Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, Paperback - Marisa J. Fuentes

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge it...

Contributor(s): Author: Marisa J. FuentesIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Ma...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge it...

As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urb...

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

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

In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-...

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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...

Reducere. A review of the original edition of "The Burdens of Disease" that appeared in ISIS stated, ""Hays has written a remarkable book. He too has a messa...

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 ...

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

Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set a...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Carolyn J. EichnerNumber of pages: 156Collection: Reinventions of the Paris CommunePublication date: ...

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncAuthor(s): Louisa LimNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 236 x 30Cover...

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

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

Reducere. Volume 2 of Interviews with former North Carolina Slaves

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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...

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...

Reducere. New Hampshire was once a hotbed of abolitionist activity. But the state had its struggles with slavery, with Portsmouth serving as a slave-trade hu...

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Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is t...

Reducere. International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardA radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers. Carlos ...

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

Reducere. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

Reducere. In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political p...