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  • 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 €

  • Captain Canot
    Théophile Conneau
    The amazing, shocking, and true autobiography of a trans-Atlantic slave trader who plied the slave trade between Africa and Cuba for twenty years from 1820 to 1840.Dealing forthrightly with all aspects of this trade in humans, the book starts with a small biographical background before moving in to the core of his story, which can be divided into five major sections: how Africa...
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    25,48 €

  • The Fall of the Congo Arabs
    Sidney Langford Hinde
    A first-person account of the two-year-long combined European military campaign in central Africa aimed at removing the Arab Muslim slave-trading empire and potential Khalifa that was developing in that region. The author, a British military veteran, served as an important commander of the European-led forces, bolstered by local recruits, and played a significant role in the ul...
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    17,60 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself
    Harriet A. Jacobs
    'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,' which was first published in 1861, was one of the first slave narratives penned by a woman. The book tells the story of Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), a slave from North Carolina who suffered greatly (along with her family) at the hands of her ruthless owner. After several failed attempts to escape, Harriet eventually made her way north. He...
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    10,35 €

  • Ending Human Trafficking
    Kimberly McOwen Yim / Sandra Morgan / Shayne Moore
    Human trafficking is one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time, and in recent years there has been renewed interest among Christians, as many have been stirred up to take their part in the ongoing battle. This is a wonderful thing--and yet misinformed and misguided efforts can do more harm than good. Ending Human Trafficking is a handbook designed to educate ch...
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    27,94 €

  • What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Slavery?
    Julia O’Connell Davidson
    This book reviews what is known about the issue of slavery, and argues that the concept of 'afterlives' is more helpful than that of 'modern slavery' to those seeking to challenge injustice, violence, inequality and oppression in the twenty-first century. ...
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    19,17 €

  • What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Slavery?
    Julia O’Connell Davidson
    This book reviews what is known about the issue of slavery, and argues that the concept of 'afterlives' is more helpful than that of 'modern slavery' to those seeking to challenge injustice, violence, inequality and oppression in the twenty-first century. ...
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    75,35 €

  • My Bondage and My Freedom
    Frederick Douglass
    My Bondage and My Freedom, by escaped slave Frederick Douglass, is a classic that should be mandatory reading for every high school student. The lessons tucked within its pages, which are honest and deep, reveal the harrowing, brutal and heart-breaking nature of slvery.A slave for the first two decades of his life, Frederick Douglass escaped the horrors of that institution thro...
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    13,16 €

  • The Freedmen’s Book
    Lydia Maria Child
    Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) was an American novelist, women’s rights activist, abolitionist, journalist, and activist for Native American rights. Child is famous for her fiction and domestic manuals, which enjoyed international popularity during the mid 19th century. However, her work also drew controversy due to her tackling such issues as male dominance and white supremacy....
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    26,43 €

  • The Underground Railroad
    William Still
    William Still (1821–1902) was an African-American abolitionist, businessman, writer, historian, civil rights activist. He was also a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses created in the United States during the early to the mid-19th century for use by African American slaves in order to escape into free states or Canada. In 1872, he p...
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    39,55 €

  • Harriet Tubman - Influential Women in History
    Various
    Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) was an American political activist and abolitionist. Born a slave, she managed to escape and later embarked on 13 missions to liberate roughly 70 slaves using the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses created in the United States during the early to the mid-19th century for use by African American slaves in order to escape i...
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    16,59 €

  • A Woman’s Life-Work - Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland
    Laura S. Haviland / Laura SHaviland
    Laura Smith Haviland (1808–1898) was an American social reformer, suffragette, and abolitionist. She notably played an important role in the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses created in the United States during the early to the mid-19th century for use by African American slaves in order to escape into free states or Canada. First published in 188...
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    32,64 €

  • The Slave Poet from Boston - Collected Writings on Phillis Wheatley
    Various
    Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America, where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys’ 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin ...
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    16,45 €

  • The Road to the 13th Amendment!
    Baby Professor
    Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865 through the passing of the 13th Amendment. This book will describe how the anti-slavery movement gained its momentum. Who were the people who contributed significantly to end it? You will read about the importance of the popular press in strengthening the abolitionist movement. In addition, read about the Emancipation Proclamat...
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    29,45 €

  • Slavery & Freedom Cannot Exist Together!
    Baby Professor
    Not all African-Americans in the 1790 were slaves. There were also 'free blacks.' This book examines the lives of the free blacks during a time when slavery was allowed in the country. What were the rules that they had to follow? How did the white Americans treat them? Finally, why were they transported to Africa for free? This may be a hard book to read but it’s history! ...
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    29,45 €

  • Slavery & Freedom Cannot Exist Together!
    Baby Professor
    Not all African-Americans in the 1790 were slaves. There were also 'free blacks.' This book examines the lives of the free blacks during a time when slavery was allowed in the country. What were the rules that they had to follow? How did the white Americans treat them? Finally, why were they transported to Africa for free? This may be a hard book to read but it’s history! ...
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    19,40 €

