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Crossroads and Cosmologies
UPF 2007; US$ 34.95A far-reaching anthropological study of African and African American religions, German American folkways, and archaeological methodology more...
In the Shadow of Slavery
University of California Press 2011; US$ 21.95The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were... more...
Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas, 2-Volume Set
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 185.00When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person?a sailor?set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing a critical role in every region, colony, and country. From Canada to the Caribbean to Chile,... more...
History, Power, and Identity
University of Iowa Press 1996; US$ 22.00For the past five centuries, indigenous and African American communities throughout the Americas have sought to maintain and recreate enduring identities under conditions of radical change and discontinuity. The essays in this groundbreaking volume document this cultural activity—this ethnogenesis—within and against the broader contexts... more...
Writing Race Across the Atlantic World
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 37.00A collection of essays by top figures in early modern studies which take us beyond the "Black Atlantic" into the complex racial and ethnic world of the period more...
The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 23.75This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout... more...
In the Shadow of Slavery
University of California Press 2009; US$ 50.00The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were... more...
Origins of the Black Atlantic
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on plantations, and their labor was the foundation for the... more...







