Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
10 best books like Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese): Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, The 101 Dalmatians, Twelve Years a Slave, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, Slave Religion: The "invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South, The Rescuers, Dessa Rose, Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santera to Obeah and Espiritismo
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
| Author | Kathleen M. Brown |
| ISBN | 0807846236 |
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia....
| Author | Dodie Smith |
| ISBN | 0760704066 |
Pongo and Missis had a lovely life. With their human owners, the Dearlys, to look after them, they lived in a comfortable home in London with their 15 adorable Dalmatian puppies, loved and admired by all. Especially the Dearlys' neighbor Cruella de Vil, a fur-fancying fashion plate with designs on the...
Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black...
| Author | Clayborne Carson |
| ISBN | 0674447271 |
With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet even-handed book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and...
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
| Author | David Brion Davis |
| ISBN | 0195140737 |
David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical...
| Author | Eugene D. Genovese |
| ISBN | 0394716523 |
A fascinating, but vitally flawed, book, Roll, Jordan, Roll, is part Marxist-leaning polemic and part well-woven narratives of the slave experience in colonial and antebellum America. At just over 800 pages, Genovese's opus has become a classic in the field for its amazing scope and wide-ranging...
Slave Religion: The "invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
| Author | Albert J. Raboteau |
| ISBN | 0195174127 |
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years,...
| Author | Margery Sharp |
| ISBN | 0316783552 |
I remember seeing The Rescuers film en francais back when I was in the third grade, but it took me until now to read the book. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, why am I reading a kids' book? Well, when it comes to great stories, I think you can be any age to read them. This one, a classic by Margery Sharp (she...
| Author | Sherley Anne Williams |
| ISBN | 0688166431 |
“Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative.” —Toni Morrison
Expanding the canon of African American literature, alongside Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple,...
| Author | Margarite Fernandez Olmos |
| ISBN | 0814727204 |
Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices-is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought...
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
| Author | John W. Blassingame |
| ISBN | 0195025636 |
It was hard making it through this book. I gave it three stars instead of two for a couple of reasons. One is that I did learn from it, and found information that I had not previously known. The other is that the book contains a "Critical Essay on Sources" which is great, not just for the wide selection of sources...
The Way of Orisa: Empowering Your Life Through the Ancient African Religion of Ifa
| Author | Philip J. Neimark |
| ISBN | 0062505572 |
Carried to the Americas by slaves, the 8,000-year-old philosophy of Ifa originated with the Yoruba peoples of West Africa. Ifa's enduring message of strength and inner peace, one that offers a way to harmonize our spiritual and worldly aims, is enjoying a resurgence of popularity in the West. Written...
The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria
| Author | Marta Moreno Vega |
| ISBN | 0345421558 |
Long cloaked in protective secrecy, demonized by Western society, and distorted by Hollywood, Santería is at last emerging from the shadows with an estimated 75 million orisha followers worldwide. In The Altar of My Soul, Marta Moreno Vega recounts the compelling true story of her journey from ignorance...
| Author | Catherine Clinton |
| ISBN | 0394722531 |
This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets...
The Slave Ship: A Human History
| Author | Marcus Rediker |
| ISBN | 0670018236 |
The missing link in the chain of American slavery
For three centuries slave ships carted millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation system, but little of the ships that made it all possible. In...
The Three Little Pigs (A Little Golden Book)
| Author | Elizabeth Ross |
| ISBN | 0307020916 |
☆☆ 5 Stars ☆☆
What a great story it is! Moral and the way of describing it is impressive.
OVERVIEW
This is the story of three pigs, who are building their houses. One of them, does a great amount of hard work and build his house with bricks and the remaining are LAZY. They build their...
| Author | Mary Norton |
| ISBN | 0460881760 |
3.5 stars for this 1947 children's fantasy. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:
In Bonfires and Broomsticks, part two of Mary Norton’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks duology, it’s two years after events of the first book, The Magic Bed-Knob. The three young siblings, Carey, Charles...
Finding Soul on the Path of Orisa: A West African Spiritual Tradition
| Author | Tobe Melora Correal |
| ISBN | 1580911498 |
In the realm of African spiritual pathways, no tradition is so widely embraced and practiced as the West African religion Orisa. Awakened by her own spiritual journey, Tobe Melora Correal, an initiated priestess in the Yoruba-Lukumi branch of Orisa, guides us along this blessed road. FINDING THE...
