Los esclavos en América parecen tener un solo rostro: el de los africanos convertidos en mercancía, secuestrados de su lugar de origen y forzados brutalmente a trabajar en el Nuevo Mundo.
This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives.
History of the Conquest of Peru (1959) contains a detailed analysis of the political, religious and social organisation of the Incas prior to the arrival of the Spanish colonisers, and then moves on to look at the story of the conquest and subjugation of the Incan Empire, the largest in South America.
African slavery was pervasive in Spain s Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict.
Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies.
El acercamiento a la narrativa antiesclavista cubana de la época colonial ha sido tradicionalmente tratado desde la alteridad dicotómica que, aparentemente, plantea la representación del "otro" esclavo desde la posición del intelectual criollo.
**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.
*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X.
Cobalto rojo es la primera y desgarradora revelación de la inmensa carga que la minería del cobalto supone para la población y el medio ambiente de la República Democrática del Congo, contada a través de los testimonios de los propios congoleños.
"e;Through the Eyes of a Slave"e; contains a carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety of authors including Solomon Northup's "e;Twelve Years a Slave"e;, which was adapted into the 2013 blockbuster film of the same name.
Basándose en un episodio histórico —el único intento de insurrección armada de los esclavos negros del sur de los Estados Unidos anterior a la guerra de Secesión— y en un caso real del que apenas existía documentación, a través del relato de los sucesos puntuales y la confesión del propio esclavo-asesino, William Styron construye una de las mejores novelas norteamericanas de los últimos años.
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended.
American Book Award Winner 2016The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light.
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature.
`I pray people will read this richly detailed and absorbing book, with its vivid renaissance of a matter most of us English seem to have wished into oblivion.
In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history Harriet Tubman a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonate today.
Voller Intensität und Eindringlichkeit erzählt Caryl Phillips Geschichten von Versklavung und Unterwerfung, die von einer Generation an die nächste weitergegeben werden.
In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "e;Stonewall of the West"e;) proposed that "e;the most courageous of our slaves"e; be trained as soldiers and that "e;every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war"e; be freed.
In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America.
When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy.
In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America.
When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy.
In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "e;Stonewall of the West"e;) proposed that "e;the most courageous of our slaves"e; be trained as soldiers and that "e;every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war"e; be freed.
The Hanging of Arthur Hodge-A Caribbean Anti-Slavery Milestone - selected for the Best Non-Fiction Book Award by The Sacramento Publishers Association - is a study of slavery in the British West Indies during the half-century before Parliaments 1834 decision to emancipate the slaves.
