The Alchemy of Slavery : : Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865 / / M. Scott Heerman.
In this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and social practice. Arguing that slavery had no fixed institutional form, Heerman traces practices of slav...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Frontlist Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | America in the Nineteenth Century
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 12 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Slavery and Freedom on the American Continent
- Chapter 1. Making the French Negroes
- Chapter 2. Another Law and Empire
- Chapter 3. Remaking the French Negroes
- Chapter 4. Contesting Bondage in the Slave North
- Chapter 5. Paths to Independence
- Chapter 6. Freedom Practices, Freedom Politics
- Conclusion. North of Slavery, South of Freedom
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments