Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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A Feast of Reason: The Civil War Journal of James Madison Hall

A Feast of Reason: The Civil War Journal of James Madison...
Author: Karen Gerhardt Fort ISBN: 9781933337708 Format: Paperback	$105.47
James Madison Hall kept a journal from 1860 until just before his death in 1866, in which he recorded a daily log... Read More >>

Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory

Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's...
Author: Roger C Aden ISBN: 9781439912003 Format: Paperback	$65.87
The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National... Read More >>

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End...
Author: Deborah Willis , Barbara Krauthamer ISBN: 9781439909867 Format: Paperback	$65.87
What freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era Read More >>

One More River to Cross

One More River to Cross
Author: Bryan Prince ISBN: 9781525237720 Format: Paperback	$64.66
In the early to mid-19th century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation... Read More >>

Harriet Tubman: Freedom Seeker, Freedom Leader

Harriet Tubman: Freedom Seeker, Freedom Leader
Author: Rosemary Sadlier ISBN: 9781525237713 Format: Paperback	$56.90
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the...
Author: Daina Ramey Berry ISBN: 9780807047620 Format: Hardback	$64.69
A profoundly humane look at an inhumane institution, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh will have a major impact... Read More >>

Among His Slaves: George Mason, Slavery at Gunston Hall, and the Idealism of the American Revolution

Among His Slaves: George Mason, Slavery at Gunston Hall,...
Author: Terry K Dunn ISBN: 9781943642373 Format: Paperback	$52.80
The author uses never-before-published records and documents to tell the story of enslaved Africans and African... Read More >>

John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary

John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections...
Author: David Waldstreicher (Distinguished Professor of History, Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center, CUNY) , Matthew Mason (associate professor of history, associate professor of history, Brigham Young University) ISBN: 9780199947959 Format: Hardback	$77.95
John Quincy Adams's long diary (late 1780s-mid 1840s) offers a unique perspective on the history of the early republic.... Read More >>

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic...
Author: Sven Beckert , Seth Rockman ISBN: 9781538404393 Format: Audio	$79.07
Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades... Read More >>

Slavery's Capitalism Lib/E: A New History of American Economic Development

Slavery's Capitalism Lib/E: A New History of American...
Author: Sven Beckert , Seth Rockman ISBN: 9781538404379 Format: Audio	$311.52
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic...
Author: Sven Beckert , Seth Rockman ISBN: 9781538404386 Format: Audio	$92.27
Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades... Read More >>

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb,...
Author: Henry Bibb ISBN: 9781542545235 Format: Paperback	$21.09
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Twelve Years a Slave: A Norton Critical Edition

Twelve Years a Slave: A Norton Critical Edition
Author: Solomon Northup , Kevin M. Burke (Harvard University) ISBN: 9780393264241 Format: Paperback	$34.95
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Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural...
Author: James Walvin (University of York, UK) ISBN: 9781119166221 Format: Paperback	$55.95
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Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural...
Author: James Walvin (University of York, UK) ISBN: 9781119166207 Format: Hardback	$120.95
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural... Read More >>

Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave

Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four...
Author: William J Anderson ISBN: 9781542488624 Format: Paperback	$15.81
William J. Anderson was born into slavery in 1811 and would later write one of the most famous slave narratives... Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American...
Author: Frederick Douglass , John R. McKivigan, IV ISBN: 9780300204711 Format: Paperback	$18.95
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The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867

The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade...
Author: Leonardo Marques ISBN: 9780300212419 Format: Hardback	$107.95
An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution... Read More >>

Michigan's Crossroads to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Jackson County

Michigan's Crossroads to Freedom: The Underground Railroad...
Author: Linda Hass ISBN: 9781634919258 Format: Paperback	$42.24
A personal look at the Underground Railroad in Jackson, Michigan. Read More >>

The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War

The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the...
Author: Carl Lawrence Paulus ISBN: 9780807164358 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Examines how, due to the fear of insurrection by the enslaved, southerners created their own version of American... Read More >>

Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Formation of the Abolitionist Discourse, 1841–1851

Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd...
Author: Nilgün Anadolu-Okur ISBN: 9781621902362 Format: Hardback	$158.40
In 1841, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass formed a partnership that would last a decade and forever... Read More >>

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten...
Author: Jeroen Dewulf ISBN: 9781496808813 Format: Hardback	$194.70
Presents the history of the US's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from... Read More >>

A Bright Shining Lie at Dusk: A Partial Exhumation of the American Dream

A Bright Shining Lie at Dusk: A Partial Exhumation of...
Author: James LaFond ISBN: 9781542768580 Format: Paperback	$52.80
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On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death

On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death
Author: John Bodel (Brown University, USA) , Walter Scheidel (Stanford University) ISBN: 9781119162483 Format: Hardback	$185.95
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Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining Global Enforcement and Supply Chain Challenges and U.S. Responses

Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining Global...
Author: Virginia M. Kendall , T. Markus Funk ISBN: 9781442264786 Format: Hardback	$253.00
This book provides an updated, comprehensive introduction to the moral, legal, and political realities of the epidemic... Read More >>

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