Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910

Crossroads of Freedom: Slaves and Freed People in Bahia,...

Author: Walter Fraga ,  Mary Ann Mahony
ISBN: 9780822360766
Format: Hardback
$369.47

First published in Portuguese in 2006, Walter Fraga's Crossroads of Freedom brings readers into the world of the...  Read More >>

Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania

Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central...

Author: Cooper H. Wingert
ISBN: 9781467119733
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally...  Read More >>

Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania

Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central...

Author: Cooper H Wingert
ISBN: 9781540203311
Format: Hardback
$84.45

Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally...  Read More >>

The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade

The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade...

Author: Barbara L. Solow ,  Dale Tomich, Binghamton University
ISBN: 9780739194003
Format: Paperback
$113.00

The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade places the sugar/slave/plantation complex of the British West...  Read More >>

The Elizabeth Keckley Reader, Vol. 1: Writing Self, Writing Nation

The Elizabeth Keckley Reader, Vol. 1: Writing Self,...

Author: Sheila Smith McKoy ,  Lynn Domina
ISBN: 9780989609258
Format: Paperback
$42.11

he Elizabeth Keckley Reader: Volume One--Writing Self, Writing Nation, offers a collection of essays and other works...  Read More >>

The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House

The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American...

Author: Jesse Holland ,  JD Jackson
ISBN: 9781509411382
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$158.37

Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected...  Read More >>

Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project

Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal...

Author: Catherine A. Stewart
ISBN: 9781469626260
Format: Paperback
$105.47

From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African...  Read More >>

The Press and Slavery in America, 1791–1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement

The Press and Slavery in America, 1791–1859: The Melancholy...

Author: Brian Gabrial
ISBN: 9781611176032
Format: Hardback
$97.90

Slavery remains one of the United States' most troubling failings and its complexities have shaped American ideas...  Read More >>

Long Walk to Nowhere: Human Trafficking in Post-Mandela South Africa

Long Walk to Nowhere: Human Trafficking in Post-Mandela...

Author: Philip Frankel
ISBN: 9781412862837
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The end of apartheid has triggered massive illegal immigration into South Africa from all parts of Africa and beyond...  Read More >>

Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic

Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Ramesh Mallipeddi
ISBN: 9780813938424
Format: Hardback
$101.20

Spectacular Suffering is an important book that will alter conceptions of slave agency and of sentimentalism across...  Read More >>

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844

West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves...

Author: Manuel Barcia (Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780198754268
Format: Paperback
$90.95

Presents an account of West African slavery in Cuba and Bahia from 1790, arguing that the large numbers of slaves...  Read More >>

Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425

Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425

Author: Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma)
ISBN: 9781107640818
Format: Paperback
$93.15

This book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery, providing the most comprehensive account of a pre-modern slave...  Read More >>

Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of Individuation

Solitude and the Sublime: The Romantic Aesthetics of...

Author: Frances Ferguson
ISBN: 9781138139725
Format: Hardback
$305.00

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

White Slavery in the Barbary States

White Slavery in the Barbary States

Author: Lord Charles Sumner
ISBN: 9781354846117
Format: Hardback
$60.59

Written by one of America's most famous slavery abolitionist activists of the 19th century, this astonishing book...  Read More >>

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave...

Author: Karl Jacoby ,  Jd Jackson
ISBN: 9781799987758
Format: Audio
$47.49

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The Strange Career of William Ellis Lib/E: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

The Strange Career of William Ellis Lib/E: The Texas...

Author: Karl Jacoby ,  Jd Jackson
ISBN: 9781799987734
Format: Audio
$47.49

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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave...

Author: Karl Jacoby ,  Jd Jackson
ISBN: 9781799987741
Format: Audio
$47.49

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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery

A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery

Author: Professor Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University London, UK)
ISBN: 9781780763873
Format: Paperback
$32.99

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American...

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781533443892
Format: Paperback
$15.81

This spellbinding narrative tells the story of Frederick Douglass before he became a rock star for African American...  Read More >>

Despotism in America: An Inquiry Into the Nature, Results, and Legal Basis on the Slave-Holding System in the United States

Despotism in America: An Inquiry Into the Nature, Results,...

Author: Professor Richard Hildreth
ISBN: 9781354661208
Format: Hardback
$71.15

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

Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade

Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against...

Author: Peter Grindal
ISBN: 9781788312868
Format: Paperback
$150.00

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Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade

Opposing the Slavers: The Royal Navy's Campaign Against...

Author: Peter Grindal
ISBN: 9781784533878
Format: Hardback
$260.00

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