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While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the
British than with the successful patriots of the American
Revolution, Gerald Horne reveals in his latest work of historical
recovery that after 1776, Africans and African-Americans continued
to collaborate with Great Britain against the United States in
battles big and small until the Civil War. Many African Americans
viewed Britain, an early advocate of abolitionism and emancipator
of its own slaves, as a powerful ally in their resistance to
slavery in the Americas. This allegiance was far-reaching, from the
Caribbean to outposts in North America to Canada. In turn, the
British welcomed and actively recruited both fugitive and free
African Americans, arming them and employing them in military
engagements throughout the Atlantic World, as the British sought to
maintain a foothold in the Americas following the Revolution. In
this path-breaking book, Horne rewrites the history of slave
resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of
military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United
States. Painstakingly researched and full of revelations, Negro
Comrades of the Crown is among the first book-length studies to
highlight the Atlantic origins of the Civil War, and the active
role played by African Americans within these external factors that
led to it. Listen to a one hour special with Dr. Gerald Horne on
the "Sojourner Truth" radio show.
PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY An innovative and valuable
resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies,
this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and
gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and
migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter. While there
have been studies of women's roles in African societies and of
Atlantic history, the role of women in West and West Central Africa
during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition
remains relatively unexamined. This book brings together scholars
from Africa, North and South America and Europe to show, for the
first time, the ways in which African women participated in
economic, social and political spaces in Atlantic coast societies.
Focusing on diversity and change, and going beyond the study of
wealthy merchant women, the contributors examine the role of petty
traders and enslaved women in communities from Sierra Leone to
Benguela. They analyse how women in Africa used the opportunities
offered by relationships with European men, Christianity and
Atlantic commerce to negotiate their social and economic positions;
consider the limitations which early colonialism sought to imposeon
women and the strategies they employed to overcome them; the
factors which fostered or restricted women's mobility, both
spatially and socially; and women's economic power and its
curtailment. Mariana P. Candido is an associate professor of
history at the University of Notre Dame; Adam Jones recently
retired as Professor of African History and Culture History at the
University of Leipzig. In association with The Institute for
theScholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters,
University of Notre Dame
How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed
men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom?
David Roediger's radical new history redefines the idea of freedom
after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the
leading historical accounts of Emancipation and Reconstruction.
Reinstating ex-slaves' own "freedom dreams" in constructing these
histories, Roediger creates a masterful account of the emancipation
and its ramifications on a whole host of day-to-day concerns for
Whites and Blacks alike, such as property relations, gender roles,
and labor.
Argentina has spectacular natural wonders, exceptional landscapes
and is a unique country but it is known as "The Whitest Nation in
South America". Why is this? What is the truth of the popular
phrase of "There Are No Black People Here"? What is the
"Blanqueamiento" of Black people and why do Argentine officials say
Black people have "disappeared"? When, why and how many Africans
were taken to Argentina? How did the enslave contribute towards
Argentina's nation-building and why have they been "forgotten"?
Focussing on the era between 16th and 19th century, this
fascinating fact-filled introductory book answers all these
questions plus lots more in an easy-to-read style. The Black
History Truth aims to promote knowledge, understanding and the
truth of Black History in an important but often overlooked former
Spanish colony of Argentina. With over 200 activity ideas and over
80 illustrations to bring Black History Truth events to life, be on
the voyage of self-discovery because Black History is an essential
element of World History.
The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of monumental
world-historical significance, and here, in the first systematic
literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is
examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants,
observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic
print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals
that enlightenment racial 'science' was the primary vehicle through
which the Haitian Revolution was interpreted by nineteenth-century
Haitians, Europeans, and U.S. Americans alike. Through its author's
contention that the Haitian revolutionary wars were incessantly
racialized by four constantly recurring tropes-the 'monstrous
hybrid', the 'tropical temptress', the 'tragic mulatto/a', and the
'colored historian'-Tropics of Haiti shows the ways in which the
nineteenth-century tendency to understand Haiti's revolution in
primarily racial terms has affected present day demonizations of
Haiti and Haitians. In the end, this new archive of Haitian
revolutionary writing, much of which has until now remained unknown
to the contemporary reading public, invites us to examine how
nineteenth-century attempts to paint Haitian independence as the
result of a racial revolution coincide with present-day desires to
render insignificant and 'unthinkable' the second independent
republic of the New World.
Freedom's Captives is a compelling exploration of the gradual
abolition of slavery in the majority-black Pacific coast of
Colombia, the largest area in the Americas inhabited primarily by
people of African descent. From the autonomous rainforests and gold
mines of the Colombian Black Pacific, Yesenia Barragan rethinks the
nineteenth-century project of emancipation by arguing that the
liberal freedom generated through gradual emancipation constituted
a modern mode of racial governance that birthed new forms of social
domination, while temporarily instituting de facto slavery.
Although gradual emancipation was ostensibly designed to destroy
slavery, she argues that slaveholders in Colombia came to have an
even greater stake in it. Using narrative and storytelling to map
the worlds of Free Womb children, enslaved women miners, free black
boatmen, and white abolitionists in the Andean highlands, Freedom's
Captives insightfully reveals how the Atlantic World processes of
gradual emancipation and post-slavery rule unfolded in Colombia.
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