Slavery
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
$19.95 Read moreA vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero–an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery.
The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in ou- Author: Ellingwood, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364617
- Language: English
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
$22.00 Read moreThe essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*Th… [more below]
- Series: Many Cultures, One World
- Author: Larson, Kate Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345456289
- Language: English
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England
$25.95 Add to cartShortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, … [more below]
- Author: Hardesty, Jared Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1625344570
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Special Bicentennial Edition
$15.95 Add to cartThis International best seller is the dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom.
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1722500395
- Language: English
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
$26.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE RECOMMENDED BOOK
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062101
- Language: English
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
$28.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1863, out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century, Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery an
- Series: Brown Thrasher Books
- Author: Kemble, Frances A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0820307076
- Language: English
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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, with a New Preface
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
In a work of prodigious s
Co-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association- Author: Patterson, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0674986903
- Language: English
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The Weeping Time
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Anne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1316643484
- Language: English
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The Essential Abolitionist: What You Need to Know About Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery
$24.95 Add to cart(Revised 2020) What is human trafficking? Why are millions enslaved in lives of labor and sex trafficking? How do traffickers control their victims? What are the needs of trafficking victims? Why don’
- Author: Vanek, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0997118008
- Language: English
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Nightjohn
$7.99 Add to cart“To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it’s bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That’s why they don’t want us reading… [more below]
- Series: Sarny
- Author: Paulsen, Gary
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0440219361
- Language: English
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities in early America that “reminds us of the cold calculus at the intersection of slavery and capitalism” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Searing, revelatory, and vita… [more below]- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0807067148
- Language: English
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
$18.95 Add to cartSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln’s lifelong engagement with the nation’s critical issue: American s… [more below]
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 039334066X
- Language: English
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
$18.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventee
- Author: Warren, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1631493248
- Language: English
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Miracle on Voodoo Mountain: A Young Woman’s Remarkable Story of Pushing Back the Darkness for the Children of Haiti
$18.99 Read more“It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti.”
Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the
- Author: Boudreaux, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1400334314
- Language: English
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Four Nails
$31.95 Add to cartIN ANCIENT INDIA, tragedy strikes a young elephant trainer. Forced into a slave caravan that takes him through perilous lands and into a world at war, Ashoka befriends a special elephant. In a time of… [more below]
- Author: Berger, G. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0988398230
- Language: English
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Yellow Crocus
$14.95 Add to cartMoments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus
- Series: Yellow Crocus #1
- Author: Ibrahim, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1477824758
- Language: English
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Docile
$22.99 Add to cartK. M. Szpara’s Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.
There is no consent under capi- Author: Szpara, K. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250216338
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
$12.00 Add to cartRestoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Pengui
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0140439889
- Language: English
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
$22.00 Add to cartA multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the Unite- Series: Penguin History of the United States
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002100
- Language: English
