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No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. Th…
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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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Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, 4th Edition
The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentie…
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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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Mental Slavery: Psychoanalytic Studies of Caribbean People
Mental Slavery is a unique and timely contribution to the field of trans-cultural psychoanalysis, casting light on an area previously neglected wit…
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The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most fa…
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War
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War forIndependence
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actua…
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Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War–EraCharleston
“Ambitious and convincing. This is the first examination of the role of European immigrants in the most southern of U.S. cities and the way that th…
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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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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in thePlantation South
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu…
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Underground Railroad
The Archaeology of Anti-Slavery Resistance
“Weik’s comprehensive survey of the archaeology of freedom represents a critical contribution to African Diaspora studies, and serves as an admirabl…
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a …
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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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Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893
This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, …
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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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Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles
Revealing the forgotten stories of Aboriginal convicts, this book describes how they lived, labored, were punished, and died. Profiling several of t…
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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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The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican SlaveWho Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir
This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the…
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Black History for Beginners
Here is a reprint of one of the most popular Beginners books. Covering a rich history often ignored, Denise Dennis chronicles the struggle from c…
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