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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823754103321

Titolo

The faces of freedom : the manumission and emancipation of slaves in Old World and New World slavery / / edited by Marc Kleijwegt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006

ISBN

1-281-39881-0

9786611398811

90-474-0938-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

The Atlantic world, , 1570-0542 ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

KleijwegtMarc

Disciplina

326/.8

Soggetti

Slaves - Emancipation - History

Freedmen - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally delivered as papers at the second ICHOS-conference held at the University of Nottingham in September of 2001 under the title Freed slaves: Exclusion or Integration"--Ack.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Emancipation and manumission in Old and New World slavery -- pt. II. Freedpeople in a slave society -- pt. III. Freedpeople after emancipation.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is concerned with the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern States of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century.