Esclavitud y abolición de la esclavitud

Humanidades / Historia / Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos / Esclavitud y abolición de la esclavitud (1046)

Humanidades / Historia / Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos / Esclavitud y abolición de la esclavitud
Libros Eliminar filtro Humanidades Eliminar filtro Historia Eliminar filtro Historia: acontecimientos y temas específicos Eliminar filtro Esclavitud y abolición de la esclavitud Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Autographs For Freedom (Volume II)
    Various
    Autographs For Freedom (Volume II): Edited By Julia Griffiths (In Two Volumes - Volume II)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been ...
    Disponible

    16,67 €

  • Behind The Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Behind The Scenes: Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed...
    Disponible

    14,50 €

  • The Burden
    Rochelle Riley
    The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and ...
    Disponible

    22,17 €

  • Cudjo’s Own Story of the Last African Slaver
    Zora Neale Hurston
    2020 Reprint of the 1927 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last surviving captives of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. Hurston, a known figure of ...
    Disponible

    7,23 €

  • Esclavitud y utopía: las guerras y sueños de un transformador del mundo asháninka
    Fernando Santos Granero
    En la primera mitad del siglo XX, un carismático jefe indígena amazónicoperuano, José Carlos Amaringo Chico, jugó un papel clave en el liderazgode su pueblo, los asháninka, a través del caos generado por el colapsode la economía del caucho en 1910 y las presiones posteriores de colonos,misioneros y funcionarios del gobierno para asimilarlos a la sociedadnacional. Esclavitud y u...
    Disponible

    36,40 €

  • THE BREADWINNER
    Sriyani Tidball
    The Breadwinner shares true untold stories of impoverished Sri Lankan women who have been exploited. This unique book includes the experiences gathered from over 200 struggling women, through focus groups, surveys, and in-depth interviews. Women showcased in this book either spent years working as housemaids in the Middle East or were preparing to leave their families for such ...
    Disponible

    20,08 €

  • Black Market
    Aaron Carico
    On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South’s lucrative farmland. Not only an object to be traded and used, the slave was also a kind of currency, a form of value that anchored the market itself. And this...
    Disponible

    126,83 €

  • Black Market
    Aaron Carico
    On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South’s lucrative farmland. Not only an object to be traded and used, the slave was also a kind of currency, a form of value that anchored the market itself. And this...
    Disponible

    41,32 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Unlce Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Do you want to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? If so then keep reading...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', according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featur...
    Disponible

    18,04 €

  • Jamaica Ladies
    Christine Walker
    Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women hel...
    Disponible

    37,82 €

  • Jamaica Ladies
    Christine Walker
    Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women hel...
    Disponible

    126,68 €

  • Victoria’s War
    Catherine A. Hamilton / Catherine AHamilton
     Victoria's War is a work of historical fiction about 19-year-old Victoria Darski, a Polish Catholic woman sold into slavery during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and Etta Tod, the 20-year-old deaf daughter of a German baker who buys Victoria. Poland, 1939: Eager to study literature at the University of Warsaw, Victoria waits with bags packed. But Hitler invades Poland and ...
    Disponible

    17,28 €

  • 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup's 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 WASHINGTON CIT...
    Disponible

    10,65 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his peopl...
    Disponible

    8,69 €

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro
    Carter G Woodson
    Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and training, and which of these Af...
    Disponible

    8,59 €

  • Where we Started
    Arthur Dobrin
    “In Where we Started, Dobrin creates a world that leaves the reader enough space to make moral judgments themselves, while at the same time showing how perspective changes the weight of all these considerations. The novel reads like parables, strewn together and buoyed by historical context.”  - Christian Hayden, African American activist.“The novel is a narrative on the develo...
    Disponible

    37,22 €

  • WATCHING THE HOUSE DIVIDE
    JOHN BRACKMAN
    In 1860, the country was once again having a presidential election. This election and its results would prove to be one of the most contentious of any that the United States had ever faced since becoming a nation. John Brown had attempted a slavery revolt which caused concern because it went beyond the normal abolition methodology of speeches and editorials degrading slavery. B...
    Disponible

    33,19 €

  • WATCHING THE HOUSE DIVIDE
    JOHN BRACKMAN
    In 1860, the country was once again having a presidential election. This election and its results would prove to be one of the most contentious of any that the United States had ever faced since becoming a nation. John Brown had attempted a slavery revolt which caused concern because it went beyond the normal abolition methodology of speeches and editorials degrading slavery. B...
    Disponible

    40,13 €

  • A Journey through Texas
    Frederick Law Olmsted
    2020 Reprint of the 1857 Edition.   This edition edited by James Howard and illustrated by Mary Sloan.  Early in the year 1854 the author, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas winter. this work recounts his travel along the Old San Antonio Road through the East Texas' piney woods, the dry prairies ...
    Disponible

    24,64 €

  • Maroons and the Marooned
    Contributions by Richard Bodek, Claire P. Curtis, Joseph Kelly, Simon Lewis, Steve Mentz, J. Brent Morris, Peter Sands, Edward Shore, and James O'Neil SpadyCommonly, the word maroon refers to someone cast away on an island. One becomes marooned, usually, through a storm at sea or by a captain as a method of punishment. But the term originally denoted escaped slaves. Though ...
    Disponible

    50,25 €

  • To Preach Deliverance to the Captives
    Ryan C. McIlhenny
    George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign against slavery in the antebellum period. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. In To Preach Deliverance to the Captives, Ryan C. McIlhenny examines th...
    Disponible

    51,70 €


Primera 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Última