[PDF] Negotiating Abolition eBook

Author : Shawna Herzog
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1350073210

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Negotiating Abolition: The Antislavery Project in the British Straits Settlements, 1786-1843 explores how sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies in the region, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture or 'free' labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Straits Settlements of Southeast Asia. Through a history of early-19th century slavery and abolition in this often overlooked region in British imperial history, Herzog bridges a historiographical gap between colonial and modern slave systems. She discusses the dynamic intersectionality between perceptions of race, class, gender, and civilization within the Straits and how this informed behavior and policy regarding slavery, abolition, and prostitution within the settlement. This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire.

Author : Shawna Herzog
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 9781350073234

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"Shawna Herzog explores the ways sex and gender complicated the enforcement of colonial anti-slavery policies, the challenges local officials faced in identifying slave populations, and how European reclassification of slave labor to systems of indenture, or 'free,' labor created a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Strait Settlements of Southeast Asia. This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire"--

Author : Angela F. Murphy
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807137448

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In American Slavery, Irish Freedom, Angela F. Murphy examines the interactions among abolitionists, Irish nationalists, and American citizens as the issues of slavery and abolition complicated the first transatlantic movement for Irish independence. For Irish Americans, the call of Old World loyalties, perceived duties of American citizenship, and regional devotions collided as the slavery issue intertwined with their efforts on behalf of their homeland. By looking at the makeup and rhetoric of the American repeal associations, the pressures on Irish Americans applied by both abolitionists and American nativists, and the domestic and transatlantic political situation that helped to define the repealers' response to antislavery appeals, Murphy investigates and explains why many Irish Americans did not support abolitionism.

Author : Richard Anderson
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1580469698

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"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"--

Author : Calvin Colton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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'Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man' is a non-fiction book that attempts to paint the Abolition movement as a seditious movement intended to subvert the U.S. government. As one can guess, some of the talking points discussed in this book are very outdated to contemporary perspectives. Despite this, the book provides valuable insight into the Anti-Abolition movement that occurred at the time, even in the Northern states.

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609801038

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Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state," and about having been put on the FBI’s "most wanted" list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners. Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed "chain of command," and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in Guantánamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.

Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438106300

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The abolitionist movement, which was a campaign to end the practice of slavery and the slave trade, began to take shape in the wake of the American Revolution. This book provides an exploration of this seminal movement in American history.

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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In this thought-provoking essay, William Lloyd Garrison passionately advocates for the immediate abolition of slavery amidst a time of war with the British Empire and Mexico. As a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer, Garrison was a leading voice in the fight against slavery. He founded The Liberator, a widely read anti slavery newspaper, and was a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Garrison's call for the government to abolish slavery was rooted in his rejection of the corrupt and tyrannical nature of a government engaged in war, imperialism, and slavery. This essay is a powerful reminder of the importance of speaking out against injustice and fighting for what is right, even in the face of powerful opposition.

Author : Ford Risley
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810125072

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"From Boston's strident Liberator to Frederick Douglass's North Star, more than forty newspapers were founded in the United States in the decades before the Civil War with the specific aim of promoting emancipation. In Abolition and the Press, Ford Risley discusses how these fiery publications played a vital role in keeping the issue of slavery in the public eye. Reaching an audience that only grew when the papers became objects of controversy and targets of violence in both the South and the North, the abolitionist press continued to provide a needed platform for discourse even after some mainstream publications took up the call for emancipation. Its legacy endured as contemporary reform writers and editors continue to champion the press as a tool in the fight for equality and civil rights."--BOOK JACKET.