Arming slaves : from classical times to the modern age

Arming slaves : from classical times to the modern age

New Haven Yale University Press, c2006

xvi, 368 p. : maps ; 24 cm

355.33096 A729 2006

(OCoLC)61651635

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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents: Arming slaves and helots in classical Greece / Peter Hunt --The mamluk 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
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