Origins of the Black Atlantic

Origins of the Black AtlanticBetween 1492 and 1820, about two thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on plantations, and their labor was the foundation for the expansion of the Atlantic economy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Until relatively

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062667130

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endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race

a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer

create new streams of income

Departing from the common assumption that Candomble originated in the Yoruba orixa (orisha) worship

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including writings by Sir Francis Drake

In From Slave to Pharaoh