C‑SPAN.org offers links to books featured on the C‑SPAN networks ... where he worked as a laborer for three years. He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass.

The black indentured servant, with his hope of freedom, was increasingly being replaced by the black slave. In 1705, the Virginia General Assembly removed any lingering uncertainty about this ...

A tour group photographs a sign marking the location of New York City's slave market This month marks 400 years since enslaved Africans were first brought to what is now the United States of America.

Bucciferro, Justin R. 2013. A Forced Hand: Natives, Africans, and the Population of Brazil, 1545-1850. Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their ...

Instead, I spent a year of my life digging through the archives and old newspaper articles to learn about the barcode’s origins – and eventually went on to write a book about the cultural ...

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And this is why we do not find the word 'slave' in any part of Scripture until righteous Noah branded the sin of his son with this name. It is a name, therefore, introduced by sin and not by nature.

Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer. Buenos Aires is a literary city ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit ...