This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines
how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy …

As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto
Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to …

This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and
free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as …

This article examines archaeological studies of the cultural heritage and social dynamics of
African descendant populations in the United States and Canada from AD 1400 through …

A large-scale study of plantation slavery in West Africa with a focus on the nineteenth
century Sokoto caliphate, this book draws on diverse sources including oral testimony …

Ethnomathematics as a research program has an agenda that offers a broader view of
mathematics, which embraces the ideas, processes, methods, and practices that are related …

This article investigates stories of human flight in the folklore of enslaved men and women
throughout the plantation Americas, and especially along the coastal regions of Georgia and …

This article draws on recent archaeological research on coastal Senegal to examine how
the concept of “vernacular cosmopolitanism” can contribute to scholarship about the …

In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of
history's largest and longest-lasting maroon societies. Forged during the seventeenth …

In the last two decades, private entrepreneurship has emerged as an important research
area in the field of Adantic history. Various studies have clearly shown the role played by …