Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

Two Sams

Two Sams

Author: Sharon Robart-Johnson
ISBN: 9781998149292
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory

Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering...

Author: Marc Howard Ross
ISBN: 9781512826128
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Inviting the reader to accompany him on his own journey of discovery, Ross recounts the processes by which northerners...  Read More >>

Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

Slavery and the Scottish Enlightenment

Author: John D. O. Fulton
ISBN: 9781781559345
Format: Hardback
$75.99

Fifteen stories showing from many different perspectives what happened when the evil of slavery was confronted with...  Read More >>

The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery,...

Author: Sean Griffin
ISBN: 9781512825923
Format: Hardback
$131.87

"""This book examines the relationship between labor reform and abolitionism in the decades before the Civil War....  Read More >>

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the...

Author: Matthew Stewart
ISBN: 9781324003625
Format: Hardback
$53.95

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution...  Read More >>

Yearbook of Transnational History: (2024)

Yearbook of Transnational History: (2024)

Author: Thomas Adam ,  Austin E. Loignon
ISBN: 9781683934110
Format: Hardback
$194.00

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational...  Read More >>

Yale and Slavery: A History

Yale and Slavery: A History

Author: David W. Blight ,  Yale and Slavery Research Project
ISBN: 9780300273847
Format: Hardback
$51.95

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University  Read More >>

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure.

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition...

Author: Thomas Clarkson
ISBN: 9789357949118
Format: Paperback
$42.42

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their...  Read More >>

Thoughts upon slavery

Thoughts upon slavery

Author: John Wesley
ISBN: 9789357945073
Format: Paperback
$39.07

Thoughts upon slavery, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar A Letter to the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar A Letter to the...

Author: J Ritchie
ISBN: 9789357945257
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar A Letter to the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery...  Read More >>

The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War

The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road...

Author: Erik Larson
ISBN: 9780008681753
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...  Read More >>

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of...

Author: Randy M. Browne
ISBN: 9781512825862
Format: Hardback
$105.47

"The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers...  Read More >>

Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260-1460

Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260-1460...

Author: Alasdair C Grant
ISBN: 9781399523837
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Studies captivity as cross-cultural interaction in the late medieval Mediterranean  Read More >>

slavery

slavery

Author: George Alexander
ISBN: 9781636162003
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Dive into the compelling life of Mary, a brave woman who lived through slavery in America.  Read More >>

Lincoln's Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock

Lincoln's Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of...

Author: Boyce Thompson
ISBN: 9781476688848
Format: Paperback
$84.70

With chapters on Abraham Lincoln’s encouragement of black deportation, the establishment of the Ile a Vache plantation,...  Read More >>

Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice...

Author: Joan L. Bryant (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse University)
ISBN: 9780195312966
Format: Hardback
$193.95

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of ethical, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific challenges that...  Read More >>

Survival, Revival and Moral Revolution: The Life and Times of Alexander Stewart

Survival, Revival and Moral Revolution: The Life and...

Author: Simon Williams
ISBN: 9781805143604
Format: Paperback
$36.20

This book tells the remarkable story of how the young Scottish runaway Alexander Stewart survived ten brutal years...  Read More >>

The Words and Wares of David Drake: "Revisiting ""I Made This Jar"" and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery"

The Words and Wares of David Drake: "Revisiting ""I...

Author: Jane Przybysz ,  Jill Beute Koverman
ISBN: 9781643363202
Format: Hardback
$131.97

David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Survival, Revival and Moral Revolution: the Life and Times of Alexander Stewart

Survival, Revival and Moral Revolution: the Life and...

Author: Simon Williams
ISBN: 9781805143611
Format: Hardback
$67.25

This book tells the remarkable story of how the young Scottish runaway Alexander Stewart survived ten brutal years...  Read More >>

God’s Ghostwriters

God’s Ghostwriters

Author: Candida Moss
ISBN: 9780008612184
Format: Paperback
$34.99

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

God’s Ghostwriters

God’s Ghostwriters

Author: Candida Moss
ISBN: 9780008612177
Format: Hardback
$59.99

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

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