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  • 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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    52,58 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
    Robert E. May / Robert EMay
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    41,82 €

  • Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
    Robert E. May / Robert EMay
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    140,07 €

  • Twelve 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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    30,51 €

  • The Proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in Regard to the Maroon Negroes
    The Govenor and Assembly of Jamaica
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    48,38 €

  • Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750 1807
    Justin Roberts
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    172,80 €

  • Free at Last!
    Teresa Ramsby
    How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into society, and what was their social position and status? What contributions did they make to the society that had once - sometimes brutally - repressed them? This collection builds on recent dynamic work on Roman freedmen, the contributors drawing upon a rich a...
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    66,85 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    In 1841, free-born African American Solomon Northup was offered a job in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. He followed his employers to the job site at Washington, D.C., where he was beaten, drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, eventually ending up on a plantation in Louisiana owned by Edwin Epps. While there, in 1852, Northup befriended Canadian carpenter Samue...
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    18,88 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    In 1841, free-born African American Solomon Northup was offered a job in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. He followed his employers to the job site at Washington, D.C., where he was beaten, drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, eventually ending up on a plantation in Louisiana owned by Edwin Epps. While there, in 1852, Northup befriended Canadian carpenter Samue...
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    36,69 €

  • 12 Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    First published in 1853, 12 Years a Slave is the riveting true story of a free black American who was sold into slavery, remaining there for a dozen years until he finally escaped. This powerfully written memoir details the horrors of slave markets, the inhumanity practiced on southern plantations, and the nobility of a man who persevered in some of the worst of conditions, a m...
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    14,75 €

  • The Bitter Legacy
    Alice Bellagamba
    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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    118,35 €

  • Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
    Gwyn Campbell
    This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies. ...
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    268,00 €

  • Wealth Land and Slaveholding in Mississippi
    Ray Albin
    The Perkins’ family story is a microcosm of stages in the development of not only Southern colonial America, but also the developed United States. With its colonial genesis rooted in indentured servitude, first as servants, then later as masters, the Perkins family rose to heights unattainable to them in a rigidly structured seventeenth and eighteenth century English society. A...
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    38,88 €

  • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
    Ellen Craft / William Craft
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    45,04 €

  • The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris
    John D. Gordan III / John DGordan III
    Relying on extensive surviving original records, this book analyzes the November 1851 trial in the federal circuit court of Robert Morris, the second black admitted to practice in Massachusetts, for rescuing a fugitive slave from the custody of the U.S. marshal in the federal courtroom in Boston. It demonstrates that Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis, a supporter of Daniel Webste...
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    38,60 €

  • An Imperfect Union
    Paul Finkelman
    'In short, we have a first-rate study of an important constitutional symbol of disunion.' --Donald Roper, American Journal of Legal History 26 (1982) 255. Finkelman describes the judicial turmoil that ensued when slaves were taken into free states and the resultant issues of comity, conflict of laws, interstate cooperation, Constitutional obligations, and the nationalization of...
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    62,36 €

  • Richmond, Virginia Uncovered
    Nancy C. Frantel / Nancy CFrantel
    Richmond is located in the heartland of Virginia on the free flowing water of the James River. The James brought much pain, for it was by this river that the slave boats arrived and unloaded their imprisoned passengers in the 1700s and early 1800s. Many slaves purchased in Richmond were transported to other Southern states as demand for labor increased in those regions. History...
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    26,66 €

  • A Postcolonial African American Re-Reading of Colossians
    Annie Tinsley
    A Postcolonial African American Re-reading of Colossians: Identity, Reception, and Interpretation Under the Gaze of Empire examines the identities of two seemingly unrelated groups of people; the initial recipients of the letter and the enslaved African in ...
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    65,16 €


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