Day: April 29, 2012

  • The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans Harvard University Press March 2012 448 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780674059870 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones, 2 maps Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of History Tulane University This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing…

  • A Contested Presence: Free Blacks in Antebellum Mississippi, 1820–1860 Mississippi History Now: An online publication of the Mississippi Historical Society August 2000 Denoral Davis, Profesor of History Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi During its first half century as a territory and state (1810-1860), Mississippi was an agrarian-frontier society. Its population was made up of four…

  • Gender and the manumission of slaves in colonial Brazil: The prospects for freedom in Sabará, Minas Gerais, 1710–1809 Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Volume 18, Issue 2, 1997 pages 1-29 DOI: 10.1080/01440399708575208 Kathleen J. Higgins On 9 December 1735 Manoel da Costa Braga declared before the notary of Sabará, Minas…

  • Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia Cliometrica: A Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2011) pages 145-164 DOI: 10.1007/s11698-010-0056-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Using previously unexploited data, this paper explores the ages at which slaves were manumitted. OLS estimates reveal that mixed-race slaves, slaves in…

  • Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay University of North Carolina Press October 2010 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 14 illus., 9 tables, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3417-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh 2011 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American…

  • Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line Simon & Schuster July 2007 296 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0743200543; ISBN-13: 9780743200547 Shirlee Taylor Haizlip In her widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir, The Sweeter the Juice, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip asked us to redefine our concepts of race and family by examining her biracial…

  • This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…