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Titre(s) : New directions in slavery studies [Texte imprimé] : commodification, community, and comparison / edited by Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears
Publication : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, copyright [2015]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 261 pages) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current
scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline's
major themes commodification, community, and comparison and indicating paths for future
inquiry. New Directions in Slavery Studies addresses the various ways in which the
institution of slavery reduced human beings to a form of property. From the coastwise
domestic slave trade in international context to the practice of slave mortgaging
to the issuing of insurance policies on slaves, several essays reveal how southern
whites treated slaves as a form of capital to be transferred or protected. An additional
piece in this section contemplates the historian's role in translating the fraught
history of slavery into film. Other essays examine the idea of the "slave community,"
an increasingly embattled concept born of revisionist scholarship in the 1970s. This
section's contributors examine the process of community formation for black foreigners,
the crucial role of violence in the negotiation of slaves' sense of community, and
the effect of the Civil War on slave society. A final essay asks readers to reassess
the long-standing revisionist emphasis on slave agency and the ideological burdens
it carries with it. Essays in the final section discuss scholarship on comparative
slavery, contrasting American slavery with similar, less restrictive practices in
Brazil and North Africa. One essay negotiates a complicated tripartite comparison
of secession in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba, while another uncovers subtle
differences in slavery in separate regions of the American South, demonstrating that
comparative slavery studies need not be transnational. Essays in the final section
discuss scholarship on comparative slavery, contrasting American slavery with similar,
less restrictive practices in Brazil and North Africa. One essay negotiates a complicated
tripartite comparison of secession in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba, while another
uncovers subtle differences in slavery in separate regions of the American South,
demonstrating that comparative slavery studies need not be transnational. -- Amazon.com
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Forret, Jeff (1972-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sears, Christine E. (1969-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Esclavage -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Esclaves -- Conditions sociales -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807161159. - ISBN 0807161152. - ISBN 9780807161166 (erroné). - ISBN 9780807161173
(erroné). - ISBN 9780807161180 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46885780z
Notice n° :
FRBNF46885780
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Table des matières : Introduction / Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears ; Part I. Commodification ; Commodity
chains and chained commodities: the U.S. coastwise slave trade and an Atlantic business
network / Calvin Schermerhorn ; Silver buckles and slaves: borrowing, lending, and
the commodification of slaves in Virginia communities / Bonnie Martin ; "To realize
money facilities": slave life insurance, the slave trade, and credit in the old south
/ Karen Ryder ; Nat Turner in print and on film / Kenneth S. Greenberg ; Part II.
The slave community ; Taking liberties: Saint Dominguan slaves and the formation
of community in Philadelphia, 1791-1805 / John Davies ; "A slave that will steal
from a slave, is called mean as master": thefts and violence inside southern slave
quarters / Jeff Forret ; Bonds burst asunder: the transformation of the internal
economy in Confederate Richmond / Kathleen M. Hilliard ; The problem of autonomy:
toward a postliberal history / Anthony E. Kaye ; Part III. Comparative slavery ;
Slave women and urban labor in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Mariana Dantas
; "In Algiers, the city of bondage": urban slavery in comparative context / Christine
E. Sears ; The nineteenth-century "other souths," modernization, and nation-building:
expanding the comparative perspective / Enrico Dal Lago ; "When I think how our family
is scattered": comparing forced separation among antebellum slave families / Damian
Alan Pargas.
