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  • 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 €

  • Jamaica Ladies
    Christine Walker
    Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women hel...
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    37,82 €

  • Jamaica Ladies
    Christine Walker
    Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women hel...
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    126,68 €

  • Victoria’s War
    Catherine A. Hamilton / Catherine AHamilton
     Victoria's War is a work of historical fiction about 19-year-old Victoria Darski, a Polish Catholic woman sold into slavery during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and Etta Tod, the 20-year-old deaf daughter of a German baker who buys Victoria. Poland, 1939: Eager to study literature at the University of Warsaw, Victoria waits with bags packed. But Hitler invades Poland and ...
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    17,28 €

  • 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup's memoir written in 1853 and now an award winning major motion picture. Mr. Northup recounts his powerful life story of being born a free man in New York, kidnapped and forced into slavery for twelve years and then freed and reunited with his wife and children. 12 YEARS A SLAVE: NARRATIVE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP, A CITIZEN OF NEW-YORK, KIDNAPPED IN WASHINGTON CIT...
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    10,65 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his peopl...
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    8,69 €

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro
    Carter G Woodson
    Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these Af...
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    8,59 €

  • Where we Started
    Arthur Dobrin
    “In Where we Started, Dobrin creates a world that leaves the reader enough space to make moral judgments themselves, while at the same time showing how perspective changes the weight of all these considerations. The novel reads like parables, strewn together and buoyed by historical context.”  - Christian Hayden, African American activist.“The novel is a narrative on the develo...
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    37,22 €

  • WATCHING THE HOUSE DIVIDE
    JOHN BRACKMAN
    In 1860, the country was once again having a presidential election. This election and its results would prove to be one of the most contentious of any that the United States had ever faced since becoming a nation. John Brown had attempted a slavery revolt which caused concern because it went beyond the normal abolition methodology of speeches and editorials degrading slavery. B...
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    33,19 €

  • WATCHING THE HOUSE DIVIDE
    JOHN BRACKMAN
    In 1860, the country was once again having a presidential election. This election and its results would prove to be one of the most contentious of any that the United States had ever faced since becoming a nation. John Brown had attempted a slavery revolt which caused concern because it went beyond the normal abolition methodology of speeches and editorials degrading slavery. B...
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    40,13 €

  • A Journey through Texas
    Frederick Law Olmsted
    2020 Reprint of the 1857 Edition.   This edition edited by James Howard and illustrated by Mary Sloan.  Early in the year 1854 the author, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas winter. this work recounts his travel along the Old San Antonio Road through the East Texas' piney woods, the dry prairies ...
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    24,64 €

  • Maroons and the Marooned
    Contributions by Richard Bodek, Claire P. Curtis, Joseph Kelly, Simon Lewis, Steve Mentz, J. Brent Morris, Peter Sands, Edward Shore, and James O'Neil SpadyCommonly, the word maroon refers to someone cast away on an island. One becomes marooned, usually, through a storm at sea or by a captain as a method of punishment. But the term originally denoted escaped slaves. Though ...
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    50,25 €

  • To Preach Deliverance to the Captives
    Ryan C. McIlhenny
    George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign against slavery in the antebellum period. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. In To Preach Deliverance to the Captives, Ryan C. McIlhenny examines th...
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    51,70 €

  • Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
    Jeff Eden
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    35,78 €

  • Wistful
    Michael Edwin Q. / TBD
    Only one letter separates the two words. Wishful is having hope for something. Wistful is regret for what might have been.Wistful is a new book from award winning author Michael Edwin Q. It is a must read for fans of 'But Have Not Love', 'Born A Colored Girl' and 'Fancy'. 3 ...
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    15,48 €

  • Murder at Mount Vernon
    Robert J Muller
    Politics, murder, and mortal danger confront retired General George Washington as he considers whether to accept the presidency of the United States.The General has retired to his farm, Mount Vernon, but he cannot escape the politics of his time. The new constitution requires a president, and no one doubts it must be him. Except himself.Colonel David Humphreys, Washington’s aid...
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    24,58 €

  • The History of Mary Prince
    Mary Prince
    “The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave” is a 1831 autobiography of Mary Prince (1788–1833), a British abolitionist and autobiographer. Born in Bermuda to a family of African slaves, she managed to escape to London where she wrote this book. The first account of a black woman’s life published in Great Britain, “The History of Mary Prince” was highly controversial in a...
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    16,45 €

  • Slavery in the Courtroom (1985)
    Paul Finkelman
    Classic analysis of the law of slavery that received the Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries in 1986. Offers a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain, and as such, provides readers with easy access to an understanding of most of the important American an...
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    50,84 €

  • Slavery in the Courtroom (1985)
    Paul Finkelman
    Classic analysis of the law of slavery that received the Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries in 1986. Offers a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain, and as such, provides readers with easy access to an understanding of most of the important American an...
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    62,55 €

  • City of Refuge
    Marcus P Nevius
    City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sec...
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    55,59 €

  • American Slave Trade
    Jesse Torrey
    American Slave Trade: Or, An Account Of The Manner In Which The Slave Dealers Take Free People From Some Of The United States Of America, And Carry Them Away, And Sell Them As Slaves In Other Of The States; And Of The Horrible Cruelties Practised In The Carrying On Of This Most Infamous TrafficThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the pr...
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    11,51 €

  • Uncle 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, fea...
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    20,37 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Do you want to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave? If so then keep reading… Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through...
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    19,10 €

  • Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South
    Melissa Teed / Paul Teed
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    88,98 €

  • Uncle 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, fea...
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    17,80 €

  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after buying her freedom and that of her son in St. Louis. She cre...
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    18,96 €

  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after buying her freedom and that of her son in St. Louis. She cre...
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    31,13 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Do you want to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave? If so then keep reading… Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through...
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    13,72 €

  • Liberty's Jihad
    Munawar Ali Karim
    Starting in pre-Islamic Arabia and deepest Africa, following the lives, adventures and writings of three Muslim slaves through antebellum America and the world of trans-Atlantic slavery, Liberty’s Jihad takes us on a fascinating journey spanning centuries, continents and characters. Along the way Munawar Karim invites us to explore the writings of African Muslim slaves, reflect...
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    24,00 €


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