Entries from 2022-01-01 to 1 year
In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and loc…
The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was ‘free’ and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The Bri…
The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300–1700 covers four hundred years and four continents, facilitating a better understand…
Women warriors planned and led revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. Wake tells the “riveting” (Angela Y. Davis) story of Dr. Rebecca …
Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal soci…
In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means fo…
This edited volume brings new perspectives on the topic maritime archaeology of the slave trade in the Caribbean. The book focuses on shipwrecks of the slave trade in the 18th century and suggests that there is a more complex and challengi…
The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798–1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman’s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jersey to the Hawai‘ian Islands, and from her own self-education to a lifetime of teaching other…
African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought wi…
To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think of “emancipation” as a finale, leading to a new age of human rights and univ…
Prince William expresses ‘sorrow’ about slavery in Jamaica speech – but doesn’t apologise, Nadine White, March 24, 2022, INDEPENDENT Prince William has described his “profound sorrow” over “abhorrent” slavery amid a second wave of reparati…
Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom. Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together…
「イギリス君主制と奴隷制との歴史的つながりは何か？」 What are the British monarchy’s historical links to slavery?, Tobi Thomas, March 23, 2022, The Guardian While it is difficult to say how much of the royal family’s wealth is owed to the …
Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900, Richard B. Allen, BRILL, October 14, 2021 Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 ch…
Slavery and Islam, Jonathan A.C. Brown, Oneworld Academic, October 2022 What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong?Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern …
Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862, Amy Tanner Thiriot, University of Utah Press, September 30, 2022 An Akan proverb says, "It is not wrong to go back for…
Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the NIAGARA REGION during the Final Decades of Slavery, Dann J. Broyld, LSU Press, May 30, 2022 Borderland Blacks explores the status and struggles of transient Blacks within this dynamic zone, where the cu…
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power, James Walvin, Robinson, March 10, 2022 A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. A…
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation, Mat Callahan, Robin D. G. Kelly, Kali Akuno, University Press of Mississippi, June 15, 2022 Songs of Slavery and Emancipation features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, pla…
The Battle Against Slavery: The Untold Story of How a Group of Yorkshire Radicals Began the War to End the Slave Trade, Paul L. Dawson, Frontline Books, April 30, 2022 The Battle Against Slavery charts the story of a group of West Riding r…
Civil Rights Stories: Slavery, Catherine Chambers, Franklin Watts Ltd, August 12, 2021 This book explains civil rights and the history of slavery in an accessible way for younger readers. Stories of slavery through history are explored chr…
Stitched Up, Steve Cole, Barrington Stoke Ltd, June 2, 2022 The horrific real-life cost of fast fashion is exposed in this gripping tale of survival from bestselling author Steve Cole. When twelve-year-old Hanh is offered a job as a shop a…
India's Coolies: A Forgotten Memoir, Naila Kabir, Kindle Edition, June 10, 2022 A young poet and writer inspire a collection of historical and cultural poems, essays, and a psychological shock of the telltales of time. With meditation on w…
The Story of Juneteenth, Dorena Williamson, WorthyKids, May 3, 2022 Introduce little learners to the Juneteenth holiday with this 250-word board book about its origins and traditions. What are the origins of America's newest national holid…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris, University of Georgia Press, April 15, 2020 For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World Plantation complex, from colonial settleme…
The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris, Tinder Press, March 31, 2022 Landry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. Cast into the world without a penny to their nam…
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith Ⅲ, Little, Brown and Company, June 1, 2021 This compelling#1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America―and how both histo…
On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed, Liveright Pub Corp, May 4, 2021 On Juneteenth Combining personal anecdotes with poignant facts gleaned from the annals of American history, Gordon-Reed shows how, from the earliest presence of Black peop…
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America, Joshua D. Rothman, Basic Books, April 20, 2021 An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade―and its role in the maki…
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, Woody Holton, Simon & Schuster, October 19, 2021 This explores countless connections between Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them…
