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  • Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

    CONTENTS:Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble“Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby“Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,” Lauren Derby“Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,” Chelsea Berry“Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West ... Read more

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  • Atlantic Environments and the American South

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    There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid introduction to this collection of essays that brings these disciplines ... Read more

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  • Network of Bones

    Conjuring Key West and the Florida Keys

    by Sean Morey ...
    Series series The Seventh Generation: Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in a New Nature
    Both a far-removed place of refuge for the fringe of society and a high-status vacation destination, the Keys remain a legendary yet fragile place, still threatened by a human-made disaster, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Likewise, Key West, Florida, can be many things to many people, evoking laidback Margaritaville for some and Ernest Hemingway for others.In this mixture of memoir, travel ... Read more

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  • Rhetorical Delivery and Digital Technologies

    Networks, Affect, Electracy

    by Sean Morey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    This book theorizes digital logics and applications for the rhetorical canon of delivery. Digital writing technologies invite a re-evaluation about what delivery can offer to rhetorical studies and writing practices. Sean Moreyargues that what delivery provides is access to the unspeakable, unconscious elements of rhetoric, not primarily through emotion or feeling as is usually offered by previous ... Read more

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  • Mediating Nature

    The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy

    Edited by Sidney I. Dobrin, Sean Morey ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
    Mediating Nature considers how technology acts as a mediating device in the construction and circulation of images that inform how we see and know nature. Scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric, and this book engages ecocritical and ecocompositional inquiry to shift focus onto the making of images.Contributors to this dynamic ... Read more

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    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring Black women's experiences with slavery in the Americas.Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men's experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to ... Read more

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  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.From the Trade Paperback edition. ... Read more

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  • Black Ghost of Empire

    The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

    by Kris Manjapra ...
    If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system—instead of obliterating it.To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts us today, we must look closely at the ... Read more

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  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

    The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. ... Read more

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  • Maroon Societies

    Rebel Slave Communities in the America

    by Richard Price ...
    Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, ... Read more

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  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    Series series Early American Studies
    When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses ... Read more

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  • The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500–2000

    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, ... Read more

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