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  • John Brown
    W. E. B. DuBois / WEBDuBois
    Three years and 29 days prior to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a man branded       'zealot', 'fanatic' and 'traitor' was hanged. John Brown and his band of 21 followersseized the armory at Harper’s Ferry to obtain weapons, arm the slaves, and through mass revolt end slavery. Here is a profound picture of John Brown the man, father, religionist, and irrepressible crusader...
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    27,57 €

  • El embargo de los esclavos
    María Meneses
    A lo largo de la Guerra de los Diez Años (1868-1878) en Cuba, no solo emergieron proyectos y prescripciones abolicionistas desde ambos lados del conflicto colonial, también se legisló sobre la condición del esclavo como la de un bien a embargar. El libro de la historiadora María Elena Meneses Muro constituye el primer estudio sistemático de la administración de los esclavos ret...
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    12,65 €

  • A Union Indivisible
    Michael D. Robinson / Michael DRobinson
    Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. ...
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    45,74 €

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano
    A first-person narrative of Olaudah Equiano’s journey from his native Africa to the New World, that follows his capture, introduction to Christianity and eventual release. His story is an eye-opening depiction of personal resilience in the face of structural oppression.Olaudah Equiano’s origins are rooted in West Africa’s Eboe district, which is modern-day Nigeria. He details t...
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    18,51 €

  • A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s follow-up to her popular yet controversial book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin that features critical information supporting the brutally honest portrayal of institutional slavery. Due to an overwhelming response, it was published one year after the original novel. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a detailed explanation of the practices and imagery portrayed in Uncle T...
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    30,31 €

  • Cudjo’s Own Story Of The Last African Slavery Hardcover
    Zora Neale Neale Hurston
    2020 Reprint of the 1927 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last surviving captives of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. Hurston, a known figure of th...
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    15,95 €

  • The bonds of family
    Katie Donington
    Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery. ...
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    46,36 €

  • A Spectrum of Unfreedom
    Leslie Peirce
    Without 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 searches for the voices of the unfree, drawing on archives, histories written at the time, and legal texts.Unfree persons comprised two general populations: slaves and captives. Mostly ho...
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    12,39 €

  • New slaveries in contemporary British literature and visual arts
    Pietro Deandrea
    A study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s. ...
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    36,93 €

  • Narrative of Sojouner Truth
    Olive Gilbert
    Sojourner Truth (born Isabella 'Belle' Baumfree; c. 1797 - 1883) was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian magazine’s list of the '100 Most Significant Americans of All Time'.  ...
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    8,58 €

  • Captain Canot
    Brantz Mayer / Theodore Canot
    Captain Canot: Or, Twenty Years Of An African Slaver Being An Account Of His Career And Adventures On The Coast, In The Interior, On Shipboard, And In The West Indies. Written Out And Edited From The Captain’s Journals, Memoranda And Conversations, By Brantz Mayer.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of origi...
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    25,16 €

  • Narrative of Sojouner Truth
    Olive Gilbert
    Sojourner Truth (born Isabella 'Belle' Baumfree; c. 1797 - 1883) was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian magazine’s list of the '100 Most Significant Americans of All Time'. ...
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    17,75 €

  • A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s follow-up to her popular yet controversial book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin that features critical information supporting the brutally honest portrayal of institutional slavery. Due to an overwhelming response, it was published one year after the original novel. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a detailed explanation of the practices and imagery portrayed in Uncle T...
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    23,23 €

  • 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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    158,28 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T.Washington
    Ranked among the best autobiographies, Up from Slavery documents the personal achievement of the renowned educator, Booker T. Washington in his long journey from being born into slavery, to becoming a leading educator and founder of the Tuskgee Institute, a famous speaker, and a spokesman for his race towards the turn of the 20th century.Booker T. Washington was instrumental in...
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    19,79 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    This unforgettable memoir was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. It is a memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup.A hardworking farmer and an exceptional fiddler, Solomon Northup is born a free man of colour. He lives happily with his wife and children in Saratoga County, New York, until the day an employment offer at a circus changes h...
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    19,75 €

  • African-American Classics Collection (Slave Narratives Collections)
    Booker T.Washington
    Four essential firsthand accounts of life in bondage and daring escapes.In This volume, Four of the most historically significant and influential works by giants in African-American history and the early civil rights movements. Included in this volume:Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Fr...
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    37,46 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    DRAMATIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN SLAVE.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text d...
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    14,50 €

  • An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
    Thomas Clarkson
    When civilized, as well as barbarous nations, have been found, through a long succession of ages, uniformly to concur in the same customs, there seems to arise a presumption, that such customs are not only eminently useful, but are founded also on the principles of justice. Such is the case with respect to Slavery: it has had the concurrence of all the nations, which history ha...
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    13,93 €

  • William Still
    William C. Kashatus
    The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free Black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a pillar of the Railroad as a whole. Based in Philadel...
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    36,20 €

  • The Police Control of the Slave in South Carolina
    Howell Meadors Henry
    'Henry offered important insights into the workings of South Carolina’s slave patrol system.' - An Old Creed for the New South (2008) 'An excellent analysis of slave control...one of the few early historians of slavery to examine...why the various slave laws were passed.' - Slavery, Race and American History (2015) 'An analysis of the slave patrol and the elaborate police sy...
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    15,09 €

  • At the Threshold of Liberty
    Tamika Y. Nunley / Tamika YNunley
    The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city’s Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals ho...
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    35,46 €

  • At the Threshold of Liberty
    Tamika Y. Nunley / Tamika YNunley
    The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city’s Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals ho...
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    121,70 €

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Olaudah Equiano
    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The narrative is argued to represent a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel narrative, and spiritual narrative. The book describes Equiano’s time spent in enslavement, and documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and hi...
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    53,89 €

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    James Weldon Johnson
    The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the 'Ex-Colored Man,' living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lives through a variety of experiences, including witnessing a lynching, that convince him to 'pass' as white to secure his safety and advancement, bu...
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    54,16 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Twelve Years a Slave is a 19th century memoir by American Solomon Northup. Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tells how he was tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his rel...
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    12,91 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Twelve Years a Slave is a 19th century memoir by American Solomon Northup. Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tells how he was tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before he was able to get information to friends and family in New York, who in turn secured his rel...
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    18,62 €

  • Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
    Daniel W. Crofts / Daniel WCrofts
    In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s life: his role as the 'Great Emancipator.' Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a war to end it. In 1861, as part of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union and prevent wa...
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    44,20 €

  • Father James Page
    Larry Eugene Rivers
    James Page spent the majority of his life enslaved--during which time he experienced the death of his free father, witnessed his mother and brother being sold on the auction block, and was forcibly moved 700 miles south from Richmond, VA, to Tallahassee, FL, by his enslaver, John Parkhill. Page would go on to become Parkhill’s chief aide on his plantation and, unusually, a reli...
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    49,84 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Harriet Jacobs
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave. The book documents Jacobs’ life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced on plantations as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their families when ...
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    53,81 €


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