Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World 0253014298, 9780253014290

In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World 9780520949539

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slav

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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World 9780520257504, 0520257502

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slav

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The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World 9780674259300

Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the “African” supernatural practice

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Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony 9780822375890, 0822375893

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil

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Race, Power, and the Obama Legacy 9781317383116

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Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England 1843839180, 9781843839187

Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished lawbreakers with harsh corporal penalties, such as execution, mutilation and impr

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The Ancient Athenian Navy: The History and Legacy of Greece’s Dominant Naval Force in Antiquity

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Include

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The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943 9781844689750

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Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World 9780812294903

Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement

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With broadax and firebrand: the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic forest 9780520208865

Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disa

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