Author: Kathleen M. Hilliard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107046467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, "stole" property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters. The slaves' internal economy focused intense paternalist negotiation on a ground where categories of exchange - provision, gift, contraband, and commodity - were in constant flux. At once binding and alienating, these ties endured constant moral stresses and material manipulation by masters and slaves alike, galvanizing conflict and engendering complex new social relations on and off the plantation.
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange
Author: Kathleen M. Hilliard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107046467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, "stole" property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters. The slaves' internal economy focused intense paternalist negotiation on a ground where categories of exchange - provision, gift, contraband, and commodity - were in constant flux. At once binding and alienating, these ties endured constant moral stresses and material manipulation by masters and slaves alike, galvanizing conflict and engendering complex new social relations on and off the plantation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107046467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, "stole" property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters. The slaves' internal economy focused intense paternalist negotiation on a ground where categories of exchange - provision, gift, contraband, and commodity - were in constant flux. At once binding and alienating, these ties endured constant moral stresses and material manipulation by masters and slaves alike, galvanizing conflict and engendering complex new social relations on and off the plantation.
Master George's People
Author: Marfe Ferguson Delano
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426307594
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
As the first President of the United States of America and the Commander in Chief who led a rebel army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington was a legendary leader of men. He had high expectations of his soldiers, employees, and associates. At his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, his expectations of his workers were no different: "I expect such labor as they ought to render" he wrote. Except there was a big difference. The workers who kept Mount Vernon operating were enslaved. And although Washington called them "my people," by law they were his property. But the people of Mount Vernon were so much more, and they each have compelling stories to tell. These are fascinating portraits of cooks, overseers, valets, farm hands, and more- essential people nearly lost in the shadows of the past- interwoven with an extraordinary examination of the conscience of the Father of Our Country.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426307594
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
As the first President of the United States of America and the Commander in Chief who led a rebel army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington was a legendary leader of men. He had high expectations of his soldiers, employees, and associates. At his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, his expectations of his workers were no different: "I expect such labor as they ought to render" he wrote. Except there was a big difference. The workers who kept Mount Vernon operating were enslaved. And although Washington called them "my people," by law they were his property. But the people of Mount Vernon were so much more, and they each have compelling stories to tell. These are fascinating portraits of cooks, overseers, valets, farm hands, and more- essential people nearly lost in the shadows of the past- interwoven with an extraordinary examination of the conscience of the Father of Our Country.
Everything Starts with Life
Author: Sunil Kumar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 154340703X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This book is based on probabilities that can be variable from 0 to 1. This means that the probability of any event mentioned in this book is nil to 100 percent surety. Thus, the people have to accept it as a possibility, and the proof may not be available but can be found by own. Also, in such a case, the person loses the right to question about facts. It is not necessary that everyone loses a life while driving a motorcycle without helmet, even on busy road. If a person is poor, it doesnt mean that he will be good for all. If someone is discriminated against, it doesnt ensure that he will not be biased. If woman is a mother, it doesnt mean she cannot betray. A person may be follower of a holy religion, but he may not think of himself as equal among all. My eyes can see everything in noon, Instead they failed to watch the sun. Lest, they see nothing in dark Yet can watch darkness whole night. I donated for them Those have never been seen. As I hated to care for them, Even they needed me so keen. Though I tried to prey on others peace in whole. During death time I prayed for tranquility of my soul. Being true and correct is not an easy task. A person is bound to live a double standard lifeone for himself, which is sometime unknown to him, and the second is for others, where he pretends while he is revealed without his acknowledgement. This leads to the disturbance of peace among the individuals, and this resonates through their whole lives. This book reveals the reasons that limit the people to accomplish peace.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 154340703X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This book is based on probabilities that can be variable from 0 to 1. This means that the probability of any event mentioned in this book is nil to 100 percent surety. Thus, the people have to accept it as a possibility, and the proof may not be available but can be found by own. Also, in such a case, the person loses the right to question about facts. It is not necessary that everyone loses a life while driving a motorcycle without helmet, even on busy road. If a person is poor, it doesnt mean that he will be good for all. If someone is discriminated against, it doesnt ensure that he will not be biased. If woman is a mother, it doesnt mean she cannot betray. A person may be follower of a holy religion, but he may not think of himself as equal among all. My eyes can see everything in noon, Instead they failed to watch the sun. Lest, they see nothing in dark Yet can watch darkness whole night. I donated for them Those have never been seen. As I hated to care for them, Even they needed me so keen. Though I tried to prey on others peace in whole. During death time I prayed for tranquility of my soul. Being true and correct is not an easy task. A person is bound to live a double standard lifeone for himself, which is sometime unknown to him, and the second is for others, where he pretends while he is revealed without his acknowledgement. This leads to the disturbance of peace among the individuals, and this resonates through their whole lives. This book reveals the reasons that limit the people to accomplish peace.
The Slave Master of Trinidad
Author: Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Publisher: UMass + ORM
ISBN: 1613766173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
William Hardin Burnley (1780–1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone. In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's "founding father" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.
Publisher: UMass + ORM
ISBN: 1613766173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
William Hardin Burnley (1780–1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone. In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's "founding father" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.
Bondmen and Rebels
Author: David Barry Gaspar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822313366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822313366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Author: Barbara Krauthamer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved. Krauthamer's examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian women's gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives of black people and Indians both before and after removal.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end of the nineteenth century, ongoing conflicts among Choctaw, Chickasaw, and U.S. lawmakers left untold numbers of former slaves and their descendants in the two Indian nations without citizenship in either the Indian nations or the United States. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara Krauthamer rewrites the history of southern slavery, emancipation, race, and citizenship to reveal the centrality of Native American slaveholders and the black people they enslaved. Krauthamer's examination of slavery and emancipation highlights the ways Indian women's gender roles changed with the arrival of slavery and changed again after emancipation and reveals complex dynamics of race that shaped the lives of black people and Indians both before and after removal.
