Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198029195

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day.

Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South

Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South
Author: James X. Corgan
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 081735798X

Nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between 1796 and the 1850s. Each essay includes fascinating biographic sketches of the author, a bibliography, and an index.

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South
Author: Lester D. Stephens
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807825181

In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States_Philadelphia, Boston, and New York_exceeded Charleston in natural

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 856
Release: 1854
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Annual report

Annual report
Author: New York State Library (Albany, NY)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1859
Genre:
ISBN: