Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States,1777-1865

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house ...

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Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively ...

4:56 AM

Slavery Throughout History Reference Library

Two of a proposed three-volume set (a primary sources volume will appear later), the Almanac and Biographies share almost identical time-...

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A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thous...

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Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library

Subject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among sc...

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Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British AtlanticWorld

As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Am...

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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico

In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ri...

6:58 AM

Herero Heroes: A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923

The Herero-German war led to the destruction of Herero society. Yet Herero society reemerged, reorganizing itself around the structures a...

6:56 AM

Sudan and South Sudan: From One to Two

The Republic of Sudan gained its independence from Britain on the 1st of January 1956 an event which brought an end to decades of coloni...

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Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica

Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer ...

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The Logbooks: Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory

In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, We...

6:09 AM

The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World David P.Geggus

The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlant...

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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North

Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who...

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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons,Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp

In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of...

6:21 AM

From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society,1775-1807

From Africa to Jamaica offers a new look at the Atlantic slave trade in its final years, fleshing out the historical portrait of the Afri...

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The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South

"A fresh and inventive method of presenting some lesser-known aspects of slavery to both scholars and students."--Ronald Traylor...

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Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and theCaribbean

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the C...

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Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980

While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising co...

2:39 PM

Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics ofDecolonization

When Frantz Fanon's critiques of racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and humanism are brought into the ever-widening orbit of Afr...

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Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age ofEmpire

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Ho...

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