Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon

The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington,...

Author: Mary V. Thompson
ISBN: 9780813941844
Format: Hardback
$79.07

George Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives...  Read More >>

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams...

Author: Allyson Johnson ,  Jessie Morgan-Owens
ISBN: 9781987174571
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$171.57

The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams-a slave girl who looked white-whose photograph transformed...  Read More >>

Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706

Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles,...

Author: Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva (University of Rochester, New York)
ISBN: 9781108412186
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico, Pablo Miguel Sierra...  Read More >>

The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867

The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867...

Author: Daniel B. Domingues da Silva (Rice University, Houston)
ISBN: 9781316628959
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book traces the origins of Africans forced into the Atlantic from West Central Africa during the peak period...  Read More >>

Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures

Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery...

Author: Bernard K. Freamon
ISBN: 9789004364813
Format: Hardback
$609.84

In Possessed by the Right Hand, Bernard K. Freamon offers a comprehensive legal history of slavery and slave-trading...  Read More >>

Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition

Author: Katherine Franke
ISBN: 9781608466245
Format: Hardback
$44.99

A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery...  Read More >>

Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle...

Author: Ethan J. Kytle ,  Blain Roberts
ISBN: 9781620975466
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Originally published in hardcover in 2018 by The New Press.  Read More >>

The Holocaust and New World Slavery 2 Volume Hardback Set: A Comparative History

The Holocaust and New World Slavery 2 Volume Hardback...

Author: Steven T. Katz (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781108415088
Format: Hardback
$543.38

The Holocaust is regularly compared to other historical events in order to make comparisons that deny its uniqueness....  Read More >>

Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave

Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave

Author: William W. Brown
ISBN: 9781788883917
Format: Paperback
$18.09

Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me. A standout among slave testimonies, the Narrative...  Read More >>

Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A message for pastors and prophets

Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A message for pastors and prophets...

Author: Gayah
ISBN: 9780999857885
Format: Paperback
$39.95

There has always been a wicked saying among so-called whites ever since slavery: If you want to hide important...  Read More >>

The Appreciation and Authentication of Civil War Timepieces

The Appreciation and Authentication of Civil War Timepieces...

Author: Clint Geller
ISBN: 9781944018085
Format: Hardback
$93.12

Clint B. Geller examines the intersection of the American Civil War and American watch-making, including: physical...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781072767718
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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 >>

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

Author: Leigh Fought
ISBN: 9780190053833
Format: Paperback
$74.95

A biographical study of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass through his relationships with the women in his life...  Read More >>

Master Of My Fate

Master Of My Fate

Author: Sienna Brown
ISBN: 9780143787532
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Winner of the MUD Literary Prize for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer. A novel about one man's...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781640321434
Format: Hardback
$25.28

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Some Slaves of Fauquier County, Virginia, Volume III

Some Slaves of Fauquier County, Virginia, Volume III...

Author: Sandra Barlau
ISBN: 9780788455834
Format: Paperback
$42.69

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My Battles with Vice

My Battles with Vice

Author: Virginia Brooks
ISBN: 9781528712507
Format: Paperback
$33.61

An insightful, biographic account of Virginia Brooks' effort to support the women working in prostitution and her...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781071175903
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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 >>

The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt

The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of...

Author: Patrick H. Breen (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Providence College)
ISBN: 9780190055615
Format: Paperback
$51.95

An original reinterpretation of the Nat Turner revolt, The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood retells the story of how...  Read More >>

Worldview Guide for the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Worldview Guide for the Narrative of the Life of Frederick...

Author: Jake Meador
ISBN: 9781947644311
Format: Paperback
$15.16

"""In a day when most anything can be rendered disposable, Americans are not accustomed to keeping things that remind...  Read More >>

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