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BostonPL_Slavery's Orbit: 18 eBooks on its Scope and Influence

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American slavery is more than an institution of southeast North America from the 17th-19th centuries. Its influence extends much farther in space and time, affecting global contemporaneous events and reaching into the present and future of our society. The eBooks below address the infiltration of slavery's effects into virtually every aspect of culture and society, from before the nation's founding through to today.

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Ten Hills Farm

Ten Hills Farm

The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North

by Manegold, C. S.

eBook - 2009

These first four books address slavery's presence and significance in places outside its usual geographic placement, from New England to the streets of Wa...Show more These first four books address slavery's presence and significance in places outside its usual geographic placement, from New England to the streets of Washington, D.C. "Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery." Show less

These first four books address slavery's presence and significance in places outside its usual geographic placement, from New England to the streets of Wa...Show more These first four books address slavery's presence and significance in places outside its usual geographic placement, from New England to the streets of Washington, D.C. "Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery." Show less

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Disowning Slavery

Disowning Slavery

Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

by Joanne Pope Melish

eBook - 2016

"Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primar...Show more "Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources-from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides-Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well. " Show less

"Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primar...Show more "Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources-from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides-Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well. " Show less

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Inheriting the Trade

Inheriting the Trade

A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History

by DeWolf, Thomas Norman

eBook - 2008

A reminder of Northern involvement in the slave trade and a call to reckon with historical legacies. A reminder of Northern involvement in the slave trade and a call to reckon with historical legacies. Show less

A reminder of Northern involvement in the slave trade and a call to reckon with historical legacies. A reminder of Northern involvement in the slave trade and a call to reckon with historical legacies. Show less

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Slave Labor in the Capital

Slave Labor in the Capital

Building Washington's Iconic Federal Landmarks

by Arnebeck, Bob

eBook - 2014

"The little-known history of how enslaved African Americans contributed to the building of the White House and other landmarks. " "The little-known history of how enslaved African Americans contributed to the building of the White House and other landmarks. " Show less

"The little-known history of how enslaved African Americans contributed to the building of the White House and other landmarks. " "The little-known history of how enslaved African Americans contributed to the building of the White House and other landmarks. " Show less

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Slave Nation

Slave Nation

How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution

by Blumrosen, Alfred W.

eBook - 2006

These next three books look at slavery as foundational to the American Revolution and at the complex ramifications of slavery's persistence in a new natio...Show more These next three books look at slavery as foundational to the American Revolution and at the complex ramifications of slavery's persistence in a new nation founded on 'liberty.' This one is and "account of the role slavery played in the drawing of the United States Constitution and in shaping the United States." Show less

These next three books look at slavery as foundational to the American Revolution and at the complex ramifications of slavery's persistence in a new natio...Show more These next three books look at slavery as foundational to the American Revolution and at the complex ramifications of slavery's persistence in a new nation founded on 'liberty.' This one is and "account of the role slavery played in the drawing of the United States Constitution and in shaping the United States." Show less

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Forced Founders

Forced Founders

Indians, Debtors, Slaves, And The Making Of The American Revolution In Virginia

by Holton, Woody

eBook - 2011

"In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when...elite Virginians joined the...Show more "In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when...elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule" by "enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers." Show less

"In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when...elite Virginians joined the...Show more "In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when...elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule" by "enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers." Show less

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One Nation Divided by Slavery

One Nation Divided by Slavery

Remembering the American Revolution While Marchingtoward the Civil War

by Conlin, Michael

eBook - 2015

Examines how differing interpretations of the American Revolution were used in discussions of slavery during the years leading up to the Civil War. Examines how differing interpretations of the American Revolution were used in discussions of slavery during the years leading up to the Civil War. Show less

Examines how differing interpretations of the American Revolution were used in discussions of slavery during the years leading up to the Civil War. Examines how differing interpretations of the American Revolution were used in discussions of slavery during the years leading up to the Civil War. Show less

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The Other Slavery

The Other Slavery

The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Reséndez, Andrés

eBook - 2016

This book and the next explore the fact that while slavery in the United States is commonly seen as affecting Africans and African-Americans, indigenous p...Show more This book and the next explore the fact that while slavery in the United States is commonly seen as affecting Africans and African-Americans, indigenous people of the Americas were subjected to enslavement as well. This one "draws on rich new evidence to reveal the massive enslavement of tens of thousands of North American Indians, from its beginnings in the early 1500s to its last gasp in the late 1800s." Show less

