Dark Work : The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island /

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"Historians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that sustained plantations throughout the Americas; however, nowhere else was this business so impo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark-Pujara, Christy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slaves > Emancipation.
Slavery.
Slave trade.
Race relations.
Free African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Noirs americains affranchis > Rhode Island > Histoire.
Esclaves > Rhode Island > Conditions sociales.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Rhode Island > Histoire.
Esclaves > Commerce > Rhode Island > Histoire.
Free African Americans > Rhode Island > History.
Slaves > Rhode Island > Social conditions.
Slaves > Emancipation > Rhode Island > History.
Slave trade > Rhode Island > History.
Slavery > Rhode Island > History.
Rhode Island.
Rhode Island > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Rhode Island > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The business of slavery and the making of race
  • Living and laboring under slavery
  • Emancipation in black and white
  • The legacies of enslavement
  • Building a free community
  • Building a free state and nation.

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