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  • Instructions aux domestiques
    Jonathan Swift
    « Quoique d’une certaine étendue, ce traité n’est qu’un fragment. On présume que Swift voulait faire tout un volume, mais que le temps et la santé lui manquèrent. Ce qui paraît certain c’est qu’il faisait grand cas de ce travail, car en 1739, alors qu’il avait perdu la mémoire, et que l’indifférence pour la littérature le gagnait de plus en plus, il écrit avec anxiété à Faulkne...
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    9,02 €

  • The Mission to End Slavery
    Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire
    Prejudice, racism, oppression and suffering. These are things that we have all seen and continue to see in the world today. The root of a lot of these injustices can often be found in slavery. A fact not lost on Femi Adebayo, who has often felt that black people have had to fight harder than everyone else due to what he views as the system.Femi stumbles across the mysterious Mr...
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    15,71 €

  • The Mission to End Slavery
    Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire
    Prejudice, racism, oppression and suffering. These are things that we have all seen and continue to see in the world today. The root of a lot of these injustices can often be found in slavery. A fact not lost on Femi Adebayo, who has often felt that black people have had to fight harder than everyone else due to what he views as the system.Femi stumbles across the mysterious Mr...
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    22,04 €

  • A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection
    Rafael Ocasio
    In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and the Rhode Island coastal town of Bristol. The citizens of Bristol were heavily involved in the slavery trade and owned sugarcane plantations in Cuba and also served as...
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    128,91 €

  • Backcountry Slave Trader
    Frances Melton Racine / Philip Noel Racine
    Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith, a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his business ledger and his correspondence were of unusual specificity. The authors’ analyze these entries and his correspondence, which they argue provide details about the institutional features of the domestic slave trade not found in earlier publish...
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    122,46 €

  • Homicide Justified
    Andrew T. Fede
    This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters'...
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    33,09 €

  • Twice Condemned
    Philip J. Schwarz / Philip JSchwarz
    Dominion during a 160 year period. Before Twice Condemned was first published in 1988, historians often focused primarily on isolated or dramatic examples of the sometimes deadly conflict present in societies based on slave labor. But Twice Condemned analyzes the prevalence, longevity, and variety of behavior attributed to slave convicts. In doing so, this book also provides a ...
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    62,43 €

  • Life Beyond Circumstance
    Jullian Smallwood
    A story about a young man's mental struggles between living in poverty or gaining success. With practically being homeless himself. Due to the Circumstances that was beyond his control. With both of his parents being on drugs. To his mother getting kicked out the family shelter because her drug abuse. Eventually, his mother was send to jail. With all of the things going on ...
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    15,62 €

  • 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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    156,96 €

  • The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book
    Jim Jordan
    In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the ...
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    29,68 €

  • The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible
    This is an Introduction, History, and Photocopy of the Slave Bible. - There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control and keep the slaves working calmly and the abolitionists began to question the moral cost of slavery. The abolitionist movement was growing and for the first time, the souls of the slaves were being considered. As they prepared to com...
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    42,87 €

  • A Brief History of World Slavery
    Glenn Rogers
    Slavery was a shameful thing—a dark and horrible part of human history. It should never have happened. But it did. Most people, however, don't know what really happened, why it happened, how it happened, or the extent to which it happened. In this brief, easy-to-read book, Dr. Glenn Rogers provides an overview of slavery from when it began nearly 10,000 years ago to the sla...
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    20,48 €

  • Liberty and Slavery
    Niels Eichhorn
    In Liberty and Slavery, Niels Eichhorn examines the language of slavery, a component he considers central to revolutionary struggles, especially those fought by European separatists in the first half of the nineteenth century. Tracing the European uprisings of 1830 and 1848 and the American Civil War in 1861, Eichhorn shows that separatism, broadly defined as a group's desi...
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    55,07 €

  • The Black Butterfly
    Marcus Wood
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    36,56 €

  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Cactus Classics Large Print)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU / Marc Cactus
    ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCEby Henry David ThoreauEDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point FontFONT: 16 point GaramondBOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm)COVER: GlossyPAPER: CreamTABLE OF CONTENTS: YesCactus Classics Large Print (16 point size) editions are typeset with the Garamond font. These editions have a glossy cover, cream paper interior, wide margins,...
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    13,15 €

  • Fancy
    Michael Edwin Q.
    From the best selling author of BUT HAVE NOT LOVE and BORN A COLORED GIRL comes a most scandalous tale, often upsetting and disturbing. During the slavery years, young, beautiful slave girls were sold to schools where they were taught to be perfect mistresses of rich, white, Southern gentlemen. This is the story of one young girl's struggle to remain true to herself. ...
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    17,78 €

  • Slave Sites on Display
    Helena Woodard
    At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return--not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave decedents lie buried beneath the area around Wall Street, which some of them helped to bu...
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    158,55 €

  • Slave Sites on Display
    Helena Woodard
    At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return--not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave decedents lie buried beneath the area around Wall Street, which some of them helped to bu...
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    50,39 €

  • The Loyal Republic
    Erik Mathisen
    This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic’s history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed. Ideas about loyalty emerged ...
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    35,66 €

  • Rebellious Passage
    Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie / Jeffrey RKerr-Ritchie
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    120,11 €

  • Send Judah First
    Brian C. Johnson / Brian CJohnson
    A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836...
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    19,72 €

  • Send Judah First
    Brian C. Johnson / Brian CJohnson
    A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836...
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    25,20 €

  • Peculiar Rhetoric
    Bjorn F Stillion Southard
    The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America's borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard indicate...
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    158,56 €

  • Peculiar Rhetoric
    Bjorn F Stillion Southard
    The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America's borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard indicate...
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    50,40 €

  • My Bondage and My Freedom
    Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his t...
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    31,75 €

  • A Slaves Song
    Michael Edwin Q.
    A Confederate soldier caught behind enemy lines makes for safety disguised as a traveling preacher. Along the way, he learns the horrors of war, the evils of slavery, and the cost of freedom. N+BY a twist of fate, he becomes the pastor of a church of black slaves. 3 ...
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    17,83 €

  • Where Are My Children?!
    L A A. Davis / L A Davis
    Twenty seventeen was one of the worst hurricane seasons in history. Some blame the erratic changes in the weather patterns on climate change, global warming, or mother nature getting herself back into balance. But what if it was revenge for crimes committed against humanity centuries ago? In this tale of historical fiction. L.A. Davis creates a story of imagination that explain...
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    23,81 €

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Written by American author and dedicated abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" is a poignant novel which shows the harsh reality of a slave’s life in the 1800s. Uncle Tom, an African-American slave who believes in the power of Christian faith. The book would be a major contributor to the Civil War because its compelling portrayal of slaves as fellow human bein...
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    28,48 €

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867
    Daniel B. Domingues da Silva / Daniel BDomingues da Silva
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    35,92 €

  • Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
    Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
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    35,91 €


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