The Most Read Books of the 2024 Reading Challenge (So Far)

Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Series

27 primary works • 27 total works
Emphasizing comparative and transnational approaches, Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 focuses on the development of, and challenges to, racialized inequality in Atlantic culture, with a particular focus on the Americas. Books in the series explore the evolving meanings of race, slavery, and nation; African identity formation across the Atlant…
The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
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3.79 · 619 Ratings · 106 Reviews · published 2006 · 9 editions
During the night of April 10, 1734, Montréal burne…

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    Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
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    3.20     · 5 Ratings · published 2009 · 7 editions
    This study offers a new and challenging look at Ch…

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    African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
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    3.82     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 6 editions
    The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the …

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    The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation
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    5.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2010 · 4 editions
    In his tour de force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood rea…

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    Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · published 2010 · 5 editions
    The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in t…

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    In Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2010 · 6 editions
    In the decades between the Berlin Conference that …

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    We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848
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    3.77     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions
    Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over …

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    The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2011 · 3 editions
    As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788–1848) expres…

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    Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 4 editions
    Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garne…

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    The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 3 editions
    This is the first edition of the correspondence of…

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    Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
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    3.66     · 29 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions
    In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story o…

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    To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
    In this study of antebellum African American print…

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    Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
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    3.91     · 22 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 6 editions
    From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, …

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    Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson
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    4.00     · 49 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2012 · 4 editions
    In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee…

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    Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
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    4.00     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 6 editions
    In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Doroth…

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    Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865
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    4.12     · 26 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2015 · 6 editions
    Why did it take so long to end slavery in the Unit…

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    Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
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    3.72     · 18 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2015 · 6 editions
    Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences …

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    The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
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    4.08     · 12 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2016 · 5 editions
    Popular and academic representations of the free m…

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    The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2016 · 4 editions
    Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of …

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    Punishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 4 editions
    Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and…

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    Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 4 editions
    Over the long nineteenth century, African-descende…

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    Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
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    4.52     · 94 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2020 · 4 editions
    Even though there were relatively few people of co…

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    City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856
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    3.00     · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 4 editions
    City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an i…

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    In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2021 · 2 editions
    In Search of Liberty explores how African American…

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    An American Color: Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World
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    4.80     · 5 Ratings · 2 editions
    For decades, scholars have conceived of the coasta…

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    Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition
    Beginning in the late seventeenth century and conc…

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    Maroons in Guyane: Past, Present, Future
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    0.00     · 3 editions
    For more than four centuries, communities of maroo…

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