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  • Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

    An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic

    by Paul E. Lovejoy, Nielson Bezerra ...
    A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. During a trip to New York City in 1847, he escaped from his master and fled to Haiti, where he converted to Christianity. When he eventually returned to the United States, he enrolled in New York Central College. Baquaqua published his ... Read more

    $21.89 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

  • The Atlantic and Africa

    The Second Slavery and Beyond

    Edited by Dale W. Tomich, Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    Series series SUNY series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science
    Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.The Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one another. On the one hand, the "second slavery" ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa

    by Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    Series series Global Africa
    The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.The study explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic world from a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

    by Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in the context of the age of revolutions—commonly associated with the American and French revolutions and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Igbo in the Atlantic World

    African Origins and Diasporic Destinations

    by Audra A. Diptee, John K. Thornton, Kenneth Morgan, A.E. Afigbo, Gloria Chuku, Nwando Achebe, Hannah N. Eby Chukwu, Gendolyn Midlo Hall, Paul E. Lovejoy, Douglas B. Chambers, Chima J. Korieh, Vincent Carretta, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Robert W. Nicholls, Waibinte Elekima Wariboko, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ogbu U. Kalu ...
    The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs

    Drugs in History and Anthropology

    Edited by Jordan Goodman, Andrew Sherratt, Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine, coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.Psychoactive ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

    Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
    This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Souls of Black Folk: A Quick Read edition

    by Quick Read, W. E. B. du Bois ...
    Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 12 minutes"The Souls of Black Folk" is a book written by W.E.B. Du Bois that discusses the history of African Americans and their struggle for equality and justice. Du Bois ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Illustrated)

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Includes 10 illustrations.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a powerful and haunting autobiography that provides an unflinching glimpse into the life of one of the most influential figures in American history. Written by Frederick Douglass, a former enslaved African-American who escaped bondage to become a prominent abolitionist, author, and orator, this book serves as a compelling ... Read more

    $1.99 USD