"An amazing book, representing years of work and dozens of excavations and presenting a continuous chronology of a colonial city from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. No other city in America has this kind of archaeological record."--Nan A. Rothschild, coauthor of The Archaeology of American Cities "A must-read for those interested in food and … Continue reading Charleston
Embracing Protestantism
In Embracing Protestantism: Black Identities in the Atlantic World, author John W. Catron argues that the people of color in the Atlantic world who adopted Protestant Christianity did not become African Americans but instead assumed more fluid Atlantic-African identities. “The first study to consider, on a circum-Atlantic scale, how conversion to Afro-Protestant Christianity encouraged a ‘middle path’ between exclusionist … Continue reading Embracing Protestantism
The Intriguing, Paradoxical Zephaniah Kingsley Jr.: Q&A with Daniel Schafer
An Interview with Daniel L. Schafer author of Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator “A visit to Kingsley Plantation… convinced me that this was a topic of national and international importance that had somehow escaped scholarly attention.’” – Daniel L. Schafer DANIEL L. SCHAFER Professor of History Emeritus and … Continue reading The Intriguing, Paradoxical Zephaniah Kingsley Jr.: Q&A with Daniel Schafer
The Florida Bookshelf 