Slave No More By Aline Helg (author), Lara Vergnaud (translator)

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Hardback

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The university of north caroli

Slave No More : The University of North Carolina Press : 9781469649627 : 1469649624 : 30 Mar 2019 : "Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals how significant numbers of enslaved Africans and their descendants across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation ofwhite-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'spurpose 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"--

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