Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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According to Wikipedia, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall was an American historian who focused on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, Louisiana , Africa, and the African Diaspora in the Americas. Discovering extensive French and Spanish colonial documents related to the slave trade in Louisiana, she wrote Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century , studied the ethnic origins of enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana, as well as the process of creolization, which created new cultures. She changed the way in which several related disciplines are researched and taught, adding to scholarly understanding of the diverse origins of cultures throughout the Americas.

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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's Published Works

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Africans in colonial Louisiana : the development of Afro-Creole culture in the eighteenth century (1994) (316)
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (2006) (137)
Africans In Colonial Louisiana (1992) (62)
Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba. (1972) (52)
Slavery and African ethnicities in the Americas (2005) (46)
Africa and Africans in the African Diaspora: The Uses of Relational Databases (2010) (25)
A Post-Cold War Nuclear Strategy Model. (1998) (13)
French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World (2006) (12)
Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739-1912 (review) (2000) (9)
Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba@@@The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934@@@Latin American Scholarship since World War II: Trends in History, Political Science, Literature, Geography, and Economics (1973) (8)
Building Sound Emergency Management into Airports (2007) (6)
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660 (review) (2009) (6)
Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Debunking the Mythology (2002) (6)
Love War And The 96th Engineers Colored The World War Ii New Guinea Diaries Of Captain Hyman Samuelson (1995) (5)
Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650–1850. By Frederick C. Knight. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. xii, 229 pp. $48.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-4818-3.) (2010) (5)
Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood (2012) (5)
A Child of Slaves (2012) (4)
Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society (1975) (3)
A Student in Moscow (2012) (3)
African Women in French and Spanish Louisiana Origins, Roles, Family, Work, Treatment (1997) (3)
Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle (2012) (2)
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (2007) (2)
Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. By William Dusinberre (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv plus 556pp. $55.00) (1998) (1)
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 15851660. By Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 370 pp. $75.00 cloth $22.99 paper (2009) (1)
Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt (2012) (1)
A Black Regiment in World War I (2012) (1)
The Franco-African Peoples of Haiti and Louisiana (2007) (1)
Rural Black College: A Special Experience. (1969) (1)
The Myth of Benevolent Spanish Slave Law. (1970) (1)
Melina Pappademos. Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic. (Envisioning Cuba.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2011. Pp. xi, 323. $39.95 (2012) (0)
West Nile Virus Doesn't Play by the Rules of IgM (2005) (0)
Chicago: Against War and Fascism (2012) (0)
Return to the Home Front: White Chauvinism under Fire (2012) (0)
on to France (2012) (0)
Milestones in Strategic Arms Control, 1945-2000, United States Air Force Roles and Outcomes (2012) (0)
Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century. By Franklin W. Knight (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. 228 pp. $10) (1972) (0)
ISA Presidential Selection: A Discussion of Alternatives (2000) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 27 (2014) (0)
West Nile Virus Doesn't Play by the Rules (2005) (0)
In this Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo‐American Imagination, 1780–1860. By Edward Watts. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 275. $19.95.) (2008) (0)
Conclusion Implications for Culture Formation in The Americas (2005) (0)
Start Dexamethasone Early In Pneumococcal Meningitis (2005) (0)
David Edwin Harrell Jr. White Sects and Black Men in the Recent South. Foreword by Edwin S. Gaustad. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. 1971. Pp. xix, 161. $6.50 (1975) (0)
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912 (2019) (0)
Reunion in Moscow (2012) (0)
Sugar Masters: Plantations and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 18201860. By Richard Follett (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2005) 304 pp. $54.95 paper (2006) (0)
Africans in the Americas. (1969) (0)
Greater Senegambia/Upper Guinea (2005) (0)
Aline Helg. Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886–1912. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1995. Pp. xii, 361. Cloth $45.00, paper $16.95 (1996) (0)
Sophie White, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. (2020) (0)
COMMENTARY (1977) (0)
The Haitian Journal of Lieutenant Howard, York Hussars, 1796–1798. Ed. by Roger Norman Buckley. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. liv + 194 pp. $22.50.) (1986) (0)
Ivor L. Miller. Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba. Foreword by Engr. (Chief) Bassey E. Bassey. (Caribbean Studies Series.) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2009. Pp. xx, 364. $55.00 (2010) (0)
The Spanish Civil War: A Call to Arms (2012) (0)
Creolization in the Americas (review) (2004) (0)
Bantulands: West Central Africa and Mozambique (2005) (0)
Virginia y la reforma de la esclavitud, 1800–1865: Los límites del progreso en una sociedad esclavista (Virginia and the reform of slavery, 1800–1865: The limits of progress in a slave society) (2018) (0)
Start Dexamethasone Promptly for Meningitis (2005) (0)
Sugar Masters: Plantations and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 (review) (2006) (0)
Captives & Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (review) (2012) (0)
Gold, God, Race, and Slaves (2005) (0)
Ras Michael Brown. African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry. (2014) (0)
Peter Kolchin. American Slavery: 1619–1877. New York: Hill and Wang. 1993. Pp. xv, 304. $25.00 (1995) (0)
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana by Sophie White (review) (2021) (0)
Slave Biographies: Atlantic Database Network (2013) (0)
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848 (2003) (0)
Self Determination: The Fight for a Correct Line (2012) (0)
African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (review) (2012) (0)
Larry E. Hudson, Jr., To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina (1998) (0)
Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community. Part II. (1969) (0)
Searching for Answers (2012) (0)
Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community (review) (2001) (0)
World War II and the Merchant Marines (2012) (0)
Making Invisible Africans Visible: Coasts, Ports, Regions, and Ethnicities (2005) (0)
FOR THE STUDY OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA 2003-2004 COLLOQUIUM SERIES (2004) (0)
Edda L. Fields-Black. Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. (2015) (0)
The Clustering of African Ethnicities in the Americas (2005) (0)
An Organization of Revolutionaries (2012) (0)
Lower Guinea: Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Slave Coast/Bight of Benin (2005) (0)
Lower Guinea: The Bight of Biafra (2005) (0)

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