Arming slaves : from classical times to the modern age / / edited by Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan.

• Author: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Christopher Leslie.; Morgan, Philip D., 1949-; Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvi, 368 p. :; maps.
• Notes: Based on lectures from a conference in Fall 2000 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

Table of Contents

• Arming slaves and helots in classical Greece / Peter Hunt
• The mamluk institution, or one thousand years of military slavery in the Islamic world / Reuven Amitai
• Armed slaves and political authority in Africa in the era of the slave trade, 1450-1800 / John Thornton
• Making the Chikunda : military slavery and ethnicity in southern Africa, 1750-1900 / Allen Isaacman and Derek Peterson
• Transforming bondsmen into vassals : arming slaves in colonial Spanish America / Jane Landers
• Arming slaves in Brazil from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century / Hendrik Kraay
• Arming slaves in the American revolution / Philip D. Morgan and Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
• The arming of slaves in the Haitian revolution / David Geggus
• Citizen soldiers : emancipation and military service in the revolutionary French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois
• The slave soldiers of Spanish South America : from independence to abolition / Peter Blanchard
• Armed slaves and the struggles for republican liberty in the U.S. Civil War / Joseph P. Reidy
• Armed slaves and anticolonial insurgency in late nineteenth-century Cuba / Ada Ferrer
• The arming of slaves in comparative perspective / Christopher Leslie Brown.