… by two slave societies and their construction of post-emancipation communities. The prize is awarded by Yale … of the political obstacles to black freedom in post-emancipation Cuba and Louisiana provides an innovative and …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… and trajectories of former slaves between slavery and post-emancipation. Dr. Lima is the author of … Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation ( Cambridge University Press, 2010). “Slavery …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… 1846: Send Back the Blood-Stained Money May 18, 1846: Emancipation is an Individual, a National, and an … December 23, 1846: England Should Lead the Cause of Emancipation February 2, 1847: The Skin Aristocracy in …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… mistake the experiences of one successful effort at self-emancipation to mean that all other slaves simply lacked the … by those who owned slaves? How did the law interplay with emancipation? What do the legal challenges and restrictions … and differences do you note in how each region approached emancipation? This set of documents outlines the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… for the prize were Nicholas Draper for The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British … McCurry deepens our understanding of the slaves’ self-emancipation, while also clarifying the radical nature of the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… and the Slave Trade, the true results of West India Emancipation the principles by which the British government … of Sligo, Governor, appointed to administer the British Emancipation Act, which was to go into effect in August, … have adopted a course seriously injurious to the cause of emancipation. The opinion I have expressed has not been …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… be appointed to investigate the suitableness of a gradual emancipation of all slaves, and to report to the house on it. … and artificial life, struggled with honest zeal for emancipation. Between the two halves of the state there … insurrection, Moore, one of the most fiery advocates of emancipation, declared it to be a peremptory demand of …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Debts’: Manumission by Grace and the Making of General Emancipation in Cuba, 1803-1868 Monday, April 23, 2018 … and Russian Serfdom on the Fiftieth Anniversaries of Emancipation Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - Amanda Bellows, Hunter …
… in which she traces the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. “‘We … history of transnational cooperation in the work of emancipation.” William Rankin was recognized for his book “ …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Competition Frederick Douglass Prize BOOKS ON BRITISH EMANCIPATION AND NATIVE AMERICAN SLAVERY TO SHARE $25,000 … Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation (Oxford). Drescher’s book explores the debate … Britain’s abolition of its African slave trade and then emancipation of some 800,000 slaves was the result of massive …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Union soldiers saw slavery, free labor, capitalism, and emancipation around the world through the prism of their … with particular interests in the history of slavery and emancipation, the Civil War and the Reconstruction eras. He …