New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee

New York's Grand Emancipation JubileeExamines slavery, abolition, and race in the United States with a special focus on New York State. In this book Alan J. Singer discusses the history of race and racism in the United States, emphasizing the continuing significance of slavery's past in shaping our present. Each chapter addresses a different theme in the history of slavery and the abolitionist struggle in the United States, with a focus on events and debates in New York State. Chapters

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Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries

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the sociology of religion

Norman Finkelstein here offers a passionate argument for the importance of Jewish-American poetry to modern Jewish culture—and to American poetry

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This book takes you to the fencing School of celebrated renaissance rapier Master Nicoletto Giganti of Venice

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