Patrick Rael is associate professor of history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
16 Ebooks von Patrick Rael
Patrick Rael: Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany–these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands …
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€32.99
Nicholas M. Beasley: Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian institutions and practices in Britain’s Caribbean and southern American colonies. Focusing on the plantation societies of Barbados, Jamaica, …
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€29.99
Kari J. Winter: The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader
As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788–1848) expressed outrage over slavery, but by the end of his life he had transported thousands of enslaved persons from the upper to the lower South. Kari J. Wint …
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Jeremy Rich: Missing Links
Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848–1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the developmen …
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€28.99
Jeannette Eileen Jones: In Search of Brightest Africa
In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgroun …
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Gale L. Kenny: Contentious Liberties
The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic age …
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Eva Sheppard Wolf: Almost Free
In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free bla …
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€38.99
Erica L. Ball: To Live an Antislavery Life
In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black …
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€79.99
Ronald Johnson: Diplomacy in Black and White
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for peop …
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Kit Candlin & Cassandra Pybus: Enterprising Women
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune …
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€92.99
Patrick Rael: Eighty-Eight Years
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself, ” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decli …
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€40.99
Jessica Millward: Finding Charity’s Folk
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fiftee …
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Lisa Ze Winters: The Mulatta Concubine
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus …
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€31.99
Andrew K. Diemer: The Politics of Black Citizenship
Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship wa …
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€57.99
Whitney Nell Stewart & John Garrison Marks: Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of c …
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€99.99
Patrick Rael: Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany–these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands …
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€37.46
