Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition

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Black female teachers : diversifying the United States' teacher workforce

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Five letters of the University Commission on Southern Race Questions.

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The Freedman in the Roman World. by Mouritsen, Henrik

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction: Approaching Roman freedmen; Chapter 2: Macula servitutis: Slavery, freedom, and manumission; Chapter 3: Freedmen and their patrons; Chapter 4: The power and status of freedmen; Chapter 5: The practice of manumission at Rome; Chapter 6: The freedman in the Roman economy; Chapter 7: The freedman (and his son) in public life; Chapter 8: Being a Roman freedman: The identity and experiences of former slaves; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Builders of a New South : merchants, capital, and the remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914 by Anderson, Aaron D.

Table of Contents: “…Old ways and new realities -- Merchant communities -- Crop liens, freedmen, and planters -- A new kind of planter -- Merchant life and social capital -- A dangerous business.…”
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The Wheel of Servitude : Black Forced Labor after Slavery by Novak, Daniel A.

Table of Contents: “…The Black Codes -- 2. The Freedmen's Bureau and the Army -- 3. Reconstruction Legislation -- 4. …”
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Invisible Romans by Knapp, Robert C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : seeing the invisible -- In the middle: ordinary men -- Lives of their own: ordinary women -- Subjection and survival: the poor -- Coping in bondage: slaves -- After slavery: freedmen -- A living at arms: soldiers -- Sex for sale: prostitutes -- Fame and death: gladiators -- Beyond the law: bandits and pirates.…”
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That Every Man Be Armed : the Evolution of a Constitutional Right. Revised and Updated Edition. by Halbrook, Stephen P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : firearms prohibition and constitutional rights -- The elementary books of public right -- The common law of England -- The American revolution and the Second amendment -- Antebellum interpretations -- Freedmen, firearms, and the Fourteenth amendment -- The Supreme Court speaks -- State and federal judicial opinions.…”
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The digest of Justinian. Vol. 3

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The digest of Justinian. Vol. 3

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Status in classical Athens by Kamen, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: spectrum of statuses -- Chattel slaves -- Privileged chattel slaves -- Freedmen with conditional freedom -- Metics (metoikoi) -- Privileged metics -- Bastards (nothoi) -- Disenfranchised citizens (atimoi) -- Naturalized citizens -- Full citizens: female -- Full citizens: male -- Conclusion: status in ideology and practice.…”
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Status in classical Athens by Kamen, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: spectrum of statuses -- Chattel slaves -- Privileged chattel slaves -- Freedmen with conditional freedom -- Metics (metoikoi) -- Privileged metics -- Bastards (nothoi) -- Disenfranchised citizens (atimoi) -- Naturalized citizens -- Full citizens: female -- Full citizens: male -- Conclusion: status in ideology and practice.…”
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States of inquiry : social investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the United States by Frankel, Oz, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Monuments in print -- Blue books and the market of information -- The battle of the books -- The bee in the book -- The culture of the social fact -- Scenes of commission -- Facts speak for themselves -- Can freedmen be citizens? -- Totem envy -- Archives of Indian knowledge -- The purloined Indian -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on sources.…”
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States of inquiry : social investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the United States by Frankel, Oz, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Monuments in print -- Blue books and the market of information -- The battle of the books -- The bee in the book -- The culture of the social fact -- Scenes of commission -- Facts speak for themselves -- Can freedmen be citizens? -- Totem envy -- Archives of Indian knowledge -- The purloined Indian -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on sources.…”
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We ask only for even-handed justice : Black voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Smith, John David, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The promise and reality of emancipation -- Changing old ways -- Reuniting families -- The first friend: the Freedmen's Bureau -- A second bondage: the plantation system -- Organizing for equal rights -- The right to vote -- The first leaders -- Racial terrorism -- The promise of education and a homeland -- Conclusion: Reconstruction and its legacy.…”
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The manliest man : Samuel G. Howe and the contours of nineteenth-century American reform by Trent, James W., Jr., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- I thought no land -- could ever look more sweetly" -- "The Cadmus of the blind" -- A phrenologist and a superintendent -- Private lives, public causes -- For free soil and free men -- War, freedmen, and Crete -- Santo Domingo : the perpetual summer.…”
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Colonization after emancipation : Lincoln and the movement for Black resettlement by Magness, Phillip W.

