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  • Fugitive Rousseau

    Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom

    Collections series Just Ideas
    Critics have claimed that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a primitivist uncritically preoccupied with “noble savages” and that he remained oblivious to the African slave trade. Fugitive Rousseau presents the emancipatory possibilities of Rousseau’s thought and argues that a fresh, “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with Rousseau’s treatments of primitivism and slavery.Rather than ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    An American Family

    Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Black History: History in an Hour

    par Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.This e-book is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of African Americans.Know your stuff: read about Black History in just one hour. ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Manor

    Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    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. ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1

    "History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880, Vol 1" by George Washington Williams is a pioneering work that chronicles the experiences and struggles of African Americans from the time of their arrival in America. Williams, an African American historian, provides a detailed account of the social, political, and economic conditions faced by Black people during this period. His narrative ... En savoir plus

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  • The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade

    Collections series The Early Modern Americas
    During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though Africans continued to be exchanged as chattel, urban frontiers allowed a number of enslaved blacks to ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Inheriting the Trade

    A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History

    A trailblazing memoir about one family’s quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliationIn 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Maroon Societies

    Rebel Slave Communities in the America

    par Richard Price ...
    Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • Fatal Self-Deception

    Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

    Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    Collections series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD