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Bound for America
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James Haskins |
Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas. |
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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 life and letters of Philip Quaque, the first African Anglican missionary
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Vincent Carretta |
This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective on the effects of the slave trade and its abolition i… |
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The West African slave plantation
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Mohammed Bashir Salau |
"The literature on Atlantic slavery is rich with accounts of plantation complexes in the Americas, but to date none have been produced for West Africa. In this valuable study, Mohammed Bashir Salau h… |
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Extending the frontiers
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Eltis, David,David Eltis,David Richardson,David Richardson |
"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most up-to-… |
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Shaping the New World
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Eric Guest Nellis |
Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces st… |
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Ouidah
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Robin C. Law |
"Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the 'Slave Coast'. This book deals … |
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Transformations in slavery
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Paul E. Lovejoy |
"This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. The new edition revises statist… |
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The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
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Robert J. Allison,Olaudah Equiano,Rebecka Rutledge Fisher |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and late… |
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