The Peculiar Institution
Author | : Kenneth M. Stampp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780758108302 |
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Author | : Kenneth M. Stampp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780758108302 |
Author | : Elizabeth Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Offers a collection of poems with themes ranging from race, memory, and Southern culture to African American celebrities including Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Nat King Cole.
Author | : R. Kayeen Thomas |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1593094264 |
When rapper Da Nigga is sent back in time, he finds himself a slave forced to live the life of his ancestors. A rapper in the present day, Da Nigga must confront the reality of the African-American experience as slavery challenges everything he holds dear: from his fellow rappers and their lyrics, to the executives and their motives. Antebellum is the hard-hitting, gritty story of Da Nigga and his firsthand experiences. An illuminating examination of African-American history, Antebellum is a powerful addition to today's discourse on race and culture.
Author | : Cristin Ellis |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823278468 |
From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era. In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.
Author | : William Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kimberly M. Welch |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular--to make their claims recognizable and persuasive to others and to link their status as owner to the ideal of a free, autonomous citizen. In telling their stories, Welch reveals a previously unknown world of black legal activity, one that is consequential for understanding the long history of race, rights, and civic inclusion in America.
Author | : James H. Dormon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807896518 |
This study describes the development of theater, amateur and professional, in the South during the forty-five-year period preceding the Civil War. Dormon establishes the nature of southern theatrical activity as reflected in programing, production, and audience composition and behavior. Originally published in 1967. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author | : John Lardas Modern |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2011-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226533255 |
Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.
Author | : Jean L. Cooper |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078645444X |
Designed for both professional and amateur genealogists and other researchers, this index provides a detailed guide to materials available in the extensive Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations microfilm set. By using this index to identify specific collections in which materials pertinent to a specific family name, plantation name, or location may be found, and then reviewing the details in the appropriate Guides (see Preface), the researcher may pinpoint the location of desired materials. The items indexed include deeds, wills, estate papers, genealogies, personal and business correspondence, account books, slave lists, and many other types of records. This new edition also includes a list of all of the manuscript collections included in the microfilm set.
Author | : Albert Fishlow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Awarded the David A. Wells Prize 1963-64.