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The faces of freedom : the manumission and emancipation of slaves in Old World and New World slavery / edited by Marc Kleijwegt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 7.
- The Atlantic world, 1570-0542 ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--History--Congresses.
- Enslaved persons.
- Freed persons--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Freed persons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Emancipation and manumission in Old and New World slavery
- pt. II. Freedpeople in a slave society
- pt. III. Freedpeople after emancipation.
- Notes:
- "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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-39881-0
- 9786611398811
- 90-474-0938-8
- OCLC:
- 923614088
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