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Haunted by Slavery

A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle

By: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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Haunted by Slavery

A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle

By: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical history. Born in 1929 New Orleans to left-wing Jewish parents, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's life has spanned nearly a century of engagement in anti-racist, internationalist political activism. In this moving and instructive chronicle of her remarkable life, Midlo Hall recounts her experiences as an anti-racist activist, a Communist Party militant, and a scholar of slavery in the Americas, as well as the wife and collaborator of the renowned African-American author and Communist leader Harry Haywood. Telling the story of her life against the backdrop of the important political and social developments of the 20th century, Midlo Hall offers new insights about a critical period in the history of labor and civil rights movements in the United States. Detailing everything from Midlo Hall's co-founding of the only inter-racial youth organization in the South when she was 16-years-old, to her pioneering work establishing digital slave databases, to her own struggles against cruel and pervasive sexism, Haunted by Slavery is a gripping account of a life defined by profound dedication to a cause.

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Haymarket Books

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1642593923

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9781642593921

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Restoring the Links

By: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Restoring the Links

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Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876860

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9780807876862

Africans In Colonial Louisiana

The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century

By: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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Africans In Colonial Louisiana

The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century

By: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric, musical, religious, and historical traditions, was created by slaves brought directly from Africa to Louisiana before 1731. It still survives as the acknowledged cultural heritage of tens of thousands of people of all races in the southern part of the state. In this pathbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region. Hall bases her study on research in a wide range of archival sources in Louisiana, France, and Spain and employs several disciplines--history, anthropology, linguistics, and folklore--in her analysis. Among the topics she considers are the French slave trade from Africa to Louisiana, the ethnic origins of the slaves, and relations between African slaves and native Indians. She gives special consideration to race mixture between Africans, Indians, and whites; to the role of slaves in the Natchez Uprising of 1729; to slave unrest and conspiracies, including the Pointe Coupee conspiracies of 1791 and 1795; and to the development of communities of runaway slaves in the cypress swamps around New Orleans.

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531

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LSU Press

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0807148938

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9780807148938

Africans In Colonial Louisiana

The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century

By: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century

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LSU Press

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0807119997

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9780807119990

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Restoring the Links

By: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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Restoring the Links

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Haunted by Slavery

Haunted by Slavery

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Africans In Colonial Louisiana

Africans In Colonial Louisiana

Africans In Colonial Louisiana

Africans In Colonial Louisiana

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

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