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  • Freedom by a Thread
    Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery ...
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    36,71 €

  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
    Gelien Matthews
    In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery ag...
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    38,24 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • Why Is the Negro Lynched
    Frederick Douglass
    "Experience has taught us that it is sometimes wise and necessary to have more than two witnesses to bring out the whole truth. Especially is this the case where one of such witnesses has a powerful motive for suppressing or distorting the facts, as in this case. I therefore insist upon my right to take the witness stand and give my version of this Southern question, and though...
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    6,72 €

  • Let Justice and Mercy Flow
    Ken Boutwell
    Ken Boutwell and I became fast friends soon after he sent me a manuscript to publish as his first book in 2016. He was referred to my publishing company by a mutual friend who was his pastor at First Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida..He told me at that time that he was also working on a second book which would address racism and bigotry throughout history with an invitati...
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    37,64 €

  • Manor on the Viridian Sea
    Eleanor P Sam / Eleanor P Sam
    Jemma Worley, a Canadian millennial, has manipulated her lover, a wealthy architect, into purchasing the seaside manor of her dreams. Located on a palm-fringed Caribbean Island, it seems the fulfillment of her fantasies and lifestyle ambitions. But no sooner has she moved in than the ground of her familiar assumptions gives way. She is sent spiralling through a series of revela...
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    16,03 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that make this one of the most amazing autobiographies ever written.Northup accepted an offer from two strangers in Saratoga, New York...
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    35,62 €

  • Faulkner and Slavery
    Jay Watson
    Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall Wilhelm In 1930, the same year he moved into Rowan Oak, a slave-built former plantation home in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, Wi...
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    50,12 €

  • White Slavery in the Barbary States
    Charles Sumner
    First delivered as a lecture in Boston in 1847 by one of America’s foremost anti-slavery activists, this classic work became a powerful argument used against the institution of slavery as it then existed in the United States, for, as the author correctly pointed out, why did America go to war to end white slavery in North Africa at the hands of the Moors, yet still tolerated bl...
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    15,67 €

  • Black Folktales of the Muscle Shoals - Slavery to Success
    Huston Cobb / Rickey Butch Walker
    Most Black folks had never traveled many miles from the area where they were born, but after the Civil War, others moved to northern cities seeking better lives for their families. For some, life was nothing more than survival with work from dawn to dusk; for others, life was an opportunity to provide a better existence for themselves and their family. Black Folktales of the Mu...
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    27,37 €

  • FREEDOM LIES ACROSS THE RIVER
    CARRIE ELDRIDGE
    Slavery, manumission, the Baptist Church, and the Underground Railroad have been a major part of American History.The future without slavery began in the Northwest Territory only after an Ordinance was issued, which declared the new western lands of the United States to be free of slavery. Subsequently, the southeast corner of the region became the State of Ohio in 1803, which ...
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    17,41 €

  • Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts
    Roland Leander Williams
    An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been ...
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    46,24 €

  • The Smell of Slavery
    Andrew Kettler
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    32,21 €

  • An Ordinance Organizing and Establishing Patrols for the Police of Slaves in the Parish of St. Landry
    Saint Landry Parish
    'Free people of color were also enlisted to help patrol slaves in places like St. Landry parish.' -The Six Shooter State (2018)'The St. Landry Parish Police Jury, responding to an incident in nearby Cheneyville, revised its slave patrol ordinance to provide greater security against possible plantation restlessness.' -The African American Experience in Louisiana: From the Civil ...
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    9,01 €

  • One Million to STOP THE TRAFFIK
    Mark Wheeller
    Revised 2022 version including additional testimony from Ruth Dearnley (CEO of STOP THE TRAFFIK) One Million to STOP THE TRAFFIK tells true stories of people who are trafficked. Sunni and Whinney, at just six and eight years old, were sold by their parents and their story inspired the formation of the charity STOP THE TRAFFIK. Their mantra? ’People should not be bought and sold...
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    17,30 €

  • Freedom’s Captives
    Yesenia Barragan
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    40,45 €

  • Blinders
    Kristy Shelton
    'I started reading Blinders on Sunday afternoon and literally couldn’t put it down until I finished it at almost midnight that night. The story grabbed me in the very first chapter and kept me turning the pages all day.'  -Amazon Review (5 Stars)-Blinders, Volume 1 (book club edition) in The Blinders Trilogy by Kristy Shelton, portrays a beautiful relationship between a former ...
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    25,39 €

