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  • Amos Fortune, Free Man Glossary and Notes
    Heron Books
    This is a comprehensive glossary of the history, geography, beliefs and customs as represented in Amos Fortune Free Man by Elizabeth Yates.  There are over 90 entries including English words, historical and geographical terms and more that can’t commonly be found in a middle school student’s dictionary. To accommodate the different editions of Amos Fortune Free Man, words are l...
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    17,70 €

  • A Brief History of Trade Unionism in Mauritius
    Rajpalsingh Allgoo
    This book present the history of Slavery and forced labour in Mauritius. It tells us how Mauritius was occupied by the Europeans and was converted in to a colony. When slavery was abolished in 1833, the British started a new system called ‘Indentured Labour.’ The Indian Indentured Labour were brought in Mauritius in 1834. This book presents an overview of the Trade Union moveme...
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    22,63 €

  • Slavery and the University
    Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the ...
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    135,48 €

  • Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Cet essai philosophique fut commencé en 1753 et publié en 1755, en réponse à un sujet de l’Académie de Dijon intitulé : « Quelle est l’origine de l’inégalité des conditions parmi les hommes ? »Sa participation au concours est dans la continuité du Discours sur les sciences et les arts pour lequel il avait déjà été primé en 1750 par cette même académie, mais cette fois-ci, il fu...
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    10,52 €

  • Charlton’s Ground
    Dan Cassenti
    Charlton is born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation in 1837. Belle, the master's daughter, intervenes to save the tiny baby's life when her father contemplates killing off the runt. Belle’s relationship with Charlton progresses from nurturer to teacher to friend to childhood love. She promises to marry him if she can use the words of the Declaration of Independ...
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    22,16 €

  • Charlton’s Ground
    Dan Cassenti
    Charlton is born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation in 1837. Belle, the master's daughter, intervenes to save the tiny baby's life when her father contemplates killing off the runt. Belle’s relationship with Charlton progresses from nurturer to teacher to friend to childhood love. She promises to marry him if she can use the words of the Declaration of Independ...
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    27,34 €

  • The Trade in the Living
    Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
    Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era. ...
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    49,62 €

  • The Long Walk
    Judith C. Owens-Lalude
    The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom is a riveting, antebellum, historical novel about the social injustice and the enslavement of an intact family, taken from Virginia to Kentucky, to be sold and forcefully separated on the auction block. The saga follows two of the family members from the auction to a farm where they endure a brutal environment. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom...
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    18,45 €

  • African Americans and American Indians in the Revolutionary War
    Jack Darrell Crowder
    At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for independence in an integrated military--it would be the last until the Korean War. The majority of Indian tribes sided with th...
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    57,50 €

  • A Rebel’s Road Home
    John J Schaffer
    After the Civil War, Delilah and Jameson Hartford return to their plantation in the south in an attempt to help rebuild it and save their people and an unfriendly town after the ravages of war. They are challenged with a myriad of complications, including: rekindled old flames, familiar biases, hostile outside forces, a devastating plague and a deranged murderer all within a di...
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    8,98 €

  • Transatlantic Africa
    Kwasi Konadu
    Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through African and diasporic primary sources. Based on careful reading of Africans' or...
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    23,36 €

  • Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
    Jeroen Dewulf
    The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewu...
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    49,96 €

  • The Caribbean
    Jacob Gelt Dekker
    Refreshing and educational narrative historyAfter a life-changing diagnosis, Dutch entrepreneur Jacob Gelt Dekker decides to take a step into the unknown. Setting sail from his home in Key West, he embarks on an odyssey around the Caribbean islands, navigating treacherous waters and nations forever shaped by the Age of Discovery and transatlantic slave trade. Soon he discovers ...
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    35,48 €

  • But Have Not Love
    Michael Edwin Q.
    By a twist of fate, a runaway slave girl and a wounded Confederate officer are thrown together and must rely on each other to survive. Can the seed of love grow in the garden of hate?This is the latest in Michael Edwin Q's African American novel series. ...
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    16,23 €

  • The Ridiculously Simple Guide to the Civil War
    Daniels Judah / Judah Daniels
    Aw, the Civil War--it’s that thing in American history that we’re all supposed to know. Sure you know the basics: That the South was the evil racist ones and the North was the nice loving ones...except segregation was everywhere in the North. It was not uncommon for African Americans to be excluded from public transportation and schools. That it was the bloodiest war in Ameri...
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    6,70 €

  • What is a Slave Society?
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    172,59 €

