Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Edward B. Rugemer is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University. Klappentext Edward Rugemer¿s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves¿ resistance and slaveholders¿ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other. Zusammenfassung Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other.

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• Authors: Edward B Rugemer, Edward B. Rugemer
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9780674982994
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98299-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LAW / Legal History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Legal History, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, slave law