Steven Hahn opens our eyes to the scope of African American contributions to American political life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He explores the

Emphasizing the role of kinship, labor, and networks in the African American community, the author retraces six generations of black struggles since the end of

Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred a

Looking at the Byzantine concept of slavery within the context of law, the labour market, medieval politics, and religion, the author illustrates how these cont

Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrativ