Coming as closely on the heels of the Revolutionary War as it did, the French Revolution had a profound impact upon America. France's abolition of racial discrimination in 1792, and then slavery two years later, are two aspects of the burgeoning French democracy that, the author argues, America later emulated. "A Turbulent Time" tracks ...
David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine's Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, were forced to carve out their existences. Although their freedom, represented by the acquisition of property, respectability, and opportunity, always remained precarious, the ...
Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, "Bondmen & Rebels "provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance ...
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