Entries from 2022-03-22 to 1 day
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of Modern World, 1471to the Second World War, Howard W. French, Liveright Pub Corp, October 12, 2021 Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to Eu…
The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade: The Legacy and Misfortune of How the American Economy was Built on the Backs of Slaves, Eric Jones, Independently Published, September 27, 2020 The mid-15th^ century gave rise to the massive slave trades. Ho…
Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System, Maeve Ryan, Yale University Press, April 5, 2022 How the suppression of the slave trade and the "disposal" of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitariani…
Migration in Africa: Shifriting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th^ to the 21st^ Century, Michiel de Haas & Ewout Frankema, Routledge, March 31, 2022 This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid…
We Slaves of Suriname, Anton de Kom (interpreted by David McKay), Polity, March 22, 2022 It is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first t…
The Pan-african Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond, Tony Martin, Black Classic Press, April 5, 2022 The Pan-African movement for international Black unity is one of the great movements of modern history. This volume brings toget…
The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding, Simon J. Gilhooley, Cambridge University Press, October 29, 2020 This argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early America…
Barbados: Cuffee's Kingdom: First Black New World Freedom Plan: Barbados 1675 Anti-Slavery Strategy, Hilary McD Beckles & Cheryl-Ann Boodram, Ian Randle Publishers, March 30, 2022 In the 1600s Barbados attained a double identity. It became…
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Slavery?, Julia O'Connell Davidson, SAGE Publications Ltd; 1st^ edition, April 9, 2022 Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist …
Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York, David N. Gellman, Three Hills, April 15, 2022 It shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The…
Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South, Jodi Skipper, University of Iowa, March 22, 2022 When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveo…
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London, Simon P. Newman, University of London Press, March 18, 2022 Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of Britain's enslaved people and their liberation. This book brings the hi…
Cousins: Connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past -- and each other, Betty Kilby Baldwin & Phoebe Kilby, Walnut Street Books, March 3, 2021 What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black wom…
Writing the History of Slavery (Writing History), David Stefan Doddington, Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 24, 2022 Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this …
