Honoring our Endurance.African Americans were held in bondage for the first half of our nation's history. As we move forward, during this time of remembrance, here is a selection of titles to expand our understanding of the past while we celebrate our survival. Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved Enslaved may refer to:
abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-674-00162-1 Historian Schwartz focuses on the parent-child bond in this study of the pressures that slavery placed on parents and children. She compares central Virginia, central Alabama, and coastal South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. and Georgia up to 1890. During this period over 40 percent of slaves in all three regions were children under 15. Bound for the North Star: True Stories of the Fugitive Slave by Dennis Brindell Fradin Clarion Books, 2000. $20.00, ISBN 0-395-97017-2 Beautifully illustrated, this book recounts the desperate trek to find the underground railway by fugitive slaves like Harriet Tubman William Craft. Henry "Box" Brown and many others. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 by Larry Koger University of South Carolina Press The University of South Carolina Press (or USC Press), founded in 1944, is a university press that is part of the University of South Carolina. External link
• , March 1995, $15.95, ISBN 1-570-03037-5 This study reveals how African American masters participated in the caste system. Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1790-1865 by Marcus Wood Routledge, March 2000. $29.95, ISBN 0-415-92698-X An invaluable addition to the limited literature available on the imagery associated with slavery and abolition. Marcus Wood examines rare paintings, woodcuts, diaries, 19th century short stories. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin Noun 1. John Hope Franklin - United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915) Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. Alfred A. Knopf, March 2000, $49.95. ISBN 0-375-40671-9 This is a dramatic and authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans from the time they left Africa to their continued struggle for equality at the end of the 20th century. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. , February 2000, $26.00, ISBN 0-674-82148-3 Johnson's work is a superior examination of the speculation in slaves as individuals conducted it. It depicts the processes that turned a person into a commodity. Studies of people, shackles, prices and society's role in the slave trade are included. The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was an American author, abolitionist, and soldier. Early life Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (1823-1911) edited by Howard N. Meyer Da Capo Press, July 2000, $22.50, ISBN 0-306-80954-0 Higginson was a fervent abolitionist, running guns to anti-slavery settlers. This is a definitive writing of one of the most vigorous, effective and overlooked shapers of American history. The Counterrevolution coun·ter·rev·o·lu·tion n. 1. A revolution whose aim is the deposition and reversal of a political or social system set up by a previous revolution. 2. A movement to oppose revolutionary tendencies and developments. of Slavery: Politics and ideology in Antebellum South Carolina Antebellum South Carolina typically defined by historians as the period of between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War. Due to the invention of the cotton gin in 1786, the ecomomies of the Upcountry and the Lowcountry became fairly equal in wealth, although also triggering by Manisha Sinha University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina. External link
This is a detailed account of the political climate of antebellum South Carolina with an extensive bibliography. When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South by Janet Duitsman Cornelius University of South Carolina Press, January 1991, $16.95, ISBN 0-872-49871-9 The author examines why blacks value literacy, its integral role in the formation of the black church, and how it served in political resistance during slavery. |
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