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  • The Precolonial State in West Africa

    Building Power in Dahomey

    by J. Cameron Monroe ...
    This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Slavery

    A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion

    by Lydia Wilson Marshall, Catherine M. Cameron, Ryan P. Harrod, Debra L. Martin, Liza Gijanto, Theresa A. Singleton, Lynsey A. Bates, Mark W. Hauser, Kenneth L. Brown, J Cameron Monroe0, Neil L. Norman1, Chapurukha M. Kusimba2, Amitava Chowdhury3, Mary Elizabeth Fitts4, Dorian Borbonus5, Sarah K. Croucher6, Lúcio Menezes Ferreira7, Christopher C. Fennell8 ...
    Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun to investigate slavery in more diverse settings, the need for a broader interpretive framework is now ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa

    Archaeological Perspectives

    Edited by J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran ...
    This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois' Exploration of African American Identity and Struggle - Delve into the profound insights of W. E. B. Du Bois in "The Souls of Black Folk." This seminal work explores the complexities of African American identity, culture, and struggle in the United States. Du Bois' eloquent essays and reflections continue to resonate with readers, offering a poignant ... Read more

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  • Black History: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.This e-book is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of African Americans.Know your stuff: read about Black History in just one hour. ... Read more

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner

    Enriched edition. Rebellion, Struggle, and Hope: A Tale of Brutality and Resistance in American Literature

    by Nat Turner, Penelope Hightower ...
    In "The Confessions of Nat Turner," the eponymous protagonist recounts the harrowing journey that culminated in the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. Written in a deeply confessional style, the text oscillates between a stark realism and poignant introspection, capturing the psychological turmoil of enslaved individuals and their struggle for dignity and autonomy. The narrative stands as both a ... Read more

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  • African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods

    Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein ...
    What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    by Júnia Ferreira Furtado ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

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  • Children in Slavery through the Ages

    Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller ...
    Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among ... Read more

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  • The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    by Rebecca Shumway ...
    The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The African Diaspora

    Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization

    by Professor Toyin Falola ...
    The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in ... Read more

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