Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and Afri...

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Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin

Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially "free,...

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The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery

In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British...

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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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Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity (Routledge African Studies)

Offering a kind of "academic post-mortem," this volume seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism has penetrated various ...

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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 ...

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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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Mental slavery : psychoanalystic studies of Caribbean people

Examines the complex historical and psychological effects of slavery across generations of Caribbean people. It is a unique contribution ...

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British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams

Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams...

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Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack

Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass...

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Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there name...

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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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The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts

The Culture of Aids in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence ...

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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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Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries

The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and cu...

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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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The New African Diaspora

The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibl...

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Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity, and agency of enslaved black people in Morocco ...

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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave...

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