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Arming slaves : from classical times to the modern age / edited by Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan.
- Title
- Arming slaves : from classical times to the modern age / edited by Christopher Leslie Brown and Philip D. Morgan.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
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- Description
- xvi, 368 p. : maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea, yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted their slaves with the use of deadly force. This volume addresses the crucial issues in this matter in order to faciliate cross-cultural comparisons.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- History (form)
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Based on lectures from a conference in Fall 2000 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Arming slaves and helots in classical Greece / Peter Hunt --The mamlūk institution, or one thousand years of military slavery in the Islamic world / Reuven Amitai -- Armed slaves and political authority in Africa in the era of the slave trade, 1450-1800 / John Thornton -- Making the Chikunda : military slavery and ethnicity in southern Africa, 1750-1900 / Allen Isaacman and Derek Peterson -- Transforming bondsmen into vassals : arming slaves in colonial Spanish America / Jane Landers -- Arming slaves in Brazil from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century / Hendrik Kraay -- Arming slaves in the American revolution / Philip D. Morgan and Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy -- The arming of slaves in the Haitian revolution / David Geggus -- Citizen soldiers : emancipation and military service in the revolutionary French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois -- The slave soldiers of Spanish South America : from independence to abolition / Peter Blanchard -- Armed slaves and the struggles for republican liberty in the U.S. Civil War / Joseph P. Reidy -- Armed slaves and anticolonial insurgency in late nineteenth-century Cuba / Ada Ferrer -- The arming of slaves in comparative perspective / Christopher Leslie Brown.
- ISBN
- 0300109008
- 9780300109009
- LCCN
- ^^2005026285
- OCLC
- 61651635
- SCSB-12309982
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library