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  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War

    The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press 2001 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 32 illus., 9 genealogical charts, 10 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN:  978-0-8078-5467-9 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters…

  • Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860

    Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860 University of Massachusetts Press 1970 362 pages ISBN-10: 0870230506; ISBN-13: 978-0870230509 James Hugo Johnston (1891-1974), Professor of History University of Virginia Contents FOREWORD PREFACE PART I. THE RELATION OF THE NEGRO TO THE WHITE MAN IN VIRGINIA 1. Friendly Relations 2. Violent Relations 3. Free…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’

    The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’ The Daily Beast 2013-01-24 Eric Herschthal Columbia University Barbados provided the blueprint for all future British slave settlements in the American South. Andrea Stuart talks to Eric Herschthal about how her family was entwined in the island’s tormented history. On the face of…

  • Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

    Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Knopf 2013-01-22 384 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-27283-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96115-0 Andrea Stuart In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the…

  • New Orleans and the African Diaspora

    New Orleans and the African Diaspora American Historical Association From the Suppliment to the 127th Annual Meeting 2012-12-23 Laura Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Many people conceptualize the study of the “African diaspora” as focused on black experience beyond or separate from “African American” experience in the United States.…

  • You Have No Right: Jane Webb’s Story

    You Have No Right: Jane Webb’s Story Out of the Box: Notes for the Archives @ Library of Virginia Virginia Memory: Library of Virginia 2012-11-14 Greg Crawford, Local Records Coordinator The colonial era Northampton County court records tell a fascinating story of a woman named Jane Webb. Born of a white mother, she was a…

  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House

    Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…

  • From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond

    In an era in which African Americans were oppressed and deprived of many of the rights and privileges of citizenship, Scott Bond rose from being born a slave in Madison County, Mississippi, in the early 1850s to wealth and status as a farmer, merchant, and business entrepreneur in Madison, Arkansas, by the early 1900s.

  • Why isn’t ‘colorism’ gone?

    Why isn’t ‘colorism’ gone? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-05 Has “colorism” disappeared? CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asks author and Activist Tim Wise.