Resources

Glossary

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Selected Readings & Resources

[Some sort of description that says these are general readings and who they are selected by (curators?) followed by shorter bibliographies for each countries]

  • Araujo, Ana Lucia. Humans in Shackles : An Atlantic History of Slavery. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
  • Baldwin, James. The Price of a Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021.
  • Biko, Steve, and Aelred Stubbs. I Write What I like: Selected Writings. New ed. / foreword by Lewis R. Gordon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Bogues, Anthony. “New Curatorial Practices? Representation, Continuation, and Change in Slavery Exhibitions”. In Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade. Edited by Sarah Mallory, Joanna S. Seidenstein, Rachel Burke & Kéla Jackson. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
  • Bogues, Anthony, Leora Farber, Zamansele Nsele & Surafel Wondimu Abebe. The Imagined New  (or, what happens when History is a Catastrophe?) Volume 1, Working through Alternative Archives: Art, History, Africa and the African Diaspora. Johannesburg: iwalewabooks, 2023.
  • Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. 1955. Reprint. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.
  • Gardullo, Paul, Johanna Obenda & Anthony Bogues. In Slavery’s Wake : Making Black Freedom in the World. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2024.
  • Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. Edited by Patrick Williams & Laura Chrisman. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994.
  • Harris, Christopher Paul. To Build a Black Future : The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care. Princeton: Prince­ton University Press, 2023.
  • James, Joy, ed. Engage : Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures. London: Pluto Press, 2025.
  • Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1982.
  • Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past : Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Belgium

Brazil

  • Butler, Kim D. Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition, São Paulo and Salvador. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
  • Karasch, Mary C. Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.
  • Skidmore, Thomas E. Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost : A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
  • Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. The Congo from Leopold to Kabila : A People’s History. London: Zed Books, 2002.
  • Ngudiankama, Adrien Nginamau. Kimbanguism 100 Years On: Interdisciplinary Essays on a Socio-Cultural Movement. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Jamaica

  • Holt, Thomas C. The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  • Diptee, Audra A. From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775–1807. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010.
    Senegal
  • Barry, Boubacar. Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Translated by Ayi Kwei Armah. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

South Africa

United Kingdom

  • Fryer, Peter. Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain. London: Pluto Press, 2010.
  • Hearn, David P. The Slave Streets of Liverpool. United Kingdom: Dusty Teapot Company CIC, 2020.
  • Richardson, David, Suzanne Schwarz, and Anthony Tibbles, eds. Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007.
  • Walvin, James. Black Ivory : Slavery in the British Empire. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

United States

  • Hurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” New York: Amistad Press, 2018.
  • Diouf, Sylviane Anna. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

In Slavery’s Wake: Songs of Freedom Playlist

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  • Boukman Eksperyansn, “Wet Chan”
  • Bob Marley & the Wailers, “Babylon System”
  • Grande Kallé et l’African Jazz, “Indépendance Cha Cha”
  • Mahalia Jackson, “We Shall Overcome”
  • Harry Belafonte, “Give us our Land (Mabayeke)”
  • Beyoncé, “Freedom”
  • Hugh Masekela, “Colonial Man”
  • Jorja Smith, “By Any Means”
  • Keur Gui, “France à Fric”
  • GRES Acadêmicos do Grande Rio, “Resistência”
  • Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
  • Burning Spear, “Slavery Days”
  • Tiken Jah Fakoly, “Y’en a marre”
  • Les Pionniers de la Musique Congolaise, “Ata Ndele”

Click the link below to view the full playlist from the exhibition In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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