Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions

Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during...

Author: Rashauna Johnson (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9781107591165
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Slavery's Metropolis examines the paradoxes of slave life in New Orleans, a cosmopolitan port city located at the...  Read More >>

Bilateral Cooperation and Human Trafficking: Eradicating Modern Slavery between the United Kingdom and Nigeria

Bilateral Cooperation and Human Trafficking: Eradicating...

Author: May Ikeora
ISBN: 9783319628240
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book presents a case study of human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK, with a focus on practical measures...  Read More >>

The Interesting Narrative

The Interesting Narrative

Author: Olaudah Equiano ,  Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University)
ISBN: 9780198707523
Format: Paperback
$23.95

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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery

The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery

Author: Noel Rae
ISBN: 9781538540039
Format: Audio
$118.67

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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery

The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery

Author: Noel Rae
ISBN: 9781538540022
Format: Audio
$145.07

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The Great Stain Lib/E: Witnessing American Slavery

The Great Stain Lib/E: Witnessing American Slavery

Author: Noel Rae ,  Steven Crossley
ISBN: 9781538540015
Format: Audio
$324.72

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Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court

Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court...

Author: Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780674051218
Format: Hardback
$61.95

In ruling after ruling, the three most important pre–Civil War justices—Marshall, Taney, and Story—upheld slavery....  Read More >>

The Negro

The Negro

Author: W E B Du Bois
ISBN: 9781984261687
Format: Paperback
$19.77

W. E. B. Du Bois was a prominent American historian and civil rights activist. Du Bois rose to fame through being...  Read More >>

A Fast Walk Through a Long History: A Summary of the American Civil Rights Struggle from 1619 in Jamestown to 1965 in Selma

A Fast Walk Through a Long History: A Summary of the...

Author: Horace Randall Williams
ISBN: 9781603064347
Format: Paperback
$20.99

A Fast Walk Through a Long History is a brisk but richly informative retelling of our civil rights history, originally...  Read More >>

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of...

Author: Frances R. Botkin
ISBN: 9780813587387
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as """"Three-Fingered Jack"""", terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost...  Read More >>

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of...

Author: Frances R. Botkin
ISBN: 9780813587394
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as """"Three-Fingered Jack"""", terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost...  Read More >>

The WPA Slave Narratives of Oklahoma & Texas: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. An Original Compilation.

The WPA Slave Narratives of Oklahoma & Texas: A Folk...

Author: Works Progress Administration ,  Federal Writers' Project
ISBN: 9781642270297
Format: Paperback
$64.56

This unique and original compilation of Work Progress Administration slave narratives contains 145 slave narratives...  Read More >>

Slavery in the United States of America

Slavery in the United States of America

Author: Henry Sherman
ISBN: 9783337405328
Format: Paperback
$64.68

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John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850

John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850

Author: Peter Charles Hoffer (Research Professor of History, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781421423883
Format: Paperback
$43.99

A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and...  Read More >>

Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy

Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular...

Author: Amy Richlin (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781107152311
Format: Hardback
$367.43

As war ravaged Italy in the 200s BCE, slave actors spoke truth to power. Based on the plays of Plautus, this book...  Read More >>

John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850

John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850

Author: Peter Charles Hoffer (Research Professor of History, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9781421423876
Format: Hardback
$113.00

A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and...  Read More >>

Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved,...

Author: Daina Ramey Berry
ISBN: 9780807067147
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early...  Read More >>

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman:...

Author: Austin Steward
ISBN: 9781982053291
Format: Paperback
$42.24

The author's own story of living in slavery for twenty two years in Virginia.  Read More >>

From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000

From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in...

Author: Benedetta Rossi (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781107545113
Format: Paperback
$98.32

From Slavery to Aid takes two major themes of African historiography - the death of slavery and the birth of aid...  Read More >>

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume...

Author: Alice Bellagamba ,  Sandra E. Greene (Cornell University, New York)
ISBN: 9780521145268
Format: Paperback
$126.79

To cast light on African perspectives of the history of slavery, top Africanist scholars have examined both conventional...  Read More >>

The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. Part VII: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.

The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. Part VII:...

Author: Works Progress Administration ,  Project Federal Writers'
ISBN: 9781642270167
Format: Paperback
$103.37

The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. Part VII: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews...  Read More >>

Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction

Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power...

Author: Holly M. Kent
ISBN: 9781606353172
Format: Hardback
$86.90

Analyses the literary works produced by anti- slavery women writers during the antebellum era, and considers the...  Read More >>

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