Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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We Slaves of Suriname

We Slaves of Suriname

Author: Anton de Kom ,  David McKay (University of Essex)
ISBN: 9781509549023
Format: Paperback
$32.95

""Originally published in Dutch as Wij slaven van Suriname""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

We Slaves of Suriname

We Slaves of Suriname

Author: Anton de Kom ,  David McKay (University of Essex)
ISBN: 9781509549016
Format: Hardback
$103.95

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At Freedom's Crossroads: Making Sense of Modern Slavery

At Freedom's Crossroads: Making Sense of Modern Slavery...

Author: David Lohan
ISBN: 9781739842918
Format: Paperback
$49.14

This books starts with an exploration of slavery in the antebellum USA. It draws upon the wisdom of former slaves,...  Read More >>

Phillis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral and A Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave

Phillis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious...

Author: Phillis Wheatley ,  B B Thatcher
ISBN: 9781804470008
Format: Paperback
$31.65

In 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral became the first book of poetry by an African-American author...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave: Illustrated

Twelve Years a Slave: Illustrated

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9798416256494
Format: Paperback
$34.34

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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with...

Author: Ty Seidule
ISBN: 9781250239280
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate...  Read More >>

Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada

Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial...

Author: Larissa Brewer-García (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781108730303
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada...  Read More >>

Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the...

Author: Paulina L. Alberto (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781108845557
Format: Hardback
$64.69

This novel-like tale of the life of, and legends surrounding, a remarkable Black celebrity and his ancestors and...  Read More >>

Reverse Underground Railroad in Ohio

Reverse Underground Railroad in Ohio

Author: David Meyers ,  Elise Meyers Walker
ISBN: 9781540250902
Format: Hardback
$67.25

Prior to the Civil War, thousands escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. Untold others failed in the attempt....  Read More >>

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration...

Author: Simon P. Newman
ISBN: 9781912702930
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Winner of the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award, and joint winner of the prestigious...  Read More >>

Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker

Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in...

Author: Ilka Saal
ISBN: 9781609387785
Format: Paperback
$237.60

With a focus on works by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and visual artist Kara Walker, the book explores how, in comparison...  Read More >>

The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas

The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave...

Author: Lawrence Aje (Montpellier University, France) ,  Dr Catherine Armstrong (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester)
ISBN: 9781350298682
Format: Paperback
$61.99

While the plantation accounts for 90% of slave ownership and experience in the Americas, its centrality to the common...  Read More >>

Celia, a Slave

Celia, a Slave

Author: Melton A. McLaurin
ISBN: 9780820360966
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Illuminating the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society, this book tells the story of a...  Read More >>

It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada

It Was Dark There All the Time: Sophia Burthen and the...

Author: Andrew Hunter
ISBN: 9781773102191
Format: Paperback
$51.72

“My parents were slaves in New York State. My master’s sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I...  Read More >>

La Historio no Contada del Capitalismo

La Historio no Contada del Capitalismo

Author: Enrique Rivera
ISBN: 9780717808892
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise

The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors,...

Author: Laura R. Sandy (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9781032237077
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Overseers were crucial to the management of early American plantations, and defy easy categorisation: rogues and...  Read More >>

Reparations and Anti-Black Racism: A Criminological Exploration of the Harms of Slavery and Racialized Injustice

Reparations and Anti-Black Racism: A Criminological...

Author: Angus Nurse (Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781529216837
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Police shootings and incarceration inequalities are two examples of the legacy of slavery in the US and UK. Offering...  Read More >>

Black Abolitionists in Ireland

Black Abolitionists in Ireland

Author: Christine Kinealy (Quinnipiac University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032236261
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This publication traces the stories of ten black abolitionists, including Douglass, who travelled to Ireland in...  Read More >>

Reparations and Anti-Black Racism: A Criminological Exploration of the Harms of Slavery and Racialized Injustice

Reparations and Anti-Black Racism: A Criminological...

Author: Angus Nurse (Nottingham Trent University)
ISBN: 9781529216820
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Police shootings and incarceration inequalities are two examples of the legacy of slavery in the US and UK. Offering...  Read More >>

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