  • The Road to the 13th Amendment!
    Baby Professor
    Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865 through the passing of the 13th Amendment. This book will describe how the anti-slavery movement gained its momentum. Who were the people who contributed significantly to end it? You will read about the importance of the popular press in strengthening the abolitionist movement. In addition, read about the Emancipation Proclamat...
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    19,40 €

  • La Historio no Contada del Capitalismo
    Enrique Rivera
    What, exactly, is capitalism? When did it come about? And how does it differ from other economic systems? Despite centuries of discussion surrounding capitalism, its merits and its shortcomings, defining the term ’capitalism’ itself has been an elusive affair.In his new book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution, historian Enr...
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    29,59 €

  • Practical Liberators
    Kristopher A. Teters / Kristopher ATeters
    During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains. But after Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act in 1862, army policy became mostly consistent in its support of liberating the slaves in general, in spite of Union army offi...
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    38,22 €

  • The Return of the Sun
    Kevin Omwanza
    The Return of the Sun explores the immorality of slavery with partakers offering excuses in support of the brutal practice. The author elicits questions on how to end the practice: by supplanting the captors or forging a new, more inclusive, path. The islands, home to most African communities, are breeding grounds for pirates who defend against invaders or are out to enslave ot...
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    36,82 €

  • A Different Cowboy
    Joe Jones
    Based in the mid 1800’s after slavery has just ended, when racism is rampant a former slave and a cowboy fall in love with each other. Not only do they have to fight to keep their love alive, they also have to fight to keep each .other alive ...
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    15,00 €

  • The Good News about Injustice
    Gary A. Haugen / Gary AHaugen
    The good news about injustice is that God is against it. God is in the business of using the unlikely to bring about justice and mercy. In Good News About Injustice, Gary Haugen offers stories of courageous Christians who have stood up for justice in the face of human trafficking, forced prostitution, racial and religious persecution, and torture. Throughout he provides concret...
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    21,98 €

  • 12 Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was a farmer and a musician who was taken hostage and sold into slavery in 1841. In his first year of freedom, Northup wrote and published a memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). It was Solomon’s fortune, during his captivity, to be owned by several masters. The treatment he received while at the 'Pine Woods' shows that among slaveholders there are men of humanit...
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    20,86 €

  • From the Darkness Cometh Light
    Lucy A. Delaney / Lucy ADelaney
    From the Darkness Cometh the Light (1891) is a memoir by Lucy A. Delaney. Published in St. Louis in the last year of Delaney’s life, the work is regarded as an essential slave narrative and the only firsthand account of a freedom suit, by which some enslaved African Americans were able to achieve their freedom prior to emancipation. Twentieth century scholars of feminism and Af...
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    6,69 €

  • The Untold History of Capitalism
    Enrique S. Rivera / Enrique SRivera
    What, exactly, is capitalism? When did it come about? And how does it differ from other economic systems? Despite centuries of discussion surrounding capitalism, its merits and its shortcomings, defining the term ’capitalism’ itself has been an elusive affair.In his new book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution, historian Enr...
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    29,55 €

  • The Untold History of Capitalism
    Enrique S. Rivera
    What, exactly, is capitalism? When did it come about? And how does it differ from other economic systems? Despite centuries of discussion surrounding capitalism, its merits and its shortcomings, defining the term ’capitalism’ itself has been an elusive affair.In his new book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution, historian Enr...
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    45,49 €

  • Southern Horrors
    Ida B. Wells / Ida BWells
    Southern Horrors (1892) is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells. Published several months after a white mob destroyed the office of her prominent Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech, Southern Horrors is an impassioned work of investigative journalism and political criticism from a leading activist of the nineteenth century. 'Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-ba...
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    6,74 €

  • American Negro Slave Revolts
    Herbert Aptheker
    Years ago, the controlling view held that the response of the slaves in the United States to their bondage 'was one of passivity and docility'. That opinion, so decisive a part of the chauvinism afflicting the nation, is shown to be false in this book and in the material accumulated since its initial appearance has further substantiated this thesis; namely, that the African-Ame...
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    27,08 €

  • The People of Rose Hill
    Lucy Maddox
    Thomas Marsh Forman was in his early twenties when he returned from the Revolutionary War to take over the proprietorship of Rose Hill plantation from his father. The estate lay alongside the Sassafras River in Cecil County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Rose Hill was a product of its historical moment, a moment in which men like Forman acted on their belief that the future pros...
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    69,87 €

  • The Black History Truth - Argentina
    Pamela Gayle
    Argentina has spectacular natural wonders, exceptional landscapes and is a unique country but it is known as 'The Whitest Nation in South America'.Why is this? What is the truth of the popular phrase of 'There Are No Black People Here'? What is the 'Blanqueamiento' of Black people and why do Argentine officials say Black people have 'disappeared'? When, why and how many African...
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    17,84 €


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