https://archive.org/details/georgia-slaveowners-1850

The 1850 Census of Georgia Slave Owners by Jack F. Cox

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#georgia, #stateofgeorgia, #slaveowners, #slaveowners, #slaveholders, #slavemasters, #blackchattelslavery, #enslavement, #antiblackness, #antebellumsouth, #antebellumperiod, #census, #uscensus, #1850census, #demographics, #demography, #unitedstatesofamerika, #uscapitalism, #colonialism

typed transcription of handwritten original census records taken by the u.s. government.

https://archive.org/details/graves-unmarked

In Graves Unmarked: Slavery and Abolition in Stoneham, Massachusetts by Ben Jacques

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#blackchattelslavery, #slavey, #abolition, #antiblackness, #massachusetts, #stoneham, #charlestown, #unitedstatesofamerika, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #slavemasters, #slaveowners, #enslavedpeople, #enslavedAfricans, #slavelabor, #slavercolonialism, #invadercolonialism

“In winter the bare trees are black against the snow and sky in the Old Burying Ground on Pleasant Street. Like frosting, snow decorates the gravestones of our town’s early families. The Bryants, the Bucknams, the Gerrys, the Greens, the Goulds, the Hays—our founders.

But beyond the cluster of 18th and 19th century stones, there are bare spots where no markers disturb the gentle slope of the earth. Here those with no status in colonial Stoneham lie in unmarked graves. Here are buried the town’s slaves.”

So begins the untold story of slavery and abolition in a town of farmers and shoemakers just north of Boston. Once part of Charlestown, the village was incorporated in 1725 as Stoneham, Massachusetts.

https://archive.org/details/culpeper-wills-1791-1803

Culpeper County, Virginia Will Abstracts 1791-1803 by Ruth Sparacio; Sam Sparacio

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#culpepercounty, #virginia, #culpeper, #wills, #propertyrecords, #propertyownership, #wealthtransfers, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #blackchattelslavery, #virginiahistory, #historyofvirginia, #genocide, #divorce, #courtrecords, #19thcentury, #unitedstatesofamerika, #capitalaccumulation, #capitalism, #nuclearfamily, #inheritance, #inheritances, #slaveowners, #slaveholders, #enslavers

This Antient Press publication contains entries from Culpeper County Will Book D, September 19, 1791 through April 19, 1803.

https://archive.org/details/carroll-co-ms-wills

Carroll County, Mississippi Abstracts of Wills 1834-1875, Divorces 1857-1875 by Betty Couch Wiltshire

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#mississippi, #carrollcounty, #divorces, #wills, #propertyrecords, #propertyownership, #wealthtransfers, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #blackchattelslavery, #mississippihistory, #historyofmississippi, #genocide, #divorce, #courtrecords, #19thcentury, #unitedstatesofamerika, #capitalaccumulation, #capitalism, #nuclearfamily, #inheritance, #inheritances, #slaveowners, #slaveowners, #slaveholders, #enslavers, #mississippidelta

https://archive.org/details/delaware-slavery

A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865 by Patience Essah

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#delaware, #unitedstatesofamerika, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #historyofdelaware, #whitesupremacy, #invadercolonialism, #demographyofdelaware

Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and Delaware's staunch Unionism during the Civil War itself, the state failed to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibits slavery, until 1901. Patience Essah here examines the introduction, evolution, demise, and final abolition of slavery in Delaware. In demonstrating the persistence of slavery in Delaware, she raises important questions about postslavery race relations.

https://archive.org/details/connecticut-valley

Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts by Robert H. Romer

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#blackchattelslavery, #massachusetts, #slavery, #connecticutvalley, #newengland, #unitedstatesofamerika, #britishcolonialism, #colonialism, #pioneervalley, #deerfield, #Africandiaspora, #antiblackness

In this first history of slavery in western Massachusetts in colonial times, Robert H. Romer demonstrates that slavery was pervasive in the Pioneer Valley in the 1700s, where many of the ministers and other “important people” owned black slaves. To show the role of slavery in the valley, Professor Romer presents a “snapshot” of slavery, choosing a moment (1752) and a place (the main street of Deerfield) to present detailed information about the slaves who lived in that place at that time — and their owners.

https://archive.org/details/secure-the-base

Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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#internationalpolitics, #Africa, #PanAfricanism, #antiblackness, #Africanpolitics, #politicsofAfrica, #colonialism, #neocolonialism, #capitalism, #socialscience, #socialsciences, #blackchattelslavery, #politicalphilosophy, #literature, #Africanliterature, #literatureofAfrica

For more than sixty years, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngũgĩ narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the dictatorial betrayal of decolonization, the fight for freedom and subsequent incarceration, and the aspiration toward economic equality in the face of gross inequality. With both hope and disappointment, he questions the role of language in both the organization of power structures and the pursuit of autonomy and self-expression.

https://archive.org/details/west-indies-patterns

The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 by David Watts

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#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #geography, #historicalgeography, #genocide, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #antiblackness, #translatlanticslavetrade, #whitesupremacy, #imperialism, #colonialism, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #amerikas, #northamerika, #plantations, #plantationeconomy, #sugarplantations, #environmentalgeography, #slavesocieties, #ecology

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted.

https://archive.org/details/slavery-and-the-french-revolutionists

Slavery and the French Revolutionists (1788-1805) by Anna Julia Cooper; Frances Richardson Keller

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#slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #frenchrevolution, #HaitianRevolution, #frenchempire, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #Haiti, #paris, #translatlanticslavetrade, #abolitionists, #abolitionism, #Martinique, #Matinik, #Matnik, #counterrevolution

The first translation and publication of a 1925 doctoral dissertation written for the University of Paris by a 67-year-old Black amerikan expatriate woman who had been born a slave. Her study of the french revolutionists' view of slavery is crucial to understanding the growth of human rights.

https://archive.org/details/ocean-of-letters

Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora by Pier M. Larson

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#IndianOcean, #history, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #Madagascar, #Comoros, #theComoros, #SouthAfrica, #Azania, #Malagasydiaspora, #Malagasy, #Africanliterature, #literatureofAfrica, #imperialism, #colonialism, #antiblackness, #slavery, #slavetrade, #blackchattelslavery, #linguistics, #sociolinguistics, #Africanlanguages, #languagesofAfrica