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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery by Noel Rae 9781468315134
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €30.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468315134Author Noel RaeFormat HardbackPage Count 591Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 44mm -
Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800 by Leland Ferguson 9781560980599
Booksplease Price: €17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560980599Author Leland FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
The Transatlantic Slave Trade And Slavery: New Directions in Teaching and Learning by Paul E. Lovejoy 9781592219063
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219063Author Paul E. LovejoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 550g -
Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843 by Andrea Major 9781846317583
Booksplease Price: €140.54'There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery' (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when... -
Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories by Benedetta Rossi 9781781383056
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.42Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and... -
Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories by Benedetta Rossi 9781846311994
Booksplease Price: €140.18Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and... -
New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans by Jesús Sanjurjo 9781032457932
RRP: €160.65Booksplease Price: €140.48Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship on unfree labour in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds during the past two decades. The essays included here revisit some of the... -
Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora Summary Paul E. Lovejoy 9781592218202
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €20.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218202Author Paul E. LovejoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 432g -
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by Katharine Gerbner 9780812250015
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €29.82Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and... -
Invisible Slaves: The Victims and Perpetrators of Modern-Day Slavery by W. Kurt Hauser
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €15.79In Invisible Slaves , W. Kurt Hauser discusses slavery around the world, with research and firsthand stories that reframe slavery as a modern-day crisis, not a historical phenomenon or third-world issue. Identifying four types of slavery-chattel slavery,... -
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by University David W Blight
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034517Author University David W BlightFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 204mm... -
Modern Day Slavery and Orphanage Tourism by Dr Joseph M Cheer
RRP: €109.78Booksplease Price: €105.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789240795Author Dr Joseph M CheerFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint CABIPublisher CABIWeight(grams) 643g -
Snow-Storm in August: The Struggle for American Freedom and Washington's Race Riot of 1835 by Jefferson Morley
RRP: €20.84Booksplease Price: €16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307477484Author Jefferson MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm)... -
Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 by Jane-Marie Collins
Booksplease Price: €140.78#Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 finalist Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of... -
Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy by H. D. Kirkpatrick
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.09Written by a clinical and forensic psychologist, Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the American Southern White Elite Slave Master and His Endurig Impact focuses on the white men who composed the southern planter class. The book is a psychological... -
Malleable at the European Will: British Discourse on Slavery (17841824) and the Image of Africans by Helmut Meier
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €26.31Helmut Meiers study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784-1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on the slave trade and slavery as such. Starting from the premise that, at the threshold from the early to the... -
Britain's Black Past Gretchen H. Gerzina 9781789621600
Booksplease Price: €140.54Expanding upon the 2017 Radio 4 series 'Britain's Black Past', this book presents those stories and analyses through the lens of a recovered past. Even those who may be familiar with some of the materials will find much that they had not previously... -
Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America by Dennis Herrick
Booksplease Price: €49.16When Pueblo Indians say, ""The first white man our people saw was a black man,"" they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban's importance in America's early history... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars 9781620974599
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.23Winner of the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the... -
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Slavery? by Julia O'Connell Davidson 9781529730753
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.18Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist the world is now plagued by the contemporary equivalent of transatlantic slavery, and call on us to combat "modern slavery". Others hold that the... -
Slavery in the Arab World by Murray Gordon 9781561310234
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.88"...A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today..."-Arab Book WorldBook InformationISBN 9781561310234Author Murray GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint New Amsterdam BooksPublisher New Amsterdam... -
Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Sean Kingsley 9781639364589
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.67A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors. "For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced."-Samuel... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780300204711
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.83A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in... -
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights by Robin Blackburn
Booksplease Price: €41.21For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this "peculiar institution" and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti... -
Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean by Robert C. Davis 9780275989507
Booksplease Price: €68.08Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean tells a story unfamiliar to most modern readers-how this pervasive servitude involved, connected, and divided those on both sides of the Mediterranean. The... -
Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery by Jesse Sage 9781403974938
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403974938Author Jesse SageFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 279gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis 9780195126716
RRP: €52.35Booksplease Price: €39.76The author explores the international impact and social significance of antislavery thought in a critical era of political and industrial revolution. He examines the implications and historical consequences of challenging the long-accepted institution of... -
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €24.45An ambitious and shocking expose of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber... -
An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart 9781324003625
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.73This is a story about a dangerous idea-that all men are created equal-which ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition... -
Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas by Daina Ramey Berry 9780820354040
Booksplease Price: €43.85In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply... -
A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865 by Richard H. Sewell
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €23.66What caused the Civil War? Perhaps no question in American history has attracted more interest or sparked more debate. A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic... -
Saving Souls: The Struggle to End the Transatlantic Trade in Africans by Hilary Beckles 9789766373078
Booksplease Price: €14.11The process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had long resisted its operation, abolition has traditionally been presented as a benevolent act by the British... -
The History of Slavery: From Egypt and the Romans to Christian Slavery aComplete Historical Overview by Adam Gurowski 9788027334438
RRP: €9.46Booksplease Price: €9.40It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive. History authoritatively establishes the fact that slavery is the most corroding social disease, and one, too, which... -
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs 9780674293861
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €15.42"Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book."-Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American... -
Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil Peter Fryer 9780745307312
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €20.87African rhythms are at the heart of contemporary black Brazilian music. Surveying a musical legacy that encompasses over 400 years, Rhythms of Resistance traces the development of this rich cultural heritage. Acclaimed author Peter Fryer describes... -
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World by Miles Ogborn
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €36.35The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the... -
Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Professor Finola O'Kane
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €93.86Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely... -
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington by Booker T Washington 9781940177892
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940177892Author Booker T WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint InfinityPublisher InfinityWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.77Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This revised edition of Ar'n't I a... -
Slaves and Slaveholders In Bermuda, 1616-1782 by Virginia Bernhard 9780826220974
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €24.70At only twentyone square miles in area, Bermuda saw slaves and slaveholders working and living closer together than in other societies. The colony's maritime pursuits o ered slaves a degree of autonomy un- equaled in other English colonies. Bernhard...