Slavery & abolition of slavery books

7579 books were found.

That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500

That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade...

Author: Hannah Barker ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
ISBN: 9780812251548
Format: Hardback
$224.27

Reading notorial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying...  Read More >>

Boston's Abolitionists

Boston's Abolitionists

Author: Robert Allison ,  Kerri Greenidge
ISBN: 9781933212197
Format: Paperback
$34.19

In the years before the Civil War, Boston's black leaders helped fight slavery from a vibrant African-American community...  Read More >>

Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign Against the Slave Trade in West Africa

Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the...

Author: Mary Wills
ISBN: 9781789620788
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Drawing on substantial collections of previously unpublished papers, this book examines personal experiences of...  Read More >>

The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible: Select Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands

The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible: Select Parts of the...

Author: Joseph B Lumpkin
ISBN: 9781936533909
Format: Hardback
$155.22

The Slave Bible is one of the most powerful examples of manipulation using a controlled narrative. The Christian...  Read More >>

'Black but Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700

'Black but Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg...

Author: Carmen Fracchia (Professor of Hispanic Art History, Reader in Hispanic Art History, Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198767978
Format: Hardback
$231.00

'Black but Human' is a proverb which emerges from the African work songs and poems written by Afro-Hispanics enslaved...  Read More >>

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management

Author: Caitlin Rosenthal
ISBN: 9780674241657
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how...  Read More >>

The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World

The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean...

Author: Miles Ogborn
ISBN: 9780226657684
Format: Paperback
$62.95

The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved....  Read More >>

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

Author: Michael A. Gomez (New York University)
ISBN: 9781108712439
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural,...  Read More >>

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

Author: Michael A. Gomez (New York University)
ISBN: 9781108498715
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural,...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781706616535
Format: Paperback
$65.97

 Read More >>

Women, Race & Class

Women, Race & Class

Author: Angela Y. Davis
ISBN: 9780241408407
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y....  Read More >>

What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do

What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators...

Author: Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780231181839
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression...  Read More >>

Transcending the Legacies of Slavery: A Psychoanalytic View

Transcending the Legacies of Slavery: A Psychoanalytic...

Author: Barbara Fletchman Smith
ISBN: 9780367329358
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book puts psychological trauma at its centre. Using psychoanalysis, it assesses what was lost, how it was lost...  Read More >>

Abolition

Abolition

Author: Tim Black
ISBN: 9781949135817
Format: Paperback
$36.22

It's a semester break from college, and the graduates of Mr. Greene's time-traveling history class are home for...  Read More >>

My Soul: Enslaved

My Soul: Enslaved

Author: Sheila Moore
ISBN: 9781916189904
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Throughout time people have been taken into that tragic and barbaric practice known as slavery, but the period through...  Read More >>

The New Slave Narrative: The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery

The New Slave Narrative: The Battle Over Representations...

Author: Laura Murphy (Assistant Professor, Loyola University)
ISBN: 9780231188258
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new...  Read More >>

My Soul: Enslaved

My Soul: Enslaved

Author: Sheila Moore
ISBN: 9781916189911
Format: Hardback
$33.61

Throughout time people have been taken into that tragic and barbaric practice known as slavery, but the period through...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781680922974
Format: Paperback
$9.03

Unabridged value reproduction of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The passionate man labeled as the...  Read More >>

Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies

Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in...

Author: Camillia Cowling ,  Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado
ISBN: 9780367202026
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave...  Read More >>

The New Slave Narrative: The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery

The New Slave Narrative: The Battle Over Representations...

Author: Laura Murphy (Assistant Professor, Loyola University)
ISBN: 9780231188241
Format: Hardback
$149.95

Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781680922981
Format: Hardback
$25.85

Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

MRG2025CC

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List