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Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico: Conspiracies and Uprisings, 1795-1873
	Baralt, Guillermo A. Subject: Caribbean	Winner of the Puerto Rico PEN Club Award From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico derived mainly from the exploitation … More Information

Slavery
	Hunwick, John and Eve Troutt Powell, editors Subject: Africa, Middle East, History of Slavery	For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of … More Information

Slavery
	Marmon, Shaun E., editor Subject: Middle East, Religion	Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the “Abode of War” by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the … More Information

Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam
	Lovejoy, Paul E., editor Subject: Africa, Middle East, Religion,History of Slavery,Latin America	This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined … More Information

The African Experience in Spanish America
	Rout, Leslie, Jr. Subject: Africa, Latin America, History of Slavery	This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remains the only general history on the people of African descent in the Spanish-speaking nations of … More Information

The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad, and Colonization, 1712-1920
	Djata, Sundiata A. K. Subject: Africa	The powerful Bamana state emerged in 1712 and centered around the Middle Niger, where most inhabitants were Bamanas with their own language and religion. It was a sophisticated society with nobles, casted groups, and slaves. The Bamanas built an empire … More Information

The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
	Bovill, E. W. Subject: Africa, World History	“This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering over [one] thousand years of trans-Saharan trade. “Finely written and researched. … This edition will no doubt whet the appetites of a fresh generation of scholars and students … More Information

The History of a Slave
	Johnston, H. H. (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy) Subject: Africa, History of Slavery	In 1889, the British colonial official Sir Harry Johnston published The History of a Slave, a story of an archetypal slave based on Johnston’s extensive knowledge of North and West Africa from his travels there. The tale follows the fictitious … More Information

The Horrors of Slavery and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn
	Wedderburn, Robert (edited by Iain MacCalman) Subject: Caribbean	Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. The Horrors of Slavery is a vivid record of the history, ideas, and rhetoric of … More Information

The Irony of Desegregation Law 1955–1995: Essays and Documents
	Whitman, Mark, editor Subject: U.S. History	This volume continues the story begun in the author’s earlier work, Removing a Badge of Slavery. It seeks to provide an interpretive history of the major developments in school desegregation law beginning with Brown II. It suggests we may be … More Information