Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Enslavement: Past and Present

Enslavement: Past and Present

Author: Orlando Patterson (London School of Economics, UK; University of the West Indies)
ISBN: 9781509561766
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities.  It predates the rise of civilization, played...  Read More >>

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780–1814

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective...

Author: María Elena Díaz (University of California, Santa Cruz)
ISBN: 9781009494229
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book examines freedom and native based rights through a unique collective suit filed by hundreds of Afro descendant...  Read More >>

Enslavement: Past and Present

Enslavement: Past and Present

Author: Orlando Patterson (London School of Economics, UK; University of the West Indies)
ISBN: 9781509561759
Format: Hardback
$113.95

Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities.  It predates the rise of civilization, played...  Read More >>

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective Freedom and Native Rights in the Spanish Empire, 1780–1814

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid: Litigating Collective...

Author: María Elena Díaz (University of California, Santa Cruz)
ISBN: 9781009494199
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book examines freedom and native based rights through a unique collective suit filed by hundreds of Afro descendant...  Read More >>

A History of Haitian Literature

A History of Haitian Literature

Author: Marlene L. Daut (Yale University) ,  Kaiama L. Glover (Yale University)
ISBN: 9781009485111
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language. It offers crucial...  Read More >>

Innovations in Black European Studies

Innovations in Black European Studies

Author: Tiffany Florvil ,  Vanessa Plumly
ISBN: 9781789976472
Format: Hardback
$142.31

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Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia

Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and...

Author: Thomas Aiello
ISBN: 9780813080826
Format: Paperback
$92.40

After the constitutional end to slavery in the US, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with...  Read More >>

Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy

Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy...

Author: Martin Bentz ,  Patrick Zeidler
ISBN: 9783111344089
Format: Hardback
$290.37

In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy focused on the elites. The aim of this volume is to look...  Read More >>

A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin

A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave...

Author: Susanna Ashton
ISBN: 9781620978191
Format: Hardback
$52.99

""The story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War""--  Read More >>

Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia

Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and...

Author: Thomas Aiello
ISBN: 9780813079189
Format: Hardback
$290.40

After the constitutional end to slavery in the US, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

Author: Manu Samriti Chander (Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9781009180153
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This classroom-ready Companion brings together diverse specialists to discuss how Romantic-era thinkers engaged...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

Author: Manu Samriti Chander (Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9781009180160
Format: Hardback
$181.10

This classroom-ready Companion brings together diverse specialists to discuss how Romantic-era thinkers engaged...  Read More >>

The Montiers: From Slavery to Paul Robeson and Beyond—An African-American Family’s Interracial Roots to Philadelphia’s Colonial Past

The Montiers: From Slavery to Paul Robeson and Beyond—An...

Author: Donald Scott
ISBN: 9781955041041
Format: Paperback
$47.99

This is the story of the African-American Montier family, which traces its roots to Philadelphia’s first mayor,...  Read More >>

Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries CE

Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India: Thirteenth...

Author: Shadab Bano
ISBN: 9781032902784
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865

Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations...

Author: Steven J. Brady
ISBN: 9781501778957
Format: Paperback
$71.15

""An analysis of the role played by slavery in the making and execution of American foreign policy from George Washington...  Read More >>

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story...

Author: Gregg Hecimovich
ISBN: 9780062334749
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"""A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer...  Read More >>

Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India: Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries CE

Slavery and Bondage in Medieval North India: Thirteenth...

Author: Shadab Bano
ISBN: 9781032778525
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family

A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten...

Author: Debra Bruno ,  Eleanor C. Mire
ISBN: 9781501776564
Format: Hardback
$86.99

""A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the story of northern slavery from the perspectives of two intertwined families....  Read More >>

Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness: The Visual and Material Cultures of Slavery

Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness: The Visual...

Author: Charmaine A. Nelson (NSCAD University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032412696
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of ‘Creolization’ in...  Read More >>

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism...

Author: Adam Hochschild
ISBN: 9781035038817
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and...  Read More >>

The Water Cries: Uncovering the Slave Auction Houses of Galveston, Texas

The Water Cries: Uncovering the Slave Auction Houses...

Author: Anthony Paul Griffin
ISBN: 9781682831991
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Presents an ambitious search for the location of the slave auction houses in one of America’s most storied cities....  Read More >>

Legacies of Injustice: The African Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Today’s Human Rights

Legacies of Injustice: The African Slave Trade, Colonialism,...

Author: Steve Carlton-Ford
ISBN: 9781032830001
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social,...  Read More >>

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