This book examines the individual and collective subjectivities of enslaved individuals in the Iberian worlds, exploring a broad chronology and geography, including the Indian Ocean. It offers a ...nuanced analysis of the complexities of race, gender, labor, social mobility, religion, and politics.
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City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was ...tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities.
In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
In Spaces of Enslavement, Andrea C. Mosterman addresses the persistent myth that the colonial Dutch system of slavery was more humane. Investigating practices of enslavement in New Netherland and ...then in New York, Mosterman shows that these ways of racialized spatial control held much in common with the southern plantation societies. In the 1620s, Dutch colonial settlers brought slavery to the banks of the Hudson River and founded communities from New Amsterdam in the south to Beverwijck near the terminus of the navigable river. When Dutch power in North America collapsed and the colony came under English control in 1664, Dutch descendants continued to rely on enslaved labor. Until 1827, when slavery was abolished in New York State, slavery expanded in the region, with all free New Yorkers benefitting from that servitude. Mosterman describes how the movements of enslaved persons were controlled in homes and in public spaces such as workshops, courts, and churches. She addresses how enslaved people responded to regimes of control by escaping from or modifying these spaces so as to expand their activities within them. Through a close analysis of homes, churches, and public spaces, Mosterman shows that, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the region's Dutch communities were engaged in a daily struggle with Black New Yorkers who found ways to claim freedom and resist oppression. Spaces of Enslavement writes a critical and overdue chapter on the place of slavery and resistance in the colony and young state of New York.
Freedmen occupied a complex and often problematic place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and freeborn citizens on the other. Playing an extremely important role in the economic life of ...the Roman world, they were also a key instrument for replenishing and even increasing the size of the citizen body. This book presents an original synthesis, for the first time covering both Republic and Empire in a single volume. While providing up-to-date discussions of most significant aspects of the phenomenon, the book also offers a new understanding of the practice of manumission, its role in the organisation of slave labour and the Roman economy, as well as the deep-seated ideological concerns to which it gave rise. It locates the freedman in a broader social and economic context, explaining the remarkable popularity of manumission in the Roman world.
During the first generations of European settlement in
North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families
carved out private empires. In Bound by Bondage ,
Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues ...that slavery was a crucial component
to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy.
Dynastic families built prestige based on shared notions of
mastery, establishing sprawling manorial estates and securing
cross-colonial landholdings and trading networks that stretched
from the Northeast to the South, the Caribbean, and beyond. The
members of this elite class were mayors, governors, senators,
judges, and presidents, and they were also some of the largest
slaveholders in the North. Aspirations to power and status,
grounded in the political economy of human servitude, ameliorated
ethnic and religious rivalries, and united once antagonistic Anglo
and Dutch families, ensuring that Dutch networks endured throughout
the English and then Revolutionary periods. Using original research
drawn from archives across several continents in multiple
languages, Maskiell expertly traces the origin of these private
familial empires back to the founding generations of the
Northeastern colonies and follows their growth to the eve of the
American Revolutionary War. Maskiell reveals a multiracial Early
America, where enslaved traders, woodsmen, millers, maids, bakers,
and groomsmen developed expansive networks of their own that
challenged the power of the elites, helping in escapes, in trade,
and in simple camaraderie. In Bound by Bondage , Maskiell
writes a new chapter in the history of early North America and
connects developing Northern networks of merit to the invidious
institution of slavery.
This project proposes that first-century freedpersons, with their circumscribed freedom, would have likely understood that the freedom spoken of in Gal 5:1 entailed not only spiritual freedom, ...but--at least in the Christian communities--individual freedom as well.
This book offers new historical, legal and literary explorations of a status held by uncountable formerly enslaved persons in the Roman Empire: Junian Latinity. It is the first book in any language ...to provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary study of this status. Divided in two parts, the book sets the scene with six chapters that discuss the legal innovations that created Junian Latinity, as well as the historical contexts in which the status was conceived and in which it developed – from the late republican period to the early medieval world. Four chapters in the second book part offer then new research on key Latin literary texts to provide fresh insights into the role of Junian Latinity in Roman imperial society. The book makes a strong case for the centrality of Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire and the importance of its modern study.
