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  • The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 2
    Frederick Douglass
    Outstanding leader of the Negro people in the century and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote on all the major issues confronting the American people during his lifetime. 'The Pre-Civil War Decade,' second of five volumes of his collected works, brings together for the first time his writings and speeches during this important and tur...
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    26,50 €

  • The Live and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 3
    Frederick Douglass
    The second volume of The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass traced the career of this outstanding leader of the Negro people during the crucial decade, 1850-1860. In that volume was presented Douglass’ incisive analysis of the strategy and tactics of the Abolitionist movement, the Negro Convention movement, woman’s rights, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the life and death of Joh...
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    27,02 €

  • The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 4
    Frederick Douglass
    'Reconstruction and After,' the fourth volume of the collected works of Frederick Douglass, brings together for the first time his writings and speeches during the crucial period, 1865-1895. These years are also covered in the section of Dr. Foner’s full-scale biography of Douglass which appears in this volume.  The present volume brings out Douglass’ fight to give meaning to t...
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    26,50 €

  • Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Sl...
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    12,37 €

  • Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Sl...
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    18,86 €

  • The Life and Wrightings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 1
    Frederick Douglass
    When Frederick Douglass, the outstanding Negro leader of the last century, died in 1895, he left behind a vast body of writings and speeches. Scattered all over the country, most of this material remained forgotten for almost half a century. Dr. Philip S. Foner spent eight years collecting and preparing it for publication. Dr. Foner has also contributed a full-length biography ...
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    27,02 €

  • The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass Volume 5
    Frederick Douglass
    The original four volumes of the collected works of Frederick Douglass included a substantial number of his writings and speeches but far from all of them. At the time the first volumes of Douglass’ writings and speeches were published (1950-1955), the possibilities of incorporating the other unpublished material were remote. Subsequently this became possible and the present, S...
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    26,54 €

  • The Mystery of Margaret Booker
    Kathy L Marshall
    Margaret Booker, an enslaved Black woman with five children by the man who enslaved her, traveled to freedom in the midst of the American Civil War. From West Virginia to Ohio by buckboard, Margaret’s extraordinary pluck and survival skills fueled her journey and gave her children a chance to grow up in the freedom she had only begun to taste. Once settled, Margaret found famil...
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    16,29 €

  • The Black Man’s Burden - in Black and White
    Kobina Amissah-Fynn
    The Black Man’s Burden – in Black and WhiteAs the title suggests this book is about the black man, those in sub-Saharan Africa or else in the African diaspora. By extension, however, it is also all about the marginalized, disadvantaged, oppressed, traumatized, downtrodden, dehumanized and aggrieved segments of the world’s population. Not only does this include the dark-skinned ...
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    11,99 €

  • Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
    Libra R. Hilde / Libra RHilde
    Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after the era of slavery, demonstrating that black men and women articulated a surprisingly broad and consistent vision of paternal duty across more than a century. Complicating the tendency among historians to conflat...
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    50,56 €

  • Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
    Libra R. Hilde / Libra RHilde
    Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after the era of slavery, demonstrating that black men and women articulated a surprisingly broad and consistent vision of paternal duty across more than a century. Complicating the tendency among historians to conflat...
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    126,35 €

  • Modern Slavery
    Christina Villegas
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    82,08 €

  • Tom Sawyer, Detective
    Mark Twain
    Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are back in another sequel to their adventures in Tom Sawyer, Detective, by American author Mark Twain. Twain, known for writing the “great American novel,” is renowned for his humorous tales that often have themes dealing with slavery, poverty, and hypocrisy.In his children’s adventure novel, Tom Sawyer, Detective, Tom sets out to solve a murder...
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    18,75 €

  • An Intimate Economy
    Alexandra J. Finley / Alexandra JFinley
    Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing women’s labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders’ ability to profit from enslaved women’s domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor. The slave market infiltrated every aspect of southern society, in...
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    127,21 €

  • An Intimate Economy
    Alexandra J. Finley / Alexandra JFinley
    Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing women’s labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders’ ability to profit from enslaved women’s domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor. The slave market infiltrated every aspect of southern society, in...
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    31,82 €

