Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (America and the Long 19th Century, 10) 1479885681, 9781479885688

Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture 9781479804702

Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, pres

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Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century 9781469660677

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Early African American Print Culture 9780812206296

Early African American Print Culture presents seventeen original essays that demonstrate how the study of African Americ

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Family and Population in 19th Century America 9781400869398

Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the

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Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle 9781478022817

Shannen Dee Williams provides a comprehensive history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, tracing how Black sis

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Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West 9780813946047

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debat

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A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York 9780814785188

In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigratio

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Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but als

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Women and freedom in early America 9780814721988, 9780814721933

It is virtually impossible to generalize about the degree to which women in early America were free. What, if anything,

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Mediterranean Diasporas: Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century 9781472576651, 9781472576644, 9781474220019, 9781472576675

Mediterranean Diasporas looks at the relationship between displacement and the circulation of ideas within and from the

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