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Carregando... American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (2014)de Heather Andrea Williams
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Oxford University series of very short introductions to big topics. Of the ones I have read so far, this book is the ideal representative of a Very Short introduction. It focuses on a wide ranging though specific topic. The author makes no assumptions about reader’s prior knowledge of the subject. The narrative is both comprehensive yet always compelling and highly informative. You come away wanting to know more. Moreover, though the topic is highly emotional, the author avoids propaganda, overly emotional or harsh language. She herself avoids the words “evil” or “horror” in describing slavery although her narrative makes it unequivocally clear that slavery was an evil institution and black slaves lived a life filled with horror and torment. She presents the thinking of white slave holders with only minimal commentary, letting their own words condemn them. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to begin to understand the awful institution that was US slavery and how and why it resonates in US society nearly one hundred sixty years after it was abolished. This is an extraordinary book that contains as much information in 140 pages (including bibliographical material and index) as books that are hundreds of pages. As a verbose writer, I'm jealous. The reader who is just starting out learning or has limited knowledge about slavery can't do better than this. It includes reproductions of historic material. There are websites of primary sources, and suggestions for further reading. I can't think of anything that I think was left out, or any editorial changes that I would make. A worthy introduction to an excellent series. Well done Heather Andrea Williams and Oxford! sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"This short introduction to American slavery begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and, drawing upon the scholarship of numerous historians as well as the analysis of primary documents, explores the development of slavery in the American colonies and later, the United States of America. It analyzes early legislation in Virginia that differentiated Indians and Africans from Europeans and began the process of stratifying society based on racial categories. Unlike some recent scholarship, it is attentive to the actual labor that enslaved people performed, reminding us that more than anything else, slavery was a system of forced labor that produced wealth for a new nation. And, it considers the tensions that arose between enslaved and enslavers as they interacted with one another, exerting control and undermining efforts at domination. Throughout, it explores slavery within the context of moral contradiction that included the development of an ideology that valorized freedom alongside a practice and justification of slavery that deemed inferior and denied freedom to a large swath of the population. The book explores conflicts between abolitionists who worked to eliminate slavery and pro-slavery advocates who worked doggedly to sustain the power and wealth they derived from the institution. It ends with the abolition of slavery in America following the Civil War"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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