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Book reviews

1997; Frank Cass & Co.; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01440399708575223

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William Chester Jordan, Joseph C. Miller, Andrew Porter, Billy G. Smith, Julie Winch, Timothy James Lockley, LeeAnn Whites, B. W. Higman, Bonham C. Richardson,

Abstract Serfdom & Slavery: Studies in Legal Bondage. Edited by M. L. Bush. London and New York: Longman. 1996. vi, 358pp. £44.00 (cloth); £16.99 (paper). ISBN 0–582–29186–0; 0–582–29185–2. A rota dos escravos: Angola e a rede do comércio negreiro. Edited by Joāo Medina and Isabel Castro Henriques. Lisbon: Cegia, and Luanda, Ministério da Cultura (Angola). 1996. 255 pp. ISBN 972–97121–0–7. From Slaving to Neo‐Slavery: the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827–1930. Ibrahim K. Sundiata. Madison, Wisconsin and London: The University of Wisconsin Press. 1996. xii, 250 pp. £42.95. ISBN 0–299–14510–7. ’Pretends to Be Free’: Runaway Slave Advertisements front Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey. Graham Russell Hodges and Alan Edward Brown. New York and London: Garland publishing, Inc. 1994. xl, 369pp. $57.00. ISBN 0–8153–1531–7. Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America. 1780–1865. Carol Wilson. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 1994. 120pp. $22.00. ISBN 0–8131–1858–1. To Awaken my Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance. Peter P. Hinks. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1997. xvii, 301pp. £40.50 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–271–01578–0; 0–271–01579–9. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Drew Gilpin Faust. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. xvi. $29.95. God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica. Shirley C. Gordon. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 1996. xiv, 159pp. £33.50. ISBN 0–253–33052–1. West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica. 1870–1940. Aviva Chomsky. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1996. xviii, 302pp. £32.95. ISBN 0–8071–1979–2.