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Time, Space, and Jurisdiction in Atlantic World Slavery: The Volunbrun Household in Gradual Emancipation New York
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The vessel and cargo were “totally lost, but the captain, crew, and twenty-nine passengers, including the Volunbrun household, were saved by the following April of 1797, the household was again at sea, bound for New York City as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The widow Drouillard de Volunbrun and her household boarded the brig Mary & Elizabeth in November 1796, only after many failed attempts to leave the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Like many others, they sought refuge from the violence and deprivation of the Haitian Revolution. In the party were the widow, her mother, a male companion, Marie Alphonse Clery and, at best count, twenty enslaved people. Catastrophe struck November 18 when the Mary & Elizabeth wrecked on the west end of the Miguana Reef, off the Bahamas. The vessel and cargo were “totally” lost, but the captain, crew, and twenty-nine passengers, including the Volunbrun household, were “saved.” By the following April of 1797, the household was again at sea, bound for New York City. New York was, Shane White explains, “the center of the heaviest slaveholding region” in the North. Slaveholdings were small, with slaves a shrinking minority of the overall population. Still, one in five households held at least one slave. The household maintained a modest profile during their first four years in the city, moving to what was then the city's northeast periphery, Eagle Street near Bowery. Their neighbors were skilled workers, including butchers, masons, and men working the maritime trades. The widow put most of those she termed slaves to work manufacturing cigars.read more
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Slavery: annual bibliographical supplement (2011)
TL;DR: For 2011 the bibliography of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, essays, reviews, and articles as discussed by the authors.
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Paper Thin: Freedom and Re-enslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution
TL;DR: In the summer of 1809, a flotilla of boats arrived in New Orleans carrying more than 9,000 Saint-Domingue refugees recently expelled from the Spanish colony of Cuba.
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A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights
TL;DR: A legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other historical fields as discussed by the authors. But rights had limits in what they could accomplish, particularly when it came to the collective goals that so many ordinary Americans advocated.
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Beacons of Liberty: Free-Soil Havens and the American Anti-Slavery Movement, 1813-1863
TL;DR: This paper argued that free-soil havens had a powerful influence on American anti-slavery culture between 1813 and 1863, where emancipation laws either immediately or gradually freed enslaved populations.
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Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions
TL;DR: Slavery's Metropolis as discussed by the authors uses slave circulations through New Orleans between 1791 and 1825 to map the social and cultural history of enslaved men and women and the rapidly shifting city, nation, and world in which they lived.
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Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History
TL;DR: The meaning of territoriality and its meaning in the American territorial system are discussed in this article, where the authors propose a model of the United States as a society, territory, and space.
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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
TL;DR: The Tree of Liberty as discussed by the authors is a well-known tree of liberty in the Bible and is used in many of the works of the New World series of the Bible (see, e.g., Section 5.1).
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
TL;DR: In this article, Fox-Genovese argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.
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Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
TL;DR: The origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century were investigated in this article, where Brown argues that the first emancipation schemes were dependent on efforts to strengthen the role of the imperial state in an era of weakening overseas authority, and that the movement derived its power from a profound yearning for moral worth in the aftermath of defeat and American independence.
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
TL;DR: Elliott as discussed by the authors compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century.