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Fractional Freedoms
  • Language: en

Fractional Freedoms

Fractional Freedoms explores how thousands of slaves in colonial Peru were able to secure their freedom, keep their families intact, negotiate lower self-purchase prices, and arrange transfers of ownership by filing legal claims. Through extensive archival research, Michelle A. McKinley excavates the experiences of enslaved women whose historical footprint is barely visible in the official record. She complicates the way we think about life under slavery and demonstrates the degree to which slaves were able to exercise their own agency, despite being ensnared by the Atlantic slave trade. Enslaved women are situated as legal actors who had overlapping identities as wives, mothers, mistresses, wet-nurses and day-wage domestics, and these experiences within the urban working environment are shown to condition their identities as slaves. Although the outcomes of their lawsuits varied, Fractional Freedoms demonstrates how enslaved women used channels of affection and intimacy to press for liberty and prevent the generational transmission of enslavement to their children.

Fractional Freedoms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Fractional Freedoms

Fractional Freedoms examines paths to liberty forged in the slaveowning household, and legal claims brought by slaves in colonial Lima.

As If She Were Free
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

As If She Were Free

A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

The Stuck Truck
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 24

The Stuck Truck

The Stuck Truck is a fun adventure of Poppi the snow plow, who loves clearing the streets of snow for other cars. He gets in over his head as the snow continues to fall and a surprise friend comes to the rescue. With clever rhymes and brilliant illustrations, this adventure is inspiring to children big and little.

Nutrition Research Methodologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Nutrition Research Methodologies

A new book in the acclaimed Nutrition Society Textbook Series, Nutrition Research Methodologies addresses the rapidly advancing field of nutrition research. It covers the diverse methodologies required for robust nutritional research to ensure thorough understanding of key concepts, both for students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and for scientists working in nutrition research. Combining theory with practical application, Nutrition Research Methodologies addresses both traditional research methods and new technologies, and focuses on a range of complex topics, including energy compensation, nutrient-gene interactions and metabolic adaptation. It also considers statistical issues ...

Exquisite Slaves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Exquisite Slaves

This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.

The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right

This book explains why most Americans lack constitutional rights on the job and can be fired for almost any reason or no reason at all.

The Triumph of William McKinley
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

The Triumph of William McKinley

Why the election of 1896 still matters.

Spindle's End
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

Spindle's End

Spindle's End is a retelling of the fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty, which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters who encounter adventure, love and loss. The curse placed on Rosie at her christening will hunt her down through the years.

The Good Dog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Good Dog

  • Author(s): Avi

In the Colorado mountain town of Steamboat Springs there must be three hundred dogs.Jack's malamute, McKinley, is the leader of them all. But Jack, being human, has no way of knowing that. For him, his family's dog is just a great pal. And protector.Jack cannot know that Redburn, a "leash-licking" Irish setter, is McKinley's rival for the job of head dog. The boy cannot know, with the sudden hillside appearance of a she-wolf, Lupin, that not only McKinley's job -- but hislife --is in danger. Lupin's message: Dogs free yourselves from mankind. Come join us, we who need you to replenish our diminishing wolf pack in the wild.But imagine how a good dog, loyal to his human pup, would hear Lupin's call!McKinley's thrilling story tells itself, as first he and the boy together encounter Lupin in a canyon perfect for an old-time ambush, and later as they try to save her from both Redburn and a neighbor, a vicious man armed with a gun and a grudge. No one -- not even McKinley -- can foresee the end.