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Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom
An exploration of life on the Virgin Islands in a distinctive black community that gained its freedom from slavery more than 40 years prior to emancipation in 1848. Douglas …
Sugar, Slavery, and Society
This interdisciplinary exploration of the effects and consequences of the cultivation of sugarcane and spread of the sugar industry in societies that relied on free, enslaved, and …
Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena De Indias
Jesuit priest Alonso de Sandoval's important 1627 missionary history, the only existing published document that deals with Africans in the Americas at such an early date, describes …
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
This is the story of the so-called “Negro Fort”; the largest maroon community ever to emerge in North America. During the War of 1812, Edward Nicolls of the Royal Marines erected a …
Balancing Evils Judiciously
Kingsley's collected writings on slavery show how his thoughts evolved. The four editions of his ""Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society"" identify subtle yet substantial …
Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition
Drawing on archival sources from six countries, Joseph Dorsey examines the role of Puerto Rico in slave acquisitions after the traffic in slaves was outlawed. He delineates the …
Hell without Fires
Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book …
Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy
One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden"This is a book of adventure that tells how one man shaped the Alaskan frontier at a crucial time in American …
The Atlantic Slave Trade
In 1502, the first African slaves were taken to Hispaniola. In 1888, Brazil became the last nation in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery. For the nearly 400 years in between, …
The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
Michael Crawford presents the compelling story of colonial manumission movements among North Carolina Quakers in this illuminating volume. Embedding complete primary documents …