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Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul capture mythologies The Transatlantic Zombie provides a more complete history of the zombie than has ever been told explaining how the myths migration to the New World was facilitated by the transatlantic slave trade and reveals the realworld import of storytelling reminding us of the power of myths and mythmaking and the high stakes of appropriation and homagenbspnbspBeginning with an account of a probable ancestor of the zombie found in the Kongolese and Angolan regions of seventeenthcentury Africa and ending with a description of the way in contemporary culture new media are used to facilitate zombiethemed events Sarah Juliet Lauro plots the zombies cultural significance through Caribbean literature Haitian folklore and American literature film and the visual arts The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti the site of an eighteenthcentury slave rebellion that became a war for independence thus making the figuration of living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion Lauro bridges African mythology and US mainstream culture by articulating the ethical complications of the zombie as a cultural conquest that was rebranded for the American cinemanbspAs The Transatlantic Zombie shows the zombie is not merely a bogeyman representing the ills of modern society but a battleground over which a cultural war has been fought between the imperial urge to absorb exotic threatening elements and the originary Afrodiasporic cultures preservation through a strategy of mythic combatnbsp
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When European settlers first started their migration to the Western Hemisphere they found land that was ready for farming To build this agricultural society they bought and sold slaves from Africa Through the detailed text contemporary and historical images and informative sidebars readers get a sense of how complex and dangerous the transatlantic slave trade was in the early years of New World exploration Powerful quotes from primary sources and scholars bring this painful period in Americas past to life asking readers to think more critically about history
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Titled after TomMania the name a British newspaper gave to the international sensation attending the 1852 novel Uncle Toms Cabin this study looks anew at the novel and the songs plays sketches translations and imitations it inspired In particular Sarah Meer shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy the slavery question and Americas emerging cultural identity affected how Uncle Toms Cabin was read discussed dramatized merchandised and politicized here and abroadUntil Uncle Toms Cabin Meer says little truly common ground existed on which the United States and Britain could debate slavery In addition to cutting across class gender and national lines the novel tapped into a huge preexisting transatlantic appetite for blackface performance Even as it condemned slavery however Uncle Toms Cabin was ambiguous about racial equality and it portrayed blacks in demeaning ways This gave copycat novels and minstrel stagings leeway to stray from Harriet Beecher Stowes intentions Minstrelshow versions in particular had a huge influence on later incarnations of the Uncle Tom story converting the character into a comic or worse a proslavery stoogea scorned figure in our popular memoryTo look at how and why Uncle Toms Cabin both advocated emancipation and licensed a plethora of racist imitators Meer places it in the context of contemporary minstrel sketches melodramas songs jokes newspaper commentaries slave narratives travel writing proslavery novels and even Uncle Tom merchandise like china figurines and wallpaper She goes on to discuss Harriet Beecher Stowes travelogue Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands and her second novel Dred The publication of each unleashed the political energies of Uncle Toms Cabin and its revisions yet again
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Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commercethe book trade and the slave trade Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped in part by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products the volume merges the fields of the history of the book Atlantic studies and the study of race arguing that the empirewide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora The volume is the first in early American and eighteenthcentury British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship constitutional traditions and rights that were the signature of that British identity Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of AngloAmericans at the expense of AfricanAmericans through these books however some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery
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Titled after TomMania the name a British newspaper gave to the international sensation attending the 1852 novel Uncle Toms Cabin this study looks anew at the novel and the songs plays sketches translations and imitations it inspired In particular Sarah Meer shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy the slavery question and Americas emerging cultural identity affected how Uncle Toms Cabin was read discussed dramatized merchandised and politicized here and abroadUntil Uncle Toms Cabin Meer says little truly common ground existed on which the United States and Britain could debate slavery In addition to cutting across class gender and national lines the novel tapped into a huge preexisting transatlantic appetite for blackface performance Even as it condemned slavery however Uncle Toms Cabin was ambiguous about racial equality and it portrayed blacks in demeaning ways This gave copycat novels and minstrel stagings leeway to stray from Harriet Beecher Stowes intentions Minstrelshow versions in particular had a huge influence on later incarnations of the Uncle Tom story converting the character into a comic or worse a proslavery stoogea scorned figure in our popular memoryTo look at how and why Uncle Toms Cabin both advocated emancipation and licensed a plethora of racist imitators Meer places it in the context of contemporary minstrel sketches melodramas songs jokes newspaper commentaries slave narratives travel writing proslavery novels and even Uncle Tom merchandise like china figurines and wallpaper She goes on to discuss Harriet Beecher Stowes travelogue Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands and her second novel Dred The publication of each unleashed the political energies of Uncle Toms Cabin and its revisions yet again
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Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commercethe book trade and the slave trade Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped in part by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products the volume merges the fields of the history of the book Atlantic studies and the study of race arguing that the empirewide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora The volume is the first in early American and eighteenthcentury British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship constitutional traditions and rights that were the signature of that British identity Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of AngloAmericans at the expense of AfricanAmericans through these books however some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery
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Newly available in paperback this edition is an important volume of international significance drawing together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field and edited by a team headed by the acclaimed historian David Richardson The book sets Liverpool in the wider context of transatlantic slavery and addresses issues in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery including African agency and trade experience Emphasis is placed on the human characteristics and impacts of transatlantic slavery It also opens up new areas of debate on Liverpools participation in the slave trade and helps to frame the research agenda for the future Anyone seeking a clear balanced and thoughtful presentation of the issues surrounding one of the most shameful episodes of human history could not do better than to arm themselves with a copy of this absorbing and welledited book Urban History Journal Undoubtedly of use to anyone who has more than a passing interest in the role the African slave trade played in developing one of the Atlantic Worlds most prominent ports Journal of African History
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From 1501 when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola until the nineteenth century some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean the infamous Middle Passage to work in the colonies of the New World Perhaps two million Africans died at sea Why was slavery so widely condoned during most of this period by leading lawyers religious leaders politicians and philosophers How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric Exploring these and other questions and the slave experience on the sugar rice coffee and cotton plantations Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture slave revolts including the successful revolution in Haiti 17911804 and the rise of abolitionism when the ideas of Montesquieu Wilberforce Quakers and others led to the slave trades systemic demise At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution
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Bradleys study carefully analyses and descr ibes the 3 major slave rebellions and uprisings that occurre d during the period 140 BC to 70 BC His analysis examine s the conditions that led the slaves to resist and how they maintained the rebellion
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In the 70 years between 140 BC and 70 BC Rome was confronted with three major slave rebellions Two of the uprisings occurred in the province of Sicily The third and most memorable led by the gladiator Spartacus took place in Italy and posed a serious threat to the city of Rome Bradleys work carefully describes and analyzes these rebellions in their respective contexts In addition to examining the immediate historical context of each rebellion and the relationship of the uprisings to the overall development of Roman slavery in the second century BC Bradley offers an original analysis of the rebellions against the broad background of resistance in modern slave societies Emphasizing the material conditions that led slaves to resist and the practical means by which their resistance was maintained Bradley demonstrates the relationship of the Roman slave wars to other types of slave resistance
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