Slave Counterpoint

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On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South. Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior lives of blacks--their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nevertheless strove to create order in their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future.

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Genre : History
Author : Philip D. Morgan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Release : 2012-12-01
File : 730 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9798890874054


Gender Taste And Material Culture In Britain And North America 1700 1830

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Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

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Genre : Art
Author : John Styles
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Release : 2006
File : 382 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105122855310


Challenging Slavery In The Chesapeake

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Whites who aided black freedom seekers played their part.

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Genre : History
Author : T. Stephen Whitman
Publisher :
Release : 2007
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015069350448


South Carolina Historical Magazine

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Genre : South Carolina
Author :
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Release : 1999
File : 470 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X006098825


Colonial Chesapeake

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Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives examines the Chesapeake region from historical, sociological, anthropological, archaeological, and literary perspectives. The anthology uses these perspectives to represent the multitude of experiences in the region and in doing so captures the essence of race, class, and ethnic and gender diversity that made up life in early Chesapeake Maryland and Virginia.

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Genre : History
Author : Debra Meyers
Publisher :
Release : 2006
File : 316 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015063330388


Captive Passage

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Genre : Slave trade
Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Konecky & Konecky
Release : 2002
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1568527101


British Atlantic American Frontier

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A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.

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Genre : History
Author : Stephen John Hornsby
Publisher : Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England
Release : 2005
File : 338 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015059567860


The Horrible Gift Of Freedom

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By taking a new look at the role of the visual arts in promoting the "great emancipation swindle," Wood brings into the open the manner in which the slave power and its inheritors have single-mindedly focused on celebratory cultural myths that function to diminish both white culpability and black outrage.

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Genre : Art
Author : Marcus Wood
Publisher :
Release : 2010
File : 482 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0820334278


Armed America

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"For many Americans, guns seem to be a fundamental part of the American experience―and always have been." Grand in scope, rigorous in research, and elegant in presenting the formative years of our country, "Armed America" traces the winding historical trail of United States citizens' passion for firearms. Author and historial Clayton E. Cramer goes back to the source, unearthing first-hand accounts from the colonial times, through the Revolutionary War period, and into the early years of the American Republic. In "Armed America," Cramer depicts a budding nation dependent on its firearms not only for food and protection, but also for recreation and enjoyment. Through newspaper clippings, official documents, and personal diaries, he shows that recent grandiose theories claiming that guns were scarce in early America are shaky at best, and downright false at worst. Above all, Cramer allows readers a priceless glimpse of a country literally fighting for its identity. For those who think that our citizens' attraction to firearms is a recent phenomenon, it's time to think again. "Armed America" proves that the right to bear arms is as American as apple pie.

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Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Author : Clayton E. Cramer
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Release : 2006
File : 328 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X030112634


Captive Passage Pb

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Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition opening at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, these eight essays and 160 color illustrations examine the complex causes, outcomes, and legacies of the 400-year slave trade. 160 color illustrations.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Beverly McMillan
Publisher : Smithsonian Books
Release : 2002-04-17
File : 212 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822031415870