ISBN:
9780582404373
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Longman Companions To History
Parallel Title:
Print version Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights
DDC:
305.567
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This Companion provides the essential background to the defining fate of the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Central to the book are detailed chronologies on the development and decline of the slave trade, slavery in colonial North and South America, the Caribbean and the United States, movements for emancipation, and the progress of black civil rights. Separate sections look at the long-running resistance against slavery and the black civil rights movements in the Americas and the Caribbean, with a comparative chronology of apartheid in
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Section 1: SLAVERY; 1.1 Chronology of the Atlantic slave trade, 1441-1867; 1.1.1 Estimated numbers of Africans carried across the Atlantic as slaves, 1662-1867; 1.1.2 Destinations of Africans transported across the Atlantic, estimated nnmbers, 1451-1870; 1.1.3 Profits of the British slave trade, 1761-1807; 1.2 Chronology of slavery in the Caribbean, 1492-1886; 1.2.1 Slave population of the British and French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century; 1.3 Chronology of slavery in South America, 1500-1888
Description / Table of Contents:
1.4 Chronology of slavery in colonial North America and the United States, 1526-18601.4.1 Estimated numbers of slaves in the British North American colonies in the Eighteenth Century; 1.4.2 Slavery and the United States Constitution, 1789; 1.4.3 Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, 1865; 1.4.4 Slavery and the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, 1861; 1.4.5 Slavery and cotton production in the United States, 1790-1860; 1.4.6 Average purchase price for the most efficient field hands in the Southern states, 1800-60; Section 2: EMANCIPATION
Description / Table of Contents:
2.1 Outline chronology of the end to slavery, 1514-19802.2 Chronology of the resistance against slavery, 1521-1888; 2.3 Chronology of the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery in South America and the Caribbean, 1555-1888; 2.4 Chronology of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1862; 2.5 Chronology of the campaign in Britain for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, 1671-1838; 2.5.1 Numbers of slaves in the British Caribbean and compensation paid to owners on emancipation in 1834
Description / Table of Contents:
2.6 Chronology of the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in colonial North America and the United States, 1643-18602.6.1 Numbers of slaves in the United States from 1790 to the eve of the 1861-65 civil war; 2.7 Chronology of emancipation and the American Civil War, 1860-65; 2.8 Chronology of the involvement of Britain and the United States in the international campaign against the slave trade and slavery, 1807-89; Section 3: CIVIL RIGHTS; 3.1 Chronology of black civil rights in the Caribbean and South America, 1766-2000
Description / Table of Contents:
3.2 Chronology of black civil rights in colonial North America and the United States, 1664-18653.3 Chronology of black civil rights in the period of Reconstruction in the United States, 1865-77; 3.4 Chronology of black civil rights in the United States, from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to 1954; 3.5 Chronology of black civil rights in the United States, 1954-90; 3.5.1 Effect of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on black voter registration in Southern states; 3.6 Chronology of serious racial disturbances and riots in the United States, 1863-1972
Description / Table of Contents:
3.6.1 Lynching of black people in the United States, 1882-1968
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
