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  • American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Benjamin D. Weber 9781620975909

    American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Benjamin D. Weber 9781620975909

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    A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian“American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration. It will forever change how we understand this...
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  • The Life and Times of Paul Cuffe: Black Quaker Abolitionist by Simon Webb

    The Life and Times of Paul Cuffe: Black Quaker Abolitionist by Simon Webb

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999750954Author Simon WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint The Langley PressPublisher The Langley Press
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  • Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 by Colleen A. Vasconcellos 9780820348056

    Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 by Colleen A. Vasconcellos 9780820348056

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    This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the island's slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labour throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child...
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  • Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition by Robert W. Harms 9780300163872

    Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition by Robert W. Harms 9780300163872

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    While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together...
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  • Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura Murphy 9780231164238

    Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura Murphy 9780231164238

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    Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia,...
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  • Cugoano Against Slavery by Martin Hoyles 9781906190972

    Cugoano Against Slavery by Martin Hoyles 9781906190972

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190972Author Martin HoylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 346g
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  • Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World by Catherine M. Cameron

    Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World by Catherine M. Cameron

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    In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact captives of warfare and raiding have had on small-scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new...
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  • The Slaves of the Churches: A History by Mary E. Sommar

    The Slaves of the Churches: A History by Mary E. Sommar

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    In recent years, stories of religious universities and institutions grappling with their slave-owning past have made headlines in the news. People find it shocking that the Church itself could have been involved in such a sordid business. This timely...
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  • A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by James Williams 9780822326472

    A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by James Williams 9780822326472

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    This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican "apprentice" (former slave), came to...
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  • Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes 9780393347753

    Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes 9780393347753

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    Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread...
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  • The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates 9780451532138

    The Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates 9780451532138

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    A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.Before the end of the Civil...
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  • Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery by Carolyn Vellenga Berman 9780801443848

    Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery by Carolyn Vellenga Berman 9780801443848

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    The character of the Creole woman-the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier-is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of...
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  • How Far We Slaves Have Come!: South Africa and Cuba in Today's World by Nelson Mandela 9780873487290

    How Far We Slaves Have Come!: South Africa and Cuba in Today's World by Nelson Mandela 9780873487290

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873487290Author Nelson MandelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 83Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 120g
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  • Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt by Laura T. Murphy

    Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt by Laura T. Murphy

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    A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small...
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  • Poetry of Haitian Independence by Doris Y. Kadish 9780300195590

    Poetry of Haitian Independence by Doris Y. Kadish 9780300195590

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    At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt. During the first decades of Haitian independence, a wealth of original poetry was created by the inhabitants of the former French Caribbean...
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  • The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Kwame Nimako 9780745331072

    The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Kwame Nimako 9780745331072

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    This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society. Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and...
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  • What is Slavery? Brenda E. Stevenson 9780745671512

    What is Slavery? Brenda E. Stevenson 9780745671512

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    What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the...
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  • The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Kevin Kenny 9780197580080

    The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Kevin Kenny 9780197580080

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    A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period between the American Revolution and the end of Reconstruction. Today the United States considers immigration...
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  • The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America by Jean Fagan Yellin

    The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America by Jean Fagan Yellin

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    A small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism, the "antislavery females" included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing...
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  • Free at Last?: The Tottenham Riots and the Legacy of Slavery by Clifford Hill 9780957572522

    Free at Last?: The Tottenham Riots and the Legacy of Slavery by Clifford Hill 9780957572522

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957572522Author Clifford HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Wilberforce PublicationsPublisher Wilberforce PublicationsWeight(grams)...
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  • Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest by Barbara J. Heath 9780813918679

    Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest by Barbara J. Heath 9780813918679

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    This text recreates the daily life of slaves at Poplar Forest, Jefferson's second home. It explores the relationships within the plantation and the resulting choices, compromises and limitations that slaves negotiated in the process of making a home in...
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  • Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf 9780821415160

    Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf 9780821415160

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    While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture...
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  • Indentured!: A Labourer's Journey by Vicki Bismilla 9780995053823

