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  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Sidney Wilfred Mintz ...
    This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.From the Trade Paperback edition. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Olive Jar

    An Introductory Study

    by John M. Goggin ...
    FROM the earliest days of the Colonial period until Republican times, the Spanish New World was supplied with much of its necessities by the mother country. This resulted in the development of a complex export industry centered around the annual fleet sent from either Seville or Cadiz. Furthermore, the monopoly retained by Spain from time to time of certain products, such as olive oil and wine, ... Read more

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  • American Colonies

    The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

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  • Dido Elizabeth Belle

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    by Fergus Mason ...
    Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in 1761. It would be nearly 100 years before slavery was abolished. The date would be of little importance if not for one important factor: Belle's father was white, but her mother was African. It was an unthinkable act for the time, and Belle's life was destined for only bad things. But remarkably bad things did not happen.Belle was sent to live with her uncle, the ... Read more

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  • Love and Hate in Jamestown

    John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

    by David A. Price ...
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  • New York Burning

    Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

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  • Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul

    Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

    by John M. Barry ...
    A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great InfluenzaFor four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and ... Read more

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  • The Manor

    Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

    by Mac Griswold ...
    Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island ... Read more

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    The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

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  • From Slave Ship to Harvard

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  • New England Bound

    Slavery and Colonization in Early America

    by Wendy Warren ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryA New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA Providence Journal Best Book of the YearWinner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for Social HistoryFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize"This book is an original achievem... ... Read more

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