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  • Gold Coast Diasporas

    Identity, Culture, and Power

    by Walter C. Rucker ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    "Provocative and well written . . . a must-read for any scholar interested in African identity, the transatlantic slave trade, and resistance." — American Historical ReviewAlthough they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The River Flows On

    Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America

    by Walter C. Rucker ...
    Series series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
    The River Flows On offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience. Walter C. Rucker analyzes American slave resistance with a keen understanding of its African influences, tracing the emergence of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Colonial America:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free land." Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

    The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

    by Gerald Horne ...
    Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the structural origins of American "looting"Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade

    Beyond the Silence and the Shame

    by Anne Bailey ...
    It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of AtorkorFor centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Sidney Wilfred Mintz ...
    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

    $15.99 USD

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

    by Brian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan ...
    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

    $8.69 USD

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

    by Martin A. Klein, Jan Hogendorn ...
    Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them.Among the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Transformations in Slavery

    A History of Slavery in Africa

    by Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    Series Book 117 - African Studies
    This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    by Jennifer L. Morgan ...
    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

    $28.49 USD