Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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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: 9780674244269
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 9781956527384
Format: Paperback
$60.69

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a ""supplement"" book published to document Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling book...  Read More >>

A Glorious Liberty Lib/E: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution

A Glorious Liberty Lib/E: Frederick Douglass and the...

Author: Damon Root ,  Mirron Willis
ISBN: 9798212129046
Format: Audio
$176.85

In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution...  Read More >>

Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives

Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement...

Author: Emmanuel Saboro
ISBN: 9789004500174
Format: Hardback
$348.48

While the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended in the nineteenth century, slave raiding and dealing and the extensive...  Read More >>

Bonds of Womanhood: The World of a White Anti-Slavery Slaveholder

Bonds of Womanhood: The World of a White Anti-Slavery...

Author: Susanna Delfino
ISBN: 9780813154831
Format: Hardback
$95.00

Compelling addition to the continuing conversation on the complicity of white, southern women in the slave labor...  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: 9781472144348
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Jewish Onslaught

The Jewish Onslaught

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 >>

Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause

Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition...

Author: Wayne Soini
ISBN: 9781476688121
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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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: 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

The Alchemy of Slavery foregrounds diverse and adaptable slaving practices that masters deployed to build a slave...  Read More >>

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