Slavery, Freedom, And Law in the Atlantic World: A Brief History With Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Hardcover

Peabody, Sue; Grinberg, Keila

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140397151X ISBN 13: 9781403971517

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Book by Peabody Sue Grinberg Keila

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02 "Slavery" and "freedom" were fluid and contested concepts in the strongly hierarchical, highly mobile Atlantic world. In the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English empires in the Americas, individuals and groups turned to courts of law to define and implement various types of status for indigenous Americans, forcibly imported Africans, and colonizing Europeans - and their progeny. In particular, in the era of revolution, independence, and emancipation in the north Atlantic - ca. 1700-1900 - legal institutions of the state manufactured and mediated a new, dynamic concept of freedom. Simultaneously - and once again, the legal codes of France and the United States played important roles - categories of race were invented, and white privilege was codified. Peabody and Grinberg introduce the voices of slaves, slave-holders, jurists, legislators, and others, as they struggle to critique, overturn, justify, or simply describe the social order in which they are embedded. Sensitive translations, discussion questions, illustrations, a glossary and bibliography allow students to analyze these rich documents, and discern their influences on our lives today.

Biografía del autor

Sue Peabody is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University, Vancouver. She has published widely, and has won awards for her teaching of undergraduates. Keila Grinberg is Assistant Professor of History at the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, and Director of the History Department at the Universidade Candido Mendes. She is an expert on slavery, civil law, and citizenship in Brazil, subjects on which she has published and presented many papers in the United States, Brazil, and elsewhere.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 140397151X
• ISBN 13: 9781403971517
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 201