Paths to Freedom - Manumission in the Atlantic World

An international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery

About the author

Randy J. Sparks is a professor of history at Tulane University and a cofounder of the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World at the College of Charleston. His books include The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey; and Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora.

Summary

Presents an international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery. This book presents a volume of essays that comprises a comparative study of manumission - the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues - as it affected slave systems on both sides of the Atlantic.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary (EDT)/ Sparks Brana-Shute
• Assisted by: Rosemary Brana-Shute (Editor), Randy J. Sparks (Editor), Rosemary Brana-Shute (Editor), Randy J Sparks (Editor), Randy J. Sparks (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9781570037740
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-774-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Carolina Lowcountry and the At; Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World; Carolina Lowcountry and the At; The Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries