Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865

Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish...

Author: Ian Delahanty
ISBN: 9781531506865
Format: Hardback
$257.99

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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 >>

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 >>

Lincoln's Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock

Lincoln's Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of...

Author: Boyce Thompson
ISBN: 9781476688848
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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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 >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Heyrick: The Making of an Anti-Slavery Campaigner

Elizabeth Heyrick: The Making of an Anti-Slavery Campaigner...

Author: Jocelyn Robson
ISBN: 9781399068383
Format: Hardback
$59.99

This book is the first full length biography of Elizabeth Heyrick and it sets her life in the context of the British...  Read More >>

Two Sams

Two Sams

Author: Sharon Robart-Johnson
ISBN: 9781998149292
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean

"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of...

Author: Dr Ryan Espersen
ISBN: 9789464270785
Format: Paperback
$155.25

This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba's ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial...  Read More >>

"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean

"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of...

Author: Dr Ryan Espersen
ISBN: 9789464270792
Format: Hardback
$310.50

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Human Trafficking, Structural Violence, and Resilience: Ethnographic Life Narratives from the Philippines

Human Trafficking, Structural Violence, and Resilience:...

Author: Amie L. Lennox
ISBN: 9781032198286
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores and examines human trafficking in Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines, and the social conditions...  Read More >>

Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory

Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering...

Author: Marc Howard Ross
ISBN: 9781512826128
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Inviting the reader to accompany him on his own journey of discovery, Ross recounts the processes by which northerners...  Read More >>

Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

Author: John D. O. Fulton
ISBN: 9781781559345
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Fifteen stories showing from many different perspectives what happened when the evil of slavery was confronted with...  Read More >>

The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery,...

Author: Sean Griffin
ISBN: 9781512825923
Format: Hardback
$131.87

"""This book examines the relationship between labor reform and abolitionism in the decades before the Civil War....  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: 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 >>

Afrika - Atlantik - Amerika

Afrika - Atlantik - Amerika

Author: Michael Zeuske
ISBN: 9783111536118
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This book centers on the Africa-Atlantic-Americas system and its relationship to the complex of Atlantic slavery,...  Read More >>

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the...

Author: Matthew Stewart
ISBN: 9781324003625
Format: Hardback
$53.95

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution...  Read More >>

It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom

It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom

Author: Christopher P Lehman
ISBN: 9781681342825
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"In 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through...  Read More >>

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure.

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition...

Author: Thomas Clarkson
ISBN: 9789357949118
Format: Paperback
$42.42

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their...  Read More >>

Thoughts upon slavery

Thoughts upon slavery

Author: John Wesley
ISBN: 9789357945073
Format: Paperback
$39.07

Thoughts upon slavery, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

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