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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Ann Jacobs / TBD
    Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, escaped slave, abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym "Linda Brent", was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual abuse th...
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    19,93 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, escaped slave, abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym "Linda Brent", was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual abuse th...
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    30,54 €

  • Rethinking Rufus
    Thomas A. Foster
    Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically...
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    136,19 €

  • Rethinking Rufus
    Thomas A. Foster
    Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically...
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    29,26 €

  • The Angela Project Presents The 400th Year Commemoration Ceremony
    Cheri L Mills
    Program litany for the ceremony concluding 40 Days of Prayer for the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS). The ceremony engages blacks and whites of all ages to engage in forgiveness and reconciliation for the devastating and lingering effects of 400 years of enslavement in America. The program format includes litanies, readings, Scripture passages, and songs. The ceremony ca...
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    7,25 €

  • In the Shadow of Dred Scott
    Kelly M. Kennington
    The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom in the local legal arena of St. Louis. ...
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    36,61 €

  • A Curse Upon the Nation
    Kay Wright Lewis
    From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even in...
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    36,68 €

  • Blind No More
    Jonathan Daniel Wells
    With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persis...
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    50,09 €

  • The Angela Project Presents 40 Days of Prayer
    Cheri L Mills
    Throughout the 400 years since the first '20 and odd Negroes' were brought to the British colonies, American Descendants of Slavery have experienced a Black Holocaust: enslavement, black codes, sharecropping, Jim Crow, lynchings, convict leasing, redlin-ing, restrictive covenants, police brutality, subprime lending, mass incarceration, all of which have resulted in the ghettoiz...
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    12,10 €

  • Tame The Savage Heart
    Michael Edwin Q.
    From the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation, A Slave's Song and Born A Coloured Girl - She was a young slave girl. He was an African warrior purchased art a slave auction with the intent he would father a new breed of stronger slave. Despite all odds, a language barrier and the disapproval of her family and friends, the two fight for a life together. ...
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    15,30 €

  • Slave No More
    Aline Helg / Lara Vergnaud
    Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early coloniza...
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    41,03 €

  • Slave No More
    Aline Helg / Lara Vergnaud
    Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early coloniza...
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    126,55 €

  • Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore
    Ralph Clayton
    This book promises to become the standard work of the history of the slaves, slaveholders, and the free black population of Antebellum Baltimore. For five years, Mr. Clayton has collected, transcribed, and cross-indexed a great variety of documents: applications for certificates of freedom, slave schedules, field assessor work books, census schedules, mortality schedules, gener...
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    31,75 €

  • Ourika
    Claire de Duras
    Achetée avant son embarquement sur un navire négrier par le gouverneur du Sénégal qui l’amène à Paris pour l’offrir à sa tante, la jeune Africaine Ourika reçoit une bonne éducation. À l’âge de douze ans, elle se rend compte du préjudice que suscite sa couleur de peau. Après le mariage de Charles, dont elle est amoureuse, avec une Française, elle se retire au couvent où elle fin...
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    8,12 €

  • Amos Fortune, Free Man Glossary and Notes
    Heron Books
    This is a comprehensive glossary of the history, geography, beliefs and customs as represented in Amos Fortune Free Man by Elizabeth Yates.  There are over 90 entries including English words, historical and geographical terms and more that can’t commonly be found in a middle school student’s dictionary. To accommodate the different editions of Amos Fortune Free Man, words are l...
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    17,70 €

  • A Brief History of Trade Unionism in Mauritius
    Rajpalsingh Allgoo
    This book present the history of Slavery and forced labour in Mauritius. It tells us how Mauritius was occupied by the Europeans and was converted in to a colony. When slavery was abolished in 1833, the British started a new system called ‘Indentured Labour.’ The Indian Indentured Labour were brought in Mauritius in 1834. This book presents an overview of the Trade Union moveme...
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    22,63 €

  • Slavery and the University
    Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the ...
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    135,48 €

  • Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Cet essai philosophique fut commencé en 1753 et publié en 1755, en réponse à un sujet de l’Académie de Dijon intitulé : « Quelle est l’origine de l’inégalité des conditions parmi les hommes ? »Sa participation au concours est dans la continuité du Discours sur les sciences et les arts pour lequel il avait déjà été primé en 1750 par cette même académie, mais cette fois-ci, il fu...
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    10,52 €

  • Charlton’s Ground
    Dan Cassenti
    Charlton is born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation in 1837. Belle, the master's daughter, intervenes to save the tiny baby's life when her father contemplates killing off the runt. Belle’s relationship with Charlton progresses from nurturer to teacher to friend to childhood love. She promises to marry him if she can use the words of the Declaration of Independ...
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    22,16 €

  • Charlton’s Ground
    Dan Cassenti
    Charlton is born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation in 1837. Belle, the master's daughter, intervenes to save the tiny baby's life when her father contemplates killing off the runt. Belle’s relationship with Charlton progresses from nurturer to teacher to friend to childhood love. She promises to marry him if she can use the words of the Declaration of Independ...
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    27,34 €

  • The Trade in the Living
    Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
    Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era. ...
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    49,62 €

  • The Long Walk
    Judith C. Owens-Lalude
    The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom is a riveting, antebellum, historical novel about the social injustice and the enslavement of an intact family, taken from Virginia to Kentucky, to be sold and forcefully separated on the auction block. The saga follows two of the family members from the auction to a farm where they endure a brutal environment. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom...
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    18,45 €

  • A Rebel’s Road Home
    John J Schaffer
    After the Civil War, Delilah and Jameson Hartford return to their plantation in the south in an attempt to help rebuild it and save their people and an unfriendly town after the ravages of war. They are challenged with a myriad of complications, including: rekindled old flames, familiar biases, hostile outside forces, a devastating plague and a deranged murderer all within a di...
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    8,98 €

  • Transatlantic Africa
    Kwasi Konadu
    Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through African and diasporic primary sources. Based on careful reading of Africans' or...
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    23,36 €

  • Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
    Jeroen Dewulf
    The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewu...
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    49,96 €

  • The Caribbean
    Jacob Gelt Dekker
    Refreshing and educational narrative historyAfter a life-changing diagnosis, Dutch entrepreneur Jacob Gelt Dekker decides to take a step into the unknown. Setting sail from his home in Key West, he embarks on an odyssey around the Caribbean islands, navigating treacherous waters and nations forever shaped by the Age of Discovery and transatlantic slave trade. Soon he discovers ...
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    35,48 €

  • But Have Not Love
    Michael Edwin Q.
    By a twist of fate, a runaway slave girl and a wounded Confederate officer are thrown together and must rely on each other to survive. Can the seed of love grow in the garden of hate?This is the latest in Michael Edwin Q's African American novel series. ...
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    16,23 €

  • The Ridiculously Simple Guide to the Civil War
    Daniels Judah / Judah Daniels
    Aw, the Civil War--it’s that thing in American history that we’re all supposed to know. Sure you know the basics: That the South was the evil racist ones and the North was the nice loving ones...except segregation was everywhere in the North. It was not uncommon for African Americans to be excluded from public transportation and schools. That it was the bloodiest war in Ameri...
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    6,70 €

  • What is a Slave Society?
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    162,21 €

  • Sexuality and Slavery
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy c...
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    136,01 €


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