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  • Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (1838-1839)
    Frances Anne Kemble
    Frances Anne Kemble, (1809-1893) referred to as Fanny, was a famous British actress and author in the early to mid nineteenth century. As a member of the famous Kemble theatrical family, she first appeared on stage as Juliet at Covent Garden. She played many principal women’s parts, notably Portia, Beatrice and Lady Teazle. She retired from the stage in 1834 to marry Pierce But...
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    10,90 €

  • The Orchid Bracelet
    Freddie Remza
    The Collision of Two Parallel WorldsAllison Wagner, an American journalist whose father was killed in the Cu Chi forest, sets off for Vietnam to gather information on the progress made in Vietnam since the end of the war in 1975. While visiting a village in the Mekong Delta, Allison has a premonition of the possible fate of a young girl she meets at a restaurant. With her guid...
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    16,16 €

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Young Folks’ Edition
    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. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom’s Cabin had a ...
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    9,19 €

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

  • Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425
    Kyle Harper
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    191,24 €

  • Black Slaveowners
    Larry Koger
    Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales. It reveals how some African-American slave masters had earned their freedom and how some free Blacks purchased slaves for their own use. The book provides a...
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    35,32 €

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

  • Biography of a Slave - Being the Experiences of REV. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South. Together
    Reverend Charles Thompson
    Charles Thompson was born in Atala County, Mississippi, near the town of Rockford, on March 3, 1833. The son of slaves, he spent most of his life as a slave. This book covers the first half of Thompson’s life, when all he knew was slavery, and the hope for freedom and the right to determine his own fate was a bitter dream. He intended to write another volume covering his life a...
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    13,59 €

  • Rites of August First
    Jeffrey R Kerr-Ritchie
    Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, 'August First Day,' also known as 'West India Day' and 'Emancipation Day,' became the most imp...
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    26,93 €

  • Life in a Haitian Valley
    Melville J. Herskovits
    This book is a precious document in the intellectual history of the black Americas. Its author was surely the first academically respectable white scholar to take seriously the cultural achievements of Afro-Americans, throughout the hemisphere. His influence is still keenly felt, within and beyond his discipline. 3 ...
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    31,79 €

  • The Cambridge World History of Slavery
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    287,66 €

  • Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
    Gloria García Rodríguez / Nancy L. Westrate
    Putting the voices of the enslaved front and center, Gloria Garcia Rodriguez’s study presents a compelling overview of African slavery in Cuba and its relationship to the plantation system that was the economic center of the New World. A major essay by Garcia, who has done decades of archival research on Cuban slavery, introduces the work, providing a history of the development...
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    48,06 €

  • The History of a Slave
    Harry Hamilton Sir Johnston
    In 1889, the British colonial official Sir Harry Johnston published The History of a Slave, a story of an archetypal slave based on Johnston’s extensive knowledge of North and West Africa from his travels there. The tale follows the fictitious slave from the grasslands of Cameroon northward through the commercial centers of the Sudan, at the time part of the Sokoto empire in wh...
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    25,71 €

  • Untold Histories
    Kathleen Chater
    Untold Histories looks in detail at the experiences of theaverage black person in England and Wales during the period of the Britishslave trade, revealing information about sex ratios, ages, from where in theworld they came and how they were treated by the criminal justice system. ...
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    29,37 €

  • The Dutch Atlantic
    Glenn Willemsen / Kwame Nimako
    This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society. Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilisation of Europ...
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    147,97 €

  • The Dutch Atlantic
    Glenn Willemsen / Kwame Nimako
    This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilisation of Europe...
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    48,72 €

  • Calling Out Liberty
    Jack Shuler
    On Sunday, September 9, 1739, twenty Kongolese slaves armed themselves by breaking into a storehouse near the Stono River south of Charleston, South Carolina. They killed twenty-three white colonists, joined forces with other slaves, and marched toward Spanish Florida. There they expected to find freedom. One report claims the rebels were overheard shouting, 'Liberty!' Before t...
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    50,20 €

  • Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam
    Paul E. Lovejoy
    This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined the enslavement of Africans in America and the Lands of Islam in one volume. Both the Saharan and Atlantic worlds i...
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    32,17 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
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    10,97 €

  • Unburdened By Conscience
    Anthony Neal / Anthony W Neal / Anthony W. Neal / Anthony WNeal
    This new and expanded third edition forcefully argues that influential historians have offered an incomplete account of antebellum-era American slavery because they are preoccupied with humanizing slaveholders. Skillfully weaving together firsthand accounts of ex-slaves, Neal permits the reader to see slavery in the United States from their point of view. ...
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    56,05 €

  • The Correspondence of William Wilberforce
    William Wilberforce
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    54,79 €

  • The Correspondence of William Wilberforce - Volume 2
    William Wilberforce
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    67,87 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
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    33,84 €

  • Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments
    David Christy / E. N. Elliott / ENElliott / et. al. / etal.
    This astounding collection of publications from leading members of the pro-slavery movement does not succeed in justifiing slavery, but merely exposes the moral and intellectual world from whence it came. The individual works are "Cotton is King: Or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy" (David Christy), "Liberty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Political...
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    52,63 €

  • 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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    17,66 €

  • Augustus
    Robin Greene
    When Professor Robin Greene tells a freshman composition class about her scholarly interest in women's narratives, Samantha Henderson, an African American student, invites Greene to meet her grandmother and to listen to a series of reel-to-reel tapes that both Samantha and her grandmother insist should be part of the official WPA archive of ex-slave narratives. Intri...
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    19,66 €

  • Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825
    Henry Nelson Coleridge
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    49,05 €

  • Emigration from India
    British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
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    33,59 €

  • Slavery, Civil War, and a Nation’s Shame
    Clifford Simmie Tyus
    Throughout the history of the world nations having the audacity to defy the commandments of God have eventually been destroyed or ruined beyond repair. Sodom, Gomorrah, Canaan, the Roman Empire were examples of God’s awesome power in the past. More recently, the racist government of South Africa that brought shame to the nation and to the world through their ungodly adaption of...
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    22,31 €

  • Harriet Tubman
    James A. McGowan / James AMcGowan / William C. Kashatus / William CKashatus
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    53,97 €


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