For nearly four centuries, the transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery created a system of racialized bondage that commodified human beings, generated immense wealth for European and American economies, and inflicted incalculable suffering on millions of enslaved Africans and their descendants. This history examines slavery's brutal mechanisms, the resistance enslaved people mounted against their bondage, and the protracted struggles that ultimately achieved legal abolition. Drawing on slave narratives, plantation records, legislative debates, abolitionist publications, and court documents, the narrative traces slavery's evolution from Portuguese Atlantic expeditions through Caribbean sugar economies, North American cotton kingdoms, and Brazilian coffee plantations. The Middle Passage transported approximately twelve million Africans across the Atlantic under horrific conditions. Survivors faced forced labor, family separation, violence, and legal status as property without human rights. The book explores slavery's economic foundations and ideological justifications. Plantation agriculture generated profits sustaining European industrialization and American expansion. Pseudo-scientific racism provided moral rationalization for exploitation. Legal codes denied enslaved people basic protections while criminalizing resistance. Yet enslaved communities maintained cultural traditions, created kinship networks, and preserved dignity despite systematic dehumanization.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For nearly four centuries, the transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery created a system of racialized bondage that commodified human beings, generated immense wealth for European and American economies, and inflicted incalculable suffering on millions of enslaved Africans and their descendants. This history examines slavery's brutal mechanisms, the resistance enslaved people mounted against their bondage, and the protracted struggles that ultimately achieved legal abolition.Drawing on slave narratives, plantation records, legislative debates, abolitionist publications, and court documents, the narrative traces slavery's evolution from Portuguese Atlantic expeditions through Caribbean sugar economies, North American cotton kingdoms, and Brazilian coffee plantations. The Middle Passage transported approximately twelve million Africans across the Atlantic under horrific conditions. Survivors faced forced labor, family separation, violence, and legal status as property without human rights.The book explores slavery's economic foundations and ideological justifications. Plantation agriculture generated profits sustaining European industrialization and American expansion. Pseudo-scientific racism provided moral rationalization for exploitation. Legal codes denied enslaved people basic protections while criminalizing resistance. Yet enslaved communities maintained cultural traditions, created kinship networks, and preserved dignity despite systematic dehumanization. 208 pp. Englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783565251070
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - For nearly four centuries, the transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery created a system of racialized bondage that commodified human beings, generated immense wealth for European and American economies, and inflicted incalculable suffering on millions of enslaved Africans and their descendants. This history examines slavery's brutal mechanisms, the resistance enslaved people mounted against their bondage, and the protracted struggles that ultimately achieved legal abolition.Drawing on slave narratives, plantation records, legislative debates, abolitionist publications, and court documents, the narrative traces slavery's evolution from Portuguese Atlantic expeditions through Caribbean sugar economies, North American cotton kingdoms, and Brazilian coffee plantations. The Middle Passage transported approximately twelve million Africans across the Atlantic under horrific conditions. Survivors faced forced labor, family separation, violence, and legal status as property without human rights.The book explores slavery's economic foundations and ideological justifications. Plantation agriculture generated profits sustaining European industrialization and American expansion. Pseudo-scientific racism provided moral rationalization for exploitation. Legal codes denied enslaved people basic protections while criminalizing resistance. Yet enslaved communities maintained cultural traditions, created kinship networks, and preserved dignity despite systematic dehumanization. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783565251070
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Slavery & Freedom: Humanity's Darkest Chapter | Enslavement Systems, Resistance Movements, and Abolition Struggles Across Continents, [.] | Mae Collinsworth | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565251070 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 134593222
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