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The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson by Lolita Buckner Inniss 9780823285341
RRP: $82.56$71.26James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was... -
Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History by Kenneth Morgan 9780814756690
$115.95In Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America, Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labor systems, including... -
To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves by Kevin Bales 9780801474385
RRP: $28.37$24.76Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first... -
The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade by Herbert S. Klein 9780691628301
RRP: $58.05$45.56Herbert Klein's book makes several distinctive contributions to our understanding of the slave trade. It offers us the first systematic comparative study of major European slave traders based exclusively on archival sources. The author's minimization of... -
Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura Murphy 9780231164221
RRP: $118.68$93.15Slavery 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,... -
Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England by Catherine Adams 9780195389098
$85.27They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage as a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary... -
Slavery and Freedom by Willie Lee Rose 9780195029697
$53.21Unknown function: Edited by William H. FreehlingReviewsHaving these pieces all together...makes the entire subject...look strikingly new and different. * Stanley Elkins, New York Review of Books *Book InformationISBN 9780195029697Author Willie Lee... -
Shackles of Iron: Slavery Beyond the Atlantic by Stewart Gordon 9781624664755
RRP: $64.50$52.32"Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in terms of both time and place. His chapters on East African and Mediterranean slavery are especially... -
Shackles of Iron: Slavery Beyond the Atlantic by Stewart Gordon 9781624664748
RRP: $24.50$20.21"Gordon's survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood much better if we put it in this larger context, in terms of both time and place. His chapters on East African and Mediterranean slavery are especially... -
Slavery, Memory and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies by Douglas Hamilton 9781138661691
RRP: $61.91$53.93This is the first book to explore national representations of slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions span a wide geographical range, covering Europe, North America, West and South Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.Book... -
Abolition Movement by T. Adams Upchurch 9780313386060
$49.52This powerful narrative tells the triumphant story of the men and women who spent their lives and fortunes trying to abolish the institution of slavery in the United States. The practice of African slavery has been described as the United States's most... -
Abolition and Antislavery: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic by Peter Hinks 9781610698276
$137.23The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life the key events, leading figures, and socioeconomic forces in the history of American antislavery,... -
The Transatlantic Slave Trade And Slavery: New Directions in Teaching and Learning by Paul E. Lovejoy 9781592219063
RRP: $45.09$29.12Apologies 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 -
The Aftermath Of Slavery: Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria by Chima J. Korieh 9781592215157
RRP: $32.19$21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215157Author Chima J. KoriehFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 358g -
Slavery, Memory, Citizenship by Paul E. Lovejoy 9781569024720
RRP: $51.54$33.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569024720Author Paul E. LovejoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 759g -
Modern Slavery: A Documentary and Reference Guide by Laura J. Lederer 9781440844980
$134.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440844980Author Laura J. LedererFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Greenwood Publishing Group IncPublisher Greenwood Publishing Group Inc -
Frederick Douglass: A Biography by Booker T. Washington 9781412847391
RRP: $56.75$49.59This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the... -
African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860 Dea Boster 9781138920705
RRP: $49.01$43.06Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in... -
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits by James Walvin 9781119166207
RRP: $85.08$75.66Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. * Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert... -
Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America by Beth A. Salerno 9780875806198
RRP: $30.95$27.40Many nineteenth-century women got their first taste of political activism in small-town societies advocating temperance and other moral causes. Alongside national organizations with charismatic male leaders, these grassroots efforts by ordinary women... -
Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire Josep M. Fradera 9780857459336
RRP: $138.03$111.68African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the... -
What is Slavery? Brenda E. Stevenson 9780745671505
RRP: $70.95$61.57What 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... -
Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands by Markus Balkenhol 9781800731608
RRP: $127.71$102.98Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country's slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions),... -
Between Blood and Gold: The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas Frederique Beauvois 9781785333316
RRP: $127.71$103.50Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such... -
The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade Joao Pedro Marques 9781571814470
RRP: $127.71$103.50"...a significant contribution to the vast and rich international literature on abolitionism, its causes and consequences, main events and historical processes. Well-informed and up-to-date in relation to the most pressing debates on the abolition... -
American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration by Benjamin D. Weber 9781620975909
RRP: $27.08$18.31A 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... -
The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origin of Modernity Martyn Hudson 9781138602816
RRP: $56.75$49.59Traces; slave names, the islands and cities into which we are born, our musics and rhythms, our genetic compositions, our stories of our lost utopias and the atrocities inflicted upon our ancestors, by our ancestors, the social structure of our cities,... -
New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans by Jesús Sanjurjo 9781032457932
RRP: $161.25$139.14Taking 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: $34.82$22.86Apologies 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 -
A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E Benjamin Skinner 9780743290081
RRP: $28.37$18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780743290081Author E Benjamin SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon &... -
Children in Slavery through the Ages by Gwyn Campbell 9780821418772
$39.60Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose... -
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson by Lolita Buckner Inniss
RRP: $21.92$18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823294077Author Lolita Buckner InnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Modern Slavery by Guido Cuyvers 9781592113309
RRP: $38.64$28.83Slavery is a phenomenon that appears to interfere with neither the daily lives of most people nor with their contemporary worlds.For many, the term ‘slavery’ is reminiscent of black slaves on their journey to America or, perhaps, of slaves in ancient... -
When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil War by John Patrick Daly
$43.77When Slavery Was Called Freedom uncovers the cultural and ideological bonds linking the combatants in the Civil War era and boldly reinterprets the intellectual foundations of secession. John Patrick Daly dissects the evangelical defense of slavery at... -
Invisible Slaves: The Victims and Perpetrators of Modern-Day Slavery by W. Kurt Hauser
RRP: $25.74$17.04In 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,... -
An American Story by Kwame Alexander
RRP: $24.50$15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Coretta Scott King Award (Illustrator) 2024.Book InformationISBN 9780316473125Author Kwame AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Little, Brown Young... -
Slave King: Rebels Against Empire by Basem L Ra'ad
RRP: $32.24$21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263521Author Basem L Ra'adFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 299g -
Narratives Against Enslavement from the Court Rooms of Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Fighting for Freedom by Clara Lunow
RRP: $161.25$139.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032320014Author Clara LunowImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation by Jill Strauss
RRP: $32.24$27.95Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have been in the news, it is clear that the scars from the... -
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 by Richard Anderson
RRP: $141.90$135.63Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century. In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation...