... Parliament British Royal Navy Haitian Revolution slave insurrection Saint Domingue institution of slavery Age of revolutions Spanish Códigno Negro French abolition of slavery gradual emancipation laws slave trade The massive slave insurrection in northern Saint Domingue in August 1791 took both...

...Decades before the founding of the American Colonization Society, Black colonization was promoted by people with an array of interests. Hardly an outlier, colonization ideology accompanied the first wave of gradual emancipation that began in the 1780s. But if colonization talk was common, its...

...In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’s case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently...

...-oriented and security-concerned sub-blocs in the Warsaw Pact, virtual coalitions, the concept of gradual emancipation of the Soviet bloc states, the Brest-Litovsk syndrome, and the floating of the Brezhnev doctrine. A significant part of these has already been established in Hungary and partly also...

...This concluding chapter summarizes the evidence gathered for the postbellum South and compares it with other postemancipation projects in the Americas. The common pattern of gradual emancipation seen in former colonial possessions in the Caribbean and South America has considerable similarity...

...The introduction sketches the history of the case of Force v. Haines. It also challenges the conventional neo-abolitionism that has shaped much of the historiography of gradual emancipation. Finally, it situates the case as a problem in contract doctrine, as exemplifying issues in the law...

... that the justice of the Bible is not self-authenticating. African Americans slavery Europe Genesis Noah biblical character Paul biblical writer Ten Commandments Priest Josiah Virginia gradual emancipation Hodge Charles Presbyterianism Thornwell James Henley Stuart Moses Webster Daniel abolitionism...

... Academy Adams Jasper Wayland Francis Entrepreneurship Haywood Sherwood Lane Lunsford Proslavery Rivers Richard Henderson Literacy Davidson Sarah Frew Insurrection Bryan Lucy Haywood Grimké Angelina Cradep Mr Cradep Mrs Wilmington N C slavery abolition gradual emancipation manumission...

... between her long-held beliefs about gradual emancipation and the actual practice of slaveholding created a moral quandary during her later years. Eventually, she risked everything and began secretly to teach slaves to read, which was in violation of North Carolina's slave codes. By 1845, all of her sons...

...In the late eighteenth century, individual states reacted to gradual emancipation by passing restrictive migration laws that tightly controlled Black residency and mobility. Influenced by colonization thought at the local level, Virginia passed a law in 1806 that exiled all newly freed people from...

...The end of slavery reverberated through the North no less than the South. From the start of the war, black leaders in the free states had hoped to complete the uneven process of gradual emancipation that had been unfolding there since the Revolutionary War. They foresaw an end to the discriminatory...

... connected domestic insurrection to rumors of Haitian intrigue. Beginning in 1799, New York enacted a series of gradual Emancipation Acts that finally “freed” all enslaved people in 1827. Unsurprisingly, racism within the state increased as white citizens openly questioned what it would mean for formerly...

... States leading up to the Civil War. It establishes broad historical context on issues such as indentured servitude, apprenticeships, slavery, debt peonage, gradual emancipations, abolitionism, and the complex blend of unfree labor in operation in the United States and the ways that various Latter-day...