Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740

Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina,...

Author: Peter H. Wood ,  Imani Perry
ISBN: 9781324066200
Format: Paperback
$58.05

Peter H. Wood’s groundbreaking history of Blacks in colonial South Carolina, with a new foreword by National Book...  Read More >>

The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712: The First Enslaved Insurrection in British North America

The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712: The First Enslaved...

Author: Ben Hughes
ISBN: 9781594164163
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The First Comprehensive Investigation into the First Uprising Against Slavery in British North America At 2 a.m....  Read More >>

Equiano's Travels

Equiano's Travels

Author: Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 9781035900596
Format: Paperback
$43.96

This is a wonderful narrative telling of Equiano's early life in Ibo country, his days as a slave in Southern America...  Read More >>

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack,...

Author: Tiya Miles
ISBN: 9781800818217
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to...  Read More >>

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom

Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery...

Author: Frederick Knight
ISBN: 9781512825664
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would...  Read More >>

Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ,  Andrew S. Curran
ISBN: 9780674295452
Format: Paperback
$34.95

In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What...  Read More >>

Prophets of Doom: A History of the Okanisi Maroons in Suriname

Prophets of Doom: A History of the Okanisi Maroons in...

Author: H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen ,  Richard Price
ISBN: 9789004693630
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Building on sixty years of fieldwork, archival research and oral accounts, this book presents the history of prophetic...  Read More >>

Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution

Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution...

Author: Ada Ferrer ,  Vivia Font
ISBN: 9798874691073
Format: Audio
$190.05

"During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and...  Read More >>

Puerta del Viaje Sin Retorno, La

Puerta del Viaje Sin Retorno, La

Author: David Diop
ISBN: 9788433913340
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Discovering My Southern Legacy: Slave Culture and the American South

Discovering My Southern Legacy: Slave Culture and the...

Author: Deirdre Foreman
ISBN: 9781915271662
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Explore the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through the autobiographical lens of one...  Read More >>

The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration

The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family...

Author: David Nicholson
ISBN: 9781643364544
Format: Hardback
$73.89

An engrossing family tale and an exploration of the African American freedom struggle, written by the great grandson...  Read More >>

The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British Ships: The Emancipation Revolution, 1740-1807

The Promise of Freedom for Slaves Escaping in British...

Author: Theodore Corbett
ISBN: 9781399048200
Format: Hardback
$75.00

An uplifting work of black history in the context of the American War for Independence.  Read More >>

Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America

Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America...

Author: Cathy Rex ,  Shevaun E. Watson
ISBN: 9780367610005
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in...  Read More >>

Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To The Renaissance & Beyond: An African American Experience In The Development of Black Popular Culture: The Jazz Worker: A Blues Aesthetic Philosophy: Volume 3

Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To The Renaissance...

Author: Ph D Delridge Hunter
ISBN: 9798893305708
Format: Paperback
$36.93

"Blues Aesthetics Blues Aesthetics (Volume 3) examines Blues as an Aesthetic musical art that operates with a philosophical...  Read More >>

Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To The Renaissance & Beyond: An African American Experience In The Development of Black Popular Culture: The Jazz Worker: A Blues Aesthetic Philosophy: Volume 3

Death of The Negro From The Ante Bellum To The Renaissance...

Author: Ph D Delridge Hunter
ISBN: 9798893305715
Format: Hardback
$55.41

"Blues Aesthetics Blues Aesthetics (Volume 3) examines Blues as an Aesthetic musical art that operates with a philosophical...  Read More >>

A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said

A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said

Author: Omar Ibn Said ,  Ala Alryyes
ISBN: 9798874644598
Format: Audio
$97.65

"Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United...  Read More >>

A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said

A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said

Author: Omar Ibn Said ,  Ala Alryyes
ISBN: 9798874644604
Format: Audio
$110.85

"Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United...  Read More >>

The Zong Lib/E: A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

The Zong Lib/E: A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery...

Author: James Walvin ,  Derek Perkins
ISBN: 9798874686246
Format: Audio
$176.85

"The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of...  Read More >>

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano...

Author: Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 9780008619954
Format: Paperback
$9.99

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of...

Author: Hannah Durkin
ISBN: 9780008446536
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of...

Author: Hannah Durkin
ISBN: 9780008446512
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Labour & Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926

Labour & Christianity in the Mission: African Workers...

Author: Dr Michelle Liebst
ISBN: 9781847013712
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy,...  Read More >>

Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World

Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World

Author: Aviva Ben-Ur ,  Wim Klooster
ISBN: 9781501773150
Format: Paperback
$84.35

"""These writings represent the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry...  Read More >>

Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom

Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's...

Author: Karen Michele Chandler
ISBN: 9781496845948
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Examines Black-authored historical novels and films for children that depict creative means by which ordinary African...  Read More >>

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