Slavery & abolition of slavery books

7579 books were found.

The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing A Few Words About American Slave Children. And Stories Of Slave-Life.

The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing A Few Words...

Author: Various
ISBN: 9789356142091
Format: Paperback
$15.53

NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS The Child's Anti-Slavery Book:...  Read More >>

A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the...

Author: Professor James Walvin
ISBN: 9781472144331
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world  Read More >>

Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade

Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade

Author: Henry M. Sayre
ISBN: 9780226809823
Format: Hardback
$80.95

Art historian Henry M. Sayre traces the origins of the term “value” in art criticism, revealing the politics that...  Read More >>

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in...

Author: Harvey Whitfield ,  Donald Wright
ISBN: 9781487543822
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This biographical dictionary recovers the stories and illuminates the lives of enslaved Black people in the Maritimes....  Read More >>

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery

Author: Allison Page
ISBN: 9781517910402
Format: Paperback
$44.99

""Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about...  Read More >>

Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the...

Author: Tom Zoellner
ISBN: 9780674271159
Format: Paperback
$34.95

In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops...  Read More >>

Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition

Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its...

Author: David Richardson
ISBN: 9780300250435
Format: Hardback
$51.95

A new history of the abolition of the British slave trade  Read More >>

The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront

The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley...

Author: Tony Martin
ISBN: 9781574781854
Format: Paperback
$26.27

An essay on Black-Jewish relations, primarily in the United States, by a professor of African American History who...  Read More >>

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery

Author: Allison Page
ISBN: 9781517910396
Format: Hardback
$270.00

""Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about...  Read More >>

Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial

Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put...

Author: Jeremy Schipper (Professor in the Departments of the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations)
ISBN: 9780691192864
Format: Hardback
$47.99

""This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the...  Read More >>

Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa

Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave...

Author: Mario Klarer
ISBN: 9780231175258
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold...  Read More >>

The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865

The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation...

Author: M. Scott Heerman
ISBN: 9780812225174
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa

Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave...

Author: Mario Klarer
ISBN: 9780231175241
Format: Hardback
$232.95

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold...  Read More >>

We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America

We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and...

Author: Robert T. Chase
ISBN: 9781469669311
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important...  Read More >>

Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth

Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White...

Author: Clyde W Ford ,  Julian Thomas
ISBN: 9798200856220
Format: Audio
$124.05

Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable...  Read More >>

Capitalism and Slavery

Capitalism and Slavery

Author: Eric Williams
ISBN: 9780241548165
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Sales restrictions apply in some territories. Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation...  Read More >>

A Question of Freedom Lib/E: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

A Question of Freedom Lib/E: The Families Who Challenged...

Author: William G Thomas ,  David Sadzin
ISBN: 9798200721528
Format: Audio
$203.25

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years...  Read More >>

Abraham Lincoln: An Essay

Abraham Lincoln: An Essay

Author: Carl Schurz
ISBN: 9783337853617
Format: Paperback
$48.90

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The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage

The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle...

Author: John Harris
ISBN: 9780300261493
Format: Paperback
$34.95

A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States...  Read More >>

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery...

Author: William G. Thomas
ISBN: 9780300261509
Format: Paperback
$41.95

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history  Read More >>

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