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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 €

  • Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
    Gelien Matthews
    In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery ag...
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    38,24 €

  • 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 €

  • Plantation Knowledge
    The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge.Few institutions feature as prominently in contemporary notions of colonialism, racism, and environmental degradation as the modern plantation. The racialized plantations of the Atlantic World loom large in the public imagination, namely those of the British Caribbean and the US So...
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    167,10 €

  • Counting the Cost of Freedom
    Amanda Laury Kleintop
    During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy’s defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition’s costs during Reconstruction. As Amand...
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    126,93 €

  • Counting the Cost of Freedom
    Amanda Laury Kleintop
    During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy’s defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition’s costs during Reconstruction. As Amand...
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    38,07 €

  • Racial Segregation and Eugenical Science Between the Wars
    Michael L. Blakey
    This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience. ...
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    90,91 €

  • Racial Segregation and Eugenical Science Between the Wars
    Michael L. Blakey
    This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience. ...
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    253,23 €

  • 1619
    Stephen Hanks
    In the 1600’s and thereafter, thousands were kidnapped from the Kongo. One area bordering Kongo was a cartographic region known as 'The Land of the Jews.' Were people living there sold into slavery? And who were the enslaved taken from West Africa? On this journey, history & prophecy will be examined, which will cause us to view the events of 1619 through another lens - a redem...
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    34,82 €

  • Lucky Valley
    Catherine Hall
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    44,87 €

  • A Decade Of Negro Extension Work, 1914-1924
    O. B. Martin
    Unlock a forgotten chapter of history with 'A Decade of Negro Extension Work, 1914-1924' by O. B. Martin, a compelling narrative that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions. This collector’s item is not just a reprint; it’s a cultural treasure that offers a profound glimpse into the transformative efforts of African American communit...
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    12,54 €

  • How Cigarette Industry Destroyed The World
    Mait Lõhmus
    How Cigarette Industry Destroyed The World: War For Healthy Clean Fresh Breath Of Air In Our Environment!Book is about today’s world problem number one and about how it desensitises and dehumanises our society. How do we have to stop damages occurring from the unseen area of human-kinds attention. Lightening strike on an oak tree!Mostly alcohol and smoking resulting as abusive ...
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    29,06 €

  • Beyond the antislavery haven
    Ellie Bird
    This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place. ...
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    157,64 €

  • The Field of Human Trafficking
    Jennifer Bossard
    This volume cover topics such as trafficking in higher education, trafficking of men, and trafficking terminology among others. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of criminology and criminal justice. ...
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    76,95 €

  • The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, with Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons
    William C. Nell
    By: William C. Nell, Pub. 1855, reprinted 2025, 412 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-621-5.  For those forgotten African American patriots who fought for independence during the Revolutionary War, the author tries to correct this oversight in US History by bring these individuals to light. He identifies many of these soldiers and also discusses their participation du...
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    45,38 €

  • Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation
    Raphael Sassower
    Offering a detailed analysis of the essential role enslavement played in the success of the British and American capitalism, Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation describes the logic of dividuation, a logic that veils its motives and practices with ever cleverer myths. ...
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    254,31 €

  • The Negro and the Nation
    George Spring Merriam
    'The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement' by George S. Merriam delves into the complex and pivotal history of slavery in the United States. This meticulously researched account offers a comprehensive exploration of the institution of slavery, its impact on African Americans, and its enduring legacy on the nation.Spanning the period leading up...
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    37,39 €

  • Clotelle
    William Wells Brown
    'Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States' by William Wells Brown is a powerful work of historical fiction exploring the complexities of slavery in the United States South. As a significant contribution to African American literature, the novel delves into the lives of those impacted by this brutal institution. Brown’s narrative offers a glimpse into the experiences of African A...
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    20,12 €

  • Clotelle
    William Wells Brown
    'Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States' by William Wells Brown is a powerful work of historical fiction exploring the complexities of slavery in the United States South. As a significant contribution to African American literature, the novel delves into the lives of those impacted by this brutal institution. Brown’s narrative offers a glimpse into the experiences of African A...
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    33,76 €

  • American Scenes, and Christian Slavery
    Ebenezer Davies
    Ebenezer Davies’ 'American Scenes, and Christian Slavery: A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States' offers a compelling first-hand account of 19th-century America and its profound moral contradiction: slavery. This powerful narrative, meticulously prepared for print republication, chronicles Davies’ travels through a nation grappling with the institution of sla...
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    23,08 €

  • American Scenes, and Christian Slavery
    Ebenezer Davies
    Ebenezer Davies’ 'American Scenes, and Christian Slavery: A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States' offers a compelling first-hand account of 19th-century America and its profound moral contradiction: slavery. This powerful narrative, meticulously prepared for print republication, chronicles Davies’ travels through a nation grappling with the institution of sla...
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    35,56 €

  • The Negro and the Nation
    George Spring Merriam
    'The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement' by George S. Merriam delves into the complex and pivotal history of slavery in the United States. This meticulously researched account offers a comprehensive exploration of the institution of slavery, its impact on African Americans, and its enduring legacy on the nation.Spanning the period leading up...
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    26,06 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
    Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs / Lydia Maria Child
    'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself,' is the powerful and unflinching autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved African-American woman. This seminal work of abolitionist literature offers a rare and vital firsthand account of the horrors of slavery from a female perspective. Jacobs chronicles her personal experiences, providing a gripping narra...
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    23,22 €

  • Black Ivory
    Pearson / R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
    'Black Ivory' by R. M. Ballantyne plunges readers into the heart of 19th-century Africa, exploring the brutal realities of the slave trade. This historical fiction, categorized as a boys’ adventure story, offers a glimpse into a dark chapter of history. Ballantyne’s narrative provides a classic example of juvenile fiction centered on action and adventure, while simultaneously t...
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    35,64 €

  • Black Ivory
    Pearson / R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
    'Black Ivory' by R. M. Ballantyne plunges readers into the heart of 19th-century Africa, exploring the brutal realities of the slave trade. This historical fiction, categorized as a boys’ adventure story, offers a glimpse into a dark chapter of history. Ballantyne’s narrative provides a classic example of juvenile fiction centered on action and adventure, while simultaneously t...
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    23,16 €

  • Early County Records of Gloucester County, New Jersey (Slave Documents)
    Works Projects Administration
    By: W.P.A., Pub. 1940, reprinted 2025, 80 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-614-7. Gloucester County was created in 1686 and sits on the western portion of the state across from Delaware County Pennsylvania. Data to be found within: Birth Certificates, Certificates of Manumission, Warrants to Arrest, Court Hearings concerning Slaves. These records cover the time frame...
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    22,52 €

  • Slavery and the American Founding
    Jude M. Pfister
    Since 1776, the Founding generation has been portrayed as creators of a new world where liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples. The Founders, although brilliant, were nonetheless human and fashioned a country conceived in liberty and freedom for themselves. The enslaved, women, and other minorities were not part of the original Founding documents. 'A...
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    73,14 €

  • The Slave in Legal and Political Philosophy
    Tom Frost
    This book explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy. ...
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    254,38 €

  • Slave trading in the Early Middle Ages
    Janel M. Fontaine
    This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe. ...
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    157,15 €


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