Catálogo de libros: Esclavitud y abolición de la esclavitud

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  • Freedom by a Thread
    Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery ...
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    36,71 €

  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
    Gelien Matthews
    In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery ag...
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    38,24 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • Lucky Valley
    Catherine Hall
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    44,87 €

  • Beyond the antislavery haven
    Ellie Bird
    This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place. ...
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    157,64 €

  • The Negro and the Nation
    George Spring Merriam
    'The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement' by George S. Merriam delves into the complex and pivotal history of slavery in the United States. This meticulously researched account offers a comprehensive exploration of the institution of slavery, its impact on African Americans, and its enduring legacy on the nation.Spanning the period leading up...
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    37,39 €

  • Clotelle
    William Wells Brown
    'Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States' by William Wells Brown is a powerful work of historical fiction exploring the complexities of slavery in the United States South. As a significant contribution to African American literature, the novel delves into the lives of those impacted by this brutal institution. Brown’s narrative offers a glimpse into the experiences of African A...
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    20,12 €

  • Clotelle
    William Wells Brown
    'Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States' by William Wells Brown is a powerful work of historical fiction exploring the complexities of slavery in the United States South. As a significant contribution to African American literature, the novel delves into the lives of those impacted by this brutal institution. Brown’s narrative offers a glimpse into the experiences of African A...
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    33,76 €

  • American Scenes, and Christian Slavery
    Ebenezer Davies
    Ebenezer Davies’ 'American Scenes, and Christian Slavery: A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States' offers a compelling first-hand account of 19th-century America and its profound moral contradiction: slavery. This powerful narrative, meticulously prepared for print republication, chronicles Davies’ travels through a nation grappling with the institution of sla...
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    23,08 €

  • American Scenes, and Christian Slavery
    Ebenezer Davies
    Ebenezer Davies’ 'American Scenes, and Christian Slavery: A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States' offers a compelling first-hand account of 19th-century America and its profound moral contradiction: slavery. This powerful narrative, meticulously prepared for print republication, chronicles Davies’ travels through a nation grappling with the institution of sla...
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    35,56 €

  • The Negro and the Nation
    George Spring Merriam
    'The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement' by George S. Merriam delves into the complex and pivotal history of slavery in the United States. This meticulously researched account offers a comprehensive exploration of the institution of slavery, its impact on African Americans, and its enduring legacy on the nation.Spanning the period leading up...
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    26,06 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
    Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs / Lydia Maria Child
    'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself,' is the powerful and unflinching autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved African-American woman. This seminal work of abolitionist literature offers a rare and vital firsthand account of the horrors of slavery from a female perspective. Jacobs chronicles her personal experiences, providing a gripping narra...
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    23,22 €

  • Black Ivory
    Pearson / R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
    'Black Ivory' by R. M. Ballantyne plunges readers into the heart of 19th-century Africa, exploring the brutal realities of the slave trade. This historical fiction, categorized as a boys’ adventure story, offers a glimpse into a dark chapter of history. Ballantyne’s narrative provides a classic example of juvenile fiction centered on action and adventure, while simultaneously t...
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    35,64 €

  • Black Ivory
    Pearson / R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
    'Black Ivory' by R. M. Ballantyne plunges readers into the heart of 19th-century Africa, exploring the brutal realities of the slave trade. This historical fiction, categorized as a boys’ adventure story, offers a glimpse into a dark chapter of history. Ballantyne’s narrative provides a classic example of juvenile fiction centered on action and adventure, while simultaneously t...
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    23,16 €

  • Slavery and the American Founding
    Jude M. Pfister
    Since 1776, the Founding generation has been portrayed as creators of a new world where liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples. The Founders, although brilliant, were nonetheless human and fashioned a country conceived in liberty and freedom for themselves. The enslaved, women, and other minorities were not part of the original Founding documents. 'A...
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    73,14 €

  • Atlantic Cataclysm
    David Eltis
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    45,91 €

  • Slave trading in the Early Middle Ages
    Janel M. Fontaine
    This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Dismal Freedom
    J. Brent Morris
    The foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement; however, what may have impeded the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousand...
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    31,62 €

  • Borderland Blacks
    dann j Broyld
    Winner of the OHS Fred Landon Award In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including aboliti...
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    44,50 €

  • I AM JAYVYN
    Peter D Brown
    'I AM JAYVYN' is a compelling work of historical fiction positioned to remind readers of the key role the enslaved played in the development of America, and the systemic racism that still plagues the nation today.1710-On a beautiful morning full of hope and promise, twelve-year-old Javyn’s world is suddenly shattered when slavers raid his peaceful village. His father is killed,...
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    18,24 €

  • The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
    Michael J. Douma
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    77,33 €

  • Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
    Katey Castellano
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    145,11 €

  • Freedom’s Mirage
    Sydney Nathans
    Freedom’s Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South’s largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people alike. Emancipated in 1848 but required to leave the state to be free, he was sent to Liberia. Though richly endowed and roya...
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    127,21 €

  • Savagery in Sandals
    Various
    Through the historical writings of classic scholars, poets, and commentators, Savagery in Sandals sheds a light on the world of the gladiatorial games and the lives of Ancient Rome’s most renowned gladiators.Established in the birth of the Roman Empire, the gladiator holds an almost mythological stance in the modern understanding of Ancient Rome. In a world where life and death...
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    22,55 €

  • Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean
    Finola O’Kane
    Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean. ...
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    45,10 €

  • American Uprising
    Daniel Rasmussen
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    14,54 €

  • Why Is the Negro Lynched
    Frederick Douglass
    "Experience has taught us that it is sometimes wise and necessary to have more than two witnesses to bring out the whole truth. Especially is this the case where one of such witnesses has a powerful motive for suppressing or distorting the facts, as in this case. I therefore insist upon my right to take the witness stand and give my version of this Southern question, and though...
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    6,72 €

  • Jane Austen, Abolitionist
    Margie Burns
    The history of the phrase 'pride and prejudice' before it became the title of Jane Austen’s most famous novel is largely forgotten today. In particular, most of the reading public is unaware that 'pride and prejudice' was a traditional critique adopted by British and American antislavery writers. After Austen’s lifetime, the antislavery associations intensified, especially i...
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    71,73 €

  • When Liberty Enslaves
    Jerry Aveta
    There is a common experience between our experiences today and those before the Civil War many years ago. The effect of the intersection of faith and politics during these two experiences has had on our elections and our governance is uncanny in their similarities. Both times an election insurrection was stopped by the sitting vice president. Both times had people of the same f...
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    18,80 €


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