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Race and Slavery in the Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-505326-5. Kellerman, Christopher J. (2022). All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church. Orbis. ISBN 978-1-62698-489-9. McKivigan, John R.; Snay, eds. (1998). Religion and the Antebellum Debate over Slavery. University ...
This bill was based on the arguments given by the best Spanish theologists and jurists who were unanimous in the condemnation of such slavery as unjust; they declared it illegitimate and outlawed it from America—not just the slavery of Spaniards over Natives—but also the type of slavery practiced among the Natives themselves [355] Thus ...
Though Casor was the first person who was declared an enslaved person in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him. Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave (or slave for life) in America as punishment for escaping his captors in 1640 ...
Roman mosaic from Dougga, Tunisia (2nd/3rd century AD): Two large slaves carrying wine jars each wear an amulet against the evil eye on a necklace, with one in a loincloth (left) and the other in an exomis; [1] the young slave to the left carries water and towels, and the one on the right a bough and a basket of flowers.
The cap was an attribute carried by Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who was also recognized by the rod (vindicta or festuca), [10] used ceremonially in the act of manumissio vindicta, Latin for "freedom by the rod" (emphasis added): The master brought his slave before the magistratus, and stated the grounds of the intended manumission.
Bancroft was one of the first historians to use first-person testimony from former slaves, [6] and he also corresponded with former slave traders or their families and collected their memories of the slave business in America. [2] Some footnotes from Slave-Trading show that this research could not be conducted today:
Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War, An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-3863-5. Smith, Clint (2021). How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316492935. National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2021 [5]
"Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)This is a bibliography of works regarding the internal or domestic slave trade in the United States (1776–1865, with a measurable increase in activity after 1808, following the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves).