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Slavery's Exiles : The Story of the American Maroons
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Slavery's Exiles : The Story of the American Maroons Hardcover - 2014

by Diouf, Sylviane A

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  • Title Slavery's Exiles : The Story of the American Maroons
  • Author Diouf, Sylviane A
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 403
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York University Press, New York
  • Date 2014-01-17
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 12509442-75
  • ISBN 9780814724378 / 081472437X
  • Weight 1.53 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.49 x 1.21 in (23.42 x 16.48 x 3.07 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Fugitive slaves - Southern States - History, Southern States - Race relations - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013029821
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2014, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2013, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2014, Page 98
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/04/2013, Page 0

About the author

Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora. She is the author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons and Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas-named Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999-both with NYU Press. Her book Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America received the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the 2009 Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association and was a finalist for the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is the editor of Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies and the co-editor of In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience. A recipient of the Rosa Parks Award, the Dr. Betty Shabazz Achievement Award, and the Pen and Brush Achievement Award, Diouf is a Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.