Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678818
Format: Paperback
$47.30

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The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War

The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9780008681760
Format: Paperback
$37.99

The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...  Read More >>

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of...

Author: Shannon Eaves
ISBN: 9781469678801
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Author: Nell Irvin Painter (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781324050599
Format: Paperback
$31.95

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Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Author: Agnes Arnold-Forster
ISBN: 9781529091366
Format: Hardback
$46.99

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The Patriots' Dilemma: White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America

The Patriots' Dilemma: White Abolitionism and Black...

Author: Timothy Messer-Kruse
ISBN: 9780745349671
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity...

Author: Zeinab Badawi
ISBN: 9780753560136
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent...  Read More >>

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity...

Author: Zeinab Badawi
ISBN: 9780753560129
Format: Hardback
$69.99

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A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil: Nobel Peace Prize Winner

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil: Nobel Peace Prize...

Author: Jane Addams
ISBN: 9782384553167
Format: Paperback
$26.37

"""The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.""-Jane AddamsIn this...  Read More >>

Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Author: Sam C. Tenorio
ISBN: 9781479828296
Format: Paperback
$60.99

"""Interrupting our political orthodoxies and engaging an alternative origin story of the modern carceral state,...  Read More >>

Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality

Author: Sam C. Tenorio
ISBN: 9781479828289
Format: Hardback
$193.00

"""Interrupting our political orthodoxies and engaging an alternative origin story of the modern carceral state,...  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Harriet a Jacobs ,  Lydia Marie Child
ISBN: 9798869301574
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a poignant narrative by Harriet A. Jacobs, recounting her harrowing experiences...  Read More >>

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese...

Author: K. J. P. Lowe
ISBN: 9780691246840
Format: Hardback
$79.99

"A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from...  Read More >>

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in...

Author: Lee B. Wilson (Clemson University, South Carolina)
ISBN: 9781108817899
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond...  Read More >>

An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South...

Author: Robert K.D. Colby (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9780197578261
Format: Hardback
$61.95

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent...  Read More >>

Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Author: Laura J. Lederer
ISBN: 9781440881206
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding...  Read More >>

The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia

The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan...

Author: Karen Auman ,  James F. Brooks
ISBN: 9780820366098
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Reveals the experiences of the Salzburger migrants who came to Georgia with the support of British and German philanthropy,...  Read More >>

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration...

Author: John Bardes
ISBN: 9781469678184
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia

The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan...

Author: Karen Auman ,  James F. Brooks
ISBN: 9780820366104
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Reveals the experiences of the Salzburger migrants who came to Georgia with the support of British and German philanthropy,...  Read More >>

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery,...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
ISBN: 9781479830985
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction,...

Author: Manisha Sinha (University of Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781631498442
Format: Hardback
$65.95

A ground-breaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative...  Read More >>

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