Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
10 best books like Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Stephanie E. Smallwood): Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, Joe Gould's Teeth, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, Forging Diaspora, Celia, A Slave
| Author | Jennifer L. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0812218736 |
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery,...
| Author | Sarah Haley |
| ISBN | 1469627590 |
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom,...
| Author | Greg Grandin |
| ISBN | 0805094539 |
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America’s struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond.
One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal...
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations
| Author | Ira Berlin |
| ISBN | 0670021377 |
A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of...
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0275980928 |
Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large and small,...
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 1101947586 |
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”
Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian...
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
| Author | Thavolia Glymph |
| ISBN | 0521703980 |
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible...
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
| Author | Kathleen DuVal |
| ISBN | 1400068959 |
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s...
| Author | Frank Andre Guridy |
| ISBN | 0807871036 |
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships...
| Author | Melton A. McLaurin |
| ISBN | 0380803364 |
In 1850, fourteen-year-old Celia became the property of Robert Newsom, a prosperous and respected Missouri farmer. For the next five years, she was cruelly and repeatedly molested by her abusive master--and bore him two children in the process. But in 1855, driven to the limits of her endurance, Celia...
