Slavery
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
$35.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.
The industrializing North and the agricu- Author: Rockman, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226723453
- Language: English
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
$23.00 Add to cart“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”-… [more below]
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0399590870
- Language: English
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The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cartA prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America–ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves
“A spectacular achieveme
- Author: Forret, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978865
- Language: English
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In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
$39.95 Read moreExplore the modern-day impact of slavery and colonialism in this panoramic Black history for anti-racist readers of 1619 Project and Caste.
The companion book to a groundbreaking exhibition on African- Author: Nat’l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1588347796
- Language: English
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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
$29.99 Add to cartDrawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during sla… [more below]
- Author: Giesberg, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1982174323
- Language: English
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It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom
$22.95 Read moreIn 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal appeal. Her story adds powerful testimony to African American experiences and perse… [more below]
- Author: Lehman, Christopher P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342820
- Language: English
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
$24.95 Read moreWinner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and- Author: Scott, Julius S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1788732480
- Language: English
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
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To Be a Slave
$8.99 Add to cartWhat was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves, telling about their forced journey from Africa to the United States, their work in the … [more below]
- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Lester, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0142403865
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize
“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award
–Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement “[One] of the mos- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975383
- Language: English
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist with a New Preface
$21.00 Read moreThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker c- Author: Rediker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0807060984
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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The Star Host: Volume 1
$15.99 Read moreRen grew up listening to his mother spin magical stories about the Star Hosts, a mythical people possessed by the power of the stars. When Ren is forced into slavery by the despotic ruler of his home … [more below]
- Series: Broken Moon
- Author: Lukens, F. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1941530729
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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Light in the Darkness
$18.99 Read moreAn enslaved mother and daughter learn to read in spite of great danger in this beautiful testament to the power of literacy, written and illustrated by an award-winning author/artist team.
Rosa and he- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1423134958
- Language: English
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Mustard Seed
$14.95 Read moreThe bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.
Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into pri
- Series: Yellow Crocus #2
- Author: Ibrahim, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1542045568
- Language: English
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Tennessee Rose
$7.99 Read moreAlabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for… [more below]
- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #9
- Author: Kendall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0375870067
- Language: English
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The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation
$21.99 Read moreDiscover the staggeringly true story of how the first Navajo silversmiths fed and freed a nation.
Old Pounder, they called him — the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito’s greatest leg
- Author: Fitzsimons, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1467151424
- Language: English
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White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness
$29.95 Read moreFrom the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing–and a strategy for dismantling them.
White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but als- Author: Mirzoeff, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047675
- Language: English
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Juneteenth
$8.99 Read moreJune 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Freedom! Slavery
- Series: On My Own Holidays (Paperback)
- Author: Nelson, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0822559749
- Language: English
