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1.
The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Missouri Press 2006
Subjects:
Free African Americans--History
African American Women--History
Free African Americans--Social Conditions
African American Women--Social Conditions
Free African Americans--Intellectual Life
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...Ante­bellum America.] In Free Women of Color in Slave Societies of theAmericas. Edited...African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade.] In [WeSpecialize in...Larry. Black Slaveholders: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina.Jefferson...
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The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era
Contributors:
Publisher:
Dryden Press 1953
Subjects:
Forten, Charlotte L
African American Teachers--Biography
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...005Bimus] was not a slave he was. And he deter­mined...fewmonths ago, this, his former slave, was one of the first men he...rebuying his slavesin order to free them, that he w'ld be wronging...Don Carlos, by name, wasa slave, originally from Vir[giniaU...
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The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Contributors:
Publisher:
Basic Books 2002
Subjects:
Slave Trade--France--History--18th Century
Slave Trade--Africa, West--History--18th Century
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...14-15court's decision to free slaves, 13-14cruelty of slave trade, 18defense of slave trade...Paul, xiimercantilismdefending slave trade through, 19overview of...Pierre Mary, 99court decision to free slave, 9-10, 13customs and tariffs...
4.
From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited
Contributors:
Publisher:
Berghahn Books 2001
Subjects:
Slave Trade--Africa--Congresses
Slave Trade--America--Congresses
Slave Trade--Europe--Congresses
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...made up of whites.Religion offered free individuals of colour some possibilities...Furthermore, the Church encouragedthe free population of colour to strengthen...which had a substantialpopulation of free and slave blacks and mulattos. In most larger...
5.
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1999
Subjects:
Diola (African People)--Religion
Slave Trade--Senegal--Esulalu--History
Esulalu (Senegal)--Religion
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...fellow slaves, though Eheleterre Sambouclaimed that slave men could marry free women (houbook, people born in Esulalu)if...24 Fe­male slaves could marry either free or slave men, but their masters controlled theirbridal gifts...
7.
London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Missouri Press 2003
Subjects:
Slave Trade--England--London--History
Slave Traders--England--London--History
London (England)--History--1800-1950
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...from taking part in the trade.The slave trade was an aspect of labor exploitation...exploitation of blacks by theAtlantic slave trade. But racism, described as...prohibiting anyblack or mulatto, free or slave, from entering the kingdom ofFrance...
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Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1988
Subjects:
Amistad (Schooner)
Slave Insurrections--United States
Antislavery Movements--United States
Trials (Mutiny)--United States
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...to decide whether his clients were free or slave. The least Ruizand Montes could...bought contrabandgoods and aided the slave trade.19Within a week Inglis convened...decide whetherthe plaintiff was a slave belonging to Ruiz. In a statement...
9.
Slave Trading in the Old South
Contributors:
Publisher:
Frederick Ungar Publishing 1959
Subjects:
Slave Trade--United States
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...since I can remember, the chief slave-dealing firm in that State,and...where along the border between the free and slave States.* * * Upon the secession...A considerable portion of the old slave-penhas been removed but some of...
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United States v. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny
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Publisher:
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2006
Subjects:
Amistad (Schooner)
Cinque--Trials, Litigation, Etc
Trials (Mutiny)--United States
Fugitive Slaves--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States
Slave Insurrections--United State
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...Missouri, where slavery was allowed, and onMaine, where slavery was not allowed, thus maintainingthe balance between free and slave states.The controversy further emphasized the dividebetween the North and the South. During the debate onthe matter...
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