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Islamic Legal Culture and Slave-Ownership Contests in Nineteenth-Century Sahara*
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In the year 1833-34 (1249 hijra) an enslaved young man, consigned to work a salt caravan from Shingiti to Tishit, had a violent altercation with his keeper upon reaching their destination.1 In an unusual move the slave was placed in irons but he miraculously broke free. When the caravaner caught up with him, the runaway was under the protection of a notable woman of Tishit. Rather than handing over the ailing man, she skillfully negotiated his exchange for another male slave. Soon, however, t...
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"Servants and Slaves" focus of study by OU history instructor
Call and Post (Cincinnati)
; Chill Call and Post (Cincinnati) 03-17-1994 "Servants and Slaves" focus of study by OU history instructor. NORMAN (OU News Services)--A new study by a University of Oklahoma history instructor hits close to home by examining the changing relationships ...
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Slavery: How the Church of England treated its slaves
New African
; Early this year when the Church of England formally apologised for its part in the slave trade, many did not know what exactly the Church had done during that despicable era. Now we know, thanks to the meticulous research by Adam Hochschild. "The Caribbean was a slaughterhouse," he informs us. This
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WASHINGTON FORCED HIS SLAVES TO WORK 16 HOURS A DAY, SIX DAYS A WEEKON SLAVERY'S DARK SHORES
The Boston Globe
; We know Thomas Jefferson and George Washington owned slaves we commend ourselves for being able at last to acknowledge this fact in the lives of great Americans we admire and honor. But are we mature enough as a nation to face the possibility that we should not admire or honor them at all? This is
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 "Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)")
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Resurrecting slavery's buried past: unequally treated even in death, slaves at last get a memorial.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
; Byline: Stephan Salisbury May 23--The names are brief, containing an ocean: John. Toby. They belonged to James Willard. Ben. Coffey. Bety (Girle). Cuggo. Cate. Bosso. Fillis. Cate (Girle). Jack. They belonged to Tobias Leech. Jacob. Elizabeth. The list continues. Henry. Mary. William. John.
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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`AFRICANS IN AMERICA' BRINGS SLAVES, AS WELL AS THEIR PLIGHT, TO LIFE.(Television)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Several times during the six hours of ``Africans in America the camera moves reverently over a list of names that were scrupulously entered into the record by an American owner of slaves. Davy Sr. Davy Jr. Fanny. Ellen. Jenny. Dolly. Isaac. Israel. James. Cretia. Lilly. Lilburn. Matilda. Lovila.
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SLAVES IN THE FAMILY, by Edward Ball; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (504 pages, $30).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Edward Ball opens his fascinating book, ``Slaves in the Family with an old family joke. ``There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family his father would say. ``Religion, sex, death, money, and the Negroes The younger Ball, a former Village Voice columnist and scion of one of the
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Slaves to the marketplace: economic liberty and black rebelliousness in the Atlantic world.
Journal of the Early Republic
; ... Carolina's governor, we should hoist sail for Saint Doming[ue] and live in freedom in the Caribbean republic. That came as welcome news to Frank Ferguson, a black artisan, who had grown weary of passing a large portion of his cash earnings on to his owner, Ann ...
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Masters of their universe.(Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation)(Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World)(Book Review)
The Nation
; LANDON CARTER'S UNEASY KINGDOM: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation. By Rhys Isaac. Oxford. 423 pp. $35. MASTERY, TYRANNY, AND DESIRE: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. By Trevor Burnard. North Carolina. 320 pp. Paper $19.95. Beginning in the fifteenth
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BETWEEN THE LINES: Still Slaves To Time
The New York Jewish Week
; ... how He plans to save the Children of Israel from Egyptian slavery and make them a holy people. When Moses relates this dramatic news to the Israelites, we are told "they would not listen to Moses -- they were short of breath and over-worked." As slaves, exhausted ...
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Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World.(Book Review)
Early American Literature
; Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. TREVOR BURNARD. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 320 pp. The main value of this book is to introduce to a modern reader the world of an ordinary white Englishman living in a
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