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Two Princes of Calabar
An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
Häftad, 2008
219 kr
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In 1767, two “princes” of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors—and so began …
Africans in the Old South
Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2016
443 kr
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The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed critical to understanding the trade in all its breadth and variety. Randy J. Sparks …
Where the Negroes Are Masters
An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
Inbunden, 2014
394 kr
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Annamaboe was the largest slave trading port on the eighteenth-century Gold Coast, and it was home to successful, wily African merchants whose unusual partnerships with their European counterparts made the town and its people an integral part of the Atlantic’s webs of exchange. Where the Negroes …
Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective
Av Romain Huret, Randy J. Sparks
Häftad, 2014
330 kr
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There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster,"" writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array of manmade factors shaped the …
On Jordan's Stormy Banks
Evangelicalism in Mississippi, 1773-1876
Häftad, 2012
512 kr
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On Jordan’s Stormy Banks is a social history of southern evangelicalism from the late eighteenth century to the end of Reconstruction. By focusing on the three largest evangelical denominations in a single state—Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian—Randy J. Sparks charts the rise of evangelicals on …
Money, Trade and Power
The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina's Plantation Society
Av Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
648 kr
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Reflecting the burgeoning interest of colonial historians in South Carolina and its role as the economic and cultural center of the Lower South, Money, Trade, and Power is a comprehensive exploration of the colony's slave system, economy, and complex social and cultural life. The first six chapters …
Paths to Freedom
Manumission in the Atlantic World
Av Rosemary Brana-Shute, Randy J. Sparks
Inbunden, 2009
728 kr
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This book presents an international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery. Manumission - the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues - has received relatively little scholarly attention as compared to other aspects …
Memory and Identity
The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora
Av Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
360 kr
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This book offers a thoroughly international study of the Huguenot migration.Traditionally known as le Refuge, the Huguenot diaspora is one of the most important dispersions of a religious minority in early modern Europe. This migration led to the exodus of nearly two hundred thousand Protestants …
Religion in Mississippi
Häftad, 2012
388 kr
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In the 1600s Colonial French settlers brought Christianity into the lands that are now the state of Mississippi. Throughout the period of French rule and the period of Spanish dominion that followed, Roman Catholicism remained the principal religion. By the time that statehood was achieved in 1817, …
Money, Trade, and Power
The Evolution of Colonial South Carolina''s Plantation Society
Av Randy J. Sparks, Rosemary Brana-Shute m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
387 kr
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Examines the economic and cultural development of England''s most British colony Reflecting the burgeoning interest of colonial historians in South Carolina and its role as the economic and cultural center of the Lower South, Money, Trade, and Power is a comprehensive exploration of the colony''s …
Paths to Freedom
Manumission in the Atlantic World
Av Randy J. Sparks, Rosemary Brana-Shute
E-bok, 2021
379 kr
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Manumission—the act of freeing a slave while the institution of slavery continues—has received relatively little scholarly attention as compared to other aspects of slavery and emancipation. To address this gap, editors Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks present a volume of essays that …
Religion in Mississippi
Inbunden, 2001
1238 kr
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In the 1600s Colonial French settlers brought Christianity into the lands that are now the state of Mississippi. Throughout the period of French rule and the period of Spanish dominion that followed, Roman Catholicism remained the principal religion. By the time that statehood was achieved in 1817, …
