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  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Cactus Classics Large Print)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU / Marc Cactus
    ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCEby Henry David ThoreauEDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point FontFONT: 16 point GaramondBOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm)COVER: GlossyPAPER: CreamTABLE OF CONTENTS: YesCactus Classics Large Print (16 point size) editions are typeset with the Garamond font. These editions have a glossy cover, cream paper interior, wide margins,...
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    13,15 €

  • Fancy
    Michael Edwin Q.
    From the best selling author of BUT HAVE NOT LOVE and BORN A COLORED GIRL comes a most scandalous tale, often upsetting and disturbing. During the slavery years, young, beautiful slave girls were sold to schools where they were taught to be perfect mistresses of rich, white, Southern gentlemen. This is the story of one young girl's struggle to remain true to herself. ...
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    17,78 €

  • Slave Sites on Display
    Helena Woodard
    At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return--not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave decedents lie buried beneath the area around Wall Street, which some of them helped to bu...
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    158,55 €

  • Slave Sites on Display
    Helena Woodard
    At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging, and the myth of return--not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave decedents lie buried beneath the area around Wall Street, which some of them helped to bu...
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    50,39 €

  • The Loyal Republic
    Erik Mathisen
    This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic’s history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed. Ideas about loyalty emerged ...
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    35,66 €

  • Rebellious Passage
    Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie / Jeffrey RKerr-Ritchie
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    127,80 €

  • Peculiar Rhetoric
    Bjorn F Stillion Southard
    The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America's borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard indicate...
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    158,56 €

  • Peculiar Rhetoric
    Bjorn F Stillion Southard
    The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America's borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard indicate...
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    50,40 €

  • Send Judah First
    Brian C. Johnson / Brian CJohnson
    A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836...
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    19,72 €

  • Send Judah First
    Brian C. Johnson / Brian CJohnson
    A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836...
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    25,20 €

  • My Bondage and My Freedom
    Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his t...
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    31,75 €

  • A Slaves Song
    Michael Edwin Q.
    A Confederate soldier caught behind enemy lines makes for safety disguised as a traveling preacher. Along the way, he learns the horrors of war, the evils of slavery, and the cost of freedom. N+BY a twist of fate, he becomes the pastor of a church of black slaves. 3 ...
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    17,83 €

  • Where Are My Children?!
    L A A. Davis / L A Davis
    Twenty seventeen was one of the worst hurricane seasons in history. Some blame the erratic changes in the weather patterns on climate change, global warming, or mother nature getting herself back into balance. But what if it was revenge for crimes committed against humanity centuries ago? In this tale of historical fiction. L.A. Davis creates a story of imagination that explain...
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    23,81 €

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Written by American author and dedicated abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" is a poignant novel which shows the harsh reality of a slave’s life in the 1800s. Uncle Tom, an African-American slave who believes in the power of Christian faith. The book would be a major contributor to the Civil War because its compelling portrayal of slaves as fellow human bein...
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    28,11 €

  • Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico
    Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
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    38,22 €

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867
    Daniel B. Domingues da Silva / Daniel BDomingues da Silva
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    38,23 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Ann Jacobs / TBD
    Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, escaped slave, abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym "Linda Brent", was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual abuse th...
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    19,93 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, escaped slave, abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym "Linda Brent", was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual abuse th...
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    30,54 €

  • Rethinking Rufus
    Thomas A. Foster
    Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically...
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    136,19 €

  • Rethinking Rufus
    Thomas A. Foster
    Rethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widespread sexual exploitation and abuse suffered by enslaved women, with comparatively little attention paid to the stories of men. However, a careful reading of extant sources reveals that sexual assault of enslaved men also occurred systematically...
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    29,26 €

  • A Curse Upon the Nation
    Kay Wright Lewis
    From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even in...
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    36,68 €

  • The Angela Project Presents The 400th Year Commemoration Ceremony
    Cheri L Mills
    Program litany for the ceremony concluding 40 Days of Prayer for the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS). The ceremony engages blacks and whites of all ages to engage in forgiveness and reconciliation for the devastating and lingering effects of 400 years of enslavement in America. The program format includes litanies, readings, Scripture passages, and songs. The ceremony ca...
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    7,25 €

  • In the Shadow of Dred Scott
    Kelly M. Kennington
    The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family, sued for freedom in the local legal arena of St. Louis. ...
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    36,61 €

  • The Angela Project Presents 40 Days of Prayer
    Cheri L Mills
    Throughout the 400 years since the first '20 and odd Negroes' were brought to the British colonies, American Descendants of Slavery have experienced a Black Holocaust: enslavement, black codes, sharecropping, Jim Crow, lynchings, convict leasing, redlin-ing, restrictive covenants, police brutality, subprime lending, mass incarceration, all of which have resulted in the ghettoiz...
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    12,10 €

  • Blind No More
    Jonathan Daniel Wells
    With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persis...
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    50,09 €

  • Tame The Savage Heart
    Michael Edwin Q.
    From the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation, A Slave's Song and Born A Coloured Girl - She was a young slave girl. He was an African warrior purchased art a slave auction with the intent he would father a new breed of stronger slave. Despite all odds, a language barrier and the disapproval of her family and friends, the two fight for a life together. ...
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    15,30 €

  • Slave No More
    Aline Helg / Lara Vergnaud
    Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early coloniza...
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    41,03 €

  • Slave No More
    Aline Helg / Lara Vergnaud
    Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early coloniza...
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    126,55 €

  • Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore
    Ralph Clayton
    This book promises to become the standard work of the history of the slaves, slaveholders, and the free black population of Antebellum Baltimore. For five years, Mr. Clayton has collected, transcribed, and cross-indexed a great variety of documents: applications for certificates of freedom, slave schedules, field assessor work books, census schedules, mortality schedules, gener...
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    31,75 €

  • Ourika
    Claire de Duras
    Achetée avant son embarquement sur un navire négrier par le gouverneur du Sénégal qui l’amène à Paris pour l’offrir à sa tante, la jeune Africaine Ourika reçoit une bonne éducation. À l’âge de douze ans, elle se rend compte du préjudice que suscite sa couleur de peau. Après le mariage de Charles, dont elle est amoureuse, avec une Française, elle se retire au couvent où elle fin...
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    8,12 €