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Slave No More - Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas (Paperback)
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Slave No More - Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas (Paperback)
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Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline
Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved
Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free
themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run
abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view 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. Helg not only
underscores the agency of those who managed to become ""free people
of color"" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in
detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While
recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg
articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and
marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for
men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt-along with a
willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg
looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and
in the context of national and international political movements.
Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with
an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave
No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and
even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.
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