British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780192857378
ISBN-13 : 0192857371
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750 by : Bernard Capp

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, an issue of intense contemporary concern but almost wholly overlooked in modern histories of Britain. The study charts the course of victims' lives from capture to eventual liberation, death in Barbary, or, for a lucky few, escape. After sketching the outlines of Barbary's government and society, and the world of the corsairs, it describes the trauma of the slave-market, the lives of galley-slaves and labourers, and the fate of female captives. Most captives clung on to their Christian faith, but a significant minority apostatized and accepted Islam. For them, and for Britons who joined the corsairs voluntarily, identity became fluid and multi-layered. Bernard Capp also explores in depth how ransoms were raised by private and public initiatives, and how redemptions were organised by merchants, consuls, and other intermediaries. With most families too poor to raise any ransom, the state came under intense pressure to intervene. From the mid-seventeenth century, the navy played a significant role in 'gunboat diplomacy' that eventually helped end the corsair threat. The Barbary corsairs posed a challenge to most European powers, and the study places the British story within the wider context of Mediterranean slavery, which saw Moors and Christians as both captors and captives.

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750
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Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 0191948179
ISBN-13 : 9780191948176
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750 by : B. S. Capp

Here is a comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, charting the course of victims' lives from capture to liberation, death, or, escape. The study places the British story within the context of Mediterranean slavery, which saw Moors and Christians as both captors and captives.

Against Decolonisation

Against Decolonisation
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : 9781509554249
ISBN-13 : 1509554246
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Against Decolonisation by : Doug Stokes

Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across universities, fringe theories became the new orthodoxy, with a cadre of activists backed by university technocrats adopting a binary worldview of moral certainty, sin and deconstructive redemption through Western self-erasure. This hard-hitting book surveys these developments for the first time. It unpacks and challenges the theories and arguments deployed by ‘decolonisers’ in a university system now characterised by garbled leadership and illiberal groupthink. The desire to question the West’s sense of itself, deconstruct its narratives and overthrow its institutional order is an impulse that, ironically, was underpinned by a more confident and assured Western hegemony, which is now waning and under great strain. If its light continues to dim, who or what will carry the torch for human freedom and progress?

Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700

Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9781783277841
ISBN-13 : 178327784X
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700 by : Rachel Hammersley

Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contribution to the development of religious and political thought at key moments of early modern British political and colonial history. As this volume shows, it was at work not just during the Enlightenment, but within a much wider periodical framework: the Reformation, the rise of the Puritan movement, the conflict over the Stuart state and church, the English Revolution, and the formation of key American colonies in the eighteenth century. Advocates of Civil Religion tried to reconcile a national church with religious toleration and design a constitution capable of preventing the church from interfering with affairs of state. The volume investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers in the history of political thought (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau), in the works of those who have been recognized as shaping political ideas (Hooker, Prynne et al.) during this period, and in the advocacy of those perhaps not previously associated with Civil Religion (William Penn). Although Civil Religion was often posited as a pragmatic solution to constitutional and ecclesiological problems created by the Reformation and the English Revolution, they also reveal that such pragmatism was not at odds with religious conviction or ideals. Civil Religion certainly enhanced citizenship in this period, but it did so in ways which depended on the truth claims of Protestantism, not on their domestication to politics.

Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters

Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 1403945519
ISBN-13 : 9781403945518
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters by : R. Davis

This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

Black Prometheus

Black Prometheus
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 545
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ISBN-10 : 9780190272593
ISBN-13 : 0190272597
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Prometheus by : Jared Hickman

How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike? How did Prometheus come to represent a notion of civilizational progress through revolution--scientific, political, and spiritual--and thereby to center nothing less than a myth of modernity itself ? The answer Black Prometheus gives is that certain features of the myth--its geographical associations, iconography of bodily suffering, and function as a limit case in a long tradition of absolutist political theology--made it ripe for revival and reinvention in a historical moment in which freedom itself was racialized, in what was the Age both of Atlantic revolution and Atlantic slavery. Contained in the various incarnations of the modern Prometheus--whether in Mary Shelley's esoteric novel, Frankenstein, Denmark Vesey's real-world recruitment of slave rebels, or popular travelogues representing Muslim jihadists against the Russian empire in the Caucasus-- is a profound debate about the means and ends of liberation in our globalized world. Tracing the titan's rehabilitation and unprecedented exaltation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries across a range of genres and geographies turns out to provide a way to rethink the relationship between race, religion, and modernity and to interrogate the Eurocentric and secularist assumptions of our deepest intellectual traditions of critique.

Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail

Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9780198847229
ISBN-13 : 019884722X
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail by : Douglas Hamilton

This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail.

Sweet Taste of Liberty

Sweet Taste of Liberty
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 365
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ISBN-10 : 9780190847012
ISBN-13 : 0190847018
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Sweet Taste of Liberty by : W. Caleb McDaniel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount, though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Wood's son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer, and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniel's book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which establish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place.

The Cause of Freedom

The Cause of Freedom
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780190915193
ISBN-13 : 0190915196
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cause of Freedom by : Jonathan Scott Holloway

Race, slavery, and ideology in colonial North America -- Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War -- War, freedom, and a nation reconsidered -- Civilization, race, and the politics of uplift -- The making of the modern Civil Rights Movement(s) -- The paradoxes of post-civil rights America -- Epilogue: Stony the road we trod.

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780199782376
ISBN-13 : 0199782377
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in the World of Frederick Douglass by : Leigh Fought

A biographical study of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass through his relationships with the women in his life that reveals the man from both a political/public and private perspective.