Slavery
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Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
$21.00 Read moreWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations
Winner of the- Author: Brown, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674260295
- Language: English
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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
$35.00 Read moreThe first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
“A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis.”–James Oakes, New York Re- Author: Kelley, Sean M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263597
- Language: English
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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
$34.00 Add to cartWidely recognized as “one of the nation’s foremost scholars on the slave era” (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in sl
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1595581731
- Language: English
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The White Mountains
$8.99 Add to cartMonstrous machines rule the Earth, but a few humans are fighting for freedom in this repackaged start to a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave.
Will Parker never dreamed- Series: Tripods #1
- Author: Christopher, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1481414771
- Language: English
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Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy
$29.95 Read moreAn urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy–from the stories of its survivors
The years of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to light- Author: Ditmore, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006777
- 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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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Read moreAdam 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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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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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
$40.00 Add to cartThe essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, po… [more below]
- Author: Daut, Marlene L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593316169
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$18.00 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.”-… [more below]
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0399590870
- Language: English
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$30.00 Add to cartA bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner’s rebellion–and the new definitive account.
In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0809024373
- Language: English
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A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family
$32.95 Add to cartA Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery’s history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno’s absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors’ slave-holding past and lead
- Author: Bruno, Debra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501776568
- Language: English
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Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter–which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people
In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltim- Author: Taylor, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263996
- Language: English
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$28.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher
- Author: Ashton, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978199
- Language: English
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Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory
$34.95 Add to cartIn late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women–Celia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twenty–escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a … [more below]
- Author: Blankenau, Gail Shaffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623152X
- Language: English
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Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
$39.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported- Author: Araujo, Ana Lucia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 022677158X
- Language: English
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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 Listeners
$18.99 Read moreElla May lives on a plantation but she doesn’t live in the great house. She is a slave. It’s dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. And it’s sunset when she comes home. … [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Whelan, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 1585364193
- Language: English
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Something Upstairs
$9.99 Read moreAvi’s haunting ghost story is available for the first time as a Scholastic paperback
When 12-year-old Kenny Huldorf moves to Providence, Rhode Island, he soon discovers that his attic bedroom is haunt… [more below]
- Author: Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0545214912
- Language: English
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A Ballad of the Civil War
$4.99 Add to cartFrom Newbery Honor-winning author Mary Stoltz comes a poignant and realistic story of brother pitted against brother during the Civil War. This chapter book is an excellent choice to share during home
- Series: Trophy Chapter Books (Paperback)
- Author: Stolz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0064420884
- Language: English
