Digital project focused on Black Life in U.S. cities: "Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination … Continue reading DIGITAL: African American Communities
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BOOK CHAPTER: Rogers and King on Women of Color in 18th Century Saint-Domingue
Dominique Rogers and Stewart King. “Housekeepers, Merchants, Rentières: Free Women of Color in the Port Cities of Saint-Domingue, 1750-1790.” In Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800, edited by Douglas Catterall and Jody Campbell, 357–98. BRILL, 2012. via Brill: "This chapter explores the economic roles of women … Continue reading BOOK CHAPTER: Rogers and King on Women of Color in 18th Century Saint-Domingue
BOOK: Welch on Slavery in Bridgetown, Barbados
Pedro Welch, Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown Barbados, 1680-1834. Kingston; Miami; Oxford: Ian Randle Publishers, 2003. On the book: "Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 1680-1834 is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a contemporary historian. Having adeptly mined the existing archival data and statistics on Bridgetown, Pedro … Continue reading BOOK: Welch on Slavery in Bridgetown, Barbados
BOOK: Mann on “Marrying Well” in Lagos
Mann, Kristin. Marrying Well: Marriage, Status and Social Change among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos. Cambridge University Press, 1985. via Cambridge U Press: "This pioneering work investigates the history of marriage among the educated elite in colonial Lagos. It analyses the far-reaching economic, political and social changes that produced the elite and shaped … Continue reading BOOK: Mann on “Marrying Well” in Lagos
AUDIO: Berry and Harris on Urban Slavery | 15 Minute History
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Brown discuss urban slavery in the United States on 15 Minute History: "When most people think about slavery in the United States, they think of large agricultural plantations and picture slaves working in the fields harvesting crops. But for a significant number of slaves, their experience involved working … Continue reading AUDIO: Berry and Harris on Urban Slavery | 15 Minute History
BOOK: Cowling on Women, Gender, Emancipation in Cuba & Brazil
Cowling, Camillia. Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. via UNC Press: "In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and … Continue reading BOOK: Cowling on Women, Gender, Emancipation in Cuba & Brazil
Weekend Reading: The Public Archive on “Radical Black Cities”
This week, The Public Archive published its fourth installment on Radical Black Reading. The subject was race, urbanity, black geographies, and sense of place: In this, The Public Archive’s fourth installment of Radical Black Reading,* we hope to contribute to an informal conversation about the history, plight, and future of Black cities – and towards the … Continue reading Weekend Reading: The Public Archive on “Radical Black Cities”
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