    Indentured!: A Labourer's Journey by Vicki Bismilla 9780995053823

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995053823Author Vicki BismillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Tamarind Tree Books Inc.Publisher Tamarind Tree Books Inc.Weight(grams)...
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  • Slavery: The Many Faces of a Southern Institution by Peter J. Parish 9781853312014 [USED COPY]

    Slavery: The Many Faces of a Southern Institution by Peter J. Parish 9781853312014 [USED COPY]

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    In this classic short introduction to one of the most important and controversial topics in American history, Peter J Parish investigates slavery from political, economic and social perspectives. He explains the paradox upon which slavery rested: its...
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  • The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade: British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion by Robert Burroughs 9781526122889

    The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade: British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion by Robert Burroughs 9781526122889

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    The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors...
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  • Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown by Henry Brown 9780486795751

    Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown by Henry Brown 9780486795751

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486795751Author Henry BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 70gDimensions(mm)...
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  • Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke 9781642594706

    Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke 9781642594706

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    Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American slavery. Repair invites readers to explore the...
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  • Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia by William Dusinberre 9780813947266

    Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia by William Dusinberre 9780813947266

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWilliam Dusinberre, Reader in History, Emeritus, at the University of Warwick in England, is the author of Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk,...
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  • The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery Matthew Elia 9780300266597

    The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery Matthew Elia 9780300266597

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    A bold rereading of Augustinian thought for a world still haunted by slavery Over the last two decades, scholars have made a striking return to the resources of the Augustinian tradition to theorize citizenship, virtue, and the place of religion in...
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  • Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora Celeste-Marie Bernier (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)) 9781800349216

    Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora Celeste-Marie Bernier (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)) 9781800349216

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    The purpose of this book is to excavate and recover a wealth of under-examined artworks and research materials directly to interrogate, debate and analyse the tangled skeins undergirding visual representations of transatlantic slavery across the Black...
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  • The Caribbean in Europe: Aspects of the West Indies Experience in Britain, France and the Netherland Colin Brock 9780714632636

    The Caribbean in Europe: Aspects of the West Indies Experience in Britain, France and the Netherland Colin Brock 9780714632636

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    This book is the fourth in a series of volumes to emerge from the commemoration by the University of Hull of the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and in particular an international conference held to discuss some of...
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  • Abina and the Important Men by Trevor R. Getz 9780190238742

    Abina and the Important Men by Trevor R. Getz 9780190238742

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    Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association, and widely acclaimed by educators and students, Abina and the Important Men, 2e is a compelling and powerfully illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court...
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  • Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales

    Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales

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    A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old...
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  • An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley

    An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade by Alexandra J. Finley

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    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...
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  • Slavery in Islamic Middle East by Shaun Marmon 9781558761698

    Slavery in Islamic Middle East by Shaun Marmon 9781558761698

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    Slavery in Islamic Middle East examines the institution of slavery in Islam in a range of cultural setti ngs. It includes partial translation of the memoirs of the F rench physician, Louis Frank. 'Book InformationISBN 9781558761698Author Shaun...
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  • The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam by John Hunwick 9781558762756

    The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam by John Hunwick 9781558762756

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    For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on the study of the forced migration of black Africans into the Mediterranean world of Islam. From the ninth to...
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  • Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History by Gregory D. Smithers 9780813049601

    Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History by Gregory D. Smithers 9780813049601

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    "A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will be hotly debated in the profession."--Michael L. Ondaatje, University of Newcastle, Australia "As engaging...
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  • The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture by Tad Skotnicki

    The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture by Tad Skotnicki

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    When people encounter consumer goods-sugar, clothes, phones-they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain...
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  • Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and AbolitionismA Debate with Joao Pedro Marques Seymour Drescher 9781845456368

    Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and AbolitionismA Debate with Joao Pedro Marques Seymour Drescher 9781845456368

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    The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the...
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  • Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies by Rebecca J. Scott 9780807848548

    Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies by Rebecca J. Scott 9780807848548

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    In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography--the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the...
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