Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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The Words and Wares of David Drake: "Revisiting ""I Made This Jar"" and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery"

The Words and Wares of David Drake: "Revisiting ""I...

Author: Jane Przybysz ,  Jill Beute Koverman
ISBN: 9781643363202
Format: Hardback
$131.97

David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

God’s Ghostwriters

God’s Ghostwriters

Author: Candida Moss
ISBN: 9780008612184
Format: Paperback
$34.99

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

God’s Ghostwriters

God’s Ghostwriters

Author: Candida Moss
ISBN: 9780008612177
Format: Hardback
$59.99

‘Monumental and eye-opening’ Reza Aslan 'A revelation […and…] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent...  Read More >>

Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives

Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives...

Author: Dana Renee Horton
ISBN: 9781793619150
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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She Spied for Freedom: Mary Richards, A Black Civil War Agent

She Spied for Freedom: Mary Richards, A Black Civil...

Author: Margaret C. Jones
ISBN: 9781781559192
Format: Hardback
$67.99

In the U.S. Civil War, Mary Richards, a free Black woman, risked her life posing as an illiterate slave to spy in...  Read More >>

Enslavers of the Maritimes

Enslavers of the Maritimes

Author: Brenda J Thompson
ISBN: 9781998149261
Format: Paperback
$44.85

A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans.The...  Read More >>

Jewish Monotheism and Slavery

Jewish Monotheism and Slavery

Author: Catherine Hezser (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
ISBN: 9781009500333
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element examines the use of slavery metaphors in ancient Judaism and Christianity in the context of the social...  Read More >>

A Negro Death: Minstrelsy: An African American Experience in the Development of Black Popular Culture: A Socio-Cultural Story of the African American Blues Experience during Ante Bellum and Reconstruction: Volume 1

A Negro Death: Minstrelsy: An African American Experience...

Author: Dr Delridge Hunter
ISBN: 9798893305647
Format: Paperback
$42.21

"DEATH OF THE NEGRO volume 1 ""The ancestors of the Negro in America brought their songs with them into slavery""[Negro...  Read More >>

A Negro Death: Minstrelsy: An African American Experience in the Development of Black Popular Culture: A Socio-Cultural Story of the African American Blues Experience during Ante Bellum and Reconstruction: Volume 1

A Negro Death: Minstrelsy: An African American Experience...

Author: Dr Delridge Hunter
ISBN: 9798893305654
Format: Hardback
$60.69

"DEATH OF THE NEGRO volume 1 ""The ancestors of the Negro in America brought their songs with them into slavery""[Negro...  Read More >>

Dominoes

Dominoes

Author: Phoebe McIntosh
ISBN: 9781784744908
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A tender, smart, conversation-starting love story which explores questions of identity and the legacy of the slave-trade...  Read More >>

Dominoes

Dominoes

Author: Phoebe McIntosh
ISBN: 9781784744892
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A tender, smart, conversation-starting love story which explores questions of identity and the legacy of the slave-trade...  Read More >>

Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814-1816

Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814-1816...

Author: Matthew Taylor
ISBN: 9781399034012
Format: Hardback
$75.00

This book brings black history to the fore of the War of 1812, and gives voice those enslaved people who - amidst...  Read More >>

The Words and Wares of David Drake: "Revisiting ""I Made This Jar"" and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery"

The Words and Wares of David Drake: "Revisiting ""I...

Author: Jane Przybysz ,  Jill Beute Koverman
ISBN: 9781643363219
Format: Paperback
$92.37

David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Uncle Tom's Cabin: ; or Life Among the Lonely

Uncle Tom's Cabin: ; or Life Among the Lonely

Author: Professor Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 9798869160577
Format: Paperback
$60.69

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a powerful anti-slavery novel that ignited social change. Through...  Read More >>

I Was Born in the Forest: A Traveler's Guide to Quilombos, the Citadels of African Resistance to Slavery in Portuguese America, and a Story of Black Spartacus

I Was Born in the Forest: A Traveler's Guide to Quilombos,...

Author: Otis L Lee, Jr
ISBN: 9798888242377
Format: Paperback
$52.67

I Was Born in the Forest encapsulates the freedom struggle of Africans brought to the Americas in the bowels of...  Read More >>

I Was Born in the Forest: A Traveler's Guide to Quilombos, the Citadels of African Resistance to Slavery in Portuguese America, and a Story of Black Spartacus

I Was Born in the Forest: A Traveler's Guide to Quilombos,...

Author: Otis L Lee, Jr
ISBN: 9798888242391
Format: Hardback
$73.79

I Was Born in the Forest encapsulates the freedom struggle of Africans brought to the Americas in the bowels of...  Read More >>

Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska Territory

Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters'...

Author: Gail Shaffer Blankenau
ISBN: 9781496231529
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Journey to Freedom provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape...  Read More >>

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule

Author: Angela Saini
ISBN: 9780008418144
Format: Paperback
$24.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK...  Read More >>

The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations

The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations...

Author: David Montero ,  Michael Eric Dyson
ISBN: 9780306827174
Format: Hardback
$55.00

This ground-breaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how...  Read More >>

Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage of a Nervous Landscape

Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage...

Author: Megan M. Bailey
ISBN: 9780813080390
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England

Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service...

Author: Urvashi Chakravarty
ISBN: 9781512826272
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England...  Read More >>

Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice...

Author: Joan L. Bryant (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse University)
ISBN: 9780195312973
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Reluctant Race Men traces a history of ethical, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific challenges that...  Read More >>

Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage of a Nervous Landscape

Memory and Power at L'Hermitage Plantation: Heritage...

Author: Megan M. Bailey
ISBN: 9780813069951
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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