Book Presentation

Book
Presentation Instructions

Choose a book from the list below.  You will make a PowerPoint/Prezi
presentation about your book.  It should include:

* The author’s main argument

* What the author uses to support his argument and

* A
discussion of the weaknesses and strengths of the book

List of Books 

• Linda M. Heywood and
  John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of
  the Americas(2007)

• Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave
  Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (2014)

• Edward E.
  Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of
  American Capitalism (2014)

• Sylviane Diouf, Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons(2014)

• William
  Dusinberre, Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps(1996)

• Edward Ball, Slaves in the Family(1998)

• Noralee Frankel, Freedom’s Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era
  Mississippi (1999)

• Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999)

• Sally Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the
  Carolinas(2001)

• Sharla M. Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern
  Slave Plantations(2002)
  This
  book is already taken by a student

• Dylan C.
  Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and
  Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (2003)

• Stephanie Camp, Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance
  in the Plantation South(2004)

• Daina Ramey
  Berry, Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and
  Slavery in Antebellum Georgia(2007)

• Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the
  Plantation Household (2009)

• Adam Rothman, Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of
  Slavery(2015)

• Leslie M.
  Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York
  City, 1626-1863 (2003)

• Erica Armstrong
  Dunbar, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation
  in the Antebellum City(2008)