Slavery
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement
$14.99 Read moreAn important book of epic scope on America’s first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change–The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines,
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060524316
- Language: English
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Richmond’s Unhealed History
$19.95 Add to cartIn a detailed look at the history of Richmond, Benjamin Campbell examines the contradictions and crises that have formed the city over more than four centuries. Campbell argues that the community of m
- Author: Campbell, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 0983826404
- 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
$59.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1936533901
- Language: English
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God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
$30.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning biblical scholar, the “monumental and eye-opening” story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundation… [more below]
- Author: Moss, Candida
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0316564672
- Language: English
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Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge st… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Nikki M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: July 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1009276840
- Language: English
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All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
$17.99 Add to cartExperience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.
Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 6, 2014
- ISBN10: 068987376X
- Language: English
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Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold)
$7.99 Read moreMaster storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis’s Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor and unique narrative voice, is now part of the Scholastic Gold line!
Elijah of Buxton, recipient of the N… [more below]
- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0439023459
- Language: English
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Forge
$8.99 Add to cart“One of the best novels they have ever read.” —Kirkus Reviews
Curzon navigates the dangers of being a runaway slave in this keenly felt second novel in in the historical middle grade The Seeds of Ame- Series: Seeds of America Trilogy
- Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1416961453
- Language: English
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
$19.00 Add to cartIn Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland t
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531153
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
$15.00 Add to cartOne of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs’s classic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 1, 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437959
- Language: English
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Celia, a Slave
$21.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her ensl… [more below]
- Series: Gender and Slavery #5
- Author: McLaurin, Melton a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360961
- Language: English
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
$30.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s “Top 10” Spring 2024
This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today,
Amazon’s Best History Book of the Month for February 2024- Author: Montero, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827174
- Language: English
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Study Guide
$14.95 Add to cartThe Study Guide is designed to accompany Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. The goal is to help individuals, groups, and organizations better understand the functional and dysfunctional attitudes and beha
- Author: Degruy, Joy a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 1, 2009
- ISBN10: 1615391088
- Language: English
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Horse Diaries #2: Bell’s Star
$7.99 Add to cartVermont, 1850s
Bell’s Star is a brown Morgan colt with a white star and two white stockings. He was bred for hard work, yet he longs to run free with his human friend, Katie, on his back. But when Sta- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #2
- Author: Hart, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0375852042
- Language: English
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Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
$29.99 Read moreAn evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor’s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their desce
- Author: Tabor, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250766540
- Language: English
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the beginning of American chattel slavery in 1619, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured and raped. They experien
- Author: Degruy, Joy Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 1, 2013
- ISBN10: 0985217200
- Language: English
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Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation
$35.00 Read more“A magisterial yet highly nuanced account that ventures back and forth across Mason and Dixon’s fabled demarcation line as audaciously as 18th-century raiding parties once did.”–Harold Holzer, Wall S
- Author: Gray, Edward G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674987616
- Language: English
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
$23.99 Add to cartThis epic work–named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times–tells the story of the
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337766
- Language: English
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Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
$28.99 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking exploration, the editor of the? New York Times? bestseller? Barracoon documents and discusses social, political, and economic “disparities” and “inequities” that undermine Afric
- Author: Plant, Deborah G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0062898493
- Language: English
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Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
$19.99 Add to cartA stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn’t know how old he is. Nob… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 10 2008
- ISBN10: 043977733X
- Language: English