This book and the next explore the fact that while slavery in the United States is commonly seen as affecting Africans and African-Americans, indigenous p...Show more This book and the next explore the fact that while slavery in the United States is commonly seen as affecting Africans and African-Americans, indigenous people of the Americas were subjected to enslavement as well. This one "draws on rich new evidence to reveal the massive enslavement of tens of thousands of North American Indians, from its beginnings in the early 1500s to its last gasp in the late 1800s." Show less

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Brethren by Nature

Brethren by Nature

New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

by Margaret Ellen Newell

eBook - 2015

"Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachuset...Show more "Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars..." Show less

"Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachuset...Show more "Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of Indians. Massachusetts became the first English colony to legalize slavery in 1641, and the colonists' desire for slaves shaped the major New England Indian wars..." Show less

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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815†"1860

The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815†"1860

by Schermerhorn, Jack Lawrence

eBook - 2015

Next, three books on the way that slavery provided the bedrock on which the U.S. economic system has been built. "Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative s...Show more Next, three books on the way that slavery provided the bedrock on which the U.S. economic system has been built. "Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. " Show less

Next, three books on the way that slavery provided the bedrock on which the U.S. economic system has been built. "Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative s...Show more Next, three books on the way that slavery provided the bedrock on which the U.S. economic system has been built. "Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. " Show less

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The Half Has Never Been Told

The Half Has Never Been Told

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Baptist, Edward E.

eBook - 2014

"Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution — the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...Show more "Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution — the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy...the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States." Show less

"Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution — the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...Show more "Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution — the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy...the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States." Show less

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Empire of Cotton

Empire of Cotton

A Global History

by Beckert, Sven

eBook - 2014

"Tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturin...Show more "Tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. " Show less

"Tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturin...Show more "Tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. " Show less

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Black Market

Black Market

The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865

by Carico, Aaron

eBook - 2020

Finally, six books on the sprawling influence of slavery in areas as diverse as literature, academia, religious institutions, and collective consciousness...Show more Finally, six books on the sprawling influence of slavery in areas as diverse as literature, academia, religious institutions, and collective consciousness, both before and after abolition. "Carico breaks open the icons of liberalism to expose the shaping influence of slavery's political economy in America after 1865." Show less

Finally, six books on the sprawling influence of slavery in areas as diverse as literature, academia, religious institutions, and collective consciousness...Show more Finally, six books on the sprawling influence of slavery in areas as diverse as literature, academia, religious institutions, and collective consciousness, both before and after abolition. "Carico breaks open the icons of liberalism to expose the shaping influence of slavery's political economy in America after 1865." Show less

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight

Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris

by Matthews, John T.

eBook - 2020

"Examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery's capitalism." "Examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery's capitalism." Show less

"Examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery's capitalism." "Examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery's capitalism." Show less

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Ebony and Ivy

Ebony and Ivy

Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

by Wilder, Craig Steven

eBook - 2013

"A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian." "A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian." Show less

"A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian." "A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian." Show less

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Slavery and the University

Slavery and the University

Histories and Legacies

by Various Authors

eBook - 2019

"The first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts." "The first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts." Show less

"The first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts." "The first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts." Show less

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Slavery's Long Shadow

Slavery's Long Shadow

Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity

by Various Authors

eBook - 2019

"Fourteen historians and other scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first century." "Fourteen historians and other scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first century." Show less

"Fourteen historians and other scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first century." "Fourteen historians and other scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first century." Show less

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Through the Lens of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Through the Lens of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

by Vinita Moch Ricks

eBook - 2013

This book's premise is that "Unacknowledged policies and mindsets from the Transatlantic Slave Trade continue to perpetuate injustices and instabilit...Show more This book's premise is that "Unacknowledged policies and mindsets from the Transatlantic Slave Trade continue to perpetuate injustices and instability, destroying people and the planet...This book seeks the truth and provides examples so that we can envision a world beyond this man-made tragedy." Show less

This book's premise is that "Unacknowledged policies and mindsets from the Transatlantic Slave Trade continue to perpetuate injustices and instabilit...Show more This book's premise is that "Unacknowledged policies and mindsets from the Transatlantic Slave Trade continue to perpetuate injustices and instability, destroying people and the planet...This book seeks the truth and provides examples so that we can envision a world beyond this man-made tragedy." Show less

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