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  • Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire
    Madeline C. Zilfi / Madeline CZilfi
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    57,63 €

  • The Bitter Legacy
    This collection of essays explores the ways that memories of African slavery and the slave trade persist into the present, as well as the effect those memories have in shaping political, social, economic, and religious behavior today. The articles take a range of approaches: several examine the stigma that slave origins engender; one pairs lamentations about slave raiders with ...
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    27,67 €

  • Daniel Alexander Payne
    Nelson T. Strobert / Nelson TStrobert
    This detailed biography gives a portrait of the life of Daniel Alexander Payne, a free person of color in nineteenth century Charleston, South Carolina. This work highlights his life as educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet, historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. ...
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    51,81 €

  • Fatal Self-Deception
    Elizabeth Fox-Genovese / Eugene D. Genovese / Eugene DGenovese
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    25,88 €

  • A Revolutionary Conscience
    Paul E. Teed / Paul ETeed
    Theodore Parker was one of the most controversial theologians and social activists in pre-Civil War America. This book argues that Parker’s radical vision and contemporary appeal stemmed from his abiding faith in the human conscience and in the principles of the American revolutionary tradition. ...
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    62,20 €

  • Violets and Other Tales
    Alice Dunbar Nelson
    Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) was an American journalist, political activist, and poet. She belonged to the first generation of black southerners born into freedom following the Civil War and gained acclaim for her poetry, columns, dramas, and stories. This fantastic book contains a brand new collection of Nelson’s best and most famous poetry, highly recommended for poetry lo...
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    19,16 €

  • Frederick Douglass - A Biography
    Charles Waddell Chesnutt / Charles WChesnutt
    Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker who garnered significant acclaim for his 1845 autobiography. A leading figure in the abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation and continued to vehemently fight for human rights until his death. This volu...
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    18,01 €

  • When Have We Walked Together?
    James Thornton
    As a nation, as a people, or as individuals, when have we walked together?  The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America states that we are “One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all.”  The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator wi...
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    11,08 €

  • Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World
    Roquinaldo Amaral Ferreira
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    136,49 €

  • One Frenchman, Four Revolutions
    Fernando Pico
    This book is about the world in which the French general Marie-Louis Ferrand thrived and in which he ultimately lost his life. He can be seen as an overarching link between the four revolutions from 1775 to 1825 through which he lived. He was a pirate in the American Revolution, served as an officer in the army before and during the French Revolution, and volunteered to go to t...
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    85,04 €

  • One Frenchman, Four Revolutions
    Fernando Pico
    This book is about the world in which the French general Marie-Louis Ferrand thrived and in which he ultimately lost his life. He can be seen as an overarching link between the four revolutions from 1775 to 1825 through which he lived. He was a pirate in the American Revolution, served as an officer in the army before and during the French Revolution, and volunteered to go to t...
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    25,71 €

  • The Development of State Legislation Concerning the Free Negro
    Franklin Johnson
    Originally published: New York: Arbor Press, 1918. v (new introduction), vi, 207, [1] pp. With a new introduction by Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany Law School. The published version of a Columbia University doctoral thesis, this pioneering monograph, reviews all of the laws enacted by the United States and eac...
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    18,68 €

  • Political Antislavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s
    David Grant
    This study examines how the political anti-slavery challenge to the North informed American literature of the 1850s. As the works of Stowe, Whittier, Willis, and Whitman reveal, the political discourse and literature were branches of the same project: to expose compromise with slavery as a threat to each individual Northerner and to the people as an actor in history. ...
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    118,08 €

  • The Underground Railroad
    Kerry Walters
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    89,02 €

  • Asylum Seeker
    David Mwangi Wagai
    Mr David Mwangi Wagai is Kenyan born (and an asylum seeker in Europe ).He has written this book to expose the difficulties experienced by asylum seekers (and in many cases other migrants) as a result of running away from their countries of birth or origins to foreign countries in fear of their lives, to safety, to avoid persecutions from oppressive, authoritarian and undemocra...
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    20,38 €

  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol.1, 1832-1843 - Constitutional Edition
    Abraham Lincoln
    The writings of Abraham Kipling (1809 - 1865) show him to be a man of many sides, but above all they show him to be an outstanding statesman who should be seen as a man with astounding relevance for today and not as a flawless hero of the past. From the introductory note:'For Lincoln the man, patient, wise, set in a high resolve, is worth far more than Lincoln the hero, vaguely...
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    20,13 €

  • History of the Caribbean
    Frank Moya Pons
    From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations - building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas - brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners, effected a fundamental shift in the landscape and economy of the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, saw the enslavement of first indigenous...
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    31,72 €

  • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery;With an Introductory Chapter by Frederick Douglass
    Ellen Craft / Frederick Douglass / William Craft
    The fascinating and moving memoirs of American slaves, William and Ellen Craft. First published in 1860, this volume gives insight into the life and plight of slaves in the 18th century.Published just before the Civil War, these memoirs are one of the most influential slave narratives. Disguised as a servant and a white male painter, William and Ellen Craft escaped slavery in G...
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    20,20 €

  • Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism
    Michael E. O’Neal / Michael EO'Neal
    SLAVERY, SMALLHOLDING AND TOURISM explores the political economy of development in the British Virgin Islands - from plantations, through the evolution of a smallholding economy, to the rise of tourism. The study argues that the demise of plantation economy in the BVI ushered in a century of imperial disinterest persisting until recently, when a new 'monocrop' - tourism - becam...
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    61,72 €

  • 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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    9,22 €

  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano
    Olaudah Equiano was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Despite his enslavement as a young man, he purchased his freedom and worked as an author, merchant and explorer ...
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    15,04 €

  • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
    Ellen Craft / William Craft
    Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. She posed as a white male planter and he as her personal servant. Their daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous of fugitive slaves. ...
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    13,24 €

  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300 1589
    Toby Green
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    150,90 €

  • 'Those Who Labor for My Happiness'
    Lucia Stanton
    Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of which was made possible by the work of slaves. At the center of this transition has been the work of Lucia 'Cinder' Stanton, r...
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    21,50 €

  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Keckley’s post-Civil War life story is part slave narrative, part gossip column, part Horatio Alger story. It blends autobiography with - is there a word to describe a biography that disparages its subject? Although Elizabeth Keckley lived longer as a slave than as modiste to First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, most of her engrossing autobiography is devoted to her White Ho...
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    16,35 €

  • The Grateful Slave
    George Boulukos
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    39,43 €

  • Transformations in Slavery
    Paul E. Lovejoy / Paul ELovejoy
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    38,92 €

  • Transformations in Slavery
    Paul E. Lovejoy / Paul ELovejoy
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    135,95 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
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    11,07 €

  • Born Southern
    V. Lynn Kennedy
    In Born Southern, V. Lynn Kennedy addresses the pivotal roles of birth and motherhood in slaveholding families and communities in the Old South. She assesses the power structures of race, gender, and class-both in the household and in the public sphere-and how they functioned to construct a distinct antebellum southern society. Kennedy’s unique approach links the experiences of...
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    44,62 €


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