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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
$53.33 Add to cartHow American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom
In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an Amer- Author: Clavin, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1479823244
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (Loa #358)
$40.00 Read moreLibrary of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of A- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537229
- Language: English
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
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If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
$9.99 Read moreWhat do you know about the Underground Railroad?
What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different?
Scholastic’s If You Liv
- Series: If You
- Author: Wilkins, Ebony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338788914
- Language: English
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Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
$25.00 Read moreThe rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination
“A masterful biography. . . . Ward’s struggles to find freedom,- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Blackett, R. J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300254946
- Language: English
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
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Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
$19.99 Read moreThe inspirational, true story of how Frederick Douglass found his way to freedom one word at a time.
This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent A- Series: Paula Wiseman Books
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1416959033
- Language: English
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Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln’s Vital Rival
$36.00 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of 2022
From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer, an “eloquently written, impeccably researched, and intensely moving” (The Wall Street Journal) reassessment of Abraham- Author: Stahr, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501199234
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
$18.00 Add to cartA riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: these are the true stories of the Underground Railroad.
- Author: Still, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1984855050
- Language: English
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
$22.00 Read moreThe essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*Th… [more below]
- Series: Many Cultures, One World
- Author: Larson, Kate Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345456289
- Language: English
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
$32.00 Add to cartThe groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.
In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1250276276
- Language: English
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Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
$30.00 Read moreThe remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia–the free state directly … [more below]
- Author: Diemer, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593534387
- Language: English
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An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
$32.50 Add to cartThis is a story about a dangerous idea–one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intelle
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324003626
- Language: English
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement
$14.99 Add to cartAn important book of epic scope on America’s first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change–The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines,
- Author: Bordewich, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0060524316
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history “reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend” (Newsday).
Celebrated for her exploits as a conducto… [more below]- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 5, 2005
- ISBN10: 0316155942
- Language: English
