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Rice and Slaves
Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina
By Daniel C. Littlefield
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Daniel Littlefield's investigation of colonial South Carolinianss preference for some African ethnic groups over others as slaves reveals how the Africans' diversity and capabilities inhibited the development of racial stereotypes... Learn MorePublished: 1st June 1991Paperback | £20.99
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Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Leon Litwack and August Meier
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Published: 1st March 1991Paperback | £21.99
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The Old Village and Great House
An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
By Douglas V. Armstrong
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Published: 1st July 1990Hardback | £42.00
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My Bondage and My Freedom
By Frederick Douglass
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
This is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J. Sundquist has called "a classic text of the American Renaissance." As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has pointed out, My Bondage and My Freedom has been largely ignored... Learn MorePublished: 1st December 1987Paperback | £21.99
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Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917
By Elliott Rudwick
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
". . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the... Learn MorePublished: 1st August 1982Paperback | £21.99
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Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Published: 1st June 1982Paperback | £32.00
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Medicine and Slavery
The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia
By Todd L. Savitt
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery... Learn MorePublished: 1st January 1981Paperback | £17.99
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Alley Life in Washington
Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970
By James Borchert
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Published: 1st September 1980Paperback | £21.99
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Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
By John Dittmer
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Published: 1st May 1980Paperback | £17.99
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Black Over White
Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction
By Thomas Holt
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
In this prize-winning book Thomas Holt is concerned not only with the identities of the black politicians who gained power in South Carolina during Reconstruction, but also with the question of how they... Learn MorePublished: 1st August 1979Paperback | £21.99
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King
A BIOGRAPHY
By David Levering Lewis
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
This edition updates Lewis's notable assessment of Martin Luther King, Jr., a book acclaimed by leading historians and critics when it appeared shortly after King's death. Published a decade after the civil rights activist's assassination,... Learn MorePublished: 1st August 1978Paperback | £31.00
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A Ghetto Takes Shape
Black Cleveland, 1870-1930
By Kenneth L. Kusmer
Series Blacks in the New World
University of Illinois Press
Published: 1st March 1978Paperback | £21.99