Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Shaping the New World Shaping the New World 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… OL19665712W
Plantation church Plantation church Noel Leo Erskine In 'Plantation Church', Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. OL20957341W
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past T. M. Devine The first ever book-length attempt to strip away the myths and write the real history of Scotland's slavery past. Written to appeal to a wide audience, it contains many original, surprising and uncom… OL21107677W
Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement Gelien Matthews This book critically analyses the extent to which a dialectic existed between enslaved revolutionaries in the Caribbean colonies and white aboltionists in Britain. The latter commented on the self li… OL5831342W