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.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History PrizeWinner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A gripping tale about the human need for freedom .
An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this dayby the journalist who discovered the ship's remains.
When the passage of the Abolition of Slavery Act, effective August 1, 1834, ushered in the end of slavery throughout the British Empire, people of the African descent celebrated their newfound freedom.
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.
'One of the most beautiful and profound novels I've read in ages' Washington Post'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships' Independent'Takes on the great riddles of existence' New York TimesBy a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time.
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narrativesmostly written by menpublished before the Civil War.
* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK *'A spectacular achievement' ANTHONY DOERR'Extravagantly beautiful' DAILY MAIL'One of the greatest writers of all time' JACQUELINE WOODSON'Extraordinary' GUARDIAN'The best book I've read in years' LOUISE KENNEDY-----------------------The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand.
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.
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.
Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic.
The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world.
From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement.
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today.
From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement.
In the early to mid-19th century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt.
Durante las últimas décadas, el trabajo intelectual y la actividad política de Angela Davis se han centrado en lo que ella denomina el «abolicionismo de la prisión».
En 1550 comenzó un espectáculo insólito para el mundo: por primera vez en la historia, un emperador paraliza la expansión de su imperio para suscitar un debate: ¿es conforme a la justicia la civilización y conversión de los indios del Nuevo Mundo?
