Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty ,  Sanya Simmons
ISBN: 9798874645915
Format: Audio
$97.65

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and...  Read More >>

River Sing Me Home: A powerful, uplifting novel of a remarkable journey to find family, inspired by true events

River Sing Me Home: A powerful, uplifting novel of a...

Author: Eleanor Shearer
ISBN: 9781472291400
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A mother's desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom takes her across the Caribbean.  Read More >>

Volume 2: Volume 2: Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To The Renaissance and Beyond: The Jazz Age: An African American Experience In The Development of Black Popular Culture

Volume 2: Volume 2: Death of The Negro From The Ante...

Author: Ph D Delridge L Hunter
ISBN: 9798888534816
Format: Hardback
$60.69

"With the great Liberation War ending in 1865 C.E., 'slave narratives' immediately became the source of information...  Read More >>

Volume 1: Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To The Renaissance & Beyond: Minstrelsy: An African American Experience In The Development of Black Popular Culture

Volume 1: Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To...

Author: Ph D Delridge L Hunter
ISBN: 9798888534809
Format: Hardback
$60.69

"DEATH OF THE NEGRO volume 1 ""The ancestors of the Negro in America brought their songs with them into slavery""[Negro...  Read More >>

Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare

Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black...

Author: Teresa S. Moyer
ISBN: 9780813080277
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Examines the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners. The book draws...  Read More >>

Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World

Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in...

Author: Christopher Michael Blakley
ISBN: 9780807178867
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Explores how material relationships between enslaved people and animals bolstered the intellectual dehumanization...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity

The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National...

Author: Leslie J Harris
ISBN: 9781611864595
Format: Paperback
$84.70

In this comprehensive account of the Progressive Era’s sex trafficking rhetoric, Leslie Harris demonstrates the...  Read More >>

Sovereign of a Free People: Lincoln, Slavery, and Majority Rule

Sovereign of a Free People: Lincoln, Slavery, and Majority...

Author: James H. Read
ISBN: 9780700634774
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Stephen Small
ISBN: 9781496845566
Format: Paperback
$48.40

The first book to tackle the role, treatment, and representation of slave cabins at plantation museum sites in contemporary...  Read More >>

In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Stephen Small
ISBN: 9781496845559
Format: Hardback
$159.50

The first book to tackle the role, treatment, and representation of slave cabins at plantation museum sites in contemporary...  Read More >>

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty ,  Sanya Simmons
ISBN: 9798874645908
Format: Audio
$176.85

Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and...  Read More >>

Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance

Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal...

Author: Nikki M Taylor ,  Machelle Williams
ISBN: 9798212960762
Format: Audio
$176.85

From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of...  Read More >>

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic:...

Author: Kevin Kenny (Glucksman Professor of History and Director of Glucksman Ireland House, Glucksman Professor of History and Director of Glucksman Ireland House, New York University)
ISBN: 9780197580080
Format: Hardback
$58.95

"A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration...  Read More >>

American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865

American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic...

Author: Sean M. Kelley
ISBN: 9780300263596
Format: Hardback
$51.95

The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation  Read More >>

Flags on the Bayou

Flags on the Bayou

Author: James Lee Burke (Author)
ISBN: 9781398715516
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A Civil War thriller shot through with Southern Gothic, from the godfather of Southern noir James Lee Burke.  Read More >>

Flags on the Bayou

Flags on the Bayou

Author: James Lee Burke (Author)
ISBN: 9781398715509
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Observations On American Slavery, After a Year's Tour in the United States

Observations On American Slavery, After a Year's Tour...

Author: Russell Lant Carpenter
ISBN: 9781022054967
Format: Paperback
$42.11

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: Edward T. Whitfield Subjects:...  Read More >>

Sixth Annual Report of The Glasgow Emancipation Society: With An Appendix, List of Subscribers, & C

Sixth Annual Report of The Glasgow Emancipation Society:...

Author: Aird And Russell
ISBN: 9781022000995
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"Relive the struggles and triumphs of the anti-slavery movement in Scotland with this rare copy of the Sixth Annual...  Read More >>

A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors of Plantations, in the British West-India I

A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors...

Author: Beilby Porteus
ISBN: 9781021997371
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"This influential pamphlet argues strongly for the abolition of the slave trade in the British West Indies. Porteus...  Read More >>

Abolition a Sedition. By a Northern Man

Abolition a Sedition. By a Northern Man

Author: Calvin Colton
ISBN: 9781021916389
Format: Paperback
$55.31

"Originally published in 1837, 'Abolition: A Sedition by a Northern Man' is a powerful critique of the modern abolitionist...  Read More >>

The Great Question Answered; or Is Slavery a Sin in ItSelf (per se?) Answered According to the Teac

The Great Question Answered; or Is Slavery a Sin in...

Author: Sloan A James
ISBN: 9781022148338
Format: Paperback
$60.59

"An exploration and answer to one of America's biggest moral questions leading up to and during the Civil War: Is...  Read More >>

Premium Questions on Slavery, Each Admitting Of a Yes or No Answer; Addressed to the Editors Of

Premium Questions on Slavery, Each Admitting Of a Yes...

Author: Morse Sidney E (Sidney Edwards)
ISBN: 9781022129290
Format: Paperback
$36.83

"This powerful collection of questions addresses the issue of slavery head-on, offering a unique and thought-provoking...  Read More >>

The Appeal of the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Etc., to Their

The Appeal of the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania,...

Author: Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox
ISBN: 9781022131194
Format: Paperback
$36.83

"This landmark document, originally published in 1830, was a plea to fellow Quakers to end the practice of owning...  Read More >>

Liberia's Next Friend. The Annual Discourse Delivered at the Sixty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Ameri

Liberia's Next Friend. The Annual Discourse Delivered...

Author: Sunderland B (Byron)
ISBN: 9781022134928
Format: Paperback
$36.83

"B. Sunderland delivers a passionate speech advocating for the American Colonization Society and its mission to...  Read More >>

The Anti-Slavery Papers of James Russell Lowell

The Anti-Slavery Papers of James Russell Lowell

Author: James Russell Lowell
ISBN: 9781022122079
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

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