1st Edition
Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights
By Harry Harmer
Copyright 2001
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This Companion provides the essential background to the defining fate of the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Central to the book are detailed chronologies on the development and decline of the slave trade, slavery in colonial North and South America, the Caribbean and the United States, movements for emancipation, and the progress of black... Read more
Preface List of abbreviations Section 1: SLAVERY Section 2: EMANCIPATION Section 3: CIVIL RIGHTS Section 4: BIOGRAPHIES Section 5: GLOSSARY OF TERMS, EVENTS AND MOVEMENTS Section 6: BIBLIOGRAPHIES Section 7: MAPS Index
Biography
Harry Harmer is co-author of Cassell's BLACK HANDBOOK: THE PEOPLE, HISTORY AND POLITICS OF AFRICA and THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (1977) and the soon-to-be published Martin Luther King, in Sutton publising's new Pocket Biographies series.
