age ~48
from Gansevoort, NY
This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial, ethnic, and class diversity of the women it features. Essays on plantation mistresses, overseers' wives, nonslaveholding women from the upcountry, slave women, and ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN #
0820329363
EAN Code
9780820329369
ISBN #
10
Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion and were baptized toget...
Author
John Boles
Binding
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
ISBN #
0813101875
EAN Code
9780813101873
ISBN #
6
"There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster," writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array of manmade factors shaped the sc...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
216
Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN #
0807158437
EAN Code
9780807158432
ISBN #
5
The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed critical to understanding the trade in all its breadth and variety. Randy J. Sparks ex...
Author
Randy J. Sparks
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
204
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674495160
EAN Code
9780674495166
ISBN #
3
In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors--and so began ...
Author
Randy J. Sparks
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674032055
EAN Code
9780674032057
ISBN #
2
Annamaboe was the largest slave trading port on the eighteenth-century Gold Coast, and it was home to successful, wily African merchants whose unusual partnerships with their European counterparts made the town and its people an integral part of the Atlantic's webs of exchange. Where the Negroes Are...
Author
Randy J. Sparks
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
328
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN #
0674724879
EAN Code
9780674724877
ISBN #
1
Randy Sparks (b. 29 July 1933, Leavenworth, Kansas) is a musician, singer-songwriter and founder of The New Christy Minstrels and The Back Porch Majority. ...
Author
Randy J. Sparks
ISBN #
0674013123