  • Searching for Sully’s Enslaved
    Beth Sansbury
    This book is the first attempt to trace the lives of the enslaved at Sully Historic House, Fairfax County, Virginia. The house was completed in 1795 for Richard Bland Lee, Northern Virginia’s first Congressman. The book includes the stories of the lives of those enslaved at Sully as well as the research paths that allowed the author to trace them down through history, in a fe...
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    14,38 €

  • The Life of Josiah Henson
    Josiah Henson
    Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland. In 1830, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario), where he later founded a settlement and laborer’s school for other fugitive slaves. His autobiography is a tense, gripping account of how he escaped from his owners, a pair of sadistic, cruelly duplicitous brothers...
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    33,99 €

  • THE GOVERNMENT TRUCE, APOLOGY, OWED TO BLACK SLAVES! DEBT
    Nelson Norman
    THE NERVE OF OUR GOVERNMENT TRUCE, Wow! BLACK PEOPLE. THIS WORLD, IS NEVER GOING TO BE RIGHT UNTIL THE MASTER-OF-SLAVES-CEREMONY IS FAIRLY MADE. AND HOSTED BY OUR’GOVERNMENT’ MAKING TRUCE, TO ALL BLACK PEOPLE, ...
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    96,56 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl is considered a slave narrative as well as an example of feminist literature. Harriet Jacobs began composing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl while living and working at Idlewild, Willis's home on the Hudson River. Jacobs's autobiographical accounts were first published in serial form in the New York Tribune, a newspaper owned an...
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    30,53 €

  • Slave Against Slave
    Jeff Forret
    In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence among enslaved people in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular p...
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    43,54 €

  • The Trouble with Minna
    Hendrik Hartog
    In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’s case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate—ab...
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    31,81 €

  • Illusions of Emancipation
    Joseph P. Reidy / Joseph PReidy
    As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln’s proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the form...
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    44,91 €

  • Through the Eyes of a Slave - Written Accounts of American Slavery
    Various
    “Through the Eyes of a Slave” contains a carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety of authors including Solomon Northup’s “Twelve Years a Slave”, which was adapted into the 2013 blockbuster film of the same name. These compelling, inspirational, and often harrowing real-life stories offer a unique insight into the t...
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    36,14 €

  • Twenty-Two Years a Slave - And Forty Years a Freeman
    Austin Steward
    Austin Steward (1793–1869) was an African-American author and abolitionist. Born into slavery, he managed to escape from Virginia aged 21 and moved to Rochester, New York before settling in Canada. “Twenty-Two Years a Slave - And Forty Years a Freeman” is Steward’s astonishing 1856 autobiography within which he recounts the travails of his harrowing life as a slave in America, ...
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    25,47 €

  • Being Brought from Africa to America - The Best of Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley
    Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys’ 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin...
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    21,40 €

  • A Runaway Slave from Baltimore
    Frederick Douglass
    “A Runaway Slave from Baltimore” contains a collection of speeches and letters by Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker who garnered significant acclaim for his 1845 autobiography. A leading figure in the abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862 Emancipation Proclamatio...
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    25,68 €

  • Through the Eyes of a Slave - Written Accounts of American Slavery
    Various
    'Through the Eyes of a Slave' contains a carefully-selected collection of famous, influential and moving American slave narratives from a variety of authors including Solomon Northup’s 'Twelve Years a Slave', which was adapted into the 2013 blockbuster film of the same name. These compelling, inspirational, and often harrowing real-life stories offer a unique insight into the t...
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    50,93 €

  • The Bracelet
    Charles A. Bonner / Charles ABonner
    The story that will end child sex slavery in the world! The lines between fiction and nonfiction are blurring and giving rise to a new form that might best be called 'true fiction'. Brought to light are the established mafias that dominate the trade. The big players in Europe today are Russians, Albanians, and Ukrainians (and recently, in Italy, Nigerians). In southeastern Euro...
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    11,67 €

  • Autographs For Freedom (Volume I)
    Various
    Autographs For Freedom (Volume I): Edited By Julia Griffiths (In Two Volumes - Volume I)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...
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    15,60 €

  • Autographs For Freedom (Complete)
    Various
    Autographs For Freedom (Complete): Edited By Julia Griffiths (Complete Edition Of Two Volumes)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 b...
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    24,17 €


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