In August of 1865, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon, who since being freed by the emancipation proclamation, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporti...
A HANDFUL OF newly-released books, a mainstream film and a number of special events marked the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, many of them taking advantage of March 25, the day the legislation was passed in Parliament.De Santis, Solange...
She relies on the absence and presence of the sculptures to convey her perspective. In two particular images without any monument — one of a plantation field and one of swamp land — absence is entirely the point; these are the places slaves died. A much earlier series — Slave Coast (...
talks us through the six books that made the 2024 shortlist, from the voyage of an English diplomat to Mughal India to the intimacy of a South African marriage, from the barbarity of the slave trade in the 18th century to the history of an institution that provides free health care to al...
Focus on Lewis’s major point: that it did not take bad will or large-scale theft and violence (although large-theft and violence there was) for the globalization that brought world trade and colonial rule to serve as a global inequality amplifier: the simple competitive workings of the marke...
The sun can make you take off your coat quicker than the wind, and kindliness, friendly approach and appreciation can make people change their minds more readily than all the bluster and storming in the world Chapter 5: begin by emphasizing things on which you agree. ...
“Once you’ve read this book, you can’t sustain complacent cliches about the Western part in the slave trade. The detail is extraordinary. What I found particularly interesting and different was the sense of the commercial dynamic driving it. The story starts with one monopoly company, the ...
Click on Image to expand Roberts, Kenneth: Boon Island. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First Trade Edition. Near fine in tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine and a gilt anchor on the front board and with map end sheets. An octavo measuring 8...
Of the 37, many of them were excellent, I think a higher percentage than normal where above average. I don’t know if this is because I have improved the way I pick the books or if I have gotten better at giving up on things that don’t appeal to me faster. Of course there are...
African Slave Trade and its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles The African slave trade and its suppression : a classified and annotated bibliography of books, pamphlets and periodical articles Peter C. Hogg (Cass library of African studies,...