Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Many Struggles: New Histories of African and Caribbean People in Britain

Many Struggles: New Histories of African and Caribbean...

Author: Hakim Adi
ISBN: 9780745347653
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Explores the long history of Black people in Britain, with an emphasis on women, queer projects and political activism...  Read More >>

Politics and the Public Conscience: Slave Emancipation and the Abolitionst Movement in Britain

Politics and the Public Conscience: Slave Emancipation...

Author: Edith F. Hurwitz
ISBN: 9781032037998
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in Early Virginia

Patriarchy in Peril: William Byrd II and Slavery in...

Author: Dennis Todd
ISBN: 9781621908098
Format: Hardback
$158.40

In examining William Byrd II, a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian, through the twin lens of slavery and patriarchy,...  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Author: Harriet Jacobs ,  Koritha Mitchell
ISBN: 9781554815029
Format: Paperback
$31.90

In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account...  Read More >>

Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities

Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks...

Author: S Karly Kehoe ,  Dalglish
ISBN: 9781474494304
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to defining Highland Scots' engagements with Empire and...  Read More >>

Faulkner and Slavery

Faulkner and Slavery

Author: Jay Watson ,  James G. Thomas Jr.
ISBN: 9781496846495
Format: Paperback
$51.70

The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history...  Read More >>

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation...

Author: Ken Menon
ISBN: 9798823083256
Format: Paperback
$57.00

Black lives matter wherever they may be, whether in the developed world or in the consciousness of those who see...  Read More >>

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The...

Author: Olukunle P. Owolabi (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University)
ISBN: 9780197673027
Format: Hardback
$187.95

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides...  Read More >>

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation

All Black Lives Matter: Bondage, Violence, Subjugation...

Author: Ken Menon
ISBN: 9798823083263
Format: Hardback
$104.52

Black lives matter wherever they may be, whether in the developed world or in the consciousness of those who see...  Read More >>

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
ISBN: 9781803986081
Format: Hardback
$60.69

This captivating collection of gripping tales takes readers deep into the heart of America's rugged landscapes,...  Read More >>

Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles

Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic...

Author: Hannah-Rose Murray (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781108720410
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Focusing on unexplored testimony, this book highlights numerous ways in which African Americans challenged slavery...  Read More >>

American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914

American Slavery, American Imperialism: US Perceptions...

Author: Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University)
ISBN: 9781108701914
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery's victims...  Read More >>

Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery...

Author: Ilyon Woo
ISBN: 9781804183632
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually...  Read More >>

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints...

Author: Herb Frazier ,  Joseph McGill
ISBN: 9780306829666
Format: Hardback
$45.00

In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...  Read More >>

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

Author: Brian Yothers (Series Editor)
ISBN: 9781640140691
Format: Hardback
$343.20

A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry...  Read More >>

Greek Slavery

Greek Slavery

Author: Deborah Kamen
ISBN: 9783110637595
Format: Paperback
$51.39

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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of...

Author: Nicholas Radburn ,  Julian Elfer
ISBN: 9798212958134
Format: Audio
$110.85

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave...  Read More >>

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of...

Author: Nicholas Radburn ,  Julian Elfer
ISBN: 9798212958141
Format: Audio
$110.85

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)

Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)

Author: Solomon Northup ,  Dr. Sandra M. Grayson
ISBN: 9781804175798
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York, who was tricked to go to Washington,...  Read More >>

Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War

Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the...

Author: Matthew J. Clavin
ISBN: 9781479823246
Format: Hardback
$64.99

""In the early United States, the language and symbols of American freedom inspired enslaved people and their allies...  Read More >>

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