Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora

The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. This readable, theoretically grounded book provides essential context to understand the Haitian Revolution.

Slavery's Metropolis examines the paradoxes of slave life in New Orleans, a cosmopolitan port city located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. Its vivid stories will appeal to a broad readership, while its theoretical and methodological contributions will appeal to historians and other scholars.

This book traces the origins of Africans forced into the Atlantic from West Central Africa during the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Richly adorned with tables, figures, and vivid quotations, it will appeal to scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, graduate students, and genealogists.

This 2005 book examines the global unfolding of the African Diaspora, the migrations and dispersals of the people of Africa, from antiquity to the modern period. The experiences of Africans in the Old World is followed by their experience in lands claimed by European colonial powers.