Catálogo de libros: Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos

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  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Jacobs
    The voice of a black female slave, written in her own hand, as she struggles for identity and freedom.  What is it to serve a master? What is it to know you are bought free? Read for yourself. ...
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    8,44 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Jacobs
    The voice of a black female slave, written in her own hand, as she struggles for identity and freedom.  What is it to serve a master? What is it to know you are bought free? Read for yourself. ...
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    18,86 €

  • A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Harriet Beecher Stowe reveals the many sources that inspired and motivated her writing the renowned anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in response to criticism and disparaging remarks from pro-slavery figures in newspapers of the time. Doubt was cast upon Stowe’s narrative, particularly chapters depicting brutal physical abuse of slav...
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    17,79 €

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Unabridged English value reproduction of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe in response to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the book was the most popular novel of the 1800’s.A fable based in reality, it dramatizes the plight of slaves through many memorable and idealized characters.Uncle Tom's Cabin, through its millions of copies sold, was ...
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    22,21 €

  • The Heroic Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    'Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it... I have nothing to lose. If I am caught, I shall only be a slave. If I am shot, I shall only lose a life which is a burden and a curse. If I get clear, liberty, the inalienable birth-right of every man, precious and priceless, will be mine. My resolution is fixed. I shall be free.'-Frederick Douglass, The Heroic SlaveThe ...
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    6,71 €

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
        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, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black ...
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    20,47 €

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
        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, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black ...
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    13,06 €

  • Light and Truth
    Robert Benjamin Lewis
    Robert Benjamin Lewis first published his famous history of Native American and African Americans in 1836, arguing against the then-prevalent views of white supremacy.Lewis seeks to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural achievements of both African peoples and the Native Americans. His history ranges back to ancient times, describing the cities and empires that existed in A...
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    15,38 €

  • Light and Truth
    Robert Benjamin Lewis
    Robert Benjamin Lewis first published his famous history of Native American and African Americans in 1836, arguing against the then-prevalent views of white supremacy.Lewis seeks to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural achievements of both African peoples and the Native Americans. His history ranges back to ancient times, describing the cities and empires that existed in A...
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    30,22 €

  • The Negro Question
    John Stuart MILL
    'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.'-John Stuart MillThe Negro Question (1850) is an essay by John Stuart Mill that the author originally sent as an anonymous letter to Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country. It was written as a rebuttal to an article in support of sl...
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    7,33 €

  • Narrative Of Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth (born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.She gave hersel...
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    14,46 €

  • Narrative Of Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth (born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.She gave hersel...
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    5,68 €

  • Civil Disobedience
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is an essay by American author Henry David Thoreau and was first published in 1849 with the title of "Resistance to Civil Government".  Thoreau sets for an argument that permit governments to rule or degrade their consciences, otherwise the government forces one to become an agent of injustice.  Thoreau was motivated by his opposition to slaver...
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    14,56 €

  • Civil Disobedience
    Henry David Thoreau
    On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is an essay by American author Henry David Thoreau and was first published in 1849 with the title of 'Resistance to Civil Government'.  Thoreau sets for an argument that permit governments to rule or degrade their consciences, otherwise the government forces one to become an agent of injustice.  Thoreau was motivated by his opposition to slaver...
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    3,52 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    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 describes the events of his life and is consi...
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    3,61 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    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[1]. 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 describes the events of his life and is co...
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    14,87 €

  • Poems by a Slave
    George Moses Horton
    George Horton was a slave who worked in North Carolina during the 1820s and 1830s, who taught himself to read and author poems, which are collected in this book.As a young slave Horton detested manual farm work; he preferred to study and use his mind. He was able to obtain books, and diligently educated himself in the arts of literature and poetry. Once he was confident enough,...
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    9,18 €

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should receive a rational education. Sh...
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    26,44 €

  • The Journal of John Woolman
    John Woolman
    The famous journal of John Woolman is a historic text which emblematically details the life of a Quaker missionary preaching against slavery in North America during the 18th century.This unabridged edition of the journal contains all eleven chapters, taking us through the memorable life of the spiritual and intrepid John Woolman, a Quaker who took it upon himself to spread the ...
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    8,66 €

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should receive a rational education. Sh...
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    17,42 €


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