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  • LOOM
    Kevin Gallagher
    LOOM is concerned with the history of our divided country, a violent division preceding civil war and by now embedded in our cultural landscape. The non-sentimental poems are cool, clear and literal. They are narrated by white Americans who position themselves in relation to 'slave power' and cotton as 'lords of the loom' and 'lords of the lash'. Boston is central to the story,...
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    22,81 €

  • The Ox and the Slave
    Kazadi wa Mukuna
    This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the communal creative process of music and discusses the process of music change in Bumba-meu-Boi, and provides an example of exo-semantic analysis in the quest for the truthof this folk drama in Brazil. It argues that Bumba-meu-Boi sheds light on eighteenth century Brazil and reveals existing levels of interaction between classes (ma...
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    25,02 €

  • Slavery’s Metropolis
    Rashauna Johnson
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    65,08 €

  • Freedom’s Debt
    William A. Pettigrew
    In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the i...
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    41,40 €

  • Roots Matter
    Paula Owens Parker
    Roots Matter recognizes the impact of transgenerational trauma, as a result of chattel slavery, on the African American community. It emphasizes the importance of discovering the silent stories (those that were overlooked and ignored); unearthing the secret stories (those that were intentionally covered up); and being attentive to the reverberations of the severed stories of sl...
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    26,16 €

  • Roots Matter
    Paula Owens Parker
    Roots Matter recognizes the impact of transgenerational trauma, as a result of chattel slavery, on the African American community. It emphasizes the importance of discovering the silent stories (those that were overlooked and ignored); unearthing the secret stories (those that were intentionally covered up); and being attentive to the reverberations of the severed stories of sl...
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    42,33 €

  • Ancient West African Women - Toppled Cornerstones
    Christiana Oware Knudsen
    The period between the 9th and the 19th centuries was a dark period in the history of West African Women. The effect of this dark period continues today, in part, in the form of persistent gender inequalities.Prior to this period, ancient West African women were empowered to the point that they effectively organised their own societies in ways that helped complement their inter...
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    18,93 €

  • Understanding 19th-Century Slave Narratives
    Sterling Bland
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    142,20 €

  • The Civil War in the United States
    Frederick Engels / Karl Marx
    Readers will not find a Marxist interpretation of the American Civil War laid out in this volume. Rather, they will observe Marx and Engels working to define their own approach to history and politics while analyzing the American Civil War as it developed into the greatest social revolution that the United States has so far achieved. Radicals and revolutionaries found themselve...
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    27,81 €

  • Everything You Were Taught About African-Americans and the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Your history teachers lied to you! The American Civil War was not fought over slavery; genuine slavery was never practiced in the American South; Confederate President Jefferson Davis adopted a black child during the War and planned on abolishing slavery nearly a year before the Union did; and U.S. President Abraham Lincoln intended the Emancipation Proclamation to be temporary...
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    41,19 €

  • Everything You Were Taught About African-Americans and the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Your history teachers lied to you! The American Civil War was not fought over slavery; genuine slavery was never practiced in the American South; Confederate President Jefferson Davis adopted a black child during the War and planned on abolishing slavery nearly a year before the Union did; and U.S. President Abraham Lincoln intended the Emancipation Proclamation to be temporary...
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    62,07 €

  • Slavery Obscured
    Madge Dresser
    Slavery Obscured aims to assess how the slave trade affected the social life and cultural outlook of the citizens of a major English city, and contends that its impact was more profound than has previously been acknowledged. Based on original research in archives in Britain and America, this title builds on scholarship in the economic history of the slave trade to ask questions...
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    173,77 €

  • Slavery and the Penal System
    J. Thorsten Sellin / JThorsten Sellin
    The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is finally available again. Previously a rare book, despite the fact that it is widely quoted and cited by scholars in the field of sociology, penology, and criminology, this book can now be accessed easily worldwide and be assigned again to classes. • Now in its fortieth anniversary edition, Sellin’s cla...
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    56,56 €

  • The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade
    Barbara L. Solow / Barbara LSolow
    The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade places the sugar/slave/plantation complex of the British West Indies at the center of the Atlantic trading system, uniting the economies of western Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean, and leading to the Industrial Revolution in England. It will interest teachers and scholars of Atlantic history, Africa, the Bri...
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    60,27 €

  • Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites
    Julia Rose
    Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians, and museum visitors as learners. Through this lens, museum workers and public historians can develop compelling and ethical representations of historical individuals, communities, and populations who have suffered.To learn ...
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    115,56 €

  • Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites
    Julia Rose
    Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians, and museum visitors as learners. Through this lens, museum workers and public historians can develop compelling and ethical representations of historical individuals, communities, and populations who have suffered.To learn ...
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    52,79 €

  • Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425
    Kyle Harper
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    48,71 €

  • Proclamation 1625
    Herbert L. Byrd / Herbert LByrd Jr.
    When one thinks of slavery in America, the only thought that comes to mind is Africans picking cotton in the fields of America. What many Americans don’t know is that the Irish preceded the Africans as slaves in the early British colonies of America and the West Indies. They toiled in the tobacco fields of Virginia and Maryland and the sugar cane fields of Barbados and Jamaica....
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    52,18 €

  • Proclamation 1625
    Herbert L. Byrd / Herbert LByrd Jr.
    When one thinks of slavery in America, the only thought that comes to mind is Africans picking cotton in the fields of America. What many Americans don’t know is that the Irish preceded the Africans as slaves in the early British colonies of America and the West Indies. They toiled in the tobacco fields of Virginia and Maryland and the sugar cane fields of Barbados and Jamaica....
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    37,15 €

  • Rethinking American Emancipation
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    132,57 €

  • Aponte
    Francisco Calcagno
    Francisco Calcagno was one of the most prolific authors of Cuban XIX century, and yet one of the less studied by critics and scholars. His novels focused on blacks are nonetheless essential to understand how the creole elites view blacks and the fears they felt about the influence of blacks in a Cuba white and Spaniard. What could it then better than to read Aponte, along with ...
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    38,10 €

  • Love Cemetery
    China Galland
    One woman’s struggle to restore an old slave cemetery uncovers centuries-old racism When China Galland visited her childhood hometown in east Texas, she learned of an unmarked cemetery for slaves-Love Cemetery. Her ensuing quest to restore and reclaim the cemetary unearths racial wounds that have never completely healed. Research becomes activism as she organizes a grassroots, ...
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    17,31 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    First published in 1845, the 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' is the memoir of former slave turned abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. Considered as one of the most famous of all the slave narratives ever written, the story recounts Douglass’s life from early childhood growing up in Maryland as a slave to his eventual escape to the North. Douglass tells of his life w...
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    8,33 €

  • Give This Book to a Yankee!
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Award-winning author and historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook has done it again. He’s given traditional Southerners yet another book that not only rectifies many of the notoriously false Yankee myths floating around out there, but one that makes Southerners genuinely proud to be Southern!This brief work, provocatively entitled Give This Book to a Yankee! A Southern Guide to the...
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    33,65 €

  • The Essential Abolitionist
    John Vanek
    (Revised 2020) What is human trafficking? Why are millions enslaved in lives of labor and sex trafficking? How do traffickers control their victims? What are the needs of trafficking victims? Why don't more victims reach out for help? What are the challenges faced by law enforcement? What can I do to help? John Vanek, nationally recognized authority on the response to human...
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    18,32 €

  • Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South
    Damian Alan Pargas
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    107,96 €

  • Slavery & Antislavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire
    '[I]nnovative, well-organized, thoroughly-researched, and engagingly written collection. All contributions are informed by the most recent relevant historiographies as well as by pertinent theoretical literature. The book represents an original and significant contribution to an under-studied topic: the history of slavery, plantation slavery, and abolitionism in the Spanish imp...
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    44,10 €

  • Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution
    J. R. Oldfield / JROldfield
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    44,13 €

  • Diary Of A Slave
    Calentine Williams Thompson
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    12,85 €

  • Seven Slave Narratives, seven books including
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington / Frederick Douglass / Olaudah Equiano
    In one volume there are seven slave narratives, compelling, harrowing at times and beautiful stories of hope in the midst of deep adversity.1. Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass An American Slave. Frederick Douglass’s eloquently written first autobiography was one of the most persuasive forces for emancipation, as well as for the enlistment of black soldiers in the Uni...
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    85,12 €


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