We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program (2015 Edition)

The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discriminati...

3:22 PM

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...

3:52 PM

Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

This cultural history of nineteenth-century narratives of slave and free women traces the ways in which these writings began to resist dom...

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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York

When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he ha...

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Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture

Katrina Hazzard-Gordon offers the first analysis of the development of the jook—an underground cultural institution created by the black w...

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Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace

Augusta Rohrbach broadens our understanding of the American literary tradition by showing how African American literature and culture grea...

3:56 PM

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...

8:26 AM

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...

7:36 AM

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...

11:57 PM

Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the back...

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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 ...

11:59 AM

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

Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative

Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Usin...

4:47 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-...

8:54 AM

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 ...

8:36 AM

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...

7:05 AM

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...

6:14 AM

Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to the Islamic Conquest

Home to some of the most remarkable feats of engineering as well as awe-inspiring natural vistas, ancient Egypt was a land of great promi...

6:12 AM

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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