American History
American History
Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba
Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this groundbreaking history, David Sartorius explores the...
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Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem
In the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the “New Negro.” This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the...
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Ending British rule in Africa: Writers in a common cause (Studies in Imperialism, 77)
On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign...
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Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean...
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Emerging Perspectives on the Black Diaspora (Constitutionalism; 2)
This book attempts a comparative analysis of the condition of Blacks in the new world diaspora. The editors contend that this diaspora cannot be fully understood apart from politics and social structure, or apart from the broad historical background of...
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Emerging Perspectives on the Black Diaspora (Constitutionalism; 2)
This book attempts a comparative analysis of the condition of Blacks in the new world diaspora. The editors contend that this diaspora cannot be fully understood apart from politics and social structure, or apart from the broad historical background of...
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Embracing Protestantism: Black Identities in the Atlantic World
The first study to consider, on a circum-Atlantic scale, how conversion to Afro-Protestant Christianity encouraged a ‘middle path’ between exclusionist ethnic African identities and deracinated Atlantic creole identities.”—Douglas B. Chambers, author of The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave...
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El Negro y la Negra Libre: Puerto Rico 1800 - 1873: Su presencia y contribución a la identidad puertorriqueña (Spanish Edition)
Esta obra abre un espacio que ha sido muy ligeramente tocado por nuestra historiografía: la participación de negros y negras libres como en la identidad nacional boricua. La obra enaltece a su autora y rompe mitos, abriendo caminos a la...
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Een Zwarte Vrijstaat in Suriname: De Okaanse Samenleving in De Achttiende Eeuw (Caribbean Series, 29)
Een zwarte vrijstaat in Suriname vertelt de geschiedenis van de Okanisi in de achttiende eeuw. Het is een geschiedenis van hekserij en orakels, van knechting en ontsnapping, van opsporing en oorlog. Na jaren van strijd kwam de koloniale overheid tot de...
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Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
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Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slaveryIn the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile....
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An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes
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An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes
This is a reproduction of a classic text optimized for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we believe...
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An Enquiry Concerning the intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes
This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we believe...
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Dutch Children of African American Liberators: Race, Military Policy and Identity in World War II and Beyond
In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America. Though their African...
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Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840 (Volume 21)
Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question in Done with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty years between the British Conquest and the union of...
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Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to...
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Discourse on Africana Studies
Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge is both a reader and an introspective tribute, comprised of writings by James Turner and commentary from several of his former students. The book strives to underscore critical connections between...
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Dialogues Dispersal African
From Brazil to Germany, New York to Ghana, Dialogues of Dispersal examines intersections of gender and sexuality within Afro-diasporic communities. Considers communities in Brazil, the Caribbean, Germany, the UK, the US and West Africa, and how they overlap. Contains innovative...
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Dawn Voyage-The Black African Discovery of America
Here for the first time is evidence for one of the most dramatic, but distorted, ignored and forgotten episodes of human history. This book is one of a number of books indicating the African presence among nations and people outside...
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
A concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 through the...
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Damned Notions of Liberty: Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640-1769
Prior to 1640, when the regular slave trade to New Spain ended, colonial Mexico was the second largest slaveholding society in the New World. Even so, slaves of African descent in Mexico were surrounded by a much larger indigenous majority,...
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Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
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Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained...
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Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
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Cuba's Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained...
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Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz (Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies)
While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array...
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Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz (Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies)
While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array...
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Why Not Win?: Reflections on a Fifty-Year Journey from the Segregated South to America’s board rooms – and what it can teach us all
Aspiring business owners and executives seeking to climb to the next rung, young to mid-career professionals seeking tools for life achievement, and general readers interested in biographies of successful people will like Larry Thornton’s Why Not Win?. The book is a...
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An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith
Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813–1884) was a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper, life companion, and collaborator of the state’s abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In his biography of this remarkable woman, Mark Kelley reveals how Smith...
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Ted Mack and America's First Black-Owned Brewery: The Rise and Fall of Peoples Beer
Born a sharecropper in rural Alabama in 1930, Theodore A. (Ted) Mack, Sr., fought in the Korean War and then played football at Ohio State while earning a college degree. Brewing and selling beer, he believed, would be just another...
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The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street AND The Seven Key Empowerment Principles
Did you know that African Americans in Oklahoma created a ‘Negro Wall Street’ in the early 1910s? The Oklahoma city of Tulsa in 1921 had a Black hospital, a Black public library, 2 Black public schools, 2 Black newspapers, 2...
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The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton's Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance. Yet, despite success and acclaim as the...
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The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
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The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton's Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance. Yet, despite success and acclaim as the...
$126.50