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Hace 1 día · Review of The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888 by Robin Blackburn (Verso, 2024).. W. E. B. Du Bois called the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas the “most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history.”It is a drama that continues to grip the popular imagination, which has its own varying interpretations: slavery as an “original sin ...
Hace 16 horas · The untold story of America’s founding. James Forten was just 15 years old when he served as a gunpowder handler on Stephen Decatur’s 22-gun privateer, the Royal Louis, during the American Revolution. A free Black whose great-grandfather had been one of the first slaves in Pennsylvania to purchase his freedom, Forten had attended a school led by the pioneering Quaker abolitionist Anthony ...
Hace 3 días · By 1820, Berlin illustrates how white abolitionists, embarrassed by their failures to fully remove slavery from the North or make headway in the southern states, ‘largely gave up the battle’ (p. 104) against slavery, leaving a significant void in the anti-slavery cause.
Hace 2 días · For me, black intellectual reconstruction commenced in the antebellum slave narratives, published mainly between 1831 and 1861, and ended (if indeed it has ended) with the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s.
Hace 2 días · Plantation Literature. Within the imaginative landscape of the white American South of the 19th century, three entities are inextricably intertwined: the fantasy of the plantation as a site of white mastery, the idea of white Southern womanhood, and the image of the African American, whether slave or freedman, as subhuman.These interdependent representations are reflective of an economy that ...
Hace 3 días · The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade. Stroud: History Press. (2 copies) Download scan of Chapter 12: A questionable kind of liberty Mr Roberts says "Useful emphasis/ analysis of the final stage of the battle for abolition. +/- sig. of the Great Reform Act."
Hace 2 días · By Ugo Realfonzo. Leopold II giving a speech on Congo at the Bourse in 1893 on the left, and Belgian King Leopold II. Credit: Creative Commons. On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure the 'Scramble for Africa'.
