| Note |
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. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Arming slaves and helots in classical Greece / Peter Hunt --The mamlūk 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. |
| Subject |
Slave soldiers -- History -- Congresses.
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| Collection |
Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
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| Alt Author |
Brown, Christopher Leslie.
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Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
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Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
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| ISBN |
0300109008 |
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9780300109009 |
| Description |
xvi, 368 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
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