Arming Slaves
Title | Arming Slaves PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Leslie Brown |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300134851 |
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable.
Confederate Emancipation
Title | Confederate Emancipation PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Levine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195147626 |
Levine sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South.
The Question of Arming the Slaves
Title | The Question of Arming the Slaves PDF eBook |
Author | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Slavery |
ISBN |
Arming the Slaves
Title | Arming the Slaves PDF eBook |
Author | Philip David Dillard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Public opinion |
ISBN |
Runaways, Coffles and Fancy Girls
Title | Runaways, Coffles and Fancy Girls PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Carey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2018-04-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780972568043 |
A book that details aspects of slavery in Tennessee and its relationship with the economy, newspapers and the government. Based largely on newspaper advertisements and first-person accounts, this book is full of revelations that prove that slavery was a much bigger part of Tennessee's culture than people realize today.
Arming the Slaves in the War for the Union
Title | Arming the Slaves in the War for the Union PDF eBook |
Author | John Cochrane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Slavery |
ISBN |
Black Confederates
Title | Black Confederates PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kelly Barrow |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781565549371 |
Contains correspondence, military records, and reminiscences from brave men who served what they considered their country.