Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and...

Author: Kathleen S. Murphy
ISBN: 9781469675916
Format: Paperback
$50.60

Argues that the eighteenth century’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation...  Read More >>

Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and...

Author: Kathleen S. Murphy
ISBN: 9781469675909
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Argues that the eighteenth century’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation...  Read More >>

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the...

Author: Marlene L. Daut
ISBN: 9781469674742
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political...  Read More >>

Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction

Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American...

Author: Amy Bride
ISBN: 9781837720637
Format: Hardback
$152.95

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The History of Mary Prince (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The History of Mary Prince (Warbler Classics Annotated...

Author: Mary Prince ,  Barbara Baumgartner
ISBN: 9781962572071
Format: Paperback
$21.09

This powerful cry for emancipation stands as a seminal work of abolitionist literature. A republication of the complete...  Read More >>

Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History

Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African...

Author: Gregory D Smithers ,  Terrence Kidd
ISBN: 9798212950824
Format: Audio
$110.85

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of...  Read More >>

Beyond the Door of No Return

Beyond the Door of No Return

Author: David Diop ,  Sam Taylor
ISBN: 9781782278399
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who escaped slavery enclosed in a box 3 feet long and 2 wide

Narrative of Henry Box Brown: Who escaped slavery enclosed...

Author: Henry Brown
ISBN: 9781774817681
Format: Paperback
$42.19

"Title: Narrative of Henry ""Box"" Brown Description: The ""Narrative of Henry 'Box' Brown"" is a poignant...  Read More >>

Let Justice and Mercy Flow

Let Justice and Mercy Flow

Author: Ken Boutwell
ISBN: 9781960326409
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Return

The Return

Author: Yaw M. Boateng
ISBN: 9781035900589
Format: Paperback
$38.79

In this historical novel, Yaw M. Boateng tells the harrowing story of the Atlantic slave trade and the devastating...  Read More >>

The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union

The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle...

Author: Frank J. Cirillo ,  Richard J. M. Blackett
ISBN: 9780807179154
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirillo’s The Abolitionist...  Read More >>

John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist

John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist

Author: Jeffrey A. Denman
ISBN: 9781476693293
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Informed by John Quincy Adams’s revealing and often tormented musings from his vast diary, this sweeping narrative...  Read More >>

Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery

Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African...

Author: Sydney J. Norton
ISBN: 9780826222923
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Missouri is well-known for its German American heritage, but the story of nineteenth-century German immigrant abolitionists...  Read More >>

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts Lib/E: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts Lib/E: The True...

Author: Gregg Hecimovich ,  Janina Edwards
ISBN: 9798212698290
Format: Audio
$190.05

"A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer...  Read More >>

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of...

Author: Nicholas Radburn
ISBN: 9780300257618
Format: Hardback
$51.95

"""A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic...  Read More >>

Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Transplants

Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws: A Comparative...

Author: Justine K. Collins (Dr Justine K. Collins is an independent researcher.)
ISBN: 9781032123042
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the...  Read More >>

Connecting Continents: Rice Cultivation in South Carolina and the Guinea Coast

Connecting Continents: Rice Cultivation in South Carolina...

Author: Kenneth Kelly
ISBN: 9780367644178
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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California, a Slave State

California, a Slave State

Author: Jean Pfaelzer ,  Ewan Chung
ISBN: 9798212960908
Format: Audio
$153.09

California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build...  Read More >>

California, a Slave State

California, a Slave State

Author: Jean Pfaelzer ,  Ewan Chung
ISBN: 9798212960892
Format: Audio
$137.25

California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build...  Read More >>

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck (1811-1887): Volume II

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck...

Author: Andy Peck ,  Dr Isham Talbot Peck
ISBN: 9781955121125
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Analysis of final 18 Sawbones articles written 1879-1886. Topics include Mossy Creek / Jefferson City, Morristown,...  Read More >>

The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670–1825

The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance,...

Author: Edward Pearson
ISBN: 9781512824384
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution

A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the...

Author: John D. Garrigus
ISBN: 9780674272828
Format: Hardback
$70.95

John D. Garrigus provides a profound historical corrective, showing that enslaved Blacks in Saint-Domingue were...  Read More >>

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck (1811-1887): Volume II

Sawbones: The Life and Times of Dr. Isham Talbot Peck...

Author: Andy Peck ,  Dr Isham Talbot Peck
ISBN: 9781955121132
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Analysis of final 18 Sawbones articles written 1879-1886. Topics include Mossy Creek / Jefferson City, Morristown,...  Read More >>

Race and Police: The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

Race and Police: The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions...

Author: Ben Brucato
ISBN: 9781978834484
Format: Paperback
$100.19

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement...  Read More >>

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