Slavery

Image of An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery
Author(s):
Rachel May
Genre(s):
African American, Slavery, History, Civil Rights, History, U.S.

An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery

June 7, 2018
Reviewed by: 
Micah Perks

“An American Quilt [is] nothing less than a reexamination of American history through the lens of race, class, and gender.”

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Image of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Author(s):
Zora Neale Hurston
Genre(s):
African American, History, Slavery, History, U.S.

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

May 27, 2018
Reviewed by: 
James H. McDonald

Anthropologist/folklorist/journalist Zora Neale Hurston used her polyvalent talent to produce the only recorded Trans-Atlantic slave narrative based on extensive interviews with Kossula, or Cudjo L

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Image of Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Author(s):
Tera W. Hunter
Genre(s):
History, 19th Century, African American, History, Slavery

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

May 3, 2017
Reviewed by: 
Thomas McClung

The history of the United States is still full of topics yet to be researched, explored, and revealed in book or other form.

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Image of This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
Author(s):
Matthew Karp
Genre(s):
African American, Slavery, History, U.S., 19th Century, Political

This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

September 11, 2016
Reviewed by: 
Thomas McClung

Among historians certainly, it has been axiomatic that control of the authority and power of the Federal government was maintained by the so-called Southern plantation aristocracy for the first 75

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Image of The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Author(s):
Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette
Genre(s):
Slavery, African American, Multicentury, U.S.

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

November 21, 2015
Reviewed by: 
Robert Davis

The last couple of decades have seen a steady stream of fully documented, honest, readable, and scholarly single works on American slavery.

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Image of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Author(s):
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Genre(s):
Slavery, Other, Heritage, Civil Rights

Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History 1513–2008

November 21, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Judith Reveal

“. . . while many of the stories in Life Upon These Shores give us pause, Mr.

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