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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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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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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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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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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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African American Connecticut Explored
The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from…
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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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The Bahamas
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at aBahamian Plantation
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural mélange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African…
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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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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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A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's GeorgeWashington Murray
Born a slave in 1850s South Carolina and elected to Congress in the 1890s, George W. Murray appeared to be the antithesis of the African American m…
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