Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean

"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of...

Author: Dr Ryan Espersen
ISBN: 9789464270785
Format: Paperback
$155.25

This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba's ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial...  Read More >>

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself...

Author: Linda Brent
ISBN: 9798880906024
Format: Paperback
$44.85

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"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean

"""Better Than We""": Landscapes and Materialities of...

Author: Dr Ryan Espersen
ISBN: 9789464270792
Format: Hardback
$310.50

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Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory

Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering...

Author: Marc Howard Ross
ISBN: 9781512826128
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Inviting the reader to accompany him on his own journey of discovery, Ross recounts the processes by which northerners...  Read More >>

Drama Under the Skin: Baroque Catholic Ritual in Northern New Spain

Drama Under the Skin: Baroque Catholic Ritual in Northern...

Author: Juana Moriel-Payne
ISBN: 9781682832158
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Utilizing local analysis to make global conclusions, Drama Under the Skin uses ritual as a lens to examine race...  Read More >>

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Author: Agnes Arnold-Forster
ISBN: 9781529091366
Format: Hardback
$46.99

A dazzling history of that most slippery of emotions: nostalgia, by an acclaimed young historian.  Read More >>

Britain's Slavery Debt: Reparations Now!

Britain's Slavery Debt: Reparations Now!

Author: Michael Banner (Dean and Fellow, Dean and Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198889441
Format: Hardback
$31.95

The exploitation of 2.5 million west Africans, and their descendants born into slavery, in the sugar plantations...  Read More >>

Afrika - Atlantik - Amerika

Afrika - Atlantik - Amerika

Author: Michael Zeuske
ISBN: 9783111536118
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This book centers on the Africa-Atlantic-Americas system and its relationship to the complex of Atlantic slavery,...  Read More >>

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity...

Author: Zeinab Badawi
ISBN: 9780753560136
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent...  Read More >>

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity...

Author: Zeinab Badawi
ISBN: 9780753560129
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent...  Read More >>

It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom

It Took Courage: Eliza Winston's Quest for Freedom

Author: Christopher P Lehman
ISBN: 9781681342825
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"In 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through...  Read More >>

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure.

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition...

Author: Thomas Clarkson
ISBN: 9789357949118
Format: Paperback
$42.42

Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their...  Read More >>

Thoughts upon slavery

Thoughts upon slavery

Author: John Wesley
ISBN: 9789357945073
Format: Paperback
$39.07

Thoughts upon slavery, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar A Letter to the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar A Letter to the...

Author: J Ritchie
ISBN: 9789357945257
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar A Letter to the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery...  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: 9780691259314
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"""This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the...  Read More >>

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese...

Author: K. J. P. Lowe
ISBN: 9780691246840
Format: Hardback
$79.99

"A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from...  Read More >>

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783

Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in...

Author: Lee B. Wilson (Clemson University, South Carolina)
ISBN: 9781108817899
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond...  Read More >>

Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Author: Laura J. Lederer
ISBN: 9781440881206
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding...  Read More >>

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration...

Author: John Bardes
ISBN: 9781469678184
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction,...

Author: Manisha Sinha (University of Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781631498442
Format: Hardback
$65.95

A ground-breaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative...  Read More >>

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Author: George Alexander
ISBN: 9781636162003
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Dive into the compelling life of Mary, a brave woman who lived through slavery in America.  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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