Agency of the Enslaved : Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World 9780739168042, 9780739197417

The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World 9780822374107

In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by

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The bonds of family: Slavery, commerce and culture in the British Atlantic world 9781526129499

Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the socia

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The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System 9780271035024

Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown’s Annals of Europe and America, which contends tha

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Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel 9780814795460

Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically a

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The problem of freedom: race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 9780801842160, 9780801842917

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No.4 Upper Guinea and the Significance of the Origins of Africans Enslaved in the New World

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Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World 9780812208733

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World offers an exceptional collaboration between American, Canadian, and European

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Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic 0367593327, 9780367593322

Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide h

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The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic 9780190224363, 0190224363

A finalist for the Brazilian Book award and winner of the Casa de las America Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story

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Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World 0826339050, 9780826339058

Why slavery was so resilient and how people in Latin America fought against it are the subjects of this compelling study

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