Tag: Slavery

Free Download The Old South’s Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress By L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, Frank Towers
2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0195384016 | PDF | 2 MB
The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South’s Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the defining feature of antebellum southern life-with cultural and material markers of modernity such as moral reform, cities, and industry. Considered as proponents of American manifest destiny, for example, antebellum southern politicians look more like nationalists and less like separatists. Though situated within distinct communities, Southerners’-white, black, and red-participated in and responded to movements global in scope and transformative in effect. The turmoil that changes in Asian and European agriculture wrought among southern staple producers shows the interconnections between seemingly isolated southern farms and markets in distant lands. Deprovincializing the antebellum South, The Old South’s Modern Worlds illuminates a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex transformations of the nineteenth-century world.

Free Download Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal
by Bernard Moitt
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009296477 | 252 Pages | True PDF | 5.26 MB

Free Download America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War by Joseph Kelly
English | June 27, 2013 | ISBN: 159020719X, 1468308920 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 2.6 MB
In America’s Longest Siege, Joseph Kelly examines the nation’s long struggle with its "peculiar institution" through the hotly contested debates in the city at the center of the slave trade. From the earliest slave rebellions to the Nullification crisis to the final, tragic act of secession that doomed both the city and the South as a whole, Kelly captures the toxic mix of nationalism, paternalism, and unprecedented wealth that made Charleston the focus of the nationwide debate over slavery.

Free Download David W. Blight, Yale and Slavery Research Project – contributor, Peter Salovey – foreword, Simon Kerr (Narrator), "Yale and Slavery: A History"
English | ASIN: B0CTR695N8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:31:00 | 496 MB
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University
Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University’s historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. This narrative history demonstrates the importance of slavery in the making of this renowned American institution of higher learning.

Free Download James Walvin, Derek Perkins (Narrator), "The Zong: A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery"
English | ASIN: B0CSPSFND8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:45:00 | 186 MB
The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event.
On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today.

Free Download The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7HK8WCL | 2024 | 14 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 409 MB
Author: David Montero, Michael Eric Dyson
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people-and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed. In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America’s history of enslavement. It has long been maintained by many that the North wasn’t complicit in the horrors of slavery. The truth, however, is that large Northern banks-including well-known institutions like Citibank, Bank of New York, and Bank of America-were critical to the financing of slavery; that they saw their fortunes rise dramatically from their involvement in the business of enslavement; and that white business leaders and their surrounding communities created enormous wealth from the enslavement and abuse of Black bodies.

Free Download Peter Morton, "Slavery and Rebellion in Second-Century BC Sicily: From Bellum Servile to Sicilia Capta "
English | ISBN: 139951573X | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This is the first book-length study in English dedicated to an exploration of the events traditionally known as the two Sicilian Slave Wars. The second-century BC revolts are commonly included among the largest slave uprisings in world history and are considered key milestones in the timeline of Roman slavery. This book offers a re-examination of the so-called Slave Wars from the perspectives of the rebels and argues that these occurrences should be understood not as slave revolts but as rebellions ignited by the socio-economic and political difficulties caused by the Roman-backed status quo on Sicily.

Free Download Gary Craig, "Child slavery now: A contemporary reader"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1847426107, 1847429467, 1847426093 | PDF | pages: 360 | 2.4 mb
Most slave trades were abolished during the 19th century yet there remain millions of people in slavery today, amongst them approximately 210 million children in slavery, trafficked, in debt bondage and other forms of forced labour. This groundbreaking book, drawing on experience worldwide, shows how children remain locked in slavery, the ways in which they are exploited and how they can be emancipated. Written for policy and political actors, academics and activists, it reminds us also that all are implicated in modern childhood slavery – as consumers – and need both to understand its causes, and act to stop it.

Free Download Barbara M. Linde, "Slavery in North America (American History)"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1534560602 | EPUB | pages: 104 | 4.5 mb
Before the Civil War, a large part of the U.S. economy was built on slave labor. Readers learn that goods could be produced and sold cheaply because the slaves were unpaid for their labor. Millions of black men, women, and children were treated as property. Although slavery has been abolished, the racism that sprang from this period still haunts America today. Accessible text, primary sources, and informative sidebars provide readers with an unvarnished look at a tragic period in America’s past.

Free Download Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South (Audiobook)
English | August 30, 2022 | ASIN: B0BB5BXHMZ | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 19m | 459 MB
Author: Barbara Krauthamer | Narrator: Mia Ellis
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes’ removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved.
Krauthamer’s examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian women’s gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives of black people and Indians both before and after removal.