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  • The Life of Josiah Henson
    Josiah Henson
    Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland. In 1830, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario), where he later founded a settlement and laborer’s school for other fugitive slaves. His autobiography is a tense, gripping account of how he escaped from his owners, a pair of sadistic, cruelly duplicitous brothers...
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    33,99 €

  • THE GOVERNMENT TRUCE, APOLOGY, OWED TO BLACK SLAVES! DEBT
    Nelson Norman
    THE NERVE OF OUR GOVERNMENT TRUCE, Wow! BLACK PEOPLE. THIS WORLD, IS NEVER GOING TO BE RIGHT UNTIL THE MASTER-OF-SLAVES-CEREMONY IS FAIRLY MADE. AND HOSTED BY OUR’GOVERNMENT’ MAKING TRUCE, TO ALL BLACK PEOPLE, ...
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    96,56 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl is considered a slave narrative as well as an example of feminist literature. Harriet Jacobs began composing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl while living and working at Idlewild, Willis's home on the Hudson River. Jacobs's autobiographical accounts were first published in serial form in the New York Tribune, a newspaper owned an...
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    30,53 €

  • The Trouble with Minna
    Hendrik Hartog
    In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’s case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate—ab...
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    31,81 €

  • Illusions of Emancipation
    Joseph P. Reidy / Joseph PReidy
    As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln’s proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the form...
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    44,91 €

  • Slave Against Slave
    Jeff Forret
    In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular p...
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    43,54 €

  • Through the Eyes of a Slave - Written Accounts of American Slavery
    Various
    “Through the Eyes of a Slave” contains a carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety of authors including Solomon Northup’s “Twelve Years a Slave”, which was adapted into the 2013 blockbuster film of the same name. These compelling, inspirational, and often harrowing real-life stories offer a unique insight into the t...
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    36,14 €

  • Twenty-Two Years a Slave - And Forty Years a Freeman
    Austin Steward
    Austin Steward (1793–1869) was an African-American author and abolitionist. Born into slavery, he managed to escape from Virginia aged 21 and moved to Rochester, New York before settling in Canada. “Twenty-Two Years a Slave - And Forty Years a Freeman” is Steward’s astonishing 1856 autobiography within which he recounts the travails of his harrowing life as a slave in America, ...
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    25,47 €

  • Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    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 a 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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    21,40 €

  • A Runaway Slave from Baltimore
    Frederick Douglass
    “A Runaway Slave from Baltimore” contains a collection of speeches and letters by Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker who garnered significant acclaim for his 1845 autobiography. A leading figure in the abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862 Emancipation Proclamatio...
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    25,68 €

  • Through the Eyes of a Slave - Written Accounts of American Slavery
    Various
    'Through the Eyes of a Slave' contains a carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety of authors including Solomon Northup’s 'Twelve Years a Slave', which was adapted into the 2013 blockbuster film of the same name. These compelling, inspirational, and often harrowing real-life stories offer a unique insight into the t...
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    50,93 €

  • The Bracelet
    Charles A. Bonner / Charles ABonner
    The story that will end child sex slavery in the world! The lines between fiction and nonfiction are blurring and giving rise to a new form that might best be called 'true fiction'. Brought to light are the established mafias that dominate the trade. The big players in Europe today are Russians, Albanians, and Ukrainians (and recently, in Italy, Nigerians). In southeastern Euro...
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    11,67 €

  • Behind The Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Behind The Scenes: Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed...
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    14,50 €

  • Autographs For Freedom (Volume I)
    Various
    Autographs For Freedom (Volume I): Edited By Julia Griffiths (In Two Volumes - Volume I)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re...
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    15,60 €

  • Autographs For Freedom (Complete)
    Various
    Autographs For Freedom (Complete): Edited By Julia Griffiths (Complete Edition Of Two Volumes)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has b...
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    24,17 €

  • Autographs For Freedom (Volume II)
    Various
    Autographs For Freedom (Volume II): Edited By Julia Griffiths (In Two Volumes - Volume II)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been ...
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    16,67 €

  • The Burden
    Rochelle Riley
    The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and ...
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    22,17 €

  • Cudjo’s Own Story of the Last African Slaver
    Zora 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 ...
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    7,23 €

  • Esclavitud y utopía: las guerras y sueños de un transformador del mundo asháninka
    Fernando Santos Granero
    En la primera mitad del siglo XX, un carismático jefe indígena amazónicoperuano, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, jugó un papel clave en el liderazgode su pueblo, los asháninka, a través del caos generado por el colapsode la economía del caucho en 1910 y las presiones posteriores de colonos,misioneros y funcionarios del gobierno para asimilarlos a la sociedadnacional. Esclavitud y u...
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    36,40 €

  • THE BREADWINNER
    Sriyani Tidball
    The Breadwinner shares true untold stories of impoverished Sri Lankan women who have been exploited. This unique book includes the experiences gathered from over 200 struggling women, through focus groups, surveys, and in-depth interviews. Women showcased in this book either spent years working as housemaids in the Middle East or were preparing to leave their families for such ...
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    20,08 €

  • Black Market
    Aaron Carico
    On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South’s lucrative farmland. Not only an object to be traded and used, the slave was also a kind of currency, a form of value that anchored the market itself. And this...
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    126,83 €

  • Black Market
    Aaron Carico
    On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South’s lucrative farmland. Not only an object to be traded and used, the slave was also a kind of currency, a form of value that anchored the market itself. And this...
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    41,32 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
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    18,04 €


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