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Pages: 243
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.
Exquisite Slaves
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Authors: Tamara J. Walker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy ur
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
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Authors: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement
Ties That Bound
Language: en
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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The Empire of Necessity
Language: en
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Authors: Greg Grandin
Categories: History
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From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age o