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Slavery and Medicine Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana

Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana

1st Edition

By Katherine Bankole
March 31, 2021

This study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their slaves, addressing the slaves' proactive management of medical care; brutality as a cause of the constant need for medical attention; and ...

Making the Gods in New York The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community

Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community

1st Edition

By Mary Cuthrell Curry
December 01, 1997

Over the last 35 years, practice of Santeria and the Yoruba religion in the United States has grown as the result of African American search for identity and large scale Cuban migration. While the ritual and belief systems of Santeria and the Yoruba Religion are essentially the same, the practical ...

A Good Master Well Served Masters and Servants in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1750

A Good Master Well Served: Masters and Servants in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1750

1st Edition

By Lawrence William Towner
June 30, 2020

First published in 1998. Early American historians are finding connections between the bonded status of African American slaves, European indentured servants, convicts, and sailors. An excellent starting point for this inquiry is this neglected classic by Lawrence Towner, former head of the ...

The Other Reconstruction Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen

The Other Reconstruction: Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen

1st Edition

By Ericka M. Miller
November 01, 1999

First published in 2000. The Other Reconstruction examines groundbreaking works by three African American women whose writings expose the economic, political, and social factors that sustained race violence in post-Reconstruction United States. Their works demonstrate that fixed representations--...

Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838

Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838

1st Edition

By Thomas Murphy
January 20, 2016

From the colonial period through the early nineteenth century, Father Thomas J. Murphy writes a compelling chronology and in depth analysis of Jesuit slaveholding in the state of Maryland....

The Music in African American Fiction Representing Music in African American Fiction

The Music in African American Fiction: Representing Music in African American Fiction

1st Edition

By Robert H. Cataliotti
January 16, 2019

This is the first comprehensive historical analysis of how black music and musicians have been represented in the fiction of African American writers. It also examines how music and musicians in fiction have exemplified the sensibilities of African Americans and provided paradigms for an African ...

Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations Atlanta, GA 1946-1981

Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations: Atlanta, GA 1946-1981

1st Edition

By David A. Harmon
January 01, 1996

This study is the story of the local Civil Rights Movement and race relations in Atlanta, Georgia from 1946 to 1981. Most examinations of the Civil Rights Movement have been written from a national perspective. These studies have presented local African American protest movements as part of a ...

James W.C. Pennington African American Churchman and Abolitionist

James W.C. Pennington: African American Churchman and Abolitionist

1st Edition

By Herman E. Thomas
March 01, 1995

The story of James W.C. Pennington who was a former slave, then a Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement. He escaped from slavery aged 19 in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery before the Civil War. In 1837 he was ...

The Afro-American in New York City, l827-l860

The Afro-American in New York City, l827-l860

1st Edition

By George E. Walker
December 19, 2018

First published in 1993. This study traces the complex social, economic, religious, and political forces which affected African-Americans and their overall response to them. It more specifically illustrates how the prevailing views and actions of the dominant society serve to limit the aspirations ...

Constructing Belonging Class, Race, and Harlem's Professional Workers

Constructing Belonging: Class, Race, and Harlem's Professional Workers

1st Edition

By Sabiyha Robin Prince
January 17, 2019

Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers. It begins by considering centuries of New York City history and the structural elements...

The Art of the Black Essay

The Art of the Black Essay

1st Edition

By Cheryl Butler
January 17, 2019

The Art of the Black Essay unveils the power of the African American essay to bring about a meditative shift in the minds of readers, to catapult them beyond racial ideology - by immersing them in it - and to elicit in them, ultimately, democratic change. This title outlines the specific tools of ...

Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston An Analysis of Probate Records

Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records

1st Edition

By Carol Buchalter Stapp
December 19, 2018

First published in 1993. The probate records of antebellum black Bostonians offer an ideal opportunity to compare the literature to a primary source, both in terms of content and method. Critical reviews of the scholarship, first, on black social history and, then, on probate inventories as ...

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