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A declaration by the New York State Assembly declaring that "Slavery cannot exist by the Constitution and Laws of this State."

A declaration by the New York State Assembly declaring that "Slavery cannot exist by the Constitution and Laws of this State."

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A bill of sale documenting the sale of a thirty-five year old man, Bob, by John B. Farly to Thomas B. Vaughan for $325 in North Carolina.

A bill of sale documenting the sale of a thirty-five year old man, Bob, by John B. Farly to Thomas B. Vaughan for $325 in North Carolina.

A bill of sale documenting the sale of a fifty-five year old man, Gabriel, by Sarah [Carneal] to Rev. Thomas Gooch for $230 in Logan County, [Kentucky].

A bill of sale documenting the sale of a fifty-five year old man, Gabriel, by Sarah [Carneal] to Rev. Thomas Gooch for $230 in Logan County, [Kentucky].

A formal declaration allowing MIchael Boyce the power of attorney to sell or hire out slaves owned by Russell B. Hoyde under Louisiana state law.

A formal declaration allowing MIchael Boyce the power of attorney to sell or hire out slaves owned by Russell B. Hoyde under Louisiana state law.

This landmark history of slavery in the South—a winner of the Bancroft Prize—challenged conventional views of slaves by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society. Rather than emphasizing the cruelty and degradation of slavery, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that slaves forced their owners to acknowledge their humanity through culture, music, and religion.

This landmark history of slavery in the South—a winner of the Bancroft Prize—challenged conventional views of slaves by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society. Rather than emphasizing the cruelty and degradation of slavery, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that slaves forced their owners to acknowledge their humanity through culture, music, and religion.

Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.

Summary: The memoirs of Job, a man sold into slavery in Maryland and later England.

Summary: An autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.

Summary: An autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.

An exploration of African American history through songs, music, and speech with accompanying recording.

An exploration of African American history through songs, music, and speech with accompanying recording.

Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.

Mechal Sobel's fascinating study of the religious history of slaves and free blacks in antebellum America is presented here in a compact volume without the appendixes. Sobel's central thesis is that Africans brought their world views into North America where, eventually, under the tremendous pressures and hardships of chattel slavery, they created a coherent faith that preserved and revitalized crucial African understandings and usages regarding spirit and soul-travels, while melding them with Christian understandings of Jesus and individual salvation.