The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas: Lawrence Aje: Bloomsbury Academic

The Many Faces of Slavery

New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas

Open Access

The Many Faces of Slavery

New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas

Open Access

Description

While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common conceptions of slavery has arguably led to an oversimplified understanding of its multifarious forms and complex dynamics in the region. Published open access, The Many Faces of Slavery explores non-traditional forms of slavery that existed outside the plantation system to illustrate the pluralities of slave ownership and experiences in the Americas, from the 17th to the 19th century.

Through a wide range of innovative and multi-disciplined approaches, the book's chapters explore the existence of urban slavery, slave self-hiring, quasi-free or nominal slaves, domestic slave concubines, slave vendors, slave soldiers and sailors, slave preachers, slave overseers, and many other types of “societies with slaves.” Moreover, it documents unconventional forms of slave ownership like slave-holding by poor whites, women, free blacks, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, corporations and the state. The Many Faces of Slavery broadens our traditional conception of slavery by complicating our understanding of slave experience and ownership in slavery-practising societies throughout Atlantic history.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

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List of Contributors

Introduction, Lawrence Aje (Montpellier University, France) and Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University, UK)

Section I - Documenting non-traditional slavery and slaveholding in archival and archaeological records
1. Many Faces of Slaveholding Sephardim, Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
2. Something Close to Freedom: The Case of the Black Seminoles in Florida, Brent R. Weisman (University of South Florida, USA)
3. 'Adventure in a Wigwam:' Henry Bibb's Account of Slavery among the Cherokees in Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave (1849), Sandrine Ferré-Rode (University of Versailles, France)
4. To 'make a good Mistress to my servants': unmasking the meaning of maternalism in colonial South Carolina, Inge Dornan (Brunel University, UK)
5. Resident Female Slaveholders in Jamaica at the End of Emancipation: Evidence from the Compensation Claims, Ahmed Reid (City University of New York, USA)

Section II - The Politics and Economics of Non-traditional Slavery and Slaveholding
6. Corporate Slavery in Seventeenth-Century New York, Anne-Claire Faucquez (University of Paris 8, France)
7. Militarized slavery: the creation of the West India Regiments, Tim Lockley (University of Warwick, UK)
8. 'A question between hiring and selling': Slave Leasing at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, 1780 -1830, Christa Dierksheide (University of Missouri, USA)
9. Turmoil in the Cocoa Groves: slave revolts in Ocumare de la Costa,Venezuela, 1837 and 1845, Nikita Harwich (University of Paris Nanterre, France)

Section III - Social mobility on the margins of slavery and freedom
10. Keeper of the Keys: Creole Management of a Nineteenth-Century French Plantation in New Orleans, Nathalie Dessens (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France)
11. João de Oliveira's Atlantic World: Mobility and Dislocation in Eighteenth- Century Brazil and the Bight of Benin, Mary Hicks (Amherst College, USA)
12. Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith: slavery, freedom, and fame in antebellum Richmond, Virginia, Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf (University of Saint Francis, USA)
13. Nominal Slavery, Free People of Colour, and Enslavement Requests: Slavery and Freedom at the 'edges' of the regime, Emily West (University of Reading, UK)
14. The Transition from Plantation Slave Labour to Free Labour in the Americas, Herbert S. Klein (Columbia University, USA)

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Product details

Published	30 Dec 2021
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	256
ISBN	9781350298682
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	20 bw illus
Dimensions	234 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

The plantation looms large in the historiography of American slavery. Yet, by focusing so heavily on plantation slavery, scholars have largely neglected numerous other forms of bondage ... The Many Faces of Slavery-an edited collection of 14 short chapters dedicated to different aspects of non-plantation slavery-is therefore a welcome addition to the historiography of American slavery.

Histoire sociale/Social History
This valuable study belongs in all academic libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

CHOICE
Specialists will no doubt benefit from a discussion and debate over Klein's model and its various permutations upon emancipation. The short studies and clear presentation of methodology in the other essays of The Many Faces of Slavery enable the volume to serve as good introductory reading for undergraduate students.

H-Slavery
This volume brings together a wealth of case studies that break apart common stereotypes about slavery. Together, these works challenge how we imagine the roles of race, class, geography and economics in defining both slavery and freedom.

Rebecca Shumway, Assistant Professor of History, College of Charleston, USA
Offers intriguing accounts, complicating our understanding of chattel slavery in the Americas. The editors assert that the “volume broadens our conception of both slaveholding and enslaved experience in the Americas,” and their work hits this mark.

Anglican and Episcopal History