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The Price of Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: T. Stephen Whitman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-15 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was
Paths to Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Rosemary Brana-Shute
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

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The contributors investigate the cultural consequences of manumission as well as the changing economic conditions that limited the practice by the eighteenth ce
Roadblocks to Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Andrew Fede
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Quid Pro, LLC

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Exhaustively researched, Fede's study picks apart, categorizes, and contextualizes hundreds of cases and statutes addressing the efforts and abilities of slaves
Slavery and Manumission
Language: en
Pages: 514
Authors: Jerzy Zdanowski
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Ithaca Press (GB)

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"I am a free-born woman, and not a slave of anyone," Manuy bint Khalfan, Speaking to a British Agency in Sharjah on 24th October 1938. Manuy bint Khalfan was a
The Faces of Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Marc Kleijwegt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-01 - Publisher: BRILL

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This volume is concerned with the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the so