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  • The Roman Law of Slavery
    W.W. Buckland / W.WBuckland
    A systematic and scholarly description of the principles of the Roman law regarding slavery. Examines slavery during the Empire, the rights of slaves, commercial and non-commercial relations, and provides an outline of the law of manumission during the Republic. With appendices and a thorough index. xii, [2], 735 pp. ...
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    73,95 €

  • Akan Pioneers
    Kwasi Konadu
    Using diverse and new sources (archaeological, biomedical, climatological, linguistic, ethno-musical, oral and documentary sources in various languages), this groundbreaking study tells the story of a West African people, the origins and character of their cultural forms and ideas, and how these Akan, or "pioneering peoples," shaped the politics and societies of their homeland ...
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    24,59 €

  • Season of Mist
    Mac Donald Dixon
    Season of Mist salutes the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. This historical novel begins during the French Revolution in the late 1700s on the tiny Caribbean Island of Saint Lucia.After suffering severe deprivation, a band of revolutionaries using guerrilla tactics are able to rout the remnants of Napoleon’s grand army, as well as some of Britain’s best foot soldiers...
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    14,15 €

  • Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass ignored his master's veto on black education and taught himself to read and write. Escaping to the Northern States in 1838, Douglass became an ardent abolitionist, campaigning passionately against all aspects of human bondage.His 'Narrative' is a classic of black emancipation: a life story replete with tales of cruelty and oppre...
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    8,98 €

  • The Captive’s Quest for Freedom
    R. J. M. Blackett / RJMBlackett
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    144,08 €

  • Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage
    Sherwin K. Bryant / Sherwin KBryant
    In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain’s Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal claims on the Americas and elemental to the process of Spanish colo...
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    38,12 €

  • Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
    David Wheat
    This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Gui...
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    50,81 €

  • Recaptured Africans
    Sharla M. Fett / Sharla MFett
    In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these 'recaptives' and recounts the relationships they built to sur...
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    45,78 €

  • Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
    Jeff Eden
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    120,65 €

  • Slavery on the Periphery
    Kristen Epps
    Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line. Kristen Epps explores slavery's emergence from an upper South slaveholding culture and its development into a small-sc...
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    36,70 €

  • Medical Bondage
    Deirdre Cooper Owens
    The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistulae repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why...
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    24,16 €

  • The Slavery Controversy, 1831-1860
    Arthur Young Lloyd
    Throughout the antebellum decades the slavery controversy raged. Making abundant use of contemporary materials--controversial pamphlets, reports, newspapers, periodicals, and the writings and speeches of northern and southern leaders--the author has told the history of this great battle of ideals and interests in considerable detail.Originally published in 1939.A UNC Press Endu...
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    60,68 €

  • El negro Guillermo, Venezuela (1769-1771)
    Jean-Pierre Tardieu
    Las obras que se refieren a la vida y semblanza de los jefes cimarrones de Hispanoamérica muy pocas veces se fundamentan en los autos judiciales, debido al hecho de que las autoridades no solían abrir proceso a su respecto, como se lo autorizaban las leyes de Indias.No pasó así para el Negro Guillermo, quien, entre 1769 y 1771, encabezó el cumbe de Ocoyta, en el actual estado d...
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    11,00 €

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African.
    Olaudah Equiano / Olaudah Equiano Vassa
    Read & Co. History presents this brand new edition of “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African”, an autobiography published in 1798. Equiano (c. 1745-1797) was an African writer and abolitionist, who was taken into slavery as a child and transported to the British colony of Virginia. This personal account depicts the narrative of...
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    23,37 €

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself
    Gustavus Vassa / Olaudah Equiano
    A best seller of its time, Olaudah Equiano’s story of his life as a slave in the second half of the eighteenth century continues to this day to aid our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and our fight against modern slavery.   According to his memoir, eleven-year old Equiano and his sister were kidnapped from their village (in what is now southern Nigeria) by African sla...
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    10,45 €

  • The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave,
    Mary Prince
    Mary Prince was the first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies and to publish a record of her life in bondage.  Born into servitude, at the tender age of twelve she witnessed the ruin of her family, with her mother and each of her siblings sold off to separate owners, after which she herself was passed from master to master, all of whom subjected her to se...
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    8,91 €

  • Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture
    Rose MacLean
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    120,60 €

  • Sobreviviendo a la esclavitud
    Maribel Arrelucea Barrantes
    Durante los últimos setenta años del periodo colonial, la Corona española tuvo que enfrentar múltiples tensiones. En el Perú, esas dificultades incluían la flexibilización de las relaciones esclavistas y el temor de su disolución. Como resultado, se aplicaron algunas medidas favorables a la inclusión de los afrodescendientes, pues este grupo social configuraba el intrincado tra...
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    29,12 €

  • Fractional Freedoms
    Michelle A. McKinley / Michelle AMcKinley
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    35,71 €

  • Making a Slave State
    Ryan A. Quintana / Ryan AQuintana
    How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina’s state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving thro...
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    41,48 €

  • Making a Slave State
    Ryan A. Quintana / Ryan AQuintana
    How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina’s state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications. Beginning in the early eighteenth century and moving thro...
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    126,99 €

  • The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade
    The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century campaign. ...
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    46,87 €

  • Born A Colored Girl
    Michael Edwin Q.
    From the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation and A Slave's Song - Two slaves, a mother and daughter, separated during the Civil War never to see each other again. From her mother's diary, Etta Jean will learn to love the mother she never knew. And from the same diary, a mother will finally give of herself. ...
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    15,15 €

  • Unrequited Toil
    Calvin Schermerhorn
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    120,54 €

  • Sisyphus
    Bertha Pappenheim
    Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936) war eine österreichische Frauenrechtlerin. Sie war Gründerin des Jüdischen Frauenbundes. Bekannt wurde sie darüber hinaus als Patientin Anna O. Die von Josef Breuer zusammen mit Sigmund Freud in den Studien über Hysterie veröffentlichte Fallgeschichte war für Freud Ausgangspunkt für die Entwicklung seiner Theorie der Hysterie und damit der Psychoan...
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    5,43 €

  • The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave
    William Wells Brown
    Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me. Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me. You bestowed upon me your own. Base indeed should I be, if I ever forget what I owe to you, or do anything to disgrace that honor...
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    18,05 €

  • Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
    Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation was an Atlantic event, it has been studied most often in geographically isolated...
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    118,07 €

  • Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
    Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation was an Atlantic event, it has been studied most often in geographically isolated...
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    38,26 €

  • The Captive’s Quest for Freedom
    R. J. M. Blackett
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    28,27 €

  • The Path of Tenderness for a Child’s Sake
    Marthaline D. Shar / Marthaline DShar
    The Path of Tenderness for a Child’s Sake features real-life stories based on the lives of children of war in Liberia. The tales take us through the struggles of broken dreams, family, friendships, and love.Dreams do come true, four-year-old Maddy believed. But when darkness and betrayal took over her world, her shooting star disappeared and her dreams melted away. Her beautifu...
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    9,70 €