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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave by Mary Prince
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.60The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her... -
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9781784871512
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ... -
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative... -
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.75'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' - Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday TimesIn this vital re-examination... -
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Discover how the campaign to end slavery divided Britain and was almost thwarted by some of the most powerful and famous figures of the era.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL... -
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, and a precursor to the famous nineteenth-century slave narratives, Equiano's The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa aged ten,... -
Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke 9781398715523
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are... -
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal... -
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9781839766121
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black... -
A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic by William Melvin Kelley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'More than lives up to the hype' Observer'Set to become a publishing sensation' Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row'An astounding achievement' Sunday Times'The lost giant of American literature' New... -
River Sing Me Home: A beautiful novel of courage, hope and finding family, inspired by historical events by Eleanor Shearer 9781472291400
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and sacrifice, this novel reminds us of the remarkable... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers'... -
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was... -
The Long Song: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Andrea Levy 9780755359424
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly... -
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton 9780316155946
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56One of the most important and enduring figures in the history of 19th century America, the legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad whose courageous exploits have been described in countless... -
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 by Marika Sherwood 9781845113650
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £42.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Empire's Crossroads: A New History of the Caribbean by Carrie Gibson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today,... -
Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery Ana Lucia Araujo 9780226771588
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.01A sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly... -
A Perfect Frenzy 9780802164131
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.79From the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change our understanding of the American Revolution As the American... -
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary... -
The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue by John Allembillah Azumah
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.98Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of... -
Glasgow, the Clyde and Slavery D. P. 9781840339604
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339604Author D. P.Format PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780393614565
Booksplease Price: £12.99This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition (1861), with the editors' explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.Three... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking... -
KS3 History Revision Guide (Collins KS3 Revision) by Collins KS3
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34Level: KS3 Subject: History Complete coverage of the KS3 History course Clear and concise revision notes, plus seven... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £4.92LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Alex Renton has done Britain a favour and written a brutally honest book about his family's involvement with slavery. Blood Legacy could change our frequently... -
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life... -
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates Des Ekin 9781847171047
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West... -
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780753559550
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.49#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and... -
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.09There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. Its scope and the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. By examining the lives of three individuals... -
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their... -
Fallen Idols: A short history of the world in twelve statues by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.01Books of 2021, The Economist 'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk... -
Slavery: Scotland and Jamacia by Kate Phillips 9781910022559
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.57This book traces the story of how and why thousands of Scots made money from buying and selling humans... a story we need to own. We need to admit that many Scots were enthusiastic participants in... -
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World Kehinde Andrews 9780141992389
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Witty, energising and refreshing' Jeffrey BoakyeTake a step through the looking-glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 9780374531157
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531157Author Saidiya HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch 9789562916554
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789562916554Author Willie LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.66'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know... -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano 9781551112626
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.49The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative... -
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint LouvertureThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue...