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Slave No More
Aline Helg
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view 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. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized.
While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage,
Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.
Kundenbewertungen
fugitive slaves, slaves resistance, slaves conspiracy, transatlantic slave trade, slaves in North America, comparative history of slavery in the Americas, slaves self-purchase, slaves manumission and emancipation, slaves in the Spanish American wars of independence, maroon societies, slaves insurrection, Haitian Revolution, abolition of slavery, slaves in Latin America, slave soldiers, slaves in the Caribbean, women, men and children slaves, slaves in the American Revolution, Slaves religion and evangelization, slaves trials, torture and execution, abolitionism, slaves agency, slaves writings and petitions, church and slavery, slave labor, urban and rural, Slaves in the Americas, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century