The Works ...
Author: Charles Sumner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Prodigy Slave
Author: Londyn Skye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684192618
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
At the age of ten, Lily is forcefully torn from her mother's arms and sold at a Negro auction by her master, a man that Lily learns that day is her very own father. Seeking solace from such devastation, Lily secretly begins teaching herself to play her new master's piano: an instrument that she is forbidden from touching. Lily becomes an extraordinary pianist and gets away with secretly playing for fourteen years until the master's son, James, discovers her deceit. The "punishment" that James gives Lily starts her on an unprecedented journey that dramatically alters her life and influences the lives of thousands, including a man with great power. Lily's groundbreaking journey also unveils the secret altruistic love of a particular man who has been forbidden from expressing his love to her for years. But the question remains whether or not the strength of his love will be powerful enough to free Lily from the shackles of slavery and protect her dreams and her life while on her turbulent Journey to Winter Garden.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684192618
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
At the age of ten, Lily is forcefully torn from her mother's arms and sold at a Negro auction by her master, a man that Lily learns that day is her very own father. Seeking solace from such devastation, Lily secretly begins teaching herself to play her new master's piano: an instrument that she is forbidden from touching. Lily becomes an extraordinary pianist and gets away with secretly playing for fourteen years until the master's son, James, discovers her deceit. The "punishment" that James gives Lily starts her on an unprecedented journey that dramatically alters her life and influences the lives of thousands, including a man with great power. Lily's groundbreaking journey also unveils the secret altruistic love of a particular man who has been forbidden from expressing his love to her for years. But the question remains whether or not the strength of his love will be powerful enough to free Lily from the shackles of slavery and protect her dreams and her life while on her turbulent Journey to Winter Garden.
Existence and Evolution of Everything
Author: Sunil Kumar
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Have you ever been speechless when someone asked you, “Who came first, the hen or the egg? How big is the Universe? Have you seen God?” Or, “Why do dogs bark in the night when the earthquake would just be going to strike?” Or, “If electrons are moving around the nucleus, like planets do in the universe?” and, so on... The list of such elusive questions may be numerous, but, if something is happening and observable to the human, then, it follows a law of science, BASED ON facts and figures, which, indirectly makes an intelligent and sound-minded person liable to answer these matters popularised as riddles in our society due to lack of knowledge or clarity. It has been noticed that, those who have raised such questions also failed to come up with a logical and convincing answer to such questions. In turn, to make others speechless, they try to imply similar questions. However, after reading this book, one may find himself in a position to find answers to all such questions or may acquire a concept to think and reach a level of understanding that he may derive the answer to further such evolving questions. Thus, the creation of every object found in this universe has followed a system and an attempt has been made to introduce the readers to such systems. That’s why what you think is not important but rather how you think is more important.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Have you ever been speechless when someone asked you, “Who came first, the hen or the egg? How big is the Universe? Have you seen God?” Or, “Why do dogs bark in the night when the earthquake would just be going to strike?” Or, “If electrons are moving around the nucleus, like planets do in the universe?” and, so on... The list of such elusive questions may be numerous, but, if something is happening and observable to the human, then, it follows a law of science, BASED ON facts and figures, which, indirectly makes an intelligent and sound-minded person liable to answer these matters popularised as riddles in our society due to lack of knowledge or clarity. It has been noticed that, those who have raised such questions also failed to come up with a logical and convincing answer to such questions. In turn, to make others speechless, they try to imply similar questions. However, after reading this book, one may find himself in a position to find answers to all such questions or may acquire a concept to think and reach a level of understanding that he may derive the answer to further such evolving questions. Thus, the creation of every object found in this universe has followed a system and an attempt has been made to introduce the readers to such systems. That’s why what you think is not important but rather how you think is more important.
A Slave's Place, A Master's World
Author: Nancy Priscilla Naro
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147428745X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A Slave's Place, A Master's World, based on original field research, evaluates the transition from slave to free labour in rural Brazil, highlighting the ways in which slaves, free farmers, freedmen and planters shaped the labour markets of an agrarian economy. Documentation from two areas in the Rio de Janeiro hinterland provides the foundation for comparisons between slavery in Vassouras, a highland town where coffee was produced for the export market, and Rio Bonito, a lowland town where coffee and foodstuffs were marketed regionally. The book examines the settlement processes in both towns, the marginalization of indigenous tribes, the onset of slave labour, and the de facto and de jure claims to land, as planters, small producers and slaves forged the bases of rural society. A feature of the book is the detailed study of the link with the African past during the transition process, when African languages, customs and religion, and social and work-related networks were increasingly juxtaposed with 'master class' practices on the fazendas.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147428745X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A Slave's Place, A Master's World, based on original field research, evaluates the transition from slave to free labour in rural Brazil, highlighting the ways in which slaves, free farmers, freedmen and planters shaped the labour markets of an agrarian economy. Documentation from two areas in the Rio de Janeiro hinterland provides the foundation for comparisons between slavery in Vassouras, a highland town where coffee was produced for the export market, and Rio Bonito, a lowland town where coffee and foodstuffs were marketed regionally. The book examines the settlement processes in both towns, the marginalization of indigenous tribes, the onset of slave labour, and the de facto and de jure claims to land, as planters, small producers and slaves forged the bases of rural society. A feature of the book is the detailed study of the link with the African past during the transition process, when African languages, customs and religion, and social and work-related networks were increasingly juxtaposed with 'master class' practices on the fazendas.