... under dictatorship, it also offers a bottom-up take on what it means to live through a human rights violation by carefully narrating the kidnapping and torture of Lula’s Communist brother. Eschewing sensationalism, it treats torture as a bundle of practices that are parsed, weighed, and analyzed...

... Welcome Jane Chapin’s Farm Battle of Christ Olustee Battle of Washington George Bass Alcia Petersburg Virginia Freeman Lucy Gallops Island Boston Massachusetts Fort Barrancas Florida Fort Pickens Florida Kidnapping Conscription and the draft Contrabands Substitutes Canada Suffering...

... to a growing population of free people of color and investigates how political radicals politicized the position of free people of color in the South. This chapter also includes a lengthy discussion of kidnapping. manumission Banneker Benjamin Barlow Joel Jefferson Thomas Federalist Party politics...

... for their freedom on a number of grounds, from the enforcement of promises of freedom made in their late masters' wills to accusations of kidnapping to safeguarding self-purchase contracts. They employed their knowledge of the law and legal processes and harnessed their considerable community networks—both local...

...This chapter presents an analysis of anti-labor kidnapping. Focusing the response to an extraordinary cigar workers’ strike in Tampa in 1901, this chapter explores how members of the Citizens’ Committee used vigilantism to break the strike. Led partially by newspaper owner D. B. McKay, the Citizens...

...The difficulty of determining whether individuals had been legally enslaved, as prisoners of a just war, or kidnapped unlawfully was a key consideration in Samuel Sewall’s 1700 essay questioning the morality of slavery, The Selling of Joseph, and this same difficulty animates the following runaway...

...Throughout this chapter, the mistreatment of Native Americans is discussed. What lead to the Tuscarora War was the horrid treatment of Native Americans. From kidnapping, assault, and murder at the hands of colonists, many issues and events are mentioned throughout the chapter. Core Sound Core...

..., and includes sections on his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, and his journalistic account, News of a Kidnapping. Moreover, new information about García Márquezz's biography and artistic development make this a comprehensive account of his life and work....