... This chapter considers the geopolitical context into which Henry C. C. Astwood was born. Centering Astwood’s birth land, the Turks Islands, it examines the British Caribbean’s transition from slavery to free labor in the 1830s. It then pushes forward to the 1860s, demonstrating how...

..., families, and communities from slavery into freedom. And it emphasizes the importance of the findings made possible by this methodology. nominative record linkage Ginzburg slavery freedom ...

... John Hope Franklin From Slavery to Freedom memorial service racial justice 2009 ...

... John Hope Franklin (1915–2009), the distinguished historian, major contributor to the Brown v. Board of Education case, and author of the groundbreaking work From Slavery to Freedom , had taught history and law at Duke as the James B. Duke Professor of History. These remarks were delivered...

... The final chapter turns to Phillis Wheatley. Reading archival letters and other records, it traces Wheatley's evolution from a poet writing in slavery, to her achievement of some degree of celebrity, to her existence as an impoverished free woman, unable to find a publisher for her second book...

... This chapter introduces the method of reading across canons, archives, and continents, which places the “archive of liberalism”—the literary, cultural, and political philosophical narratives of progress and individual freedom—alongside the colonial state archives from which such works have been...

... This chapter amplifies the book’s reflections on the trajectories of individuals, families, and communities formed by the men, women, and children emerging from slavery. The goal is to see the effect of the end of slavery on these communities and how it influenced the way in which freed people...

...—women who helped their families and friends escape to freedom. protection Howard Thurman attunement Harriet Tubman escape from slavery ...

..., white planters, and, most prominently, black and mixed-race policemen. Gendered violence also unfolded as Antiguan women assaulted Barbudan women in ways that reflected the pervasive devaluation of black women’s bodily integrity in slavery and freedom. The rioters’ goals and the changing targets...

... in the argument for slavery. As Black freedom appears on the horizon, the figure of Black “laziness” is centralized as the definitive predication of a new politics of race. This chapter considers an early instance of the contradiction of freedom and laziness in Peter Kolb's Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum...

... This chapter explains the rationales for indigenous slavery in the sixteenth century and why it continued despite laws to the contrary. It also reflects on what it meant to be an indio, including the construct’s precariousness and its associations with the unfree labor of slaves from other parts...

... rule and preserve slavery. For decades, it struggled with internal divisions while searching for a profitable economy—until British industry created a soaring demand for cotton that U.S. southern planters met by expanding plantations worked by enslaved laborers onto lands taken from native peoples...

... This chapter focuses on the history and folklore around marronage that has shaped and continues to shape Black communities in Montgomery County. From surviving tales of legendary escapes from slavery to continued ways of life, Black freedom still takes place as marronage. This chapter draws...

... of Palmares refugees who turned themselves in at a colonial fort, securing legal freedom but required to serve as forest guides for the fort’s soldiers. The relationship may be understood not through the standard lenses of freedom and slavery and instead vis-à-vis other exploitative labor regimes, especially...

... individuals from the popular classes, many of whom had lived through the experience of slavery or were free or freed blacks. It also analyzes the growing hostility of the urban popular classes toward the continuation of slavery. This took form by popular groups interfering with the imprisonment of escaped...

... includes reflections on stories from Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ruby Sales, and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons about their experiences in the freedom movement. Ella Lee Harris Freeney (Mama Freeney) Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) Mennonite House the Veterans of Hope Project Bernice Johnson Reagon Ruby Sales...

... of an island with limited resources. slavery freedom family land politics ...

... Cibao valley, on the northern coast, and elsewhere. Much of the territory was swept up in the fighting, as rebels traveled from town to town and through the countryside. Despite repeated Spanish demands for calm, amnesty offers, and reassurances about the abolition of slavery, the fighting only grew...