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  • Agency of the Enslaved
    D.A. Dunkley / D.ADunkley / DADunkley
    In this book, author D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley explores the importance of the agency displayed by enslaved people and argues that this formed the real basis of the culture of freedom in the Atlantic societies. ...
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    65,30 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    In 1841, a 33 year-old black carpenter named Simon Northup was living with his wife and children in upstate New York. A well-known fiddle player, he was asked by two white men to accompany them to Washington DC to perform at a show. He agreed, but no sooner had he arrived than he was drugged, and shipped off to the infamous Williams Slave Pen. Northup's identity papers had ...
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    10,55 €

  • Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums
    This book reflects on the complexity and difficulty of museums’ experiences in presenting and interpreting the histories of slavery and abolition. It draws together contributions from academics, museum professionals, community activists and artists who were involved in marking the bicentenary of Britain’s abolition of the slave trade. ...
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    93,05 €

  • Forgotten Girls
    Kay Marshall Strom / Michele Rickett
    All over the world, women and girls face troubles such as starvation, displacement, illiteracy, sexual exploitation and abuse. Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett traveled to interview girls and to partner with ministries helping females in the most difficult places in the world. These pages hold those girls’ stories of deep pain and suffering, inspiring courage, and incredi...
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    17,71 €

  • 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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    123,94 €

  • Slavery Continues
    Mehr A. Kalami / Mehr aKalami
    Since thousands of years, slavery in every form has been the root cause of misery and crime in every society it has crept in. Shackles and fetters are not the only means of enslavement of humankind-by-humankind. Enslavers employ many other means to dehumanize humanity. Slavery is in various forms; human trafficking, organized abduction, prostitution, deprivation of rights to fr...
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    12,74 €

  • El puño de hierro tras la mano invisible
    KEVIN CAARON
    Kevin Carson no trata sólo de desempolvar las viejas enseñanzas de Proudhon o de Tucker, sino de renovar profundamente el mutualismo de acuerdo a los cambios en la sociedad y a los avances científicos desarrollados a lo largo de todo el siglo XX. Los mutualistas del siglo XIX consideraban que la obscena concentración de la riqueza en pocas manos, los trusts industriales y la mi...
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    20,28 €

  • Flush Times and Fever Dreams
    Joshua D. Rothman / Joshua DRothman
    In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the "Arkansas morass" in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart's adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835, when five men accused of being professional...
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    23,24 €

  • The Anti-Slavery Cause in America and its Martyrs
    Eliza Wigham
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    32,49 €

  • The Trials of the Slave Traders, Samuel Samo, Joseph Peters, and William Tufft
    Anonymous / Henry George Tuke
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    35,03 €

  • Are We Not Sisters & Brothers?
    Ellen Craft / Mary Prince / Solomon Northup
    Three accounts of the lives of famous slavesThis unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the United States and West Indies during the 19th century. The first account, written by William and Ellen Craft, recounts the incredible and epic escape by a husband and wife who, recognising that Mrs. Craf...
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    35,79 €

  • Are We Not Sisters & Brothers?
    Ellen Craft / Mary Prince / Solomon Northup
    Three accounts of the lives of famous slavesThis unique Leonaur book brings together three remarkable accounts of slavery and escapes to freedom by African women and men in the United States and West Indies during the 19th century. The first account, written by William and Ellen Craft, recounts the incredible and epic escape by a husband and wife who, recognising that Mrs. Craf...
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    23,94 €

  • Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World
    Roquinaldo Ferreira
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    54,23 €

  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300 1589
    Toby Green
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    50,19 €

  • 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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    61,32 €

  • Amistad
    Michael Zeuske / Steven Rendell
    The 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board are well documented in books and in a blockbuster film. Michael Zeuske adds a new dimension to this history: the story of the people behind the Amistad. Based on his discovery — in previously unknown collections in Cuba and Spain — of the captain’s logbook, the cook’s notes, and the merchants’ ledgers and corre...
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    29,56 €

  • Black Morocco
    Chouki El Hamel
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    41,64 €

  • 12 Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker. This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery...
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    7,77 €

  • Slavery in the Islamic Middle East
    David Ayalon / John Hunwick / Robert O. Collins
    Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the “Abode of War” by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the Islamic world as deracinated outsiders, described by Muslim jurists as being in a state like death, awaiting resurrection and rebirth through manumiss...
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    19,59 €

  • The Book
    Rex O'Bannon / Rex O’Bannon
    There has been a war against the American people for many decades. These aggressors are not camped out in some far away land with heat and sand or jungle and vicious insects but rather they are in corporate board rooms and in penthouse apartments; some even sit in elected offices wearing an American flag pin, all the while plotting to further destroy the principals that we once...
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    28,14 €

  • 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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    10,65 €

  • John Brown Still Lives!
    R. Blakeslee Gilpin / RBlakeslee Gilpin
    From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery’s expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America’s violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown’s legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W. E....
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    41,31 €

  • Shifting Loyalties
    Judkin Browning
    In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided allegiances, Judkin Browning offers new insights into the effects of war on southerners and the nature of civil-military relation...
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    38,10 €

  • How the Slaves Saw the Civil War
    Dwight Eisnach / Herbert Covey
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    82,26 €

  • The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra
    G. Ugo Nwokeji / GUgo Nwokeji
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    62,75 €

  • Reconstructing the Slave
    Kelly L. Wrenhaven
    Although the importance of slavery to Greek society has long been recognised, most studies have primarily drawn upon representations of slaves as sources of evidence for the historical institution, while there has been little consideration of what the representations can tell us about how the Greeks perceived slaves and why. Although historical reality clearly played a part in ...
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    51,27 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup’s riveting memoir written in 1853 and now an award winning major motion picture. Mr. Northup recounts his powerful life story of being born a free man in New York, kidnapped and forced into slavery for twelve years and then freed and reunited with his wife and children. 12 YEARS A SLAVE: NARRATIVE OF SOLOMON NORTHUP, A CITIZEN OF NEW-YORK, KIDNAPPED IN WASHINGTO...
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    10,65 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave (the Original Book from Which the 2013 Movie ’12 Years a Slave’ Is Based) (Illustrated)
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker. This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery...
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    12,27 €

  • 12 Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton picker. This narrative reveals how Northup survived the harsh conditions of slavery...
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    54,26 €

  • Conceiving Freedom
    Camillia Cowling
    In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women p...
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    57,44 €


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