  • Testimonies of Enslavement
    Alexander Geelen / Bram van den Hout / Matthias van Rossum
    Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and ’enslavebility’. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical realities in which processes of enslavement and relati...
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    52,01 €

  • The Wisdom of Rain
    Eleanor P Sam
    On her thirteenth birthday, Mariama leans against her favourite baobab tree and daydreams, thrilled that the time has finally come for her Sande ceremony when she will officially pass into womanhood. But then, rough hands tear her from her daydreams and violently toss her into a nightmare reality. She is forced onto the SS Archery, a slave ship that steals her from her home in ...
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    16,59 €

  • The Bittersweet Bond
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    If you are one of the few people left in the world who still thinks the South is responsible for American slavery, that Southern slaves were routinely abused, that the North never practiced slavery, that the War Between the States was fought over slavery, or that Southern slave owners were feared and detested by their African servants, The Bittersweet Bond: Race Relations in th...
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    27,18 €

  • The Black History Truth - Jamaica
    Pamela Gayle
    Reviewed by Astrid Lustulin for Readers’ Favorite:It is time to learn the stories of some nations in a more equitable way - not from the point of view of the conquerors but of the oppressed. This is why books like The Black History Truth: Jamaica by Pamela Gayle arouse great interest in a conscious reader. This book tells the story of The Sharpest Thorn in Britain’s Caribbean C...
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    13,09 €

  • The Negro In The South
    Booker T. Washington
    I have been a slave once in my life-a slave in body. But I long since resolved that no inducement and no influence would ever make me a slave in soul, in my love for humanity, and in my search for truth. ...
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    8,62 €

  • The Story Of Slavery
    Booker T. Washington
    This is an essay by Booker T. Washington about slavery. It was originally published in 1913. ...
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    6,33 €

  • The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery
    Joseph Ketchum Edgerton
    The traditions and historic glory that surround the Federal Government as our fathers formed it, are yet dear to the hearts of the whole American people. That government still belongs to them - it is their heritage, and they, I trust, will yet restore and preserve it The horoscope of the future daily brightens with hopeful signs, not the least of which is the fact that the Pres...
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    5,87 €

  • House Boy
    Lorenzo DeStefano
    'A sharp look into a normally dark and hidden place.Peels away the layers hiding slavery in plain sight in London today. A great read.'Kevin Bales'Chronicles with authority and excruciating verisimilitude a tragedy of truly grotesque proportions. Revelatory and compelling.'Barry Gifford'An enthralling book about the persistent caste discrimination and human slavery in India. Fi...
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    16,49 €

  • Slavery 6.0
    V. Ramamoorthy
    'You think that you are free? Do you think that slavery is abolished and squashed out existence from the world after 'liberarting' the dark skinned slaves of the southern hemisphere? Think again. Slavery, instead of being uprooted, is firmly embedded in a different diffuse, pervasive and highly lucrative subscription business model form. The new slaves are the entire world, bo...
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    17,73 €

  • Bullyycee
    Michael Claude Caesar Sampson
    Greetings from God to the human family. This very didactic, enlightening, philosophically sound, morally prudent and existentially critical text was born out of uniquely profound suffering, yet a divinely dynamic inspiration of wisdom, knowledge, altruism, and a spiritual undertaking, particularly tasked to bring the human family from the evil abyss of a toxically pathological ...
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    92,15 €

  • The Counter Revolution of 1836
    Gerald Horne
    When Mexico moved to abolish slavery, Texas seceded in 1836-in a replay of 1776-- in order to perpetuate enslavement of Africans forevermore. Until 1845 Texas was an independent nation and moved to challenge the U.S. for leadership in the odious commerce of the African Slave Trade: Texas also competed vigorously with the U.S. in the dirty business of denuding Mexico by snatchin...
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    34,33 €

  • Fifty Days On Board A Slave-vessel
    Pascoe G. Hill
    Reverend Pascoe G. Hill has left us a chilling testament. Fifty Days on Board A Slave Vessel is his unforgettable account of life on a slave ship. Hill’s narrative locks fifty days into an existence of forever. It is a forever that haunts, not from the fear of the unknown, but the fear of the known.Because of Hill and Fifty Days we can know. At the relatively safe distance of m...
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    6,47 €


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