| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lawrence Aje and Catherine Armstrong -- One. Documenting Non-traditional Slavery and Slaveholding : Chapter 1. Many Faces of Slaveholding Sephardim / Seymour Drescher ; Chapter 2. Something Close to Freedom: The Case of the Black Seminoles in Florida / Brent R. Weisman ; Chapter 3. 'Adventure in a Wigwam': Henry Bibb's Account of Slavery among the Cherokees in Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave (1849) / Sandrine Ferré-Rode ; Chapter 4. To 'make a good Mistress to my servants': Unmasking the Meaning of Maternalism in Colonial South Carolina / Inge Dornan ; Chapter 5. Resident Female Slaveholders in Jamaica at the End of Emancipation: Evidence from the Compensation Claims / Ahmed Reid. |
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Two. The Politics and Economics of Atypical Forms of Slavery and Slaveholding : Chapter 6. Corporate Slavery in Seventeenth-Century New York / Anne-Claire Faucquez ; Chapter 7. Militarized Slavery: The Creation of the West India Regiments / Tim Lockley ; Chapter 8. 'A question between hiring and selling': Slave Leasing at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, 1780-1830 / Christa Dierksheide ; Chapter 9. Turmoil in the Cocoa Groves: Slave Revolts in Ocumare de la Costa, Venezuela, 1837 and 1845 / Nikita Harwich. |
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Three. Social Mobility on the Margins of Slavery, Freedom and Slave Ownership : Chapter 10. Keeper of the Keys: Creole Management of a Nineteenth-Century French Plantation in New Orleans / Nathalie Dessens ; Chapter 11. João de Oliveira's Atlantic World: Mobility and Dislocation in Eighteenth-Century Brazil and the Bight of Benin / Mary E. Hicks ; Chapter 12. Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith: Slavery, Freedom and Fame in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia / Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf ; Chapter 13. Nominal Slavery, Free People of Colour and Enslavement Requests: Slavery and Freedom at the 'Edges' of the Regime in the Antebellum South / Emily West ; Chapter 14. The Transition from Plantation Slave Labour to Free Labour in the Americas / Herbert S. Klein -- Index. |
| Summary |
"While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its multifarious forms and complex dynamics in the region. The Many Faces of Slavery explores non-traditional forms of slavery that existed outside the plantation system to illustrate the pluralities of slave ownership and experiences in the Americas, from the 17th to the 19th century. Through a wide range of innovative and multi-disciplined approaches, the book's chapters explore the existence of urban slavery, slave self-hiring, quasi-free or nominal slaves, domestic slave concubines, slave vendors, slave soldiers and sailors, slave preachers, slave overseers, and many other types of 'societies with slaves.' Moreover, it documents unconventional forms of slave ownership like slave-holding by poor whites, women, free blacks, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, corporations and the state. The Many Faces of Slavery broadens our traditional conception of slavery by complicating our understanding of slave experience and ownership in slavery-practising societies throughout Atlantic history"--Bloomsbury Collections. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slavery & abolition of slavery.
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History of the Americas.
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Social Science -- Slavery.
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History -- North America.
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Slavery.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Aje, Lawrence, editor.
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Armstrong, Catherine, editor.
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| ISBN |
1350071439 |
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9781350071438 (electronic book) |
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9781350071421 (hardback) |
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1350071455 |
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1350071420 |
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9781350071421 |
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9781350071445 (epub) |
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1350071447 |
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9781350071452 (online) |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781350071452 |
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