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Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Page Three:Enslaved Africans in the Colony of Connecticut
… a man named Venture Smith, left an account of his life in slavery and freedom that is rich with detail. From the narrative of Venture Smith, from the diary of New Londoner …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Betrayed by a Revolution
… For them, the upheavals of the Revolutionary struggle for freedom actually led to re-enslavement, as opportunistic … this section will help teachers lead student inquiry into slavery in the north during the early years of the nation. … Movement. Have students explore this issue. Why has this narrative survived? How is it reinforced in textbooks, media, …
European Studies Council
Paradoxes of Neoliberal Politics in a Post-Communist Society
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… Eastern European societies in the 1990s, the desire for freedom was the key driving force for the shift towards … threatening to fracture the ideas of intellectual freedom, truth, public good, and democratic civil society. … between neoliberalism and democracy as well as between freedom and control. Rūta Petkutė is a Joseph P. Kazickas …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Influential Readings
… by Author Bales, Kevin (1999).    Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy . Berkeley: University of California Press. Bales, Kevin (2007).  Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves . Berkeley: University of … Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns.”   Signs: …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
2010 Participants
… of the main leader of the movement for the abolition of slavery in Brazil, selected as a top ten Brazilian biography … a research on the Brazilian movement for the abolition of slavery. Matthias Röhrig Assunção studied History and Latin … Harcourt Press, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation …
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Author of ‘The Slave’s Cause’ offers an interracial view of abolitionism in talk
… the main arguments of her book in her presentation at the event, which was sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study … “Slave rebellion paralleled isolated criticisms of slavery in colonial America. The enslaved inspired the … Scott case of 1857. “The actions of rebels and runaways, freedom petitioners and claimants, black writers and …
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23rd Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize Award Ceremony
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… Please join us Thursday, February 17 for a special virtual event: The 23rd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize. One of the most coveted awards for the study of slavery and abolition, this $25,000 prize is sponsored … Kars for Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast We also are pleased to honor the …
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23rd Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize Award Ceremony
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… Please join us Thursday, February 17 for a special virtual event: The 23rd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize. One of the most coveted awards for the study of slavery and abolition, this $25,000 prize is sponsored … Kars for Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast We also are pleased to honor the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (January 27, 1846)
… the slaveholders, whose names I have made prominent in the narrative of my experience while in slavery. Slaveholders and slave-traders never betray greater … former name), the slave. I feel myself almost a new man—freedom has given me new life. I fancy you would scarcely …