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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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Born in Blackness

By Howard W. French ,

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Travels in West Africa
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Travels in West Africa

By Mary H. Kingsley ,

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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

By David Wheat ,

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Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want
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Wishcraft

By Annie Gottlieb , Barbara Sher ,

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One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
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One Plastic Bag

By Miranda Paul , Elizabeth Zunon (illustrator) ,

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Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
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Laboring Women

By Jennifer L. Morgan ,

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The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
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The Afterlife Is Where We Come from

By Alma Gottlieb ,

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Origins of a Creole: The History of Papiamentu and Its African Ties
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Origins of a Creole

By Bart Jacobs ,

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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
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Undercurrents of Power

By Kevin Dawson ,

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Walking Each Other Home Again: A young Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, 1960's, and her return 30 years later
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Walking Each Other Home Again

By Laurie Oman ,

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Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763
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Chasing Empire Across the Sea

By Kenneth J. Banks ,

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Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade
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Sweet Water and Bitter

By Siân Rees ,

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In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away
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In Pursuit of Disobedient Women

By Dionne Searcey ,

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The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa
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The Power to Name

By Stephanie Newell ,

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Journey without Maps
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Journey without Maps

By Graham Greene ,

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The American South: A Very Short Introduction
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The American South

By Charles Reagan Wilson ,

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Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
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Michel the Giant

By Tété-Michel Kpomassie ,

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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
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Slaves for Peanuts

By Jori Lewis ,

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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
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A Fistful of Shells

By Toby Green ,

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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

By Mungo Park ,

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Òsun Across the Waters
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Òsun Across the Waters

By Mei-Mei Sanford (editor) , Joseph M. Murphy (editor) ,

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