Category: Studies in Slavery

• Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Chapter 6: Common Bedfellows? Brazilian Antislavery and Anti–Capital Punishment Efforts in Comparative Perspective (Excerpts)

  

  Despite the general concern with slavery suppression issues among northern black activists, only James Pennington became actively involved in the question of what would happen to Africans rescued from American-intercepted slavers.

  Cambria Press

  May 26, 2021

  African Studies, Cambria Press, History, Studies in Slavery

  #SlaveryArchive, 19th-century world history, Ana Lucia Araujo, Black Abolition Politics, Brazilian Antislavery, Peter M. Beattie, slavery

• Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Chapter 5: “‘The Ship of Slavery’: Atlantic Slave Trade Suppression, Liberated Africans, and Black Abolition Politics in Antebellum New York” (Excerpts)

  

  Despite the general concern with slavery suppression issues among northern black activists, only James Pennington became actively involved in the question of what would happen to Africans rescued from American-intercepted slavers.

  Cambria Press

  May 25, 2021

  African Studies, Cambria Press, History, Studies in Slavery

  #SlaveryArchive, 19th-century world history, Ana Lucia Araujo, Antebellum New York, atlantic slave trade, Black Abolition Politics, James Pennington, Liberated Africans, slavery

• Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Chapter 4: “New Africans in the Postslavery French West Indies and Guiana, 1854–1889” (Excerpts)

  

  In the fourth chapter of Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images, Céline Flory examines the employment of thousands of indentured workers in French West Indies and French Guiana after the French abolition of slavery in 1848. Bought by private merchants, these West Central Africans from the Gabon and Loango-Congo areas were…

  Cambria Press

  May 24, 2021

  African Studies, Cambria Press, History, Studies in Slavery

  #SlaveryArchive, 19th-century world history, Ana Lucia Araujo, atlantic slave trade, French colonies, French West Indies, Guiana, Postslavery, slavery

• Lecture by Professor Kimberly Cleveland at Emory University

  Dr. Kimberly Cleveland, Associate Professor of Art History, Georgia State University, and author of Black Women Slaves Who Nourished a Nation: Artistic Renderings of Wet Nurses in Brazil, will be giving a lecture on Wednesday, December 4, 2019, at Noon at Emory University. This book is part of the Cambria Studies in Slavery Series, headed…

  Cambria Press

  November 26, 2019

  Africana Studies, Cambria Press, History, Latin American Studies, Studies in Slavery, Women’s Studies

  Afro Brazilian, Art history, Black Women Slaves, Brazil, Kimberly Cleveland

• #lutopelomuseunacional: The Museo Nacional de Brasil and how it preserved African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil

  The loss of the Museo Nacional de Brasil (National Museum of Brazil) is simply devastating. As The New York Times noted “some items in the collection are irreplaceable to science, as well as the country’s national memory.” Long before the tragic fire, Mariza de Carvalho Soares, a Brazilian historian and researcher at the CNPq/MCT (Brazilian…

  Cambria Press

  September 6, 2018

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Ana Lucia Araujo, ASA: African Studies Association, Cambria Press, History, Latin American Studies, Studies in Slavery

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• Cambria Press Publication Review: African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World

  Congratulations to Professor Ana Lucia Araujo on yet another outstanding review of her book African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World! The Journal of Lusophone Studies praised the book for being “a much needed transatlantic study on Africa and Brazil has finally come alive… in this formidable volume … the ten chapters…

  Cambria Press

  December 20, 2016

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Cambria Press, Culture, History, Latin American Studies, Studies in Slavery

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Transatlantic Memories of Slavery

  Congratulations to Professors  Elisa Bordin and Anna Scacchi on the glowing review of their book, Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Reimagining the Past, Changing the Future, by the European Journal of American Studies. The following are excerpts from the book review. “With great courage, sharp intuition and professional dedication they have tackled some of the most controversial issues…

  Cambria Press

  May 25, 2016

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Book Review, Cambria Press, Film Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, Performing Arts, Studies in Slavery, university books

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• LASA 2016 Highlights – New & Noteworthy in Latin American Studies

  We are proud to launch Dr. Gabriela Fried Amilivia’s new book, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America, at the LASA congress. This interdisciplinary study, written in a highly accessible style, will have both specialists and nonspecialists appreciating it for how it vividly brings to life the terror inflicted by the state…

  Cambria Press

  May 24, 2016

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Cambria Press, Film Studies, Hispanic Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Spanish culture, Studies in Slavery, Theatre, Theatre Studies, university books

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• Essential Books on Slavery on Amazon Kindle

  Here are a few outstanding Cambria Press books you can get (or give) on Amazon Kindle: African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World by Ana Lucia Araujo (ed) $29.99 “The memory of slavery and the slave trade has strongly influenced how history is understood. What is remembered and why…

  Cambria Press

  December 22, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, American history, Black Studies, Cambria Press, Culture, Latin American Studies, Studies in Slavery

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• Ida B. Wells Birthday Tribute: Black Women as Custodians of History

  Cambria Press Book Highlight in honor of Ida B. Wells’s Birthday “Like W. E. B. Du Bois, black activist and journalist Ida B. Wells also chose to become an interpreter of facts in her writings about lynching at the turn of the twentieth century [… and] called African Americans to write and distribute accurate histories that would…

  Cambria Press

  July 16, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Cambria Press, Studies in Slavery, Women’s Studies

  African American, African disapora, Ana Lucia Araujo, black women, Black Women as Custodians of History, Cambria Press, emancipation, History, Ida B. Wells, lynching, memory of slavery, Paula Sanmartín, slavery, social activist, W. E. B. Du Bois