Slavery
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
$20.00 Add to cart“Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account.” –Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post
“An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, ev- Author: Kaye, Anthony E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390567
- Language: English
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A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation’s Military Bases
$29.00 Add to cartThe inspiring story behind the ten Americans newly chosen to represent United States military bases previously named for Confederate soldiers, told by two members of the Naming Commission that selecte
- Author: Seidule, Ty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250330289
- Language: English
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The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies
$16.00 Add to cartThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the comp
- Series: Hill and Wang Critical Issues
- Author: Wood, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 1998
- ISBN10: 0809016087
- Language: English
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The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy
$29.95 Read more‘Extraordinary … The New Racial Regime works from an archival foundation of Black and Indigenous, liberationist and anti-colonialist thinkers, honing analytical tools that make sense of the ongoing
- Author: Lentin, Alana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745347967
- Language: English
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
$31.00 Add to cartA major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, and featured in… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801415
- Language: English
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
$30.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement
In la- Author: Kara, Siddharth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250348226
- Language: English
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Atlantic Cataclysm
$39.99 Add to cartIn this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. … [more below]
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: February 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1009518976
- Language: English
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
$20.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and na- Author: Shane, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250843235
- Language: English
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John Brown: A Biography
$18.95 Add to cartIn the preface to his biography of John Brown, W. E. B. Du Bois writes that the book “is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real… [more below]
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164339
- Language: English
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The African Ancestors Garden: History and Memory at the International African American Museum
$59.95 Read moreA broadly encompassing account of the International African American Museum’s Ancestors’ Garden designed by Walter Hood and its profoundly site-oriented development, and the museum’s mission to illumi… [more below]
- Author: Hood, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1580935842
- Language: English
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A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change our understanding of the American Revolution
As the American Revo
- Author: Lawler, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164137
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEuropeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Williams, Heather Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199922683
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
$12.99 Add to cartDrawn from his New York Times bestseller A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn’s The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist’s view of the social and civil background of the A
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 006207900X
- Language: English
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
$19.99 Add to cartWith a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition.
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in form- Author: McGill, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0306829673
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$19.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096284
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- 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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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
$39.99 Add to cartWe are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, the era after the Civil War when the victorious North attempted to create an interracial democracy in the unrepentant
- Author: Sinha, Manisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1631498444
- Language: English
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy
$22.95 Add to cart“Dr. Chavis shows us that the fight against the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is not just about seeking justice for past wrongs but about dismantling the present systems of oppression that h… [more below]
- Author: Chavis, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1590795695
- Language: English
