Negotiating Enslavement: Perspectives on Slavery in the Danish West Indies
Edited by Arnold R. Highfield and George Tyson Slavery endured in the Danish West Indies from 1672 to Emancipation Day on July 3, 1848. During those 176 years, some 100,000…
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Archaeology of Names
by Arnold R. Highfield The poetry in this book spans nearly thirty years and is arranged according to certain places—Princesse, St. Croix, Oentangy, Ripton, Scioto, and Vaud—where key pieces were…
The Colors of a Clown: Selected Poems
by A. E. Figueredo Selected Poems 1974-1990 Alfredo E. Figueredo was that rarest of poets who could effectively and authentically cast the experience of a modern life in the form…
From Serfdom to Fireburn and Strike: The History of Black Labor in the Danish West Indies 1848-1916
by Peter Hoxcer Jensen This book appears at a time when there is tremendous local, regional and international interest in 19th century emancipation in the West Indies. That event occurred…