More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas 0253210437, 9780253210432

The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas 9780300129472

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations an

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Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas 1403975760, 9781403975768

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Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas 1403975760, 9781403975768

This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the e

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Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas 9781349536474, 9780230611115

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Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery 9781531504861

An incendiary literary work more relevant now than ever. “if anger were an ax/it would split me open/and if this is a s

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Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle 9780292757356

Brave black women have played important roles in American history. Before the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, black w

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Stepping Forward : Black Women in Africa and the Americas [1 ed.] 9780821440995, 9780821414552

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The Santo Domingo Slave Revolt of 1521 and the Slave Laws of 1522: Black Slavery and Black Resistance in the Early Colonial Americas (Sources for a Quincentennial)

From the foreword: "1) Makes available the first ever English translation of the pioneering 1522 ordinances on Bla

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Women and slavery in Africa 9780435074173

"Most slaves in sub-Saharan African were women." With that introductory and revolutionary sentence Robertson a

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More Than Black?: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order 9781566399098, 9781439904831, 9781566399081

In the United States, anyone with even a trace of African American ancestry has been considered black. Even as the twent

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