Slavery
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It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom
$22.95 Read moreIn 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal appeal. Her story adds powerful testimony to African American experiences and perse… [more below]
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342820
- Language: English
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
$24.95 Read moreWinner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and- Author: Scott, Julius S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1788732480
- Language: English
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
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To Be a Slave
$8.99 Add to cartWhat was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves, telling about their forced journey from Africa to the United States, their work in the … [more below]
- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Lester, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0142403865
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize
“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award
–Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement “[One] of the mos- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975383
- Language: English
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist with a New Preface
$21.00 Read moreThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker c- Author: Rediker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0807060984
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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The Star Host: Volume 1
$15.99 Read moreRen grew up listening to his mother spin magical stories about the Star Hosts, a mythical people possessed by the power of the stars. When Ren is forced into slavery by the despotic ruler of his home … [more below]
- Series: Broken Moon
- Author: Lukens, F. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1941530729
- 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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Light in the Darkness
$18.99 Read moreAn enslaved mother and daughter learn to read in spite of great danger in this beautiful testament to the power of literacy, written and illustrated by an award-winning author/artist team.
Rosa and he- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1423134958
- Language: English
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Mustard Seed
$14.95 Read moreThe bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.
Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into pri
- Series: Yellow Crocus #2
- Author: Ibrahim, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1542045568
- Language: English
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Tennessee Rose
$7.99 Read moreAlabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for… [more below]
- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #9
- Author: Kendall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0375870067
- Language: English
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The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation
$21.99 Read moreDiscover the staggeringly true story of how the first Navajo silversmiths fed and freed a nation.
Old Pounder, they called him — the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito’s greatest leg
- Author: Fitzsimons, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151424
- Language: English
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White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness
$29.95 Read moreFrom the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing–and a strategy for dismantling them.
White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but als- Author: Mirzoeff, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047675
- Language: English
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Juneteenth
$8.99 Read moreJune 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Freedom! Slavery
- Series: On My Own Holidays (Paperback)
- Author: Nelson, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0822559749
- 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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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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Chains
$19.99 Read moreFrom acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling first novel in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both … [more below]
- Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2008
- ISBN10: 1416905855
- Language: English
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A Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning children’s author Glennette Tilley Turner, a daring account of Black Seminole warrior, chief, and diplomat John Horse and the route he forged on the Underground Railroad to gain fre… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1419749331
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
