Slavery was a large-scale process that put its mark on the African landscape in tangible ways—for example, through the capture, transfer, and imprisonment of
Leading archaeologists and historians provide new studies of slavery, slave resistance and the economic, environmental and political consequences of slave tradi
Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas
Utilizing the accounts of observers and those who participated in the institution of slavery--slavers, travellers, and slaves themselves-- and the records kept
This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countr