This eight-volume set brings together primary texts which reveal the complexity of opinion about abolition and emancipation during this period. Volume I collects whole works and selections which represent everything written by late 18th-century and early 19th century black write…
"Slavery and Identity narrates a peculiar sort of history of the "peculiar institution." Not about slavery per se, it looks at urban slavery in an Atlantic port city from the vantage point of enslaved Africans and their descendants, examining their self-perceptions and self-iden…
"Slavery and Identity narrates a peculiar sort of history of the "peculiar institution." Not about slavery per se, it looks at urban slavery in an Atlantic port city from the vantage point of enslaved Africans and their descendants, examining their self-perceptions and self-iden…
This work analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using transcripts from Inquisition trials, it reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and …
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