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Scarlet and Black

Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History

Rutgers University Press

Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty. The contributors offer this history as a usable one—to strengthen Rutgers and help direct its course for the future.

The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Malintzin's Choices

An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Tales of Two Cities

Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America

University of Texas Press

A study of workers' lives in two similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s, showing how differing attitudes towards race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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On the Turtle's Back

Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren

Rutgers University Press

On the Turtle’s Back is the first collection of folklore from the Lenape people, New Jersey’s native inhabitants. Originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago, but never published until now, it shares the tribe’s cherished tales about the world’s creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Scarlet and Black

Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History

Rutgers University Press

Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty. The contributors offer this history as a usable one—to strengthen Rutgers and help direct its course for the future.

The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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