Freedom's Port

Christopher Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Chris... Lees meer

Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August

Myra B Armstead

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• The lives built by Black Americans in a pair of summer resort towns In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, northern resort towns were i... Lees meer

Rice and Slaves

Daniel C Littlefield

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Daniel Littlefield's investigation of colonial South Carolinianss preference for some African ethnic groups over others as slaves reveals how the Afri... Lees meer

Africa in America

Michael Mullin

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast ... Lees meer

Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915

Loren Schweninger

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark stu... Lees meer

Black Over White

Thomas Holt

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• In this prize-winning book Thomas Holt is concerned not only with the identities of the black politicians who gained power in South Carolina during Re... Lees meer

Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923

Donal F Lindsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• "For students of race and culture, this book contains vital information and analysis on the origins of a multicultural society. . . . Lindsey shows th... Lees meer

Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Recounts the accomplishments of fifteen Black American men and women, including Martin Luther King, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell, and Book... Lees meer

Black Society in Spanish Florida

Jane Landers

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe with a powerful and... Lees meer

Race Riot

William M Tuttle

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• "The origins of the Chicago race riot of 1919 are to be found, not in high-level policy, but in gut-level animosities between black and white people w... Lees meer

Local People

John Dittmer

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Mississippi Historical Society McLemore Prize, the Herbert G. Gutman Prize and the Gus... Lees meer

Making Their Own Way

Peter Gottlieb

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• "A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter Gottlieb sh... Lees meer

A Voice of Thunder

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• George E. Stephens, the most important African-American war correspondent of his era, served in the famed black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, s... Lees meer

Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels

Stuart B Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Once preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among en... Lees meer

Along the Color Line

August Meier, Elliott Rudwick

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Along the Color Line is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first pub... Lees meer

Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917

Elliott Rudwick

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• ". . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century Americ... Lees meer

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• This is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J. Sundquist has called "a classic text of the American Renaissance." As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ha... Lees meer

John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65

William Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• A biography of the pioneering Black leader Privileged beyond other members of his race, yet sharing their disadvantages, the young John Mercer Langsto... Lees meer

The Old Village and Great House

Douglas V Armstrong

• Hardcover | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Rediscovering the lives of enslaved people in Jamaica A combination of archaeological and historical study, The Old Village and the Great House examin... Lees meer

Alley Life in Washington

James Borchert

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill an... Lees meer

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

John Dittmer

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• "This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century." -- Howard N. Rabinowitz , Jour... Lees meer

Slavery and the Numbers Game

Herbert G Gutman

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley ... Lees meer

The Creation of Jazz

Burton W Peretti

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• The story of jazz is more than a history of the music. The racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that ... Lees meer

Medicine and Slavery

Todd L Savitt

• Paperback | Engels | Blacks in the New World
• Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites a... Lees meer