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Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

R. Charles Weller

Moses, Muhammad and Their Laws in Transatlantic Slave History

This book engages the way Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular-progressivist actors used Mosaic and Islamic law and ethics in relation to slavery in American, West African and transatlantic history from …

Black Atlantic Worlds

Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meanings em…

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866…

Leslie James

The Moving Word

In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental reporting. But as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony's capacity to self-go…

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African per…

Sandra T Barnes

People in Motion

Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New Worl…

Toyin Falola

Ifá Priestcraft

Born in 1947, Ifáyẹmí Ọ̀ṣúndàgbonù Ẹlẹ́buìbọn descends from a long line of Yorùbá healers, philosophers, and priests. A fervent disciple of Ifá from age four, Elebuibon grew to become both a living …

Miranda Kaufmann

Heiresses

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses---and the role they played in the history of enslavement.Through the eighteenth and ear…

Terra X: Welten-Saga

Die »Welten-Saga« stellt in sechs Folgen einige der faszinierendsten Orte der Erde vor. Historiker Sir Christopher Clark reist einmal um den Globus und besucht UNESCO-Welterbestätten: Sein Weg führt ihn v…

Teishan A Latner

Fugitive States

Cuba in the 1970s was a beacon of Third World liberation--and a sanctuary for US radicals on the run. Fugitive States is the true story of Charlie Hill, an American exile who has lived in Havana for 55 ye…

Sarah M. S. Pearsall,

Freiheit

Die Amerikanische Revolution war ein Epochenereignis: Ohne die Unabhängigkeitserklärung von 1776 wären die Französische Revolution und der Wandel des 'alten Kontinents' nicht denkbar gewesen. Sarah M.S. P…

Luke Pepera

Motherland

"Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraord…

What a Dream Can Do

Discover the most significant museum collection chronicling African American life, history, and culture, revealing centuries of creativity, resistance, determination, and joy.At the National Museum of Afr…

Howard W French

The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation , the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French …

Howard W French

The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-Second World War colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary visi…

Lorena Féres Da Silva Telles,

Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant

Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant examines the experiences of motherhood for enslaved African women and their descendants who navigated the realities of reproduction in nineteenth-century R…

César Brioso

Havana Hardball

1947 Cuba, where the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League coincided with Jackie Robinson's spring training on the island before he made his major-league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Brooke N Newman

The Crown's Silence

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family's centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy---from Eliza…