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Chocolate Islands
Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa....
Disease, Resistance, and Lies
The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a result...
by Timothy B. Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
* Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017 * An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2017 *
This extraordinary...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses,...
The Islamophobia Industry
How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book uncovers those who deal in the spread of the hatred of Muslims. From Donald Trump and his allies Steve Bannon and Newt Gingrich, to the rise of the Front National in France, websites like Breitbart and ‘liberal’ anti-Muslim campaigners such as Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins.
Revealing...
Behind the Mask of Chivalry
The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1994
On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph Simmons...
Fractured Identities
Changing Patterns of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The gap between rich and poor, included and excluded, advantaged and disadvantaged is steadily growing as inequality becomes one of the most pressing issues of our times. The new edition of this popular text explores current patterns of inequality in the context of increasing globalization, world...
Blackballed
The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
"College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial...
by Matthew J. Clavin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the American South toward an unlikely destination: the small seaport of Pensacola, Florida, a gateway to freedom.
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave
Annotated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. Soon thereafter, however, southerners challenged the authenticity of the work and the society retracted it. Abolitionists at the...
by Shannon Sullivan Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book is a collection of personal vignettes, a mystery detective novel that turns oral legend into history. Montgomery County, Indiana’s history of the Underground Railroad focuses on the people involved. Documentation recounts few feats of derring-do and midnight runs through the woods...
by Larry J. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered...
No God But Gain
The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism...
Greatest Emancipations
How the West Abolished Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted...