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  • The Smugglers' World

    Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela

    by Jesse Cromwell ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods. They found a solution in exchanging cacao, a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Beyond 1619

    The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery

    Edited by Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner, Jesse Cromwell ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery’s origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond 1619

    The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery

    Edited by Paul J. Polgar, Marc H. Lerner, Jesse Cromwell ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery’s origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Beyond 1619

    The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery

    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

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    7 hours 38 min

    Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans ... Read more

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    by John K. Thornton ...
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  • Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola

    A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality

    by Mariana P. Candido ...
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    Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant ... Read more

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  • Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage

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  • Negotiated Empires

    Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500–1820

    Edited by Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy ...
    Series series New World in the Atlantic World
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  • Mexico

    A 500-Year History

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
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  • Slavery in Brazil

    by Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna ...
    Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their ... Read more

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  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    by Prof. J. H. Elliott FBA ...
    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the ... Read more

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