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  • Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean

    by Randy M. Browne ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survivalAtlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Driver’s Story

    Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

    by Randy M. Browne ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist. In this system, enslaved Black drivers were tasked with supervising and punishing other enslaved laborers. In The Driver’s Story, Randy M. Browne ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Driver’s Story

    Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

    by Randy M. Browne ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist. In this system, enslaved Black drivers were tasked with supervising and punishing other enslaved laborers. In The Driver’s Story, Randy M. Browne ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean

    by Randy M. Browne ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survivalAtlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    The Driver’s Story

    Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

    by Randy M. Browne ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 32 min

    The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist. In this system, enslaved Black drivers were tasked with supervising and punishing other enslaved laborers. In The Driver’s Story, Randy M. Browne ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

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  • The Counter-Revolution of 1776

    Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

    by Gerald Horne ...
    How the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War: "Meticulous, thorough, fascinating, and thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British ... Read more

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  • African Founders

    How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

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    In this sweeping, foundational work of American history, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Read more

    $6.99 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

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  • The Trouble with Tea

    The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy

    by Jane T. Merritt ...
    How tea's political meaning shaped the culture and economy of the Anglo-American world.Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation" was to reject ... Read more

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  • Necropolis

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    by Kathryn Olivarius ...
    Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities“A brilliant book…This transformative work is a pivotal addition to the scholarship on American slavery.”—Annette Gordon-Reed“A stunning account ... Read more

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