Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia

Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in...

Author: Dennis Todd
ISBN: 9781621908098
Format: Hardback
$158.40

In examining William Byrd II, a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian, through the twin lens of slavery and patriarchy,...  Read More >>

Faulkner and Slavery

Faulkner and Slavery

Author: Jay Watson ,  James G. Thomas Jr.
ISBN: 9781496846495
Format: Paperback
$51.70

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Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities

Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks...

Author: S Karly Kehoe ,  Dalglish
ISBN: 9781474494304
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to defining Highland Scots' engagements with Empire and...  Read More >>

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation...

Author: Ken Menon
ISBN: 9798823083256
Format: Paperback
$57.00

Black lives matter wherever they may be, whether in the developed world or in the consciousness of those who see...  Read More >>

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The...

Author: Olukunle P. Owolabi (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University)
ISBN: 9780197673027
Format: Hardback
$187.95

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides...  Read More >>

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation...

Author: Ken Menon
ISBN: 9798823083263
Format: Hardback
$104.52

Black lives matter wherever they may be, whether in the developed world or in the consciousness of those who see...  Read More >>

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
ISBN: 9781803986081
Format: Hardback
$60.69

This captivating collection of gripping tales takes readers deep into the heart of America's rugged landscapes,...  Read More >>

Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era

Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence...

Author: James Hill Welborn III
ISBN: 9780813949321
Format: Paperback
$91.08

In 1856, when Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology...  Read More >>

Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era

Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence...

Author: James Hill Welborn III
ISBN: 9780813949314
Format: Hardback
$303.60

In 1856, when Preston Smith Brooks viciously beat the abolitionist Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, the ideology...  Read More >>

Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire

Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights...

Author: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
ISBN: 9783031315305
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the...  Read More >>

Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles

Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic...

Author: Hannah-Rose Murray (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781108720410
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Focusing on unexplored testimony, this book highlights numerous ways in which African Americans challenged slavery...  Read More >>

American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914

American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions...

Author: Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University)
ISBN: 9781108701914
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery's victims...  Read More >>

Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery...

Author: Ilyon Woo
ISBN: 9781804183632
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints...

Author: Herb Frazier ,  Joseph McGill
ISBN: 9780306829666
Format: Hardback
$45.00

In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...  Read More >>

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa...

Author: Professor Jennifer Lofkrantz (Person)
ISBN: 9781648250644
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era...  Read More >>

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

Author: Brian Yothers (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781640140691
Format: Hardback
$261.36

A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry...  Read More >>

Greek Slavery

Greek Slavery

Author: Deborah Kamen
ISBN: 9783110637595
Format: Paperback
$51.39

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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of...

Author: Nicholas Radburn ,  Julian Elfer
ISBN: 9798212958134
Format: Audio
$110.85

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave...  Read More >>

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of...

Author: Nicholas Radburn ,  Julian Elfer
ISBN: 9798212958141
Format: Audio
$110.85

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History...

Author: Damian A. Pargas ,  Juliane Schiel
ISBN: 9783031132599
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)

Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)

Author: Solomon Northup ,  Dr. Sandra M. Grayson
ISBN: 9781804175798
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York, who was tricked to go to Washington,...  Read More >>

Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War

Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the...

Author: Matthew J. Clavin
ISBN: 9781479823246
Format: Hardback
$64.99

"""In the early United States, the language and symbols of American freedom inspired enslaved people and their allies...  Read More >>

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The...

Author: Olukunle P. Owolabi (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University)
ISBN: 9780197673034
Format: Paperback
$66.95

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides...  Read More >>

John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

Author: Jonathan Aitken
ISBN: 9781399412841
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A fascinating, colorful, and historically significant portraitof slave-trader-turned-Christ-follower John Newton....  Read More >>

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of...

Author: Nicholas Radburn ,  Julian Elfer
ISBN: 9798212958127
Format: Audio
$176.85

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave...  Read More >>

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