Slavery
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Brady
$8.99 Add to cartNewbery Honor-winning author, Jean Fritz, takes us on a journey to the Underground Railroad.
Brady has never been trusted with secrets, until now. When he discovers an Underground Railroad station nea- Author: Fritz, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0698119371
- Language: English
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The Slave Dancer
$8.99 Add to cartIn this iconic, wrenching Newbery Medal winning book, a young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship.
Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns- Author: Fox, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416971394
- Language: English
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Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
$17.99 Add to cartNewbery Honor Book
Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and powerfu
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book- Author: Bryan, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1481456903
- Language: English
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River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans
$34.95 Add to cartIn the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration’s efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down… [more below]
- Author: Cahan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0991541855
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$29.95 Add to cartSolomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly,
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0807101508
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Committee
$21.95 Read moreHarvard’s searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.
In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships be- Author: Presidential Committee on the Legacy of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0674292405
- 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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The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, takin
- Author: Chang, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639648
- Language: English
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world.
A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centurie- Author: Walvin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0520397851
- 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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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
$32.00 Add to cartThis book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections b… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy Dru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0521635268
- Language: English
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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
$42.00 Add to cartThis book explores Africa’s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, i… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Comparative World History
- Author: Thornton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0521627249
- Language: English
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The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairst- Author: Wiencek, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0312253931
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$26.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
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Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations
$14.95 Add to cartDuring the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The intervie
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Tanner, Lynette Ater
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0895876264
- Language: English
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A Week in the Life of a Slave
$21.99 Add to cart“I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.” These words, written by the apostle
- Series: Week in the Life
- Author: Byron, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0830824839
- Language: English
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Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
$27.95 Add to cartOur perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view
- Series: Jeffersonian America
- Author: Stanton, Lucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0813932238
- Language: English
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American Slaves Tell Their Stories: Six Interviews
$8.95 Add to cartVivid narratives recall life during and just after the Civil War, not only describing cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labor, but also providing information about religious belief… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Albert, Octavia V. Rogers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 87
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0486441903
- Language: English
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Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Vermont
$21.99 Add to cartMany believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rocked the Green Mountain State. In the midst of turbulen… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Sherburne, Michelle Arnosky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1626190380
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$15.95 Add to cartThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie!
“A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.” — Saturday ReviewBorn a … [more below]- Series: African American
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411435
- Language: English
