Arming slaves : from classical times to the modern age /
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the ear...
| Автор-организации: | Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. |
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| Други автори: | Brown, Christopher Leslie, (Editor), Morgan, Philip D., 1949- (Editor) |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Arming slaves. |
| Резюме: |
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States and Latin America. To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
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. |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300134858 0300134851 |