Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781788287869
Format: Paperback
$18.09

Generally held to be the most famous piece written by a former slave, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...  Read More >>

Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture: Social Integration and the Transformation of Values

Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture: Social Integration...

Author: Rose MacLean (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781107142923
Format: Hardback
$243.23

Argues that freed slaves contributed to the transformation of Roman values under the Principate by modelling strategies...  Read More >>

Reconstruction: A Concise History

Reconstruction: A Concise History

Author: Allen C. Guelzo (Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College)
ISBN: 9780190865696
Format: Hardback
$28.95

Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Concise History is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as...  Read More >>

Representations of Slavery in Children’s Picture Books: Teaching and Learning about Slavery in K-12 Classrooms

Representations of Slavery in Children’s Picture Books:...

Author: Raphael Rogers
ISBN: 9781138739208
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing on critical race theory, critical race feminism, critical multicultural analysis, and intertextuality this...  Read More >>

The Shorter Writings

The Shorter Writings

Author: Xenophon ,  Gregory A. McBrayer
ISBN: 9781501718502
Format: Paperback
$81.71

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Contemporary Slavery: The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns

Contemporary Slavery: The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights...

Author: Annie Bunting ,  Joel Quirk
ISBN: 9781501718762
Format: Paperback
$97.55

This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery...  Read More >>

The Shorter Writings

The Shorter Writings

Author: Xenophon ,  Gregory A. McBrayer
ISBN: 9781501718496
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Behind the Scenes: Formerly a slave, but more recently Modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.

Behind the Scenes: Formerly a slave, but more recently...

Author: Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9781721016761
Format: Paperback
$23.63

Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley, formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham...  Read More >>

Hidden History of Boston

Hidden History of Boston

Author: Dina Vargo
ISBN: 9781540234094
Format: Hardback
$84.45

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781720926887
Format: Paperback
$23.63

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

What Is a Slave Society?: The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective

What Is a Slave Society?: The Practice of Slavery in...

Author: Noel Lenski (Yale University, Connecticut) ,  Catherine M. Cameron (University of Colorado Boulder)
ISBN: 9781107144897
Format: Hardback
$331.20

This book examines the widely accepted binary distinction between 'slave societies' and 'societies with slaves'...  Read More >>

The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity

The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity

Author: Martyn Hudson
ISBN: 9781138602816
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Author: Zora Neale Hurston ,  Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780062864369
Format: Paperback
$42.89

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The Escape of Belle & Rose

The Escape of Belle & Rose

Author: Tyrone Rounds
ISBN: 9786025005305
Format: Paperback
$24.32

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The Old Slave and the Mastiff

The Old Slave and the Mastiff

Author: Patrick Chamoiseau ,  Priscilla Layne
ISBN: 9780349700458
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by Milan Kundera as the ""heir of Joyce and Kafka,"" a gripping story of an escaped...  Read More >>

Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents:...

Author: Harvey Amani Whitfield
ISBN: 9781554813865
Format: Paperback
$77.22

This is the first book to offer a thorough collection of documents detailing the history of black slavery in the...  Read More >>

Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina

Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early...

Author: Ryan A. Quintana
ISBN: 9781469642222
Format: Paperback
$85.80

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A....  Read More >>

Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom

Known for My Work: African American Ethics from Slavery...

Author: Lynda J. Morgan
ISBN: 9780813064697
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Looks beyond slavery's legacy of racial and economic inequality and counters the idea that slaves were unprepared...  Read More >>

Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina

Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early...

Author: Ryan A. Quintana
ISBN: 9781469641065
Format: Hardback
$261.36

How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A....  Read More >>

The U.S. Constitution and Secession: A Documentary Anthology of Slavery and White Supremacy

The U.S. Constitution and Secession: A Documentary Anthology...

Author: Dwight T. Pitcaithley
ISBN: 9780700626250
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the nation, Confederates...  Read More >>

Should Current Generations Make Reparation for Slavery?

Should Current Generations Make Reparation for Slavery?...

Author: Janna Thompson (La Trobe University)
ISBN: 9781509516414
Format: Hardback
$72.95

During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history’s most monstrous crimes: slavery....  Read More >>

Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807

Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic,...

Author: Justin Roberts (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)
ISBN: 9781107680753
Format: Paperback
$98.32

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how...  Read More >>

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