It coincided with the Caribbean becoming, for the only time in its history, a place of world importance. As Abbé Raynal, the eighteenth-century French philosopher, declared about the plantations of the Greater Antilles, "the labors of the colonists settled in these long-scorned islands are the...
"We were able to bring that Confederate flag down," she said in Spirit Lake. "We didn't have riots, we had vigils. We didn't have protests, we had hugs. And South Carolinians showed the world what strength and grace look like. That's how you do it." Jacob ...
The world that we live in today has been significantly shaped by the unpaid labor of these Africans and their African-American descendants. This unique book examines the history of slavery and its role in the making of the modern world. Like the institution of slavery itself, the book ...