Search Results for antislavery

...Ernesto Bassi As is often the case with edited volumes, most of the essays point to monographs in the making that will further enrich our understanding of the ideological currents and on-the-ground experiences that shaped the history of slavery and antislavery in the Atlantic world. Slavery...

...Robert G. Nachman Abolitionism: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle . By Nabuco Joaquim . Translated and edited by Conrad Robert . Urbana , 1977 . University of Illinois Press . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Index . Pp. xxv , 186 . Cloth . $10.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke...

... of Dutch antislavery. In his comparison of British and Dutch policies and the ideology of free labor, Pieter C. Emmer concludes that the real anomaly is not the Dutch case of relative indifference to the crusading aspects of antislavery but rather the British insistence on the moral crusade. Stanley...

... or that they would allow the enslaved to claim the principle of free soil. Afro-Brazilian geopolitical literacy, therefore, points to the importance of Brazil as a cradle of antislavery as well as a sounding board for a war that reverberated in all corners of the African diaspora. Copyright © 2020 by Duke...

...Alex Lichtenstein Of course, the antislavery movement itself used the comparative method. Abolitionists in each country relied upon mirror-image myths, each for their own purposes: “The intertwined ideas of the American racial hell and the Brazilian racial paradise are not of recent invention...

... book is an engaging and readable analysis of five classic and much-studied antislavery narratives of nineteenth-century Cuba: Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía , Anselmo Suárez y Romero’s Francisco, el ingenio , Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab , Antonio Zambrana’s Negro Francisco...

... In Subject to Others , Moira Ferguson charts the parallel developments of a female political vanguard, the antislavery movement, and colonial discourse in Britain before 1834. She examines the intersection of these phenomena through the close textual analysis of British women’s writings against slavery...

... for debate. Robin Blackburn believes he has unlocked the puzzle with his Marxist key. Blackburn offers many shrewd and revealing insights about the nature of the antislavery movements in this long volume, especially regarding the role played by the slaves themselves. He confronts his readers...

... . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Scholars of Atlantic slave systems and antislavery movements will welcome this volume containing 14 of Seymour Drescher’s essays, written over the past 25 years, on the Atlantic slave trade and abolitionist movements. Stanley Engerman has written a foreword...

... describes how Texans successfully lobbied against antislavery measures at the state level. (Years before Southerners defended slavery as a “positive good,” Torget points out, Texans argued that slavery would teach people of African origin the skills that they needed to support themselves [p. 109].) Although...

....” Supplying the missing dimension, he has scoured the newspapers and magazines, the diaries and private correspondence of the Brazilian political class to chart its very reluctant retreat in the face of an increasingly bold, and increasingly Afro-Brazilian, antislavery movement. As the subtitle makes clear...

..., chief among them the motives behind Mexico's antislavery policies. Nichols argues that the Mexican government cast itself as a beacon of liberty in order to distinguish itself from the United States. But the protection that Mexico granted to fugitive slaves was the primary reason that the Texas...

... of a brewing political storm, as her experiences became entwined with rising levels of abolitionist mobilization. In particular, Senespleda’s decisions to participate in (and to politicize) a manumission ceremony — against orders from the director — and to also hold her own antislavery benefit concert put...

... of abolitionism. Chapter 4 examines Cuban historian and politician José Antonio Saco, who is sometimes considered as having contributed to antislavery sentiment. Sanjurjo rightly characterizes Saco as arguing against the slave trade not because he believed it was wrong but because he was convinced...

... of antislavery ideology permitted the former slaves at Prospect Bluff to move beyond the “desperate and survivalist existence in the wilderness” that he says characterized most New World maroon communities (p. 258). It was “knowledge of Nicolls's radical anti-slavery ideology” that “allowed the Prospect Bluff...

... to argue that slave insurrections occurring as early as the 1830s were also important for prompting antislavery legislation decades before the “Golden Law” emancipated slaves in 1888. The narrative is organized into four parts; the first and second focus on the 1850 and 1871 laws while the third...

...Adriana Chira According to Finch, La Escalera also enabled a “black subjectivity to come to the surface, if not newly into existence” (p. 87). The evidence consists of references to the conspirators' antislavery and anticolonial sentiments. Given the nature of the record and the fragmented...

..., moderation, and political compromise. Concentration upon the peaceful nature of the 1888 settlement, however, can be misleading, for it overlooks the tensions that prevailed during the anti-slavery campaign in Brazil. As in the United States, the years of the antislavery movement in Brazil were years...

.... In that rich interdisciplinary environment his interests became increasingly focused on questions of slavery and antislavery in Spanish America. He returned to Spain to do archival research with Fulbright and Mellon fellowships. There he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Spanish abolitionism. Upon receiving...

... and acceptance of free blacks, antislavery, the Rio Branco Law of 1871, and the radicalization of abolitionism in the 1880s. Those missionaries not moved by pro-slavery attitudes nonetheless remained mute about slavery and abolition. As Barbosa repeatedly shows, the “top priority” was “implantation” (p. 95...