Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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The Development of State Legislation Concerning the Free Negro: Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science in Columbia University (Classic Reprint)

The Development of State Legislation Concerning the...

Author: Franklin Johnson
ISBN: 9781332320783
Format: Paperback
$28.96

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Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries

Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and...

Author: Elizabeth Swanson ,  James Brewer Stewart (Macalester College, Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781107186620
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Contemporary enslavement remains invisible because it operates as a criminal enterprise rather than a legal institution....  Read More >>

Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue

Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue

Author: Allan Kulikoff (Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9780190844646
Format: Hardback
$228.95

Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx might appear strange bedfellows, the president and the intellectual revolutionary....  Read More >>

Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa

Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from...

Author: Sandra Rowoldt Shell
ISBN: 9780821423189
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell details the life histories of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved...  Read More >>

The game ranger, the knife, the lion and the sheep: 20 tales about curious characters from Southern Africa

The game ranger, the knife, the lion and the sheep:...

Author: David Bristow
ISBN: 9781431427024
Format: Paperback
$41.27

David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and very...  Read More >>

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print

Author: Solomon Northup
ISBN: 9781727268065
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Twelve Years a Slave: Large Print by Solomon Northup Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup,...  Read More >>

When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery

When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence...

Author: Rachel A. Feinstein
ISBN: 9781138629684
Format: Paperback
$79.99

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black...  Read More >>

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800–1854

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among...

Author: Christine Hünefeldt
ISBN: 9780520302341
Format: Paperback
$65.95

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Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre

Granville Sharp's Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre...

Author: Michelle Faubert
ISBN: 9783319927855
Format: Hardback
$99.00

This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first...  Read More >>

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica

The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French...

Author: Trevor Burnard ,  John Garrigus
ISBN: 9780812224238
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies...  Read More >>

Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800-146 BC

Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context,...

Author: David M. Lewis (Lecturer in Greek History and Culture, Assistant Professor of Ancient History, University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780198769941
Format: Hardback
$206.00

The economic underpinnings of ancient Greek elite culture are explored in detail in this study of systems of slavery...  Read More >>

Alaska Days with John Muir

Alaska Days with John Muir

Author: S Hall Young
ISBN: 9781644390092
Format: Paperback
$30.92

"Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort...  Read More >>

An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States (Classic Reprint)

An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations...

Author: J Benwell
ISBN: 9780484284868
Format: Hardback
$76.43

Excerpt from An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States...  Read More >>

Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery and the Great Port Royal Earthquake

Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery and the Great Port...

Author: Ben Hughes
ISBN: 9781594163166
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Built on sugar, slaves, and piracy, Jamaica's Port Royal was the jewel in England's quest for empire until a devastating...  Read More >>

Alaska Days with John Muir

Alaska Days with John Muir

Author: S Hall Young
ISBN: 9781644390108
Format: Hardback
$59.38

"Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort...  Read More >>

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became...

Author: Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9780807060988
Format: Paperback
$55.44

The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery  Read More >>

How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time, a Campaigner for Lincoln in 1860 and a Lincoln Elector in 1864 (Classic Reprint)

How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Lincoln...

Author: Abram J Dittenhoefer
ISBN: 9780484239691
Format: Hardback
$68.90

Excerpt from How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time, a Campaigner for Lincoln...  Read More >>

When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery

When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence...

Author: Rachel A. Feinstein
ISBN: 9781138629677
Format: Hardback
$284.00

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black...  Read More >>

What the White Race May Learn from the Indian (Classic Reprint)

What the White Race May Learn from the Indian (Classic...

Author: George Wharton James
ISBN: 9781330150153
Format: Paperback
$35.82

Excerpt from What the White Race May Learn From the Indian I have taken the animals away from them. They are generally...  Read More >>

Sovrin's Star

Sovrin's Star

Author: John Reyer Afamasaga
ISBN: 9781625011978
Format: Paperback
$29.01

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