Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Sophie White
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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1. Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
By: None , Sunil Amrith
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of … read more
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2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
By: Jon F. Sensbach
3.71
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Rebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who help… read more
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4. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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5. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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6. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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7. Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia
By: None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampto… read more
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8. A Tempest
By: Aimé Césaire , Richard Miller
3.87
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Cesaire's rich and insightful adaptation of The Tempestdraws on contemporary Caribbean society, the… read more
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9. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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10. Stay with Me
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expect… read more
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11. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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12. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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13. Crazy Brave
By: Joy Harjo
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one… read more
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14. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
15. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
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16. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
By: Robert G. Parkinson
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m… read more
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17. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
18. The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
By: John Wood Sweet
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its lo… read more
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19. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
20. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
21. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
By: Dagmar Herzog
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this … read more
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22. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
By: Tiya Miles
4.17
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is … read more
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23. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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24. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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25. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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26. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Sophie White
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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27. Not Good for Maidens
By: Tori Bovalino
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Salem’s Lot meets The Darkest Part of the Forest in this horror-fantasy retelling of Christina Ross… read more
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"Lou felt like she'd fallen headfirst into the rabbit hole, if that rabbit hole was also a thrift store run by two bunnies on ecstasy."-Tori Bovalino, Not Good for Maidens
"It had taken her a while to figure it out, skirting around the Queer Club at school and going to virtual talks with Neela and in-person events with May, but once she tried the ace label on, she felt …"-Tori Bovalino, Not Good for Maidens
28. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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29. The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America (The Revolutionary Age)
By: Cynthia A. Kierner
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the mo… read more
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30. Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
By: Karen Cook Bell
4.06
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all… read more
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31. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803
By: Kimberly S. Hanger
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
During Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined w… read more
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