History of Indigenous Slavery In, a (P), Paperback - Akosua Adoma Perbi

Academic research and publication on indigenous slavery in Ghana and in Africa more widely have not received attention commensurate with the import...

An engaging warts-and-all history of the U.S. meant to better educate those who fight for it. Fluid, readable, strongly written, and thought-provok...

Reducere. In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed ...

Reducere. DescriptionOut of Slavery: A Novel of Harriet Tubman is a story that follows the perilous path of the Underground Railroad and the tragic costs of ...

Reducere. The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...

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

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Milton MeltzerSlavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution, " but one that is deeply rooted in the history and...

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

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill CareyTennessee had a smaller percentage of slaves than most other Southern states and was the last state to join the C...

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery m...

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...

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

DescriptionTrail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A coll...

Reducere. DescriptionShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indig...

DescriptionThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinn...

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...

Tells a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia ...

Reducere. Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slaver...

Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and for...

Reducere. "Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These comm...

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions...

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

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

Reducere. DescriptionConcord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first mi...

Prof. Daniel Arsenault, a leading exponent of Canadian Shield rock art, sadly passed away in 2016. This book contains 14 thought-provoking chapters...

Reducere. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attack...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26, 000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the ...

Reducere. "NEW YORK TIMES "EDITOR'S CHOICE"SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "RECOMMENDED BOOKWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in t...

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their ...

In Dark Work, Christy Clark-Pujara tells the story of one state in particular whose role was outsized: Rhode Island. Historians have written expans...

Contributor(s): Author: W. Caleb McDanielWinner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the SHEAR James Broussard First Book PrizeIn The Problem of Demo...

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and...