  • Sexuality and Slavery
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy c...
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    136,01 €

  • Sexuality and Slavery
    In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy c...
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    44,76 €

  • Unrequited Toil
    Calvin Schermerhorn
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    32,91 €

  • For the Waters are Come
    Rosa Elena Rojas
    Where do we come from? Four small, great stories, so simple and intricate, like the four directions of the conquered Mesoamerican universe, New Spain thereafter, and Mexico nowadays, make up this rich story. In it, our ancestors –black slaves, Spanish adventurers, local Indians, and a healer from the Ming Dynasty in China– build the framework shaping the identity of the territ...
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    10,56 €

  • For the Waters are Come
    Rosa Elena Rojas
    Where do we come from? Four small, great stories, so simple and intricate, like the four directions of the conquered Mesoamerican universe, New Spain thereafter, and Mexico nowadays, make up this rich story. In it, our ancestors –black slaves, Spanish adventurers, local Indians, and a healer from the Ming Dynasty in China– build the framework shaping the identity of the territ...
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    17,47 €

  • The Midas of Manumission
    Barb Drummond
    Samuel Gist was born in Bristol in the early eighteenth century. He was soon orphaned and educated in Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, a local charity school. Apprenticed to a former mayor, he was sent to Virginia to learn the tobacco trade. He was involved with George Washington and Anthony Bacon in the Great Dismal Swamp Company, formed to drain the region but was the only one...
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    23,62 €

  • Ser de Agua
    Rosa Elena Rojas
    ¿De dónde venimos? Cuatro pequeñas, grandes historias, tan simples e intrincadas, como los cuatro rumbos del universo mesoamericano conquistado, la Nueva España, hoy México,conforman este relato líquido. En él, nuestros antepasados -esclavos negros, aventureros españoles, indígenas locales y un sanador del Celeste Imperio de los Ming- tejerán el entramado que conformará la iden...
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    17,42 €

  • Ser de Agua
    Rosa Elena Rojas
    ¿De dónde venimos? Cuatro pequeñas, grandes historias, tan simples e intrincadas, como los cuatro rumbos del universo mesoamericano conquistado, la Nueva España, hoy México,conforman este relato líquido. En él, nuestros antepasados -esclavos negros, aventureros españoles, indígenas locales y un sanador del Celeste Imperio de los Ming- tejerán el entramado que conformará la iden...
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    10,50 €

  • New England Federalists
    Dinah Mayo-Bobee
    Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks on U.S. neutral trade in 1805, this book looks at crucial developments in national politics, public policy, and foreign relations from the perspective of New England Federalists. Through its focus on the partisan climate in Congress that appeared to influence federal statutes, New England Federalists: Widening t...
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    54,33 €

  • Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation
    Michael Edwin Q.
    Near the end of the civil war, Moses Brown, an elderly black man is the true owner of the Bush Plantation – through inheritance. For appearances, his white son-in-law, Josh, plays the part of Master of the plantation when strangers are about. Together they make a success of the plantation.  Their main goal is to use the money they make to buy slaves, but not just any slaves – t...
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    16,22 €

  • The Roman Law of Slavery
    W.W. Buckland / W.WBuckland
    A systematic and scholarly description of the principles of the Roman law regarding slavery. Examines slavery during the Empire, the rights of slaves, commercial and non-commercial relations, and provides an outline of the law of manumission during the Republic. With appendices and a thorough index. xii, [2], 735 pp. ...
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    73,95 €

  • Season of Mist
    Mac Donald Dixon
    Season of Mist salutes the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. This historical novel begins during the French Revolution in the late 1700s on the tiny Caribbean Island of Saint Lucia.After suffering severe deprivation, a band of revolutionaries using guerrilla tactics are able to rout the remnants of Napoleon’s grand army, as well as some of Britain’s best foot soldiers...
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    14,15 €

  • Akan Pioneers
    Kwasi Konadu
    Using diverse and new sources (archaeological, biomedical, climatological, linguistic, ethno-musical, oral and documentary sources in various languages), this groundbreaking study tells the story of a West African people, the origins and character of their cultural forms and ideas, and how these Akan, or "pioneering peoples," shaped the politics and societies of their homeland ...
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    24,59 €

  • Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass ignored his master's veto on black education and taught himself to read and write. Escaping to the Northern States in 1838, Douglass became an ardent abolitionist, campaigning passionately against all aspects of human bondage.His 'Narrative' is a classic of black emancipation: a life story replete with tales of cruelty and oppre...
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    8,66 €


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