Books written by Ned Sublette

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  The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

  By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put ...

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  Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo

  This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado.

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  The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans

  “I couldn't bring myself to talk about it until I was grown,” she said, and proceeded to tell me a chilling story about her ... because of her back—lifting, putting everything up as high as possible so that even if the house got flooded ...

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  The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

  The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation.

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  American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

  “Confederate war crimes far exceeded those of the Federals by every measure,” writes George S. Burkhardt, who called attention to it in Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath.4 Confederate violence in battle was genocidal toward black people, ...