American History
American History
Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
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Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba
Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their control, and indeed beyond the control of their masters. Slaves on coffee farms survived in ways that allowed them to...
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Melanin: Gift of The Cosmos
The mysteries of melanin reach back into ancient times and extend into every aspect of our universe. Long mistaken has melanin simply been referenced as “darker skin pigmentation,” however we know the ancient Kemetic sciences prove melanin is much more....
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Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book,...
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Schrift - Macht - Alltag: Lesen Und Schreiben Im Kolonialen Sudafrika. (German Edition)
Bereits vor mehr als hundert Jahren schrieben afrikanische Bergarbeiter, die am Witwatersrand fur die grossen Minenhauser schufteten, regelmassig Briefe an ihre Angehorigen und Freunde zu Hause und erhielten umgekehrt Post von ihnen. Die Schrift hatte um 1900 Eingang in die...
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Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural mélange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African-American slaves brought by the owners from the American South as part of the Loyalist resettlement. This study of the multi-ethnic African...
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The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro
For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color. Abolition was only achieved in 1888, in an unprecedented, turbulent political process. How was the Abolitionist movement (1879-1888) able to bring an end to a...
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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
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Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves'...
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Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves'...
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Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances
"Collecting essays by fourteen expert contributors into a trans-oceanic celebration and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo show how music, dance, and popular culture turn ways of remembering Africa into African ways of remembering. With a mix of Nuyorican,...
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Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century
This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, in which the authors seek to extract the principle lessons from each of these...
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Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy
In 1985 the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the next decades, over 4,000 residents who failed to meet the state's definition of "proper Afro-Brazilianness" were expelled to make way for hotels,...
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Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy
In 1985 the Pelourinho neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the next decades, over 4,000 residents who failed to meet the state's definition of "proper Afro-Brazilianness" were expelled to make way for hotels,...
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Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. In this second edition, Michael A. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent...
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Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora
Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. In this second edition, Michael A. Gomez updates the text to include the most recent...
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RETHINKING SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: HOMICIDES IN POST-CIVIL WAR LOUISIANA, 1
By analyzing nearly 5,000 homicides over an eighteen year period, Gilles Vandal provides a clear picture of the level of physical violence in Louisiana after the Civil War. He combines statistics with more traditional sources to draw conclusions about the...
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Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844 (Envisioning Cuba)
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Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844 (Envisioning Cuba)
Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the...
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Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France
How can politicians and ordinary citizens face the racial past in a country that frames itself as colorblind? In her timely and provocative book, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming shows how people make sense of slavery in a nation where talking about...
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Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France
How can politicians and ordinary citizens face the racial past in a country that frames itself as colorblind? In her timely and provocative book, Resurrecting Slavery, Crystal Fleming shows how people make sense of slavery in a nation where talking about...
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Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture
In 1984 at the Free University of Berlin, the African American poet Audre Lorde asked her Black, German-speaking women students about their identities. The women revealed that they had no common term to describe themselves and had until then lacked...
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Reimaging Britain: 500 Years of Black and Asian History
A full understanding of Black and Asian history within the British contextis integral to achieving a truly multicultural Britain. In this landmark book, Ron Ramdin offers the first complete history of both the Black and Asian experience in Britain. Blacks...
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (Voyageur Classics, 11)
In the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of Canada West was just short of a million...
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Redemption Songs: How Bob Marley's Nova Scotia Song Lights the Way Past Racism
Redemption Songs tells the extraordinary story of how one of Bob Marley's greatest songs was born in Nova Scotia. It opens with Marley's live acoustic performance of Redemption Song at the end of his life, and reveals that the core lyric...
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Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans...
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Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830
This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers...
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Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830
This book examines the character and composition of the black population of Britain between 1780 and 1830, previous studies of which have been hampered by a lack of demographic evidence. Drawing heavily from data collected from parish registers, contemporary newspapers...
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(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies – broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the...
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(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies – broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the...
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Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil
In Racism in a Racial Democracy, France Winddance Twine asks why Brazilians, particularly Afro-Brazilians, continue to have faith in Brazil's "racial democracy" in the face of pervasive racism in all spheres of Brazilian life. Through a detailed ethnography, Twine provides a...
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