The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this b...

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The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive a...

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The American Prejudice Against Color

In 1853, William G. Allen, the "Coloured Professor" of Classics at New York Central College, became engaged to Mary King, a stud...

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Medieval Africa 1250-1800

This radically revised and updated companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition) takes Afr...

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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links 1st Edition

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Dra...

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An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa

Hardcover reprint of the original 1788 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No a...

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Stolen Childhood, Second Edition: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Wilma King

One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19t...

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The Black Holocaust For Beginners

Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human bein...

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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives (African American)

Vivid, first-person accounts of what it was like to be a slave in the antebellum South recounted in simple, often poignant language. Stark...

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Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor. These slaves, serf...

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Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Jo...

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Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South

Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone W...

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A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794

"Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa.... [Mouse...

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Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South

A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted...

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Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom

Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Amer...

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Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy

In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integra...

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Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860

This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to th...

3:11 PM

Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery

Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South....

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Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

This study considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of England from the late-eighteen...

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Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia

For 250 years, slavery was part of the fabric of American life. The institution had an enormous economic impact and was central to the w...

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