Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State

Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work,...

Author: Corinne Schwarz
ISBN: 9781978833302
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Explores how frontline workers in direct contact with vulnerable, exploited, and trafficked persons - however those...  Read More >>

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story...

Author: Gregg Hecimovich
ISBN: 9780062334732
Format: Hardback
$76.53

"""A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer...  Read More >>

Escapes from Cayenne: A Story of Socialism and Slavery in an Age of Revolution and Reaction

Escapes from Cayenne: A Story of Socialism and Slavery...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Léon Chautard
ISBN: 9780820365886
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Sheds light on the ideological connections between the European ‘spirit of 1848’ and US radical abolitionism and...  Read More >>

Race and Police: The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

Race and Police: The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions...

Author: Ben Brucato
ISBN: 9781978834491
Format: Hardback
$396.00

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement...  Read More >>

Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State

Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work,...

Author: Corinne Schwarz
ISBN: 9781978833319
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Explores how frontline workers in direct contact with vulnerable, exploited, and trafficked persons - however those...  Read More >>

California, a Slave State

California, a Slave State

Author: Jean Pfaelzer ,  Ewan Chung
ISBN: 9798212960885
Format: Audio
$203.25

California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build...  Read More >>

Voices of Freedom: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Other Women Abolitionists Who Shattered Chains

Voices of Freedom: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth,...

Author:
ISBN: 9781739576509
Format: Paperback
$21.09

A history book with a difference, which brings to life the stories of prominent figures like Sojourner Truth and...  Read More >>

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

Author: Jake Subryan Richards (London School of Economics and Political Science.) ,  Victoria Avery
ISBN: 9781781301234
Format: Paperback
$42.99

An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic.  Read More >>

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story...

Author: Gregg Hecimovich ,  Janina Edwards
ISBN: 9798212698313
Format: Audio
$110.85

"""A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer...  Read More >>

Glasgow, the Clyde and Slavery

Glasgow, the Clyde and Slavery

Author: D. P.
ISBN: 9781840339604
Format: Paperback
$38.68

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Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the...

Author: Paul Barba
ISBN: 9781496237040
Format: Paperback
$105.60

A sweeping, comparative analysis of the slaving regimes of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo American communities in...  Read More >>

Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States: Historical Studies

Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States:...

Author: David J. Endres ,  Shelton J. Fabre
ISBN: 9780813236759
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Witnesses to the fragility of humanity, which is capable of freedom or slavery, brotherhood or hatred. Each chapter...  Read More >>

Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia

Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence...

Author: Katharine E. McGregor ,  Scott Straus
ISBN: 9780299344207
Format: Hardback
$211.07

With careful attention to the historical, social, and political conditions surrounding sexual violence in Indonesia,...  Read More >>

The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty

The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims...

Author: Mario Nisbett
ISBN: 9781793613905
Format: Paperback
$70.99

The Workings of Diaspora shows how the lived experience of Jamaican Maroons is linked to the African Diaspora. The...  Read More >>

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck (1811-1887): Volume I

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck...

Author: Andy Peck ,  Dr Isham Talbot Peck
ISBN: 9781955121088
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Award Winning Author - Andy Peck awarded the 2023 Community History Leadership Award by the East Tennessee Historical...  Read More >>

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck (1811-1887): Volume I

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck...

Author: Andy Peck ,  Dr Isham Talbot Peck
ISBN: 9781955121095
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Award Winning Author - Andy Peck awarded the 2023 Community History Leadership Award by the East Tennessee Historical...  Read More >>

California, a Slave State

California, a Slave State

Author: Jean Pfaelzer
ISBN: 9780300211641
Format: Hardback
$51.95

The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American...  Read More >>

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom...

Author: Scott Shane
ISBN: 9781250843210
Format: Hardback
$79.20

"A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and...  Read More >>

The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil

The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the...

Author: Brodwyn Fischer (University of Chicago) ,  Keila Grinberg (University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9781009287975
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book brings together key scholars writing on Brazilian slavery and abolition, emphasizing the profound impact...  Read More >>

The Ice Harp

The Ice Harp

Author: Norman Lock
ISBN: 9781954276178
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"""Retired from public life, Ralph Waldo Emerson takes up arms to save a fugitive Black soldier from unjust arrest...  Read More >>

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