Slavery
Author: Milton Meltzer
Publisher: New York : Cowles Book Company
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life, hardships, struggles, punishments, pleasures and revolts of slaves from ancient times.
Author: Milton Meltzer
Publisher: New York : Cowles Book Company
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life, hardships, struggles, punishments, pleasures and revolts of slaves from ancient times.
Author: Kevin Bales
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1780740344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises facing us today. Only a handful of slaves are reached and freed each year, but the authors offer hope for the future with a global blueprint that proposes to end slavery in our lifetime All royalties will go to Free the Slaves.
Author: Judith Carney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0520949536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods—millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example—are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots—"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"—became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.
Author: David Eltis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-07-25
Total Pages: 777
ISBN-13: 0521840686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Author: Kevin Bales
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-04-23
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0520951387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals. Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation. Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy. All of the author's royalties from this book go to fund anti-slavery projects around the world.
Author: Stephanie E. Smallwood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780674043770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.
Author: Sandra R. Joshel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-16
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0521535018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author: Rodney Collomb
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rise and fall of the Arab Empire
Author: Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 1999-06-15
Total Pages: 626
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ancient, yet modern: that is the sobering truth of slavery. Author Junius P. Rodriguez describes slavery as "a dark mirror reflecting man's inhumanity to man". The Chronology of World Slavery traces the course of events, both great and small, that have defined the meaning of slavery throughout history. Unprecedented in scope and approach, the Chronology features: -- Seven separate chronologies covering major world regions and eras -- 128 sidebars, each with its own bibliography, written by 44 eminent scholars -- 80 primary source documents from diverse time periods -- 120 black-and-white illustrations and 5 maps -- Preface, introduction, and general index Chronology of World Slavery is the ideal companion to The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery and shares that publication's distinguished editorial board. Together, these works span all world cultures and time periods to examine humankind's most perplexing -- and persistent -- historical issue.
Author: Kevin Bales
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-11-07
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0520245075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Slavery continues as a blight on the human world, with an estimated 27 million people around the world in bondage. Kevin Bales undertakes a discussion of the causes of enslavement & the socio-economic factors that sustain slavery in the 21st century.