Slavery
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
$30.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement
In la- Author: Kara, Siddharth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250348226
- Language: English
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Atlantic Cataclysm
$39.99 Add to cartIn this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. … [more below]
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: February 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1009518976
- Language: English
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250843235
- Language: English
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John Brown: A Biography
$18.95 Add to cartIn the preface to his biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that the book “is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real… [more below]
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164339
- Language: English
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The African Ancestors Garden: History and Memory at the International African American Museum
$59.95 Add to cartA broadly encompassing account of the International African American Museum’s Ancestors’ Garden designed by Walter Hood and its profoundly site-oriented development, and the museum’s mission to illumi… [more below]
- Author: Hood, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1580935842
- Language: English
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A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change our understanding of the American Revolution
As the American Revo
- Author: Lawler, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164137
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEuropeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Williams, Heather Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199922683
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
$12.99 Read moreDrawn from his New York Times bestseller A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn’s The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist’s view of the social and civil background of the A
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 006207900X
- Language: English
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
$19.99 Add to cartWith a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition.
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in form- Author: McGill, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0306829673
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$19.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096284
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- 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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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
$22.95 Read more“Dr. Chavis shows us that the fight against the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is not just about seeking justice for past wrongs but about dismantling the present systems of oppression that h… [more below]
- Author: Chavis, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1590795695
- Language: English
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
$35.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.
The industrializing North and the agricu- Author: Rockman, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226723453
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$23.00 Add to cart“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.”-… [more below]
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0399590870
- Language: English
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The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cartA prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America–ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves
“A spectacular achieveme
- Author: Forret, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978865
- Language: English
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In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
$39.95 Read moreExplore the modern-day impact of slavery and colonialism in this panoramic Black history for anti-racist readers of 1619 Project and Caste.
The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African- Author: Nat’l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1588347796
- Language: English
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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
$29.99 Add to cartDrawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during sla… [more below]
- Author: Giesberg, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982174323
- Language: English
