(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies. Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural cha...Loe edasi...
Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839452)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839469)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228026921)
This fascinating history explores the development of a distinctive national prose tradition in colonial Angola, tracing how intellectuals, writers, and citizens imagined the future nation in their literature....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469694849)
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and...Loe edasi...
This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism and environmental justice. In pairing twentieth- and twenty-first century works of black literature with multimedia texts from the envir...Loe edasi...
This book aims to briefly illustrate the colonisation process implemented by France and Great Britain in the Caribbean and to reconstruct the debate on colonialism and slavery that developed in these two countries, approaching the issue from the sta...Loe edasi...
Sari: Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Martinus Nijhoff, ISBN-13: 9789004760585)
Enslavement was central to the early modern Iberian empires. No one at the time seriously questioned its legality, yet widespread reports of violent practices of captivity and human trafficking contrasted sharply with the Christian ideal of charity....Loe edasi...
Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of Creolization in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190077631)
Both colonial and early nationalist writers of African history tried to minimize the importance of the slave trade in the study of Africas past and present. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the significance of the institution for prop...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250419941)
Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out against slavery and oppression everywhere, or act cautiously to prot...Loe edasi...
Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad.Delving into the lives and stories of everyday men and women both escaping slavery and helping others escape, this book shows wha...Loe edasi...
This book challenges assumptions about race through the lens of nineteenth-century Cuba, addressing contemporary, transnational perspectives in Black and American studies. Through analyses of texts produced in the context of slavery, it invites stud...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009692830)
This book challenges assumptions about race through the lens of nineteenth-century Cuba, addressing contemporary, transnational perspectives in Black and American studies. Through analyses of texts produced in the context of slavery, it invites stud...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009280648)
One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume the first of its kind on Sancho and his written output not only situates the letters within their social and historical contexts but also highlights thei...Loe edasi...
One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume the first of its kind on Sancho and his written output not only situates the letters within their social and historical contexts but also highlights thei...Loe edasi...
In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the global labor market in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under...Loe edasi...
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present offers a sweeping, accessible overview of how African individuals and communities have challenged slavery across centuries. Bringing together insights from Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone...Loe edasi...
This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language. It offers crucial insights into the aesthetic, political, cultural, linguistic, and historical frameworks necessary to comprehend Haitis vast literary...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Belknap Press, ISBN-13: 9780674278325)
Thomas Jeffersons views on slavery have long been seen as paradoxical or incoherent. Jeffersons Wolf shows that he was, in fact, a consistent advocate of racial exclusion. Although he criticized slavery, he also insisted throughout his life-like m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647127046)
How a key period in American Catholic history connects with contemporary populismCatholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the wars evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics...Loe edasi...
How a key period in American Catholic history connects with contemporary populismCatholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the wars evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820375489)
In Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early American South. Recovering, reconstructing, and reimagining stories that fugitive slaves compelled enslavers to advertise in print when th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820375687)
Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant examines the experiences of motherhood for enslaved African women and their descendants who navigated the realities of reproduction in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on an extensive...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691278056)
How slavery and the slave trade provided African rulers with a path to political powerAcross history, slavery has been central to political power. By the nineteenth century, African rulers dominated the slave trade with the European...Loe edasi...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride • Best New Books of Spring 2025 by Bustle • Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by LitHub • Biggest Books of March by Book Riot...Loe edasi...
This Handbook is the first multidisciplinary anthology of research on antiracism in global historical perspective. It demonstrates the importance of a historical lens for understanding the deep lineages of antiracism and reveals the myriad ways—tr...Loe edasi...
For the first time available in English, this fully translated and revised edition of De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam: Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt (2022) examines the emergence of private Dutch slave trading in the eig...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421453170)
Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies. Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographic, economic, and agricultural cha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807185735)
Kristen Tegtmeier Oertels Seeking Freedom in Indian Country is the first comprehensive study of African chattel slavery within the Five Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations. Oertel examines how chattel sl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376899)
Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery focuses on the development of tobacco as a plantation economyand the exponential increase in forced labor supporting itto suggest an alternat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376981)
We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the emergenc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376974)
We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the emergenc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376929)
Arguing tobacco was more counterpart than counterpoint to sugar, Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery focuses on the development of tobacco as a plantation economyand the exponential increase in forced labor supporting itto suggest an alternat...Loe edasi...
Sari: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496863423)
Throughout the history of slavery in the Americas, music carried messages of survival, rebellion, and solidarity. Enslaved people composed songs that were far more than lamentsthey were calls for liberty and revolution, celebrating heroes like Gabri...Loe edasi...
Sari: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496863461)
Throughout the history of slavery in the Americas, music carried messages of survival, rebellion, and solidarity. Enslaved people composed songs that were far more than lamentsthey were calls for liberty and revolution, celebrating heroes like Gabri...Loe edasi...
Sari: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299356903)
Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New World. While a vast swath of scholarly work on th...Loe edasi...
Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839452)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839469)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
Emancipation War chronicles the great military, political, and legal struggle that amended the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery once and for all-- Provided by publisher....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228026921)
This fascinating history explores the development of a distinctive national prose tradition in colonial Angola, tracing how intellectuals, writers, and citizens imagined the future nation in their literature....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469694849)
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and...Loe edasi...
Sari: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807187524)
Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize Jesse Olsavskys The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionist movement. These groups, based...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805966326)
#Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 finalist Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to th...Loe edasi...
This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism and environmental justice. In pairing twentieth- and twenty-first century works of black literature with multimedia texts from the envir...Loe edasi...
