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Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

R. Charles Weller

Moses, Muhammad and Their Laws in Transatlantic Slave History

This book engages the way Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular-progressivist actors used Mosaic and Islamic law and ethics in relation to slavery in American, West African and transatlantic history from …

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African per…

Toyin Falola

Ifá Priestcraft

Born in 1947, Ifáyẹmí Ọ̀ṣúndàgbonù Ẹlẹ́buìbọn descends from a long line of Yorùbá healers, philosophers, and priests. A fervent disciple of Ifá from age four, Elebuibon grew to become both a living …

Sandra T Barnes

People in Motion

Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New Worl…

Miranda Kaufmann

Heiresses

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses---and the role they played in the history of enslavement.Through the eighteenth and ear…

Luke Pepera

Motherland

"Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraord…

Terra X: Welten-Saga

Die »Welten-Saga« stellt in sechs Folgen einige der faszinierendsten Orte der Erde vor. Historiker Sir Christopher Clark reist einmal um den Globus und besucht UNESCO-Welterbestätten: Sein Weg führt ihn v…

Sarah M. S. Pearsall,

Freiheit

Die Amerikanische Revolution war ein Epochenereignis: Ohne die Unabhängigkeitserklärung von 1776 wären die Französische Revolution und der Wandel des 'alten Kontinents' nicht denkbar gewesen. Sarah M. S. …

Howard W French

The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation , the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French …

César Brioso

Havana Hardball

1947 Cuba, where the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League coincided with Jackie Robinson's spring training on the island before he made his major-league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Brooke N Newman

The Crown's Silence

For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family's centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy---from Eliza…

Imani Perry

Black in Blues

A "vast, multifaceted and enchanting" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, …

June Sarpong

Calling Una Marson

The groundbreaking story of the BBC's first Black woman broadcaster - finally brought to light.

Jason Allen-Paisant

The Possibility of Tenderness

Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect." --Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary boo…

Johnny Cash

American IV: The Man Comes Around (180g)

Die lange Karriere des wahren Man In Black hat erstaunliche Resultate produziert. Hätten Sie z. B. gedacht, dass Johnny Cash bisher ebenso viele US-Pop-Chart-Singles (48) hatte wie die Stones und die Beac…

Amanda Bellows

The Explorers

A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary---and often overlooked---adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the b…

Lauren Michele Jackson

Back

Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back---and the conflicting ideas we load onto it.Moving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and …

Kelly M Duke Bryant

Negotiating Childhood

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new way…