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Résumé : A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive new history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : F. Douglass, ancien esclave, dénonce dans ce discours, prononcé devant 600 personnes au Corinthian Hall de Rochester, la violence de l'asservissement de l'homme par l'homme, considérant la nation nord-américaine dans son ensemble complice de ce crime. ©Electre 2022

Résumé : Un ouvrage consacré aux esclaves en Afrique, aux Antilles et sur le continent américain, en s'attachant à montrer le rôle majeur qu'ils y ont joué et en restituant leur histoire grâce aux nombreux récits de vie qu'ils ont écrits ou qui ont été recueillis.

Résumé : Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest’s iconic city : Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree—both native and African American—in the frontier outpost of colonial Detroit, a place wildly remote yet at the center of national and international conflict. Skillfully assembling fragments of a distant historical record, Miles introduces new historical figures and unearths struggles that remained hidden from view until now. The result is fascinating history, little explored and eloquently told, of the limits of freedom in early America, one that adds new layers of complexity to the story of a place that exerts a strong fascination in the media and among public intellectuals, artists, and activists. A book that opens the door on a hidden past, The Dawn of Detroit is a powerful and elegantly written history, one that completely changes our understanding of slavery’s American legacy. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Cette étude décrit les relations entre maîtres et esclaves et analyse la manière dont l'esclavage en est venu dans le sud des Etats-Unis à représenter un système de travail et à façonner profondément les sociétés et les cultures locales. Peter Kolchin, dans une perspective comparatiste, confronte l'esclavage des Etats-Unis à celui des Caraïbes et au servage russe.

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