Renton, Alex
Summary: When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 RENRael, Patrick.
Summary: Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it? The decline of slavery throughout the Atlantic world was a protracted affair, says Patrick Rael, but no other nation endured anything like the United States. Here the process took from 1777, when Vermont...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 RAERothman, Joshua D.
Summary: "In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 ROTSandler, Martin W
Summary: Describes what happened when a slave ship packed with plunder was captured by pirates in 1717 then sunk by a brutal storm. Tells the story of the 1984 expedition to locate the wreck and what was uncovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 SANWilliams, Emma.
Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WILShearer, Eleanor
Summary: "Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ShearerHarris, Jane
Summary: Set in 1765 on the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Martinique, Sugar Money opens as two enslaved brothers - Emile and Lucien - are sent on an impossible mission forced upon them by their masters, a band of mendicant French monks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred)
Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 MINMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANMcAnuff, Craig
Summary: Craig and Shaun McAnuff are two brothers born and bred in Britain, but with Jamaica in their hearts and souls. Follow them on their journey to the birthplace of their grandparents to discover the recipes that inspired generations - but with their own vibrant modern twist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59729 MCAJohansen, Iris.
Summary: Determined to protect herself from the horrors of her childhood, a young woman finds her remote island refuge terrorized by ruthless mercenaries and heads to the open seas in a perilous race against time to find the site of a lost city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: "Compiled by Hugo Mendez, co-founder of the globe-trotting Sofrito record label, and Emile Omar, DJ at Paris' Radio Nova, Disques Debs collects works from the Guadeloupe label's first decade-plus of existence starting in the late '50s. The styles range from early biguine and bolero to zouk and reggae, and the artists include big band orchestras, local fixtures, touring bands and younger cats...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strut 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DISCondé, Maryse.
Summary: A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONFinlay, Victoria
Summary: From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it's also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.09 FINVivas, Esther
Summary: "¿Es posible ser mamá y feminista al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay alguna salida al dilema «carrera vs. familia»? Si hemos elegido se madres, ¿hasta que punto podemos decidir sobre nuestra maternidad? En Mamá desobediente, la periodista, socióloga y madre feminista, Esther Vivas aborda éstas y otras interrogantes cuando explora la maternidad con emancipación y sin imposiciones. Con un tono fresco pero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VIVMalam, John
Summary: Describes what it would be like to be a ship captain captured by priates during the 1700s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MALCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAL (BASKET)Contents: Super Combo: Moin Domi Dérhô(7:25 min) -- Les Vikings (Guadeloupe): Ambiance : Guhe Huiamo(2:24 min) -- Typical Combo: Piensalo Bien(3:39 min) -- Guadafrica Combo: Moin Ce Roi Roi(5:35 min) -- Galaxy (Guadeloupe): Disco Funk(4:55 min) -- Koumbit: Lagé Yo(3:40 min) -- Smoke (Guadeloupe): Lina Femm' Foll(3:45 min) -- Les Rapaces: Music Passe Partout(5:13 min) -- H.W.T. Band: Good Trip(6:04 min)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: K7 Music 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN DISWhite, Shane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 WHIContents: All aboard (Atlantik) (4:08) -- Votez Zouk (Luc Leandry) (4:09) -- Jamaica farewell (Desmond Dekker) (3:24) -- Salutations (Erna Letemps) (3:16) -- Little Anancy (Asheba) (2:55) -- Great big boat (Taj Mahal & the Hula Blues) (2:40) -- Three little birds (Keith Frank and the Soileau Zydeco Band) (2:58) -- Malanga Ska (Ska Cubano) (3:23) -- Reggae dancin' (MissionIriez) (3:34) -- Pa 'piye sou do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV PUTCalhoun, Bob
Summary: "The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From the city's earliest days, where vigilantes hung perps from buildings and newspaper publishers shot it out on Market Street, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Levine, Bruce C.
Summary: Levine presents a gripping chronicle of the cultural and economic upheaval the South experienced during and after the Civil War. Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise through the voices of those who lived through the conflict.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.713 LEVDowney, Robert
Summary: "What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008