Slavery
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Four Nails
$31.95 Add to cartIN ANCIENT INDIA, tragedy strikes a young elephant trainer. Forced into a slave caravan that takes him through perilous lands and into a world at war, Ashoka befriends a special elephant. In a time of… [more below]
- Author: Berger, G. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0988398230
- Language: English
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Yellow Crocus
$14.95 Add to cartMoments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus
- Series: Yellow Crocus #1
- Author: Ibrahim, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1477824758
- Language: English
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Docile
$22.99 Add to cartK. M. Szpara’s Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.
There is no consent under capi- Author: Szpara, K. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250216338
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
$12.00 Add to cartRestoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Pengui
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0140439889
- Language: English
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
$22.00 Add to cartA multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the Unite- Series: Penguin History of the United States
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002100
- Language: English
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Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom
$19.99 Read moreFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reac
- Author: Kadalie, Modibo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois
$27.95 Read moreWINNER, 2023 Underground Railroad Free Press Hortense Simmons Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge!
Uncovering stories of the freedom network in northeastern Illinois Decades before the Ci- Author: McClellan, Larry A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0809339250
- Language: English
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Juneteenth for Mazie
$15.95 Read moreMazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history. The day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the stru… [more below]
- Series: Fiction Picture Books
- Author: Cooper, Floyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1623701708
- Language: English
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Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
$23.00 Add to cart- Author: Cook Bell, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 110892672X
- Language: English
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Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
$20.99 Add to cartThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abo
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351211
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
$18.99 Add to cartPrizewinning Book: The Dawn of Detroit won both the Merle Curti Prize and the James Rawley Prize, two of the top distinctions in American History Media track record: Hardcover edition attracted major … [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974819
- Language: English
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Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future
$24.95 Add to cartIn Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experience
- Author: Larocco, Lori Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1917054564
- Language: English
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The History of Mary Prince
$15.00 Add to cartFormer enslaved person Mary Prince’s powerful rallying cry for emancipation and extraordinary testament to survival
The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be pub- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Prince, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437495
- Language: English
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
$20.00 Add to cart“Masterly.”–Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of- Author: Rediker, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143114255
- Language: English
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Slave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South
$23.99 Add to cartTwenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J…. [more below]
- Author: Raboteau, Albert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0195174127
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$6.95 Add to cartThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlight- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345478231
- Language: English
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Slavery and the Making of America
$28.99 Add to cartThe history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human s… [more below]
- Author: Horton, James Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0195304519
- Language: English
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Slaves in the Family
$25.00 Add to cartMore than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classic
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534454
- Language: English
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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
$19.95 Add to cartBorn to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after fi
- Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
- Author: Said, Omar Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0299249549
- Language: English
