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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting...
by Brian McGinty
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring—and long-forgotten—heroes of the Civil War.
Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back into...
The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book
Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing...
How to Make Black America Better
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic,...
by Daniel Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Expanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change. Learn about your role in movement-building and how to pick and build...
Loving
Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics.
Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime:...
by C. Eric Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A classic work on religion and the racial problems of modern america -now brought up to date.
Since the early days of the Republic, Americans' exuberant, unchastened idealism, their commitment to the notion of a perfect society in the New World, has clashed with the reality of ugly American...
Church, State, and Race
The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750–1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during this time often revolved around the fitness...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2001
Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, and antiracist activists,...
Baldwin for Our Times
Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A collection of James Baldwin's writings that speaks urgently to our current era of racial injustice, with an introduction by prominent Baldwin scholar Rich Blint
In his unforgettable, incandescent essays and poetry, James Baldwin diagnosed the racial injustices of the twentieth century and...
The Empire of Necessity
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter,...
The Diligent
A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar plantations. Harms brings to life a world in which slavery was a commerce carried out without qualms....
by Frank Tannenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer...
Maroon Societies
Rebel Slave Communities in the America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and...