that the books centered too heavily on slavery at the sugar plantation and not enough on the white Hogg family. "I attach a list of the books available with the publisher's description of each ...
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The Second Abolition
Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...
Cotton cultivation was pushing west, into the new southern territories, and plantation owners were desperate for slaves to work the crops. This selection is taken from a book entitled My Life in ...
The small, cloth-bound book, titled Slave Songs of the United States, has a publication date of 1867 and contains a collection of 136 plantation songs.
A woman managed to get several books about slavery removed from the historical Varner-Hogg Plantation after complaining they ...
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful ...
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation ...