An adult Gay novel of Ancient Rome. When Marcus, a young magistrate, spies a male slave being sexually abused by a slave trader in broad daylight, his better nature forces him to interfere. He ends up by buying Lucian, a handsome youth recently arrived from Britannia. Now the dark-haired, blue-eyed Lucian must strive to fit into a proper Roman household. He must meet the exacting demands of his exasperating new master. And somehow, he must try to regain his freedom. Lucian struggles to resist Marcus' sexual needs. In the midst of all this, events in Rome interfere. The times are uncertain. The powerful Prefect, Sejanus, controls Rome. Emperor Tiberius, in retirement on the Isle of Capri, knows little of what is actually happening, that Sejanus wishes to seize ultimate power for himself. And Marcus, appointed by Sejanus is in the middle of things. Increasingly, he finds himself in difficult predicaments. And increasingly, he relies upon the reluctant Lucian to help him. Lucian, despite himself, is falling in love with the arrogant Marcus, but is the reverse true? Does Marcus love him? And if so, can the master and his slave ever meet as true equals? Can they find peace in such troubled times? This is a torrid tale of Gay love and passionate explicit sex, set against actual violent times of an ancient Rome going through a civil war. Adult Content. Adult Gay Erotica.

Dear Master is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters -- including seven discovered since the book's original appearance -- reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. - Back cover.

Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he'd vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson's grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call "a vile commerce." Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the ‘rational’ side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master. As he shows, it is the right side which is the more reliable and insightful. Without it, our world would be mechanistic – stripped of depth, colour and value.

Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.

A companion book to 'Protocols' this book covers the more general topic of Master/Slave relations - how they often evolve and how to avoid the problems that can easily crop up in the early stages. The book also reviews ways that Master/ Slave relationships differ from Dominant/ Submissive or Top/Bottom relationships, discusses contracts and collars and considers various ways of finding a slave and starting a relationship.

William Hardin Burnley (1780–1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone. In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's "founding father" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.