Slavery & abolition of slavery books

'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning - and about the kinds of...  Read More >>

Escravidao - Vol. 1, sobre a historia da escravidao no Brasil, e o primeiro livro da nova trilogia de Laurentino...  Read More >>

This book adds new knowledge to the ongoing discussion of slavery in early Christian discourse. Kartzow argues that...  Read More >>

This book explores Ireland’s role as a transnational hub of anti-slavery literary and political activity, emphasizing...  Read More >>

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, African American New Englanders...  Read More >>

The life of an African-American icon Harriet Tubman (born in slavery, Araminta Ross in Maryland in 1822) was a...  Read More >>

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The story of a young black mother'Äôs former life as a slave  Read More >>

The thrilling true story of how one woman masterminded slave resistance to British rule in eighteenth-century Jamaica...  Read More >>

Covering the history of African Americans, this text charts the journey of African Americans from their origins...  Read More >>

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The Persistence of Memory tells the history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading...  Read More >>

The Persistence of Memory tells the history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading...  Read More >>

Steward's astonishing 1856 autobiography within which he recounts the travails of his harrowing life as a slave...  Read More >>

Phillis Wheatley was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American....  Read More >>

A fictional account of a biracial man living in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who...  Read More >>

Set to the backdrop of the Civil War, the story revolves around Iola Leroy, daughter of a wealthy slaveholder who...  Read More >>

A carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety of authors...  Read More >>

The story of Solomon Northup is a bizarre and incredible one. Born a free black in New York State in 1808, he was...  Read More >>

A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism.  Read More >>

"The life story of Peter and Lavinia ""Vina"" Still, born into slavery in the antebellum South. Peter, Vina, and...  Read More >>

This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered...  Read More >>

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