Slavery
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The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
$35.00 Add to cartFor more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramat
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0802165494
- Language: English
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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
$29.95 Read moreA landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.
The period from 1550 to- Author: Harpham, John Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0674278372
- Language: English
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
$53.33 Add to cartHow American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom
In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an Amer- Author: Clavin, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1479823244
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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The Black Holocaust for Beginners
$16.99 Read moreVirtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust – from the start of the
- Series: For Beginners (For Beginners)
- Author: Anderson, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 193438903X
- Language: English
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A Slave No More
$20.99 Add to cartSlave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ra
- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0156034514
- Language: English
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The Reparations Project: A Story of Friendship and Repair Work by Linked Descendants of Enslavement
$34.95 Add to cartHow can a Black man and white woman, linked by ancestries in enslavement, use their uniquely different pasts to create space for a common reparative path toward the future?
In 2019, Sarah Eisner contac
- Series: Black Studies
- Author: Eisner, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1916704077
- Language: English
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Yale and Slavery: A History
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University
Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investiga- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273843
- Language: English
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Enslavers of the Maritimes
$16.99 Add to cartA painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many
- Author: Thompson, Brenda J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1998149269
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.
In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was- Series: Brief Histories
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1849016895
- Language: English
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Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
$26.93 Add to cartMonique Villa shows us the world of slaves–no longer physically in chains–who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation. Her moving book, giving voice to survivors of this horrific trade, vi
- Author: Villa, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1538180456
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State
$18.95 Add to cartA set of mutually beneficial relationships between southern slaveholders and Minnesotans kept the men and women whose labor generated the wealth enslaved.
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341352
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
$12.95 Add to cart‘It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198835329
- Language: English
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Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
$19.95 Read moreKatherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American s
- Author: Franke, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1642594709
- Language: English
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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, with a New Preface
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
In a work of prodigious s
Co-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association- Author: Patterson, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0674986903
- Language: English
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Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
$19.99 Read moreFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reac
- Author: Kadalie, Modibo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois
$27.95 Read moreWINNER, 2023 Underground Railroad Free Press Hortense Simmons Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge!
Uncovering stories of the freedom network in northeastern Illinois Decades before the Ci- Author: McClellan, Larry A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339250
- Language: English
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Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future
$24.95 Add to cartIn Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experience
- Author: Larocco, Lori Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1917054564
- Language: English
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Slavery and the Making of America
$28.99 Add to cartThe history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human s… [more below]
- Author: Horton, James Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0195304519
- Language: English
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Slaves in the Family
$25.00 Add to cartMore than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classic
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534454
- Language: English
