The Struggle against Slavery

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-510850-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 723 g

From slave ships to plantations to freedom, The Struggle Against Slavery traces the remarkable history of the heroic fight to end slavery, from its North American beginnings in the early 1600s to its violent demise in the mid-1800s with the Civil War. Captured in their own words from transcripts, diaries, memoirs, newspaper clippings, drawings, and other documents are the stories of how slaves and free blacks fought against the dehumanization of slavery by developing anti-racist arguments, creating their own institutions, physically escaping, and fighting with weapons. An exceptional social, political, and cultural history of the period, The Struggle Against Slavery is filled with stirring tales of survival and strength, bringing to life the African-American experience in early America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waldstreicher

Waldstreicher, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- What is a Document?

- How to Read a Document

- Introduction: Vanguards of Freedom

- Chapter One: The Making of American Slavery

- Capture and Transport

- Early Resistance

- Slaves' Lives in the Colonies

- Rebels and Runaways

- Chapter Two: The African-American Revolution

- Liberty For All?

- Lord Dunmore and the Promise of Freedom

- The Declaration of Independence and the Question of Slavery

- Revolutionary Soldiers

- Equality Disputed

- Revolutionary Ideals

- Chapter Three: Forging Freedom and Fighting Slavery in the North

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- First Steps to Freedom

- An End to the Slave Trade

- Opponents to Colonization

- Free Blacks Speak Out

- Another Independence Day

- The Call for Civil Rights

- Chapter Four: Picture Essay: Slavery and Freedom: Dressing the Part

- Chapter Five: The Continual Struggle: Southern Slaves and Masters

- Private and Public Rebellion

- Disobedience and Discipline

- Subversion, Suffering, and Escape

- Chapter Six: The Second American Revolution and the End of Slavery

- Justified Rebellion

- A Welcome War

- Emancipation

- Liberation

- Timeline

- Further Reading

- Text Credits

- Picture Credits

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Waldstreicher is Association Professor of History at Temple University. His recent works include Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (Hill and Wang, 2004) and The Envisioning America and Notes on the State of Virginia and Confessions of: Nat Turner (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002).