Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 [Paperback ed.] 1442605553, 9781442605558

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa t

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Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 [Paperback ed.]
1442605553, 9781442605558

Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas a

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A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world. How Slavery in the Americas Matters ex

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A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries.

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Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the Africa

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This text provides an examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African diaspora in the Americas. Lea

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Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits’ significant contributions to mapping and mapmakin

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While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common co

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While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common co

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A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the

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