Table of Contents: “…The curious politics of colonization -- American freedmen, British labor -- Mr. Lincoln's hobby -- The contrabands question -- This most desirable country -- A self-supporting scheme -- Secretary Seward and the Dutch treaty -- Administrative dysfunction, congressional displeasure -- The indefatigable James Mitchell -- Colonization repudiated, colonization revived? …”
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Still the arena of Civil War : violence and turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865/1874

Table of Contents: “…: the murder of Texas Freedmen's Bureau agent William G. Kirkman by Cullen Baker; and the historians / by William L. …”
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Reconstruction's ragged edge : the politics of postwar life in the southern mountains by Nash, Steven E.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage: antebellum and Civil War western North Carolina -- Mountain masters without slaves: the aftermath of slavery, 1865-1867 -- Great time for the Tories and Negroes: loyalty, race, and power, 1865-1868 -- Agents of change: the Freedmen's Bureau, 1867-1868 -- Every thing that the devil can suggest: Klan violence and the Republicans' failure, 1868-1872 -- The beginning of a "new" mountain South: agriculture, railroads, and social change, 1872-1880.…”
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Kentucky in the reconstruction era by Webb, Ross A. (Ross Allan)

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The national freedman.

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Race and the Cherokee Nation : sovereignty in the nineteenth century by Yarbrough, Fay A.

Table of Contents: “…A moment of inclusion : Molley -- Racial ideology in transition : Shoe Boots -- The 1855 Marriage Law : racial lines harden -- The Civil War : a missed opportunity -- The Cherokee freedmen's story : the Boles family -- Indian slavery and memory : interracial sex from the slaves' perspective -- The fight for recognition continues : Lucy Allen.…”
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Race and the Cherokee Nation : sovereignty in the nineteenth century by Yarbrough, Fay A.

Table of Contents: “…A moment of inclusion : Molley -- Racial ideology in transition : Shoe Boots -- The 1855 Marriage Law : racial lines harden -- The Civil War : a missed opportunity -- The Cherokee freedmen's story : the Boles family -- Indian slavery and memory : interracial sex from the slaves' perspective -- The fight for recognition continues : Lucy Allen.…”
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"What shall we do with the Negro?" : Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America by Escott, Paul D., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The North confronts the question ; War's proving ground ; Amnesty, apprenticeship, and the freedmen's future ; Politics, emancipation, and Black rights -- Part 2: Southern developments. …”
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The transit of empire : Indigenous critiques of colonialism by Byrd, Jodi A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization -- Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry -- "This Island's Mine": The Parallax Logics of Caliban's Cacophony -- The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability -- "Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There": Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship -- Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance -- Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the "Pale Promise of Democracy" -- Conclusion: Zombie Imperialism.…”
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The transit of empire : Indigenous critiques of colonialism by Byrd, Jodi A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization -- Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry -- "This Island's Mine": The Parallax Logics of Caliban's Cacophony -- The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability -- "Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There": Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship -- Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance -- Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the "Pale Promise of Democracy" -- Conclusion: Zombie Imperialism.…”
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Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Washington, Harriet A.

Table of Contents: “…Southern discomfort: medical exploitation on the plantation -- Profitable wonders: antebellum medical experimentation with slaves and freedmen -- Circus Africanus: the popular display of Black bodies -- The surgical theater: Black bodies in the antebellum clinic -- The restless dead: anatomical dissection and display -- Diagnosis: freedom: the Civil War, Emancipation, and Fin de Siáecle medical research -- "A notoriously syphilis-soaked race": what really happened at Tuskegee? …”
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The problem of the color line at the turn of the twentieth century : the essential early essays by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

