Slavery, Freedom and Conflict: A Story of Two Birminghams by Bownas, Jane L.

Slavery, Freedom and Conflict: A Story of Two Birminghams

A Story of Two Birminghams examines the roles played by two cities and the areas in which...
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Author: Jane L. Bownas
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Language: English
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Slavery, Freedom and Conflict: A Story of Two Birminghams by Bownas, Jane L.

Slavery, Freedom and Conflict: A Story of Two Birminghams

Dhs. 1,185.55

Slavery, Freedom and Conflict: A Story of Two Birminghams

Dhs. 1,185.55
Author: Jane L. Bownas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A Story of Two Birminghams examines the roles played by two cities and the areas in which they are situated in the long history of people of African origin and their ancestors who were taken into slavery, experienced a phoney freedom and subsequently experienced racism, segregation and violence. From the eighteenth century the industrial city of Birmingham in England was involved in the manufacture of guns used in the African slave trade and then later, in the production and export of the steam engines used on the sugar plantations in the West Indies. In northern Alabama, on land where another industrial city of the same name would later develop, African slaves worked on cotton plantations owned by planters who would later make their fortunes by selling the mineral rich land. Abolitionists in Birmingham UK, and in the Southern States fought against much opposition to achieve freedom for the slaves. But this was often a phoney freedom: for example, under an apprenticeship system
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Author: Jane L. Bownas
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 03/11/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781789760446

About the Author
Jane L. Bownas is an independent scholar. Her publications include Thomas Hardy and Empire (2012), War, the Hero and the Will: Hardy Tolstoy and the Napoleonic Wars (2014), and The Myth of the Modern Hero (2018).

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