Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the...

Author: Angela Naimou
ISBN: 9780823278725
Format: Paperback
$73.92

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The Middle Passage

The Middle Passage

Author: David Aretha
ISBN: 9781599354088
Format: Hardback
$76.43

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Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross

Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter...

Author: Peter Wheeler ,  Charles Edwards Lester
ISBN: 9781946640680
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Wheeler was northern-born - in New Jersey - and illegally sold and taken into New York State, then grew to adulthood...  Read More >>

Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation

Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone...

Author: Candace Ward
ISBN: 9780813940014
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives...  Read More >>

Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories...

Author: Tiya Miles
ISBN: 9781469636146
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of “ghost tours”, frequently promoted and experienced at plantations,...  Read More >>

Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle Over Freedom

Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and...

Author: Graham A. Peck
ISBN: 9780252041365
Format: Hardback
$75.99

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Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery...

Author: Siddharth Kara
ISBN: 9780231180337
Format: Paperback
$39.95

At the end of 2006, there were 28.4 million slaves in the world, 1.2 million of whom were women and children abducted,...  Read More >>

Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation

Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone...

Author: Candace Ward
ISBN: 9780813940007
Format: Hardback
$133.10

Examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives...  Read More >>

A Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity

A Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity

Author: Ethan Allen
ISBN: 9781376175301
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Subtitle: From the Time of His Being Taken by the British, Near Montreal, on the 25th Day of September, in the Year...  Read More >>

Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits

Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom...

Author: Tiya Miles ,  Allyson Johnson
ISBN: 9781541461024
Format: Audio
$79.17

A book that opens the door on a completely hidden past, The Dawn of Detroit is a powerful and elegantly written...  Read More >>

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption...

Author: William C. Rhoden ,  William C. Rhoden
ISBN: 9781541458840
Format: Audio
$79.17

A renowned New York Times columnist deconstructs the black athlete in this explosive and absorbing discussion of...  Read More >>

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United...

Author: W E B 1868-1963 Du Bois
ISBN: 9781376061512
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Courtship of Miles Standish

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ,  N C 1882-1945 Wyeth
ISBN: 9781375958622
Format: Paperback
$28.33

The Courtship of Miles Standish from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. American poet and educator (1807-1882).  Read More >>

A Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity

A Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity

Author: Ethan Allen
ISBN: 9781375854009
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Subtitle: From the Time of His Being Taken by the British, Near Montreal, on the 25th Day of September, in the Year...  Read More >>

A South-Side View of Slavery

A South-Side View of Slavery

Author: Nehemiah Adams
ISBN: 9781375857529
Format: Paperback
$30.92

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Ticknor and Fields Subjects:...  Read More >>

A Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling

A Measuring Scale for Ability in Spelling

Author: Leonard Porter Ayres
ISBN: 9781375912952
Format: Paperback
$23.16

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Roving Editor: Or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States

The Roving Editor: Or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern...

Author: James Redpath
ISBN: 9781375856614
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Published in 1859, this title is filled with talks that the author had with slaves, while traveling through the...  Read More >>

The Courtship of Miles Standish

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ,  N C 1882-1945 Wyeth
ISBN: 9781375848121
Format: Paperback
$20.57

The Courtship of Miles Standish from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. American poet and educator (1807-1882).  Read More >>

The Diplomatic History of America: Its First, Parts 1452-1494

The Diplomatic History of America: Its First, Parts...

Author: Henry Harrisse
ISBN: 9781375653053
Format: Paperback
$33.51

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Historian's Narrative of Frederick Douglass: Reading Douglass's Autobiography as Social and Cultural History

The Historian's Narrative of Frederick Douglass: Reading...

Author: Robert Felgar ,  Robert Felgar
ISBN: 9781440843099
Format: Paperback
$48.00

To celebrate the bicentenary of Frederick Douglass's birth in 2018, this new annotated edition of his classic autobiography...  Read More >>

Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885

Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western...

Author: Silke Strickrodt
ISBN: 9781847011787
Format: Paperback
$97.55

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Abraham Lincoln: An Essay

Abraham Lincoln: An Essay

Author: Carl Schurz
ISBN: 9781375404723
Format: Paperback
$23.16

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Historian's Narrative of Frederick Douglass: Reading Douglass's Autobiography as Social and Cultural History

The Historian's Narrative of Frederick Douglass: Reading...

Author: Robert Felgar ,  Robert Felgar
ISBN: 9781440846861
Format: Hardback
$86.00

To celebrate the bicentenary of Frederick Douglass's birth in 2018, this new annotated edition of his classic autobiography...  Read More >>

American Slave Stories: True Stories of Slavery in the American South

American Slave Stories: True Stories of Slavery in the...

Author: Work Projects Administration
ISBN: 9781976465963
Format: Paperback
$23.63

American Slave Stories - True Stories of Slavery in the American South - Volume 2... Whippings. Your overseer carried...  Read More >>

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