acts of violence brought the ordinary concerns of enslaved Virginians into focus. Enslaved men violently asserted their masculinity, sought to protect themselves and their loved ones from punishment, and carved out their own place within southern honor culture. Enslaved women resisted sexual exploitation and their mistresses. By attacking southern efforts to control their sexuality and labor, bondswomen sought better lives for themselves and undermined white supremacy. Physical confrontations revealed the anxieties ...
