Slavery Ordained of God: The Southern Slaveholders’ View of Biblical History and Modern Politics
By Eugene D. Genovese (NHC Fellow, 1984–85; 1987–88)
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Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
By Heather Andrea Williams (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during … Continued
The Routledge History of Slavery
Edited by Trevor Burnard (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and Gad J. Heuman The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have … Continued
A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean
Edited by David Patrick Geggus (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and David Barry Gaspar (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America
Edited by Kathleen DuVal (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and John DuVal This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic … Continued
The Slaveholders’ Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860
By Eugene D. Genovese (NHC Fellow, 1984–85; 1987–88) Eugene Genovese explores the efforts of American slaveholders to reconcile the intellectual dilemma in which they found themselves as supporters of freedom but defenders of slavery. In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Genovese argues that the spokespeople for the Southern position demonstrated much greater intellectual talent than has been … Continued
African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Ben Vinson, III (Board of Trustees Chairman; NHC Fellow, 2005–06) This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes … Continued
Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil
By Anthony W. Marx (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction of nations to the construction of racial identity. Using a comparative historical approach, Marx analyzes the connection between race as a cultural and political category rooted in the history of slavery and colonialism, and … Continued
Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture
By Madeleine Dobie (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) In Trading Places, Madeleine Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment. She shows that until a turning point in the late 1760s questions of colonization and slavery occupied a very marginal position in literature, philosophy, and material and visual culture. In an … Continued
African Slaves, African Masters: Politics, Memories, Social Life
Edited by Sandra E. Greene (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2014–15), Martin A. Klein, and Alice Bellagamba How do we understand Africa’s historical systems of slavery and the enduring political, economic and cultural consequences for Africa today? After abolition, did former masters maintain their privileges? Did former slaves and their descendants resist continued marginalization? How did former … Continued