Slavery and Freedom

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Oxford University Press, 1982 M01 14 - 256 páginas
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Freedom
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Página 63 - Sambo, the typical plantation slave, was docile but irresponsible, loyal but lazy, humble but chronically given to lying and stealing; his behavior was full of infantile silliness and his talk inflated with childish exaggeration.
Página 48 - I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.
Página 201 - Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977); Albert Raboteau, Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution...
Página 61 - MANY THOUSAND GO No more peck o' corn for me, No more, no more,— No more peck o' corn for me, Many tousand go.
Página 9 - To make retribution, as far as I am able, to an unfortunate race of bondmen, over whom my ancestors have usurped and exercised the most lawless and monstrous tyranny, and in whom my countrymen (by their iniquitous laws, in contradiction of their own declaration of rights, and in violation of every sacred law of nature; of the inherent, inalienable and imprescriptible rights of man, and of every principle of moral and political honesty) have vested me with absolute property...
Página 202 - Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1975); Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982). 21. Joan W. Scott, "The Evidence of Experience," Critical Inquiry 17 (Summer 1991): 776.
Página 56 - Their condition is more analogous to that of the slaves of the ancients than to that of the villeins of feudal times, both in respect to the degradation of the slaves and the full dominion and power of the master. The statute regulations follow the principles of the civil law in relation to slaves, and are extremely severe: but the master has no power over life or limb...
Página 60 - The slave villages consist of small, whitewashed wooden houses, for the most part built in two rows, forming a street, each house standing detached in its little yard or garden, and generally with two or three trees about it.
Página 21 - However this soart of life is without expense, yet it is attended with a great deal of trouble. I must take care to keep all my people to their duty, to set all the springs in motion and to make every one draw his equal share to carry the machine forward.

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Willie Lee Rose was born Willie Lee Nichols in Bedford, Virginia on May 18, 1927. She received a bachelor's degree in history from Mary Washington College in 1947. She taught high school English and history in Maryland before receiving a doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins University in 1962. She was a history professor at the University of Virginia from 1965 until 1973. She was a professor at Johns Hopkins from 1973 until 1978, when she stopped teaching after suffering from a stroke at the age of 51. She wrote several books including A Documentary History of Slavery in North America and Slavery and Freedom. Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment received the Allan Nevins Prize for best dissertation and the Francis Parkman Prize for the best work of American history. She was a prominent advocate for women who aspired to teach history. In 1991, the American Historical Association presented her with the Troyer Steele Anderson Prize for her work. She died on June 20, 2018 at the age of 91.

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