Tropical freedom : climate, settler colonialism, and Black exclusion in the age of emancipation / by Asaka, Ikuko, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Black freedom and settler colonial order -- Black geographies and the politics of diaspora -- Intimacy and belonging -- Gendered mobilities and white settler boundaries -- Race, climate, and labor -- U.S. emancipation and tropical black freedom.…”
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Disowning slavery : gradual emancipation and "race" in New England, 1780-1860 / by Melish, Joanne Pope

Table of Contents: “…The "privilage of freemen": Blacks' expectations of freedom from slavery -- "Slaves of the community": gradual emancipation in practice -- A "Negro spirit": em-bodying difference -- "To abolish the Black man": enacting the antislavery promise -- "A thing unknown": the free white republic as New England writ large -- "We are the alphabet": free people of color and the discourse of "race."…”
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Crossing the line : early Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation / by Ward, Candace

“…Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation…”
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Role model and countermodel : the golden age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation / by Schapkow, Carsten, 1970-

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The Berlin Jewish community : enlightenment, family, and crisis, 1770-1830 / by Lowenstein, Steven M., 1945-

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Jews at the crossroads : tradition and accommodation during the golden age of the Hungarian nobility, 1729-1878 / by Lupovitch, Howard N.

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking the Rhythms of Emancipation and Enlightenment --…”
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They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South / by Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.

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They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South / by Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.

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Standard-bearers of equality : America's first abolition movement / by Polgar, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…The "just right of freedom" : enforcing and expanding gradual emancipation --…”
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Dangerous neighbors : making the Haitian revolution in early America / by Dun, James Alexander, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Making revolution in Philadelphia -- France in minature: naming the revolution -- Unthinking revolution: French negroes and liberty -- The negrophile republic: emancipation and revolution -- Making places of liberty: emancipation and antislavery -- Black Jacobins: Saint Domingue in American politics -- Second revolutions: Saint Domingue and Jeffersonian America -- Naming Hayti: the end of the revolution in Philadelphia.…”
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The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838 / by Mullen, Stephen

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The making of the modern Iranian woman : gender, state policy, and popular culture, 1865-1946 / by Amin, Camron Michael

Table of Contents: “…The Capable Woman 142; 7. The Limits of Emancipation 189; 8. Breaking with Male Guardianship 215; 9. …”
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Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 : Atlantic Archipelagos / by Morris, Michael (Lecturer in English)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833 -- Theoretical orientations: transnationalism in the Atlantic world -- Archipelagic poetics: pastoral, georgic, and the Scoto-British imperial vision, c.1740-1785 -- Robert Burns: slavery, freedom and abolition, 1786-1800 -- Not immediate but gradual: abolition to emancipation, 1800-1833 -- Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean -- Joseph Knight: history, fiction, memory.…”
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Slavery, childhood, and abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 / by Vasconcellos, Colleen A., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"To so dark a destiny my lovely babe I've borne" : slavery and childhood in Jamaica -- "The child whom many fathers share, hath seldom known a father's care" : miscegenation and childhood in Jamaican slave society -- "Train up a child in the way he should go" : childhood and education in the Jamaican slave community -- "That iniquitous law" : the apprenticeship and emancipation of Jamaica's enslaved children.…”
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Standard-bearers of equality : America's first abolition movement / by Polgar, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…The making of a movement : progress, problems, and the ambiguous origins of the abolitionist project -- The "just rights of freedom" : enforcing and expanding gradual emancipation -- Republicans of color : societal environmentalism and the quest for black citizenship -- "A well grounded hope" : sweeping away the cobwebs of prejudice -- "Unconquerable prejudice" and "alien enemies" : the roots and rise of the American Colonization Society -- A prudent alternative or a dangerous diversion? …”
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Scotland and the abolition of black slavery, 1756-1838 / by Whyte, Iain

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 BLACK SLAVES IN SCOTLAND AND BAPTISM -- 2 THE LORDS AND THE PROFITS -- WEST INDIAN COMMERCE AND THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT -- 3 PULPITS, PRESBYTERIES AND PETITIONS ON THE TRADE -- 4 LONDON SCOTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION -- 5 UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN EUROPE AND SCOTS COUNTERVOICES ON EMANCIPATION -- 6 COMING OUT OF SIN -- THE ROAD FROM MITIGATION TO THE CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ABOLITION -- 7 EVANGELISM IN JAMAICA, THEOLOGY IN SCOTLAND, BUT FREEDOM DEFERRED -- 8 EYES ON THE PRIZE -- FOCUS, FAITH AND FERVOUR -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Last Page.…”
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Scenarios of power : myth and ceremony in Russian monarchy from Peter the Great to the abdication of Nicholas II / by Wortman, Richard

Table of Contents: “…The European myth -- Signs of empire -- Peter the Great -- Olympian scenarios -- The education of princes and the dilemma of neoclassicism -- The Emperor Paul I -- The angel on the throne -- Nicholas I -- Epitomes of the nation -- Parents and son -- Alexandar II and the scenario of love -- The tsar-emancipator -- The crisis of autocracy -- A national myth -- The making of a Russian tsar -- The inauguration of a national myth -- The resurrection of Muscovy -- The life and death of a Russian tsar -- Nicholas II as heir and husband -- The accession and coronation of Nicholas II -- Demonstrations of godliness -- Nicholas II and the Revolution of 1905 -- Historical celebrations -- Nicholas II and World War I.…”
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Performing the temple of liberty : slavery, theater, and popular culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850 / by Gibbs, Jenna M., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Slave-trade abolition: pageantry, parody, and the goddess of liberty (1800s- 1820s) -- Celebrating Columbia, mother of the white republic -- Abolitionist britannia and the blackface supplicant slave -- Spreading liberty to Africa -- Part 2. Introduction: emancipation and political reform: burlesque, picaresque, and the great experiment (1820s-1830s) -- Blackface freedom: life in London, life in Philadelphia -- Transatlantic travelers, slavery, and Charles Mathew's "Black fun" -- Part 3. …”
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From citizens to subjects : city, state, & the enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus / by Murphy, Curtis G.

Table of Contents: “…Enlightened centralism versus civic republicanism in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- We built this city on Magdeburg Law : cities and citizens in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before the first partition -- If only our commission had more power : enlightened centralism and the royal cities after the first partition -- Weaponizing good order : urban politics and civic republicanism in the era of constitutional reform and partition, 1788-1809 -- Enlightened profit-seeking : the private towns of the Zamoyski and Radziwiłł estates in the eighteenth century -- The apogee of enlightened centralism : town and state in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period -- The persistence of the old Commonwealth : cities, nobles, and the state in the western provinces of the Russian Empire -- Conclusion : emancipating citizens into subjects.…”
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From citizens to subjects : city, state, & the enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus / by Murphy, Curtis G.

Table of Contents: “…Enlightened centralism versus civic republicanism in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- We built this city on Magdeburg Law : cities and citizens in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before the first partition -- If only our commission had more power : enlightened centralism and the royal cities after the first partition -- Weaponizing good order : urban politics and civic republicanism in the era of constitutional reform and partition, 1788-1809 -- Enlightened profit-seeking : the private towns of the Zamoyski and Radziwiłł estates in the eighteenth century -- The apogee of enlightened centralism : town and state in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period -- The persistence of the old Commonwealth : cities, nobles, and the state in the western provinces of the Russian Empire -- Conclusion : emancipating citizens into subjects.…”
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