Table of Contents: “…Front ; Contents; Introduction Toward a New History of the Centuries; The Afro- American; The Conservation of Races; Strivings of the Negro People; The Study of the Negro Problems; Appendix: Résumé of the Discussion of the Negro Problems; The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind; The Spirit of Modern Eu rope; The Freedmen's Bureau; The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South; The Talented Tenth; The Development of a People; Sociology Hesitant; Die Negerfrage in den vereinigten staaten (The Negro Question in the United States).…”
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Black slaves, Indian masters : slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the Native American South by Krauthamer, Barbara, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Black slaves, Indian masters: race, gender, and power in the Deep South -- Enslaved people, missionaries, and slaveholders: Christianity, colonialism, and struggles over slavery -- Slave resistance, sectional crisis, and political factionalism in antebellum Indian territory -- The Treaty of 1866: emancipation and the conflicts over Black people's citizenship rights and Indian nations' sovereignty -- Freedmen's political organizing and the ongoing struggles over citizenship, sovereignty, and squatters -- A new home in the West: allotment, race, and citizenship.…”
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Christian reconstruction : the American Missionary Association and southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by Richardson, Joe Martin

Table of Contents: “…AMA Common Schools After the War; 4. Freedmen's Relief; 5. Friends and Allies; 6. Administration and Fund Collecting; 7. …”
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A history of Southland College : the Society of Friends and black education in Arkansas by Kennedy, Thomas C. (Thomas Cummins), 1937-2017

Table of Contents: “…Worlds Apart; 2. Friends and Freedmen; 3. The Curse of Slavery and War; 4. The Bible and the Spelling Book; 5. …”
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Making a living : work and environment in the United States by Montrie, Chad

Table of Contents: “…Living by Themselves: Slaves' and Freedmen's Hunting, Fishing, and Gardening in the Mississippi Delta; 3. …”
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Morality & utility in American antislavery reform by Gerteis, Louis S.

Table of Contents: “…The True Interests of the Freedmen -- Notes -- 10. A Spirit of Magnanimity -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D-F -- G-H -- I-L…”
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Declarations of dependence : the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?…”
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The struggle for equality : abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction by McPherson, James M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Quest for equal rights in the North -- Ballot and land for the Freedmen: 1861-1865 -- Reelection of Lincoln -- Schism in the ranks, 1864-1865 -- Andrew Johnson and reconstruction: 1865 -- Fourteenth Amendment and the election of 1866 -- Military reconstruction and impeachment -- Education and confiscation: 1865-1870 -- Climax of the crusade: the Fifteenth Amendment.…”
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Declarations of dependence : the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Friends unseen: the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection: the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer: freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference: demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter: democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer: dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms: the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age: white supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda. …”
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The politics of judicial interpretation : the federal courts, Department of Justice, and civil rights, 1866-1876 by Kaczorowski, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…Judicial interpretations of national civil rights enforcement authority, 1866-1873 -- The Freedmen's Bureau and civil rights enforcement, 1866-1868 -- The politics of civil rights enforcement in the federal courts, 1866-1873 -- The Department of Justice and civil rights enforcement, 1870-1871 -- The Department of Justice and the retreat from civil rights enforcement, 1872-1873 -- The judicial administration of civil rights enforcement, 1870-1872 -- The Supreme Court as legislature : the judicial retreat from civil rights enforcement -- The judicial curtailment of civil rights enforcement, 1874-1875 -- The reinstitution of decentralized constitutionalism : the Supreme Court and civil rights, 1876.…”
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Cotton and Race in the Making of America : the Human Costs of Economic Power. by Dattel, Gene

Table of Contents: “…New Era, Old Problems; Chapter 18. Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton Fields; Chapter 19. Reconstruction Meets Reality; Chapter 20. …”
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Lincoln & Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion by Lander, James

Table of Contents: “…Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality.…”
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A long dark night : race in America from Jim Crow to World War II by Martinez, J. Michael (James Michael)

Table of Contents: “…Part I.A child of misery -- Prologue: race in America -- The legacy of reconstruction -- Jumpin' Jim Crow: legal segregation -- Racial violence and the plight of the freedmen -- Part II. I'm sometimes up and sometimes down -- The rise of the populist movement -- Southern populism -- Washington versus Du Bois -- Part III. …”
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