Slave no more : self-liberation before abolitionism in the Americas /

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Author / Creator:Helg, Aline, 1953- author.
Uniform title:Plus jamais esclaves! English
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description:1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:North Carolina scholarship online
North Carolina scholarship online.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12352689
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Other authors / contributors:Vergnaud, Lara, translator.
ISBN:9781469649641
1469649640
9781469649658
1469649659
9781469649627
1469649624
9781469649634
1469649632
Notes:Originally published in French by Éditions La Découverte, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-336) and index.
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Summary:"Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg argues that significant numbers of enslaved Africans and their descendants across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her analysis of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. But Helg's purpose is not only to underscore the agency of those who managed to become 'free people of color' before abolitionism took hold but also to assess in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized"--
Other form:Print version: Helg, Aline, 1953- Plus jamais esclaves! English. Slave no more. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469649627