Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Ghana: A Political and Social History

Ghana: A Political and Social History

Author: Jeffrey Ahlman (Smith College, USA)
ISBN: 9780755601561
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal

Author: Bernard Moitt (Virginia Commonwealth University)
ISBN: 9781009296472
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be...  Read More >>

Ghana: A Political and Social History

Ghana: A Political and Social History

Author: Jeffrey Ahlman (Smith College, USA)
ISBN: 9781788314220
Format: Hardback
$130.00

"Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 12001500

Domestic Slavery in Syria and Egypt, 12001500

Author: Jan Hinrich Hagedorn
ISBN: 9783847110910
Format: Hardback
$137.28

Slavery touched many aspects of Mamluk society. This volume focuses on the role of slaves within the family, from...  Read More >>

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the...

Author: Marlene L. Daut
ISBN: 9781469676845
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political...  Read More >>

10 Scotland Street: With a foreword from Val McDermid

10 Scotland Street: With a foreword from Val McDermid...

Author: Leslie Hills
ISBN: 9781910895733
Format: Hardback
$64.66

10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers,...  Read More >>

Modern Slavery

Modern Slavery

Author: Guido Cuyvers
ISBN: 9781592113309
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Despite the fact that slavery had formally been abolished at the end of the 19th century in most countries, it remains...  Read More >>

The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters

The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed...

Author: Myra Helmer Pritchard ,  Jason Emerson
ISBN: 9780809339242
Format: Paperback
$44.00

Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow,...  Read More >>

Let Us Descend: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Let Us Descend: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Author: Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781526666727
Format: Paperback
$32.99

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * ‘A spectacular achievement’ ANTHONY DOERR ‘Extravagantly beautiful’ DAILY MAIL ‘One...  Read More >>

Let Us Descend: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Let Us Descend: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Author: Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781526666710
Format: Hardback
$42.99

* AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * ‘A spectacular achievement’ ANTHONY DOERR ‘Extravagantly beautiful’ DAILY MAIL ‘One...  Read More >>

Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation

Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation

Author: Edward G. Gray
ISBN: 9780674987616
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Established to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development...  Read More >>

Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History

Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African...

Author: Gregory D Smithers ,  Terrence Kidd
ISBN: 9798212950817
Format: Audio
$110.85

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of...  Read More >>

Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and...

Author: Kathleen S. Murphy
ISBN: 9781469675916
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Argues that the eighteenth century’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation...  Read More >>

Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and...

Author: Kathleen S. Murphy
ISBN: 9781469675909
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Argues that the eighteenth century’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation...  Read More >>

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the...

Author: Marlene L. Daut
ISBN: 9781469674742
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political...  Read More >>

Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction

Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American...

Author: Amy Bride
ISBN: 9781837720637
Format: Hardback
$152.95

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The History of Mary Prince (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The History of Mary Prince (Warbler Classics Annotated...

Author: Mary Prince ,  Barbara Baumgartner
ISBN: 9781962572071
Format: Paperback
$21.09

This powerful cry for emancipation stands as a seminal work of abolitionist literature. A republication of the complete...  Read More >>

Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History

Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African...

Author: Gregory D Smithers ,  Terrence Kidd
ISBN: 9798212950824
Format: Audio
$110.85

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of...  Read More >>

Beyond the Door of No Return

Beyond the Door of No Return

Author: David Diop ,  Sam Taylor
ISBN: 9781782278399
Format: Hardback
$39.99

From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a movingand immersive adventure...  Read More >>

Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who escaped slavery enclosed in a box 3 feet long and 2 wide

Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who escaped slavery enclosed...

Author: Henry Brown
ISBN: 9781774817681
Format: Paperback
$42.19

"Title: Narrative of Henry ""Box"" Brown Description: The ""Narrative of Henry 'Box' Brown"" is a poignant...  Read More >>

Let Justice and Mercy Flow

Let Justice and Mercy Flow

Author: Ken Boutwell
ISBN: 9781960326409
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Return

The Return

Author: Yaw M. Boateng
ISBN: 9781035900589
Format: Paperback
$38.79

In this historical novel, Yaw M. Boateng tells the harrowing story of the Atlantic slave trade and the devastating...  Read More >>

The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union

The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle...

Author: Frank J. Cirillo ,  Richard J. M. Blackett
ISBN: 9780807179154
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirillo’s The Abolitionist...  Read More >>

John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist

John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist

Author: Jeffrey A. Denman
ISBN: 9781476693293
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Informed by John Quincy Adams’s revealing and often tormented musings from his vast diary, this sweeping narrative...  Read More >>

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