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  • Freedom by a Thread
    Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery ...
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    36,71 €

  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    126,29 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    43,96 €

  • Himalayan Dreams
    Kirsty Nancarrow
    A Hero’s Legacy: Som Tamang’s incredible journey is not just a tale of survival; it’s a mission to protect girls in Nepal from trafficking and child marriage. His courage and benevolence shine through, inspiring us all to pursue our dreams and make a positive impact on the world.HOW ONE MAN’S DETERMINATION CHANGED THE FUTURE FOR CHILDREN IN RURAL NEPAL.Discover the life of Som ...
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    21,81 €

  • Enslavers of the Maritimes
    Brenda J Thompson
    A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada. Illustrated with images of ’runaway slave’ advertisements, letters from the powerful to each other about their dealings in the po...
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    13,25 €

  • Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future
    Abby Wallace / Lori Ann LaRocco
    In Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experiences shaped and influenced future generations. The authors worked with family historians, gathered volumes of historical documents, and worked with historians from Montpelier, Mount V...
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    21,77 €

  • Discovering My Southern Legacy
    Deirdre Foreman
    What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?For author Deirdre Foreman, this question is a very personal one: in this book, she explores the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethno-autobiographical reflection on her own African-American identity and family he...
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    24,29 €

  • Through the Lens of a Teenage Sharecropper
    Dr. Gwen Sturrup Coverson
    Although slavery was a practice of forced labor and restricted liberties, as a teenager that was not a part of my consciousness. During the summer months, I enjoyed the outdoors and being with family. Fast forward 50 years, I can only imagine the mounting debt that families endured.  Heads of households had to prioritize cash crops and could not spend time planting personal gar...
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    13,99 €

  • Through the Lens of a Teenage Sharecropper
    Dr. Gwen Sturrup Coverson
    Although slavery was a practice of forced labor and restricted liberties, as a teenager that was not a part of my consciousness. During the summer months, I enjoyed the outdoors and being with family. Fast forward 50 years, I can only imagine the mounting debt that families endured.  Heads of households had to prioritize cash crops and could not spend time planting personal gar...
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    26,43 €

  • This Is Our Home
    Whitney Nell Stewart
    The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at t...
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    126,85 €

  • Captivity’s Collections
    Kathleen S. Murphy
    Cashews from Africa’s Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals...
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    126,99 €

  • Captivity’s Collections
    Kathleen S. Murphy
    Cashews from Africa’s Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals...
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    38,15 €

  • Voices of Freedom
    Elise Baker
    Women have been at the forefront of significant positive change for generations, and yet they still struggle to have their voices heard.There is no more obvious example of this than when learning about modern history, where little acknowledgment is given to women’s incredible feats and sacrifices during major world events.However, there are hundreds of true stories of brave wom...
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    8,89 €

  • Let Justice and Mercy Flow
    Ken Boutwell
    Ken Boutwell and I became fast friends soon after he sent me a manuscript to publish as his first book in 2016. He was referred to my publishing company by a mutual friend who was his pastor at First Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida..He told me at that time that he was also working on a second book which would address racism and bigotry throughout history with an invitati...
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    37,85 €

  • Captain Philip Beaver’s African Journal
    Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary. ...
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    237,80 €

  • Manor on the Viridian Sea
    Eleanor P Sam / Eleanor P Sam
    Jemma Worley, a Canadian millennial, has manipulated her lover, a wealthy architect, into purchasing the seaside manor of her dreams. Located on a palm-fringed Caribbean Island, it seems the fulfillment of her fantasies and lifestyle ambitions. But no sooner has she moved in than the ground of her familiar assumptions gives way. She is sent spiralling through a series of revela...
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    16,03 €

  • Twelve Years a Slave
    Solomon Northup
    Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell victim to a series of bizarre events that make this one of the most amazing autobiographies ever written.Northup accepted an offer from two strangers in Saratoga, New York...
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    21,79 €

  • Slavery, Its Origin, Nature and History
    Thornton Stringfellow
    This controversial work defends the institution of slavery on biblical and moral grounds, arguing that it is both a natural and necessary part of human society. It also addresses the social and political implications of this view, and advocates for the preservation of slavery as a God-given right.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part...
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    29,61 €

  • Treatise on Slavery
    Anonymous
    A thorough analysis of the institution of slavery, examining its moral and economic implications and arguing for its abolition. The author draws on historical examples and contemporary debates to make a compelling case for the end of slavery.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Thi...
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    29,53 €

  • Horrors of Slavery
    John Kenrick
    Bear witness to the atrocities of slavery in this powerful and heartbreaking book. John Kenrick provides a detailed and unflinching account of the lives of enslaved people, and calls for an end to this cruel practice.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public ...
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    32,93 €

  • Sinfulness of American Slavery
    Charles 1792-1869 Elliott / B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) 181... Tefft
    This book provides a thorough examination of the sinfulness of American slavery, using a combination of scriptural evidence and historical analysis. The authors argue convincingly that slavery is a grave evil that goes against God’s commandments and the principles of the Christian faith. A powerful and persuasive argument against one of the greatest moral wrongs of American his...
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    39,55 €

  • Faulkner and Slavery
    Jay Watson
    Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall Wilhelm In 1930, the same year he moved into Rowan Oak, a slave-built former plantation home in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, Wi...
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    42,82 €

  • Captain Canot
    Théophile Conneau
    The amazing, shocking, and true autobiography of a trans-Atlantic slave trader who plied the slave trade between Africa and Cuba for twenty years from 1820 to 1840.Dealing forthrightly with all aspects of this trade in humans, the book starts with a small biographical background before moving in to the core of his story, which can be divided into five major sections: how Africa...
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    29,93 €

  • White Slavery in the Barbary States
    Charles Sumner
    First delivered as a lecture in Boston in 1847 by one of America’s foremost anti-slavery activists, this classic work became a powerful argument used against the institution of slavery as it then existed in the United States, for, as the author correctly pointed out, why did America go to war to end white slavery in North Africa at the hands of the Moors, yet still tolerated bl...
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    21,18 €

  • What If White People Were Slaves?
    N. D. 'Indy' Brennan
    Imagine...Imagine an American history that featured white people as slaves and people of color as the majority of slave owners. Imagine a world where the Willie Lynch Theory regarded the destruction of the European family instead of the African or a time when Jim Crow laws targeted white people instead of black Americans.  The Psychological Question:  Will we ever truly underst...
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    38,75 €

  • What If White People Were Slaves?
    N. D. 'Indy' Brennan
    Imagine...Imagine an American history that featured white people as slaves and people of color as the majority of slave owners. Imagine a world where the Willie Lynch Theory regarded the destruction of the European family instead of the African or a time when Jim Crow laws targeted white people instead of black Americans.  The Psychological Question:  Will we ever truly underst...
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    33,57 €

  • My Best Genealogy Tips
    Robin R. Foster
    Did you ever wonder about the enslaved people in your ancestry? Have you asked the oldest living relative what they remember? Do you know what to do next? I was able to find my second great grandfather, Beverly Vance (1832-1899), in 1880 and 1870 on the census along with his mother, his wife, and his children. Have you located your formerly enslaved ancestor in the 1880 and 187...
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    18,48 €

  • Candy
    L.M. Alexander
    Candy is a vivid and moving story of post-slavery life in the early part of the 20th century. The story takes place on a plantation along the Savannah River in South Carolina. Into the simple lives of the colorful and varied personalities on the plantation comes a visitor from Harlem, sowing the seeds of discontent by holding out glimmering promises of joy and plenty in the Nor...
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    17,77 €


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