Slavery
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Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
$19.99 Read moreFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reac
- Author: Kadalie, Modibo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois
$27.95 Read moreWINNER, 2023 Underground Railroad Free Press Hortense Simmons Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge!
Uncovering stories of the freedom network in northeastern Illinois Decades before the Ci- Author: McClellan, Larry A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339250
- Language: English
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Juneteenth for Mazie
$15.95 Read moreMazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history. The day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the stru… [more below]
- Series: Fiction Picture Books
- Author: Cooper, Floyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1623701708
- Language: English
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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Cook Bell, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 110892672X
- Language: English
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Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
$20.99 Add to cartThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abo
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351211
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
$18.99 Add to cartPrizewinning Book: The Dawn of Detroit won both the Merle Curti Prize and the James Rawley Prize, two of the top distinctions in American History Media track record: Hardcover edition attracted major … [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974819
- Language: English
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Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future
$24.95 Add to cartIn Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experience
- Author: Larocco, Lori Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1917054564
- Language: English
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The History of Mary Prince
$15.00 Read moreFormer enslaved person Mary Prince’s powerful rallying cry for emancipation and extraordinary testament to survival
The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be pub- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Prince, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437495
- Language: English
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
$20.00 Add to cart“Masterly.”–Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of- Author: Rediker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143114255
- Language: English
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Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
$31.15 Read moreOne of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York Times
One of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago Tribune Named one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor “- Author: Kytle, Ethan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975467
- Language: English
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Slave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South
$23.99 Add to cartTwenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J…. [more below]
- Author: Raboteau, Albert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0195174127
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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Slavery and the Making of America
$28.99 Add to cartThe history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human s… [more below]
- Author: Horton, James Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0195304519
- Language: English
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Slaves in the Family
$25.00 Add to cartMore than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classic
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534454
- Language: English
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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
$19.95 Add to cartBorn to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after fi
- Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
- Author: Said, Omar Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0299249549
- Language: English
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1101980303
- Language: English
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The Classic Slave Narratives
$8.95 Add to cartA seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The … [more below]
- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0451532139
- Language: English
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The Negro Bible – The Slave Bible: Select Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands
$44.95 Add to cartThis is an Introduction, History, and Photocopy of the Slave Bible. – There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control and keep the slaves working calmly and the abolitionist
- Author: Lumpkin, Joseph B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1936533804
- Language: English
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Ashes
$8.99 Add to cartReturn to the American Revolution in this blistering conclusion to the middle grade Seeds of America trilogy.
As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon have narrowly escaped Valley Forge–b- Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 141696147X
- Language: English
