Tag: Manumission

Free Download T. Stephen Whitman, "The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0813120047, 0813155541 | PDF | pages: 253 | 23.1 mb
The Price of Freedom carefully examines how urban slavery, long neglected by historians, became an important step in the path from bonded to free labour. The author argues that the creation of "term slavery" and the increase in manumission in Baltimore during the post-revolutionary era should be attributed to economic self-interest rather than humanitarian impulses founded in republican ideology or religion. Using the leverage of flight, the author shows how skilled slaves wielded considerable power in negotiating the terms of their labour. This meticulous study sheds new light on free and unfree labour during the early national period.

Free Download Rosemary Brana-Shute, Randy J. Sparks, "Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1570037744 | PDF | pages: 408 | 2.5 mb
An international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery

Free Download Matthew J. Perry, "Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1107040310 | PDF | pages: 282 | 3.5 mb
Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman examines the distinct problem posed by the manumission of female slaves in ancient Rome. The sexual identities of a female slave and a female citizen were fundamentally incompatible, as the former was principally defined by her sexual availability and the latter by her sexual integrity. Accordingly, those evaluating the manumission process needed to reconcile a woman’s experiences as a slave with the expectations and moral rigor required of the female citizen. The figure of the freedwoman―fictionalized and real―provides an extraordinary lens into the matter of how Romans understood, debated, and experienced the sheer magnitude of the transition from slave to citizen, the various social factors that impinged upon this process, and the community stakes in the institution of manumission.