Without minimising Europe’s shameful role, this chilling book exposes the extent of the historic slave trade within Africa ...
click image for close-up In his 1851 publication of his journal, Dahomey and the Dahomeyans, Frederick Forbes gave an account of the slave trade in the Kingdom of Dahomey. Forbes had been sent to the ...
In this epic account, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Beckert (Empire of Cotton) charts the rise of the modern global economic order. Capitalism’s emergence represents “a Continue reading » Every ...
A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...
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