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Dreams of Africa in Alabama
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Sylviane A. Diouf |
Sylviane A. Diouf reconstructs the lives of 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria who were brought ashore in Alabama in 1860 under cover of night, recounting their capture and passage i… |
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The slave's narrative
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Charles T. Davis |
The autobiographical narratives of black ex-slaves published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries constitute the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. Black slaves in … |
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Fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky borderland
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J. Blaine Hudson |
"The book examines not only the landscape but the motivations and escape strategies of the fugitive and the risks involved. The reasons why people broke law and convention to befriend fugitive slaves… |
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Slave culture
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Sterling Stuckey |
In this ground-breaking study, Sterling Stuckey, a leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a … |
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In search of York
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Robert B. Betts,James J. Holmberg |
"The sole African American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, William Clark's enigmatic body servant York has inspired numerous myths about his character and exploits. He was supposed to be a … |
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