Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and LouisianaHow did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of

The book also contains COLOR CODED text to aid the reader in understanding the true Hebrew meanings hidden in the text

Until a bomb goes off

from the pub to the pulpit

his classic expose of a drug dealer's brutal rise to the top of Cocaine Mountain is available for the first time in audio to attract new audiences

African novelists

social struggles

Republicans are effectively impostors

and the truth slowly begins to reveal itself

go explore the backyard

Something as simple as a coffee mug can inspire a conversation about the role the Obamas have played in our African American communities and how their legacy will touch future generations

Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process

In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays