Alchemy of Slavery - Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865

M. Scott Heerman teaches history at the University of Miami.

List of contents

Introduction. Slavery and Freedom on the American Continent

Chapter 1. Making the French Negroes

Chapter 2. Another Law and Empire

Chapter 3. Remaking the French Negroes

Chapter 4. Contesting Bondage in the Slave North

Chapter 5. Paths to Independence

Chapter 6. Freedom Practices, Freedom Politics

Conclusion. North of Slavery, South of Freedom

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

M. Scott Heerman

Summary

The Alchemy of Slavery foregrounds diverse and adaptable slaving practices that masters deployed to build a slave economy in Illinois, innovating in response to antislavery pressures.

Product details

• Authors: M Scott Heerman, M. Scott Heerman
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780812250466
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5046-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous