Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery, 1657-1834, Paperback - Karina Williamson

Reducere. Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. ...

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

Reducere. The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle...

Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period.

Reducere. DescriptionImagine the North American Indians as astronomers carefully watching the heavens, charting the sun through the seasons, or counting the ...

Heretofore scholars have not been willing--perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal--to identify much of the Harlem Re...

Reducere. A study of the Maroon Wars and the many slave rebellions and revolts in Jamaica. Richard Hart seeks to avoid polemics and emphasizes that the Jamai...

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration embarked upon a project to interview 100 former American slave...

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Reducere. "Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas."--San Francis...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

Reducere. Robert V. Remini, the nation's foremost authority on Andrew Jackson, has over the past three decades published numerous books on Jackson and his pr...

Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevi...

Bringing together young musicians from Palestine, Israel and the other countries of the Middle East, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is both one o...

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...

Reducere. Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in 1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until...

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

Reducere. The FIRST BOOK written of actual ghost encounters of American Indians written by an American Indian Each page is filled with personal experiences b...

Reducere. New Voices is a collection of the prize-winning and shortlisted works of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Prizes for Poetry from 2017 to 2020, selected...

Focuses on contemporary filmmaking since the 1980s, but also considers the longer history of Arab cinema. This book offers both a coherent, histori...

DescriptionOriginally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been ...

..". a major addition to the literature on oral traditions." Journal of Religion in AfricaThis 750-year-old epic celebrates the exploits of the leg...

Reducere. Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been g...

The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virg...

Reducere. DescriptionThe History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings ...

Examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and fre...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling authors including Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Peter Robinson, Laura Lippman, John Connolly, and others, combine their ta...

11 days, 11 women's lives: how the events of September 11, 2001 changed everything for women across the globeIllustrations: 5 Maps; 26 Illustration...

Reducere. West Indian poet Ian McDonald journeys down the generations of his family, describing with a loving and fascinated eye his ancestors, including war...

Reducere. American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of -winning- the West, Drinnon links r...

... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." --Drew FaustG...

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Horace O. RussellIllustration(s): 7 ill.Number of pages: 323Collection: Research in Religion and Fam...

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