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The tremendous recent growth of the women's movement as a political
force has been accompanied by an event of equal import to the
academic world--the development of the discipline of women's
studies. Colleges across the nation are establishing programs in
this area. Women's Studies is a classroom anthology designed for
use in these newly-introduced courses.
Originally published in 1912, this volume provides a detailed and
enthusiastically written history of Britain's churches and their
churchyards. With particular emphasis on the concept of 'folk
memory', a diminishing means of recalling and understanding the
past, Johnson's study looks at material archaeological discoveries
whilst also addressing the significance of place names, site
orientation, folktales and pagan prehistory. In this
well-illustrated and informative work, Johnson's extensive research
navigates the complexities of Britain's religious past, producing a
series of fascinating interrelated arguments. Johnson addresses
numerous topics, including the construction of churches on pagan
sites, the churchyard yew and the survival of past rituals within
burial customs. This book provides a detailed and far-reaching
investigation of the archaeology and architecture of hundreds of
churches across England and Wales, and will be enjoyed by anybody
with an interest in British archaeology, or the histories of
British churches and Christian traditions.
Drawing on his experience as a social scientist, Walter Johnson
outlines some of the challenges posted by the increasing
ethno-cultural diversity of society through an examination of
immigration history, the debate over immigration policy and the
issues of multiculturalism, racism, employment and racial
profiling.
President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South
in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and
inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal
rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but
what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? "Slavery's
Ghost" explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects
of slavery on race relations in American history.
In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the
authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free
Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. They ask
important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople
respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed
were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And
in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free
Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these
essays offer fresh approaches to questions of local political
power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse
that shaped and defined the history of black freedom.
Written by three prominent historians of the period, "Slavery's
Ghost "forces readers to think critically about the way we study
the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans
won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America.
Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of the John
Hope Franklin Prize Winner of the Avery O. Craven Award Soul by
Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving
away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself,
the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New
Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men,
women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson
transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human
drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would
alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal
economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies
among the actors involved. Using recently discovered court records,
slaveholders' letters, nineteenth-century narratives of former
slaves, and the financial documentation of the trade itself,
Johnson reveals the tenuous shifts of power that occurred in the
market's slave coffles and showrooms. Traders packaged their slaves
by "feeding them up," dressing them well, and oiling their bodies,
but they ultimately relied on the slaves to play their part as
valuable commodities. Slave buyers stripped the slaves and
questioned their pasts, seeking more honest answers than they could
get from the traders. In turn, these examinations provided
information that the slaves could utilize, sometimes even shaping a
sale to their own advantage. Johnson depicts the subtle
interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness,
racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand
the centrality of the "peculiar institution" in the lives of slaves
and slaveholders alike. His pioneering history is in no small
measure the story of antebellum slavery.
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