ISBN:
1469649640
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1469649659
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9781469649641
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9781469649658
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Helg, Aline, 1953- Slave no more
DDC:
306.3/620973
Keywords:
Slavery History
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Slave insurrections History
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Slaves Emancipation
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Slavery History
;
Slave insurrections History
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
Slave insurrections History
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
Slavery History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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HISTORY ; Latin America ; General
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Slave insurrections
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Slavery
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Slaves ; Emancipation
;
History
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America
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United States
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West Indies
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The slave trade and slavery in the Americas : transcontinental trends -- Marronage : a risky but possible path to freedom -- Self-purchase and military service : legal but limited paths to emancipation -- Conspiracy and revolt : the most perilous paths to freedom -- Slaves as actors on the path to U.S. independence -- From the slave revolt in Saint Domingue to the founding of the black nation of Haiti -- The shock waves of the Haitian revolution -- The wars of independence in continental Iberian America : new opportunities for liberation -- Marronage and the purchase of freedom : old strategies in new times -- Revolts and abolitionism
Abstract:
"Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg argues that significant numbers of enslaved Africans and their descendants across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her analysis of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. But Helg's purpose is not only to underscore the agency of those who managed to become 'free people of color' before abolitionism took hold but also to assess in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Originally published in French by Éditions La Découverte, 2016
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