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...Thavolia Glymph As W. E. B. Du Bois famously posited in Black Reconstruction in America (1935), the Civil War witnessed a massive slave rebellion. The “general strike,” as Du Bois called it, involved directly the flight of hundreds of thousands of slaves and the resistance mounted by those who...

..., determined to change US policy toward Sudan. One of the signature activities of the Sudan movement was the practice of “slave redemption,” in which activists purchased people who had been abducted by northern militias, bringing them back to their villages in southern Sudan. Overall, the conflict in Sudan...

...Bertram Wyatt-Brown Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies . Edited with an Introduction by Blassingame John W. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1977 . Pp. lxv , 777 . Illustrated. Index. $37.50 cloth; $9.95 , paper...

...Robert F. Durden The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South . By Blassingame John W. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1972 . Pp. xv , 262 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Book Reviews 273 Immediately we recognize that affective...

...W. J. Carnathan Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 The Proposal to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the South, 18?4-186O W. J. Carnathan College of the City of New York When the future historian shall address himself to the task of portraying the rise, progress, and decline...

...Barbara Paige-Pointer The Art of Slave Narrative: Original Essays in Criticism and Theory . Edited by Sekora John Turner Darwin T. . Macomb, Illinois : Western Illinois University , 1982 . Pp. 4 , 149 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 353...

...Walter L. Fleming Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Ex-Slave Pension Frauds. By Walter L. Fleming. Professor of History in the Louisiana State University. Next to the forty acres and a mule swindle* the slave pension schemes have drawn more hard earned dollars from the ex...

...Robert F. Durden Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860 . By Thornton J. Mills III . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1978 . Pp. xxv , 492 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 411 marriage, in 1859...

...Robert H. Woody Labor: Free and Slave. Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States . By Mandel Bernard . New York : Associated Publishers , 1955 . Pp. 256 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews m military campaigns. Nor...

...Charles S. Sydnor Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 THE BIOGRAPHY OF A SLAVE CHARLES S. SYDNOR IN THE YEAR 1788 there poured down from the rugged and beautiful mountains of Futa Jallon, West Africa, an army of sev­ enteen hundred Fulbes, mostly horsemen. These were a proud peo­...

...Simon Rottenberg Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 The Business of Slave Trading1 Simon Rottenberg The West Coast of Africa became an international specialist in the production of slaves for the New World early in the sixteenth century and continued in that capacity until...

...Alan Holder Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Styron s Slave The Confessions of Nat Turner Alan Holder In his book on slavery, published almost a decade ago, Stanley Elkins wrote: There is a painful touchiness in all aspects of the subject. . . . How a person thinks about Negro...

...Paul C. Palmer Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Servant into Slave: The Evolution of the Legal Status of the Negro Laborer in Colonial Virginia Pa ul C. Palmer The origin of chattel slavery in the British colonies of North Amer­ ica remains a subject of debate among American...

...Anne Firor Scott The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South . By Genovese Eugene D. . New York : Pantheon Books , 1965 . Pp. ix , 292 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Book Reviews 417 The Political Economy...

...W. Robert Higgins Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Geographical Origins of Negro Slaves in Colonial South Carolina W. Robert Higgins The geographical origins of the Negroes in the Western Hemisphere have always been known, but the exact route between Africa and the present...

...Charles S. Sydnor Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 PURSUING FUGITIVE SLAVES CHARLES S. SYDNOR University of Mississippi 10. REWARD Ran away on the 22d of December, a dark yellow girl about 25 years of age, tall and well made; she has a mark on her cheek representing a tear...

...William L. Van Deburg Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 No Mere Mortals: Blaek Slaves and Black Power in American Literature, 1967-80 William L. Van Deburg During the last half of the 1960s a vital segment of Black America be­ came totally disillusioned with the integrationist...

...R. L. Watson Slaves No More: Letters from Liberia 1833–1869 . Edited by Wiley Bell I. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1980 . Pp. viii , 349 , appendix, bibliographical note, and index. $21.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 496 The South...

...Alan K. Manchester BOOKS The Masters and the Slaves [Casa-Grande e Senzala] : A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. By Gilberto Freyre. Translated from the Portuguese of the Fourth and Definitive Bra­ zilian Edition by Samuel Putnam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Pp. lxxi, 537...

...Robert F. Durden Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. By Genovese Eugene D. . New York : Pantheon Books , 1974 . Pp. xxii , 823 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 BO-OKS Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. By Eugene D. Genovese...