This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries.

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to lite

The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly

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