Gallay places Native Americans at the center of the story of European colonization and the evolution of plantation slavery in America. He explores the impact of such contemporary forces as the African slave trade, the unification of England and Scotland, and the competition among European empires as well as political and religious divisions in England and in South Carolina.
The best bibliographies on slavery are Joseph C. Miller, Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900–1991, 2nded. (Armonk ny: M. E. Sharpe, 1999) and Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, Vol.
With the Spanish entrada into the arid Southwest came the seeds of a commerce that would germinate and grow into a menace to be felt for over 300 years-- the...
This is historical nonfiction at its most important and most necessary.” — Literary Hub, 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the Decade ““One of the most profound contributions to North American history.”—Los Angeles Times
Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in the influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944 and based on his previously unavailable dissertation, now available in book form for the first time.
The Danish West Indian Slave Trade: Virgin Islands Perspectives
3 (1986), 479–506; Piet Westra and James C. Armstron Slave Trade with Madagascar: The Journals of the Cape Slaver Leijdsman, 1715/Slawe-Handel met Madagaskar: Die Joernale va die Kaapse slaweskip Leijdsman, 1715 (Cape Town: Africana ...
Michael D. Green, "Alexander McGillivray," in American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity, ed. R. David Edmunds (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980), 41-63. 77. Mad Dog to James Burgess and the Seminoles, August 2, 1798, ...
The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a "shatter zone."
Frederick Cooper, Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa, (New Haven, 1977), p. 122; FO 195/1098, Extract from a despatch from HM Agent and Consul at Zanzibar, 16 Aug. 1876, enclosed in Paunceforte to Derby, 28 Sept. 1876. 56.
Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period.