A unique and important study, "Stepping Forward" examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings.
This wide-ranging collection designed for classroom use explores the broad themes that have shaped black women's goals, options, and responses: religion, education, political activism, migration, and cultural transformation. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine the lives of black women in the United States and the Caribbean Basin; in the white...

A unique and important study, "Stepping Forward" examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings.
This wide-ranging collection designed for classroom use explores the broad themes that have shaped black women's goals, options, and responses: religion, education, political activism, migration, and cultural transformation. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine the lives of black women in the United States and the Caribbean Basin; in the white...

Catherine Higgs s "Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa" is an elegantly written, well-illustrated account of the ensuing investigations into this so-called new slavery in Africa orchestrated largely by Cadbury and the British Foreign Office. The] study resonates today, dealing, as it does, with the often tainted international origins of our later era of mass consumerism. "American Historical Review"
In "Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa," Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese...