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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields—from Spanish (1850s–1898) to US rule (1898-)—Puerto Ricans strug…
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War
Herero Heroes: A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923
The Herero-German war led to the destruction of Herero society. Yet Herero society reemerged, reorganizing itself around the structures and beliefs…
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Sudan
Sudan and South Sudan: From One to Two
The Republic of Sudan gained its independence from Britain on the 1st of January 1956 an event which brought an end to decades of colonial rule by…
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Labor
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues tha…
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The Logbooks: Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa,…
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Haitian Revolution
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World David P.Geggus
The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its re…
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Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North
Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would lat…
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons,Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undevelop…
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From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society,1775-1807
From Africa to Jamaica offers a new look at the Atlantic slave trade in its final years, fleshing out the historical portrait of the African men, w…
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The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South
"A fresh and inventive method of presenting some lesser-known aspects of slavery to both scholars and students."--Ronald Traylor, Southeas…
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racism
Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and theCaribbean
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. …
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Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980
While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has …
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racism
Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics ofDecolonization
When Frantz Fanon's critiques of racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and humanism are brought into the ever-widening orbit of Africana crit…
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slavery
Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age ofEmpire
In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper exami…
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slavery
The Slave Trade (Slavery in the Americas)
The transatlantic slave trade forcibly brought thousands of Africans to the Americas. In doing so, it impacted peoples and cultures across the glo…
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Life Under Slavery (Slavery in the Americas)
When the African people were first brought to the New World, estranged from their homeland, they adapted their native rituals, religions, customs, l…
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Politics
Towards Colonial Freedom: Africa in the Struggle Against WorldImperialism By Kwame Nkrumah
This book is about Africa’s struggle against world imperialism. This classic title was completed in 1945. In the words of the author, Kwame Nkruma…
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Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!
The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!, a richly illustrated book, examines the urban connection of the clandestine system of secret routes,…
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slavery
Slavery Throughout History Reference Library: Almanac
Two of a proposed three-volume set (a primary sources volume will appear later), the Almanac and Biographies share almost identical time-line and &…
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Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during t…
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