Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice...

Author: Joan L. Bryant (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse University)
ISBN: 9780195312966
Format: Hardback
$193.95

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of ethical, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific challenges that...  Read More >>

A Muslim American Slave Lib/E: The Life of Omar Ibn Said

A Muslim American Slave Lib/E: The Life of Omar Ibn...

Author: Omar Ibn Said ,  Ala Alryyes
ISBN: 9798874644581
Format: Audio
$176.85

"Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United...  Read More >>

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Author: Deborah G. Plant
ISBN: 9780062898494
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America’s obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of...  Read More >>

Use of Social Networking Technology in Sex Trafficking

Use of Social Networking Technology in Sex Trafficking...

Author: Siddhartha Sarkar
ISBN: 9781666954760
Format: Hardback
$250.80

This study leads the way to comprehend the need for further research on technology security in the fight against...  Read More >>

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and...

Author: Edda L. Fields-Black (Department of History, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University)
ISBN: 9780197552797
Format: Hardback
$73.95

COMBEE is based upon original research and offers the first full account of Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee...  Read More >>

Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous Space

Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across...

Author: Bayley J. Marquez
ISBN: 9780520393714
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future

Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future

Author: Lori Ann Larocco ,  Abby Wallace
ISBN: 9781917054560
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A book that focuses on the lives of four families descended from slaves. Historical photos of enslaved loved ones...  Read More >>

Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous Space

Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across...

Author: Bayley J. Marquez
ISBN: 9780520393707
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system...  Read More >>

The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888

The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition,...

Author: Robin Blackburn
ISBN: 9781804293416
Format: Hardback
$69.99

How was slavery defeated in the Americas? The Reckoning is Robin Blackburn's compelling and authoritative account...  Read More >>

The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History

The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History

Author: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9781032599847
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship,...  Read More >>

Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave...

Author: Sean Kingsley ,  Simcha Jacobovici
ISBN: 9781639364589
Format: Paperback
$35.00

A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to...  Read More >>

Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740

Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina,...

Author: Peter H. Wood ,  Imani Perry
ISBN: 9781324066200
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Peter H. Wood’s groundbreaking history of Blacks in colonial South Carolina, with a new foreword by National Book...  Read More >>

The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712: The First Enslaved Insurrection in British North America

The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712: The First Enslaved...

Author: Ben Hughes
ISBN: 9781594164163
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The First Comprehensive Investigation into the First Uprising Against Slavery in British North America At 2 a.m....  Read More >>

Equiano's Travels

Equiano's Travels

Author: Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 9781035900596
Format: Paperback
$43.96

This is a wonderful narrative telling of Equiano's early life in Ibo country, his days as a slave in Southern America...  Read More >>

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack,...

Author: Tiya Miles
ISBN: 9781800818217
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to...  Read More >>

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery...

Author: Frederick Knight
ISBN: 9781512825664
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would...  Read More >>

Prophets of Doom: A History of the Okanisi Maroons in Suriname

Prophets of Doom: A History of the Okanisi Maroons in...

Author: H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen ,  Richard Price
ISBN: 9789004693630
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Building on sixty years of fieldwork, archival research and oral accounts, this book presents the history of prophetic...  Read More >>

Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution

Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution...

Author: Ada Ferrer ,  Vivia Font
ISBN: 9798874691073
Format: Audio
$190.05

"During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and...  Read More >>

Puerta del Viaje Sin Retorno, La

Puerta del Viaje Sin Retorno, La

Author: David Diop
ISBN: 9788433913340
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Discovering My Southern Legacy: Slave Culture and the American South

Discovering My Southern Legacy: Slave Culture and the...

Author: Deirdre Foreman
ISBN: 9781915271662
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Explore the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through the autobiographical lens of one...  Read More >>

The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration

The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family...

Author: David Nicholson
ISBN: 9781643364544
Format: Hardback
$73.89

An engrossing family tale and an exploration of the African American freedom struggle, written by the great grandson...  Read More >>

The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807

The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British...

Author: Theodore Corbett
ISBN: 9781399048200
Format: Hardback
$75.00

An uplifting work of black history in the context of the American War for Independence.  Read More >>

Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America

Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America...

Author: Cathy Rex ,  Shevaun E. Watson
ISBN: 9780367610005
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in...  Read More >>

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