David Silkenat.
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 261 pp.
$29.80 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-756422-6. 
Reviewed by Nicholas Cox Published on H-CivWar (May, 2023) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Michaël Roy. Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture. Translated by Susan Pickford. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Illustrations. xi + 222 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33840-4.
Reviewed by Michael Emett (University of South Carolina) Published on H-Slavery (April, 2023) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of California, Los Angeles)
David Hackett Fischer.
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022. Illustrations. 960 pp.
$40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-982145-09-5.
Kathryn Meyer McAllister Olivarius.
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp.
$27.87 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24105-3.
The Babylonian Talmud is the principal surviving literary source for the Jewish communities in the Sasanian empire (3rd to 7th centuries AD). As a result, scholarship has primarily focused on the rabbinic elite represented in and responsible for the Talmud. However, hundreds of Jewish magical amulets written on bowls provide access to the unknown lives and practices of Jews in the very cities in which the Babylonian rabbis flourished. These magical texts may serve as a rare vantage point from which to reconstruct the social and cultural history of Jews in the Sasanian empire.
Bruce A. Ragsdale.
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. vii + 358 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24638-6.
Yesenia Barragan. Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific. Afro-Latin America Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. 346 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83232-8; $20.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-108-93636-1.
Reviewed by Angela Pérez-Villa (Western Michigan University) Published on H-LatAm (November, 2022) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Harvey Amani Whitfield. Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 304 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-4381-5; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4875-4382-2.
Reviewed by Nina Reid-Maroney (Huron University College) Published on H-Biography (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniel R. Meister (University of New Brunswick)
Angela Alonso. The Last Abolition: The Brazilian Antislavery Movement, 1868-1888. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 468 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-43147-7.
Reviewed by Christina Proenza-Coles (Independent Scholar) Published on H-LatAm (June, 2022) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
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Kalle Kananoja. Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49125-9.Sean Morey Smith, Christopher D. E. Willoughby, eds. Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2021. 240 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7121-9.
