Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Proslavery Britain: Fighting for Slavery in an Era of Abolition

Proslavery Britain: Fighting for Slavery in an Era of...

Author: Paula E. Dumas
ISBN: 9781137578204
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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New Frontiers of Slavery

New Frontiers of Slavery

Author: Dale W. Tomich ,  Dale W. Tomich
ISBN: 9781438458632
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.  Read More >>

Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay

Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin: Marching with the...

Author: Clinton Hutton
ISBN: 9789766379063
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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The Seminole Freedmen: A History

The Seminole Freedmen: A History

Author: Kevin Mulroy
ISBN: 9780806153476
Format: Paperback
$53.90

Popularly known as “Black Seminoles”, descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American...  Read More >>

Autobiography in Black and Brown: Ethnic Identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez

Autobiography in Black and Brown: Ethnic Identity in...

Author: Michael Nieto Garcia
ISBN: 9780826352323
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown,...  Read More >>

Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica

Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons:...

Author: Jean Besson
ISBN: 9789766374082
Format: Paperback
$137.14

Despite outstanding histories and ethnographies on maroons, there has been little attempt to draw modern maroons...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781420952421
Format: Paperback
$21.09

This is an account of Frederick Douglass's life as a slave in the pre-civil war American South. It presents a telling...  Read More >>

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground...

Author: Eric Foner (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780393352191
Format: Paperback
$47.49

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom....  Read More >>

A Slave Girl's Story

A Slave Girl's Story

Author: Kate Drumgoold
ISBN: 9781530198771
Format: Paperback
$15.18

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds

Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds...

Author: Alessandro Stanziani
ISBN: 9781138662148
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial...  Read More >>

Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement: 'The Saddest People the Sun Sees'

Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement: 'The...

Author: Christine Kinealy
ISBN: 9781138663282
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition

Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture...

Author: Christer Petley
ISBN: 9781138663794
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838

Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838

Author: Thomas Murphy
ISBN: 9781138973770
Format: Paperback
$103.00

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World

Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret...

Author: Kevin Bales
ISBN: 9780812995763
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Driven by dramatic first-person reporting, this is a powerful and beautifully written jeremiad that connects the...  Read More >>

Solomon Northup's Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens before the Civil War

Solomon Northup's Kindred: The Kidnapping of Free Citizens...

Author: David Fiske
ISBN: 9781440836640
Format: Hardback
$86.00

Kidnapping was a lucrative crime in antebellum America, and many American citizens—especially free blacks—were abducted...  Read More >>

The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic

The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and...

Author: Lisa Ze Winters ,  Lisa Ze Winters
ISBN: 9780820348964
Format: Hardback
$335.15

Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical...  Read More >>

Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics

Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation...

Author: Corey M. Brooks ,  A01
ISBN: 9780226307282
Format: Hardback
$79.95

Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage—but...  Read More >>

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains...

Author: Alexandra Lutnick
ISBN: 9780231169219
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Analyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference...  Read More >>

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains

Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains...

Author: Alexandra Lutnick
ISBN: 9780231169202
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Analyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference...  Read More >>

The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity

The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity

Author: Martyn Hudson ,  Henri Lustiger-Thaler
ISBN: 9781472453440
Format: Electronic book text
$186.30

Traces; slave names, the islands and cities into which we are born, our musics and rhythms, our genetic compositions,...  Read More >>

The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity

The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity

Author: Martyn Hudson ,  Henri Lustiger-Thaler
ISBN: 9781472453457
Format: Electronic book text
$186.30

Traces; slave names, the islands and cities into which we are born, our musics and rhythms, our genetic compositions,...  Read More >>

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