Writing the History of Slavery, Paperback - ***

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Collection: Writing HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 38Cover type: Pape...

While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject can...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain...

Reducere. European enslavement of Africans and the development of the slave trade began in the sixteenth century. As the New World opened up, the slave trade...

DescriptionThis book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing ...

Reducere. Harriet Beecher Stowe grew up in a family in which her seven brothers were expected to be successful preachers and the four girls were never to spe...

Harriet Beecher Stowe reveals the many sources that inspired and motivated her writing the renowned anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.A Key to ...

The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement can be traced back to slavery and the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution gave Afric...

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Reducere. In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglasFrederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818- February 20, 1895) was...

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Souther...

In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of ...

DescriptionThe challenge of retelling five hundred years of American history in a single volume has been so daunting that hardly any historian has ...

DescriptionThis edition has been expanded and annotated with updated information. Suzie King Taylor made a remarkable journey from slavery to freed...

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Reducere. In the classics departments of today's universities, Bruce Thornton says, the Greeks are accused of stealing their achievements from black Egyptian...

Reducere. Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks liv...

Reducere. This collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for liter...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribu...

DescriptionIn Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it is...

Reducere. DescriptionGenesis, a book of wondrous stories, is also a profound exploration of the human condition. From Cain and Abel to Joseph and his brother...

Reducere. Challenging Inequalities: Readings in Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration offers a fresh perspective on current research by examining the histories an...