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  • Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
    Jeff Eden
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    38,07 €

  • Wistful
    Michael Edwin Q. / TBD
    Only one letter separates the two words. Wishful is having hope for something. Wistful is regret for what might have been.Wistful is a new book from award winning author Michael Edwin Q. It is a must read for fans of 'But Have Not Love', 'Born A Colored Girl' and 'Fancy'. 3 ...
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    15,48 €

  • Murder at Mount Vernon
    Robert J Muller
    Politics, murder, and mortal danger confront retired General George Washington as he considers whether to accept the presidency of the United States.The General has retired to his farm, Mount Vernon, but he cannot escape the politics of his time. The new constitution requires a president, and no one doubts it must be him. Except himself.Colonel David Humphreys, Washington’s aid...
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    24,58 €

  • Slavery in the Courtroom (1985)
    Paul Finkelman
    Classic analysis of the law of slavery that received the Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries in 1986. Offers a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain, and as such, provides readers with easy access to an understanding of most of the important American an...
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    50,84 €

  • Slavery in the Courtroom (1985)
    Paul Finkelman
    Classic analysis of the law of slavery that received the Joseph A. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries in 1986. Offers a detailed discussion and analysis of the pamphlet materials on the law of slavery published in the United States and Great Britain, and as such, provides readers with easy access to an understanding of most of the important American an...
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    62,55 €

  • The History of Mary Prince
    Mary Prince
    “The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave” is a 1831 autobiography of Mary Prince (1788–1833), a British abolitionist and autobiographer. Born in Bermuda to a family of African slaves, she managed to escape to London where she wrote this book. The first account of a black woman’s life published in Great Britain, “The History of Mary Prince” was highly controversial in a...
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    16,45 €

  • City of Refuge
    Marcus P Nevius
    City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sec...
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    55,59 €

  • American Slave Trade
    Jesse Torrey
    American Slave Trade: Or, An Account Of The Manner In Which The Slave Dealers Take Free People From Some Of The United States Of America, And Carry Them Away, And Sell Them As Slaves In Other Of The States; And Of The Horrible Cruelties Practised In The Carrying On Of This Most Infamous TrafficThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the pr...
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    11,51 €

  • Uncle 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, fea...
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    20,37 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Do you want to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave? If so then keep reading… 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...
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    19,10 €

  • Daily Life of African American Slaves in the Antebellum South
    Melissa Teed / Paul Teed
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    88,98 €

  • Uncle 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, fea...
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    17,80 €

  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after buying her freedom and that of her son in St. Louis. She cre...
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    18,96 €

  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after buying her freedom and that of her son in St. Louis. She cre...
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    31,13 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    Frederick Douglass
    Do you want to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave? If so then keep reading… 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...
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    13,72 €

  • Liberty's Jihad
    Munawar Ali Karim
    Starting in pre-Islamic Arabia and deepest Africa, following the lives, adventures and writings of three Muslim slaves through antebellum America and the world of trans-Atlantic slavery, Liberty’s Jihad takes us on a fascinating journey spanning centuries, continents and characters. Along the way Munawar Karim invites us to explore the writings of African Muslim slaves, reflect...
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    24,00 €

  • Instructions aux domestiques
    Jonathan Swift
    « Quoique d’une certaine étendue, ce traité n’est qu’un fragment. On présume que Swift voulait faire tout un volume, mais que le temps et la santé lui manquèrent. Ce qui paraît certain c’est qu’il faisait grand cas de ce travail, car en 1739, alors qu’il avait perdu la mémoire, et que l’indifférence pour la littérature le gagnait de plus en plus, il écrit avec anxiété à Faulkne...
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    9,02 €

  • The Mission to End Slavery
    Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire
    Prejudice, racism, oppression and suffering. These are things that we have all seen and continue to see in the world today. The root of a lot of these injustices can often be found in slavery. A fact not lost on Femi Adebayo, who has often felt that black people have had to fight harder than everyone else due to what he views as the system.Femi stumbles across the mysterious Mr...
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    15,71 €

  • The Mission to End Slavery
    Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire
    Prejudice, racism, oppression and suffering. These are things that we have all seen and continue to see in the world today. The root of a lot of these injustices can often be found in slavery. A fact not lost on Femi Adebayo, who has often felt that black people have had to fight harder than everyone else due to what he views as the system.Femi stumbles across the mysterious Mr...
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    22,04 €

  • A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection
    Rafael Ocasio
    In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and the Rhode Island coastal town of Bristol. The citizens of Bristol were heavily involved in the slavery trade and owned sugarcane plantations in Cuba and also served as...
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    128,91 €

  • Backcountry Slave Trader
    Frances Melton Racine / Philip Noel Racine
    Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith, a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his business ledger and his correspondence were of unusual specificity. The authors’ analyze these entries and his correspondence, which they argue provide details about the institutional features of the domestic slave trade not found in earlier publish...
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    122,46 €

  • Homicide Justified
    Andrew T. Fede
    This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters'...
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    33,09 €

  • Twice Condemned
    Philip J. Schwarz / Philip JSchwarz
    Dominion during a 160 year period. Before Twice Condemned was first published in 1988, historians often focused primarily on isolated or dramatic examples of the sometimes deadly conflict present in societies based on slave labor. But Twice Condemned analyzes the prevalence, longevity, and variety of behavior attributed to slave convicts. In doing so, this book also provides a ...
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    62,43 €

  • The bonds of family
    Katie Donington
    Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery. ...
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    156,96 €

  • Life Beyond Circumstance
    Jullian Smallwood
    A story about a young man's mental struggles between living in poverty or gaining success. With practically being homeless himself. Due to the Circumstances that was beyond his control. With both of his parents being on drugs. To his mother getting kicked out the family shelter because her drug abuse. Eventually, his mother was send to jail. With all of the things going on ...
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    15,62 €

  • The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book
    Jim Jordan
    In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the ...
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    29,68 €

  • The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible
    This is an Introduction, History, and Photocopy of the Slave Bible. - There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control and keep the slaves working calmly and the abolitionists began to question the moral cost of slavery. The abolitionist movement was growing and for the first time, the souls of the slaves were being considered. As they prepared to com...
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    42,87 €

  • A Brief History of World Slavery
    Glenn Rogers
    Slavery was a shameful thing—a dark and horrible part of human history. It should never have happened. But it did. Most people, however, don't know what really happened, why it happened, how it happened, or the extent to which it happened. In this brief, easy-to-read book, Dr. Glenn Rogers provides an overview of slavery from when it began nearly 10,000 years ago to the sla...
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    20,48 €

  • Liberty and Slavery
    Niels Eichhorn
    In Liberty and Slavery, Niels Eichhorn examines the language of slavery, a component he considers central to revolutionary struggles, especially those fought by European separatists in the first half of the nineteenth century. Tracing the European uprisings of 1830 and 1848 and the American Civil War in 1861, Eichhorn shows that separatism, broadly defined as a group's desi...
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    55,07 €

  • The Black Butterfly
    Marcus Wood
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    36,56 €


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