Manisha Sinha writes: "When Judy Giesberg asked me to guest edit a special issue on abolition and solicit essays that would showcase new directions in abolition studies, I welcomed the opportunity. For a field that has been ploughed thoroughly—from global syntheses of the transition from slavery to freedom in the western world by some of … Continue reading BLOGROLL/ARTICLES: Sinha’s Editor’s Note for June 2018 Journal of the Civil War Era on Abolitionism
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EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
New edited volume by Dominique Rogers and Boris Lesueur, via Karthala: "L’affranchissement individuel au sein d’une société à esclaves ou esclavagiste informe sur des situations singulières ou exceptionnelles. Dans une perspective comparatiste, cet ouvrage examine les parcours originaux de ces affranchis entre le XIVe siècle et le début du XIXe siècle, et dans un vaste … Continue reading EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
BOOK: Mauvois on Fugitive Slaves of Martinique
Bernard Mauvois, Les marrons de la mer: évasions d’esclaves de la Martinique vers les îles de la Caraïbe (1833-1848) (Karthala, 2017). "La mer entourant les colonies insulaires de la Caraïbe n’a jamais été une barrière et encore moins un obstacle insurmontable, mais au contraire une véritable voie vers les autres colonies. En 1833, alors que … Continue reading BOOK: Mauvois on Fugitive Slaves of Martinique
BLOGROLL: Two Visions of Abolition and Emancipation #OAH18
Evan Turïano reports on #OAH2018 panels, including the "State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation" for Muster: "In a question posed from the audience, Thavolia Glymph, Professor of History at Duke University, expressed shock that the state of the field was such that “Does emancipation matter?” was still an open question. She received the first … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Two Visions of Abolition and Emancipation #OAH18
BOOK: Flory on Slavery, l’Engagisme and Rachetés in the French Caribbean | Karthala
Céline Flory, De l esclavage à la liberté forcée. Histoire des travailleurs africains engagés dans la Caraïbe française au XIXe siècle (Paris: Karthala, 2015). via Karthala: "Entre 1854 et 1862, plus de 18 500 hommes, femmes et enfants originaires du continent africain, furent amenés en Guyane, en Guadeloupe et en Martinique. Afin d’y circonscrire … Continue reading BOOK: Flory on Slavery, l’Engagisme and Rachetés in the French Caribbean | Karthala
ARTICLE: Saillant on Funeral Ceremonies in the Sea Islands
John Saillant, "'All Is for the Wind:" Notes on Funeral and Baptism Ceremonies on a Georgia Sea Island, c. 1868–1887," Journal of Southern Religion (19) (2017): jsreligion.org/vol19/saillant Saillant writes: "In 1843, black Baptists from Savannah, Georgia formed the First African Baptist church of Saint Catherines Island. Most or all of these congregants were slaves in … Continue reading ARTICLE: Saillant on Funeral Ceremonies in the Sea Islands
BOOK: Carrasquillo on Race and Citizenship in Puerto Rico
Rosa E. Carrasquillo, Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880-1910. U of Nebraska Press, 2006. via U of Nebraska Press: "Our Landless Patria examines issues of race and citizenship in Puerto Rico, tracing how the process of land privatization accelerated a series of struggles for natural resources between the poorest … Continue reading BOOK: Carrasquillo on Race and Citizenship in Puerto Rico
BOOK: Miles on the African-Indigenous Ties That Bind
Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. via UC Press: "This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, … Continue reading BOOK: Miles on the African-Indigenous Ties That Bind
AUDIO: LeFlouria on How the convict labor of Black women built the new South
Historian Talitha LeFlouria examines the incarcerated labor of Black women in Reconstruction-era Georgia - work that rebuilt the South's infrastructure and industrial economy under brutal conditions, enabled by the social language and legal mechanisms around Black lives that persist in America's modern mass incarceration complex. Source: This Is Hell! | Everywhere yet nowhere: How … Continue reading AUDIO: LeFlouria on How the convict labor of Black women built the new South
DIGITAL: Mapping The Freedmen’s Bureau
Created by Angela Walton-Raji and Toni Carrier: "Mapping the Freedman’s Bureau is devoted to helping researchers put their ancestors back on the historical landscape where they lived. During those critical years after the Civil War, many once enslaved people found themselves in a dangerous situation. Many had freed themselves and taken refuge after making their … Continue reading DIGITAL: Mapping The Freedmen’s Bureau
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