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"The Gift tells the story of one silver ceremonial sword offered as a gift by French traders to an African agent, and reveals how prestigious gifts shaped the trade of enslaved Africans. This compelling account will interest historians of slavery and material culture"--

The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. This readable, theoretically grounded book provides essential context to understand the Haitian Revolution.

This book provides a detailed analysis of Afro-Caribbean experiences in Cuba from 1898 to 1948. Paying particular attention to labor, race, politics, and imperial relations, Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres weaves together a complex story of transnationalism in the African Diaspora.

Slavery's Metropolis examines the paradoxes of slave life in New Orleans, a cosmopolitan port city located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. Its vivid stories will appeal to a broad readership, while its theoretical and methodological contributions will appeal to historians and other scholars.

This book traces the origins of Africans forced into the Atlantic from West Central Africa during the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Richly adorned with tables, figures, and vivid quotations, it will appeal to scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, graduate students, and genealogists.

This 2005 book examines the global unfolding of the African Diaspora, the migrations and dispersals of the people of Africa, from antiquity to the modern period. The experiences of Africans in the Old World is followed by their experience in lands claimed by European colonial powers.