Freedom's Captives. Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific, Paperback - ***

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the n...

Reducere. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we reall...

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...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Kris ManjapraIllustration(s): 1x8pp mono insetNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 24...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with b...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available agai...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved receive...

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign agai...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

Reducere. If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the ninetee...

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

DescriptionFreedoms Flowers is a book about the effects of domestic abuse on children. It is composed of firsthand accounts from these children and...

With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1, 500 African Americans who held political office...

Reducere. "Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these ...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom, showing that wh...

Reducere. We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua...

Offers a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the ...

Reducere. 1761--Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Gambia and brought to America as a slave. But she did...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Julius B. Fleming Jr.Illustration(s): 12 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Performanc...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

For Emma Goldman, the "High Priestess of Anarchy, " anarchism was "a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions, "...

Reducere. What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? First surprise? Bet...

Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama's inauguration...

Reducere. Colombia is fast becoming an extremely sought-after international holiday destination. With amazing scenery, delightful people, and a lifestyle tha...

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

* This is a major new work of social theory by one of the leading sociologists in France today. Formerly a close collaborator of Pierre Bourdieu, L...

DescriptionIn this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells ...

Reducere. "This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for stor...

Reducere. Gourdvine Black and White is the history, biography, and genealogy of one family divided into two by race and the time in which they lived. For fou...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): O PattersonNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 30Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Timothy M. GallagherIn this new volume, Fr. Gallagher explores additional understandings and applications of the Ignatian r...

Police shootings and incarceration inequalities are two examples of the legacy of slavery in the US and UK. Offering a criminological exploration o...

Reducere. Emancipation-freeing the slaves-Hell? The Emancipation Proclamation-one of the sacred icons of American history-a tragedy? How can this be? That wa...

Reducere. Descendants of Slavery: on the Event Horizon is book about problems and problem solving in the African American community. It is a red flag on the ...

Our culture today is saturated with weight loss programs and diets. And yet, obesity is at an all-time high. How is it that we can have so much inf...

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment cam...

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolitionPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Matt SandlerNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2020Dimensions:...

Reducere. An honest account of a woman's trek on the John Muir Trail is captured in this lively trail journal. Celebrate her joy as the beauty of the High Si...

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...