Slavery
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Revised Edition: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
$27.95 Add to cartIn the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold
- Author: Degruy, Joy a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 098521726X
- Language: English
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Fist of the North Star, Vol. 1
$25.00 Add to cartIn the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled by savage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior named Ken holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious m
- Series: Fist of the North Star #1
- Author: Buronson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: June 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1974721566
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$24.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – TIME Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 – New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 – NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 – Economist Book of the Year – SELF.com’
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 08, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062748203
- Language: English
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
$29.00 Add to cartIn this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country–revealing the fascinating
- Author: McGill, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 306829665
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative
$40.00 Read moreA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, fro
- Author: Hecimovich, Gregg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0062334735
- Language: English
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$30.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and na- Author: Shane, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1250843219
- Language: English
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An American Story (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
$18.99 Add to cartA Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Book
#1 New York Times Bestselling and award-
A 2023 New York Times Best Children’s Book
A 2023 Publisher’s Weekly Best Picture Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 031647312X
- Language: English
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
$29.99 Add to cartJoining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave
- Author: Durkin, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063072998
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$28.00 Read more“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 0399590862
- Language: English
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Let Us Descend
$28.00 Add to cartOPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – Instant New York Times Bestseller – Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.
“Nothing short o- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 198210449X
- Language: English
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Mark of the Thief (Mark of the Thief, Book 1): Volume 1
$9.99 Add to cartJennifer A. Nielsen, author of the NYT and USA TODAY bestselling Ascendance Trilogy, has woven an electrifying tale of greed and power, magic and destiny, and one boy’s courage at the heart of it all…. [more below]
- Series: Mark of the Thief #1
- Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 29, 2015
- ISBN10: 0545561558
- Language: English
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
$43.43 Add to cartThe accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists perfo
- Author: Owens, Deirdre Cooper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: July 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820354759
- Language: English
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
$10.99 Add to cartThe story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. In Heart and Soul, Kadir Nelson’s stirring paintings and words grace 100-plus pages of a gorgeous
- Author: Nelson, Kadir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0061730793
- Language: English
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Washington Black
$18.00 Add to cartMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST – ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW‘S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly fre
- Author: Edugyan, Esi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 0525563245
- Language: English
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Follow the Drinking Gourd
$8.99 Add to cartIllus. in full color. “Winter’s story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a so… [more below]
- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0679819975
- Language: English
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American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
$33.82 Read moreA groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian
“American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration
- Author: Weber, Benjamin D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1620975904
- Language: English
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California, a Slave State
$35.00 Add to cartThe untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and
- Author: Pfaelzer, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300211643
- Language: English
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
$18.00 Add to cartIf the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, literary masterpiece” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses
- Author: Manjapra, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982123494
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – TIME Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 – New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 – NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 – Economist Book of the Year – SELF.com’
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062748211
- Language: English
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy
“Stunning.”–Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital cont- Author: Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251831
- Language: English
