Slave no more : self-liberation before abolitionism in the Americas /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Helg, Aline, 1953- author.
Uniform title:	Plus jamais esclaves! English
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description:	352 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Slavery -- America -- History. Slave insurrections -- America -- History. Slaves -- Emancipation -- America. Slavery -- United States -- History. Slave insurrections -- United States -- History. Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States. Slavery -- West Indies -- History. Slave insurrections -- West Indies -- History. Slaves -- Emancipation -- West Indies. Slave insurrections. Slavery. Slaves -- Emancipation. America. United States. West Indies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11784590

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Other authors / contributors:	Vergnaud, Lara, translator.
ISBN:	9781469649627 1469649624 9781469649634 1469649632 9781469649641
Notes:	Originally published in French by Éditions La Découverte, 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg argues that significant numbers of enslaved Africans and their descendants across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her analysis of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. But Helg's purpose is not only to underscore the agency of those who managed to become 'free people of color' before abolitionism took hold but also to assess in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized"--

Table of Contents:

The slave trade and slavery in the Americas : transcontinental trends
Marronage : a risky but possible path to freedom
Self-purchase and military service : legal but limited paths to emancipation
Conspiracy and revolt : the most perilous paths to freedom
Slaves as actors on the path to U.S. independence
From the slave revolt in Saint Domingue to the founding of the black nation of Haiti
The shock waves of the Haitian revolution
The wars of independence in continental Iberian America : new opportunities for liberation
Marronage and the purchase of freedom : old strategies in new times
Revolts and abolitionism.

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