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The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover 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 WRITING**In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the... -
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
RRP: £16.99£11.47William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able... -
Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made. Alex von Tunzelmann 9781472281913
RRP: £12.99£8.60'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 about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy this book.' Suzannah Lipscomb,... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £4.99£4.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
RRP: £9.99£7.79WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY LGBTQ SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR AWARDThe water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society-and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in... -
Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria 9780241989319
RRP: £10.99£7.77Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it'Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read' Roxane Gay'A book to make you stop and think' Mishal... -
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates Des Ekin 9781847171047
RRP: £13.99£10.95In 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 Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 9780374531157
RRP: £19.00£11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531157Author Saidiya HartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World by Katie Donington 9781526157515
RRP: £30.00£26.68Moving between Britain and Jamaica The bonds of family reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the... -
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker
RRP: £12.99£8.60The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this... -
This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade
RRP: £18.99£12.83*A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR*'[Owolade's] argument has needed saying for years' Janan Ganesh, Financial Times'Compelling and admirable' Sunday Times'Passionate and timely' Observer'Excellent' Telegraph'Illuminating' The Times'Timely [and]... -
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World by Kehinde Andrews 9780241437476
RRP: £25.00£17.62'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 self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness,... -
Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and Abolitionisma Debate with Joao Pedro Marques by Seymour Drescher 9781800730052
RRP: £27.95£22.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730052Author Seymour DrescherFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts<BR> by C. L. R. James 9780822353140
RRP: £20.99£18.37In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, which was presumed lost until the rediscovery of a draft... -
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra 9780141990491
RRP: £10.99£7.77A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution,... -
KS3 History Revision Guide (Collins KS3 Revision) by Collins KS3
RRP: £7.99£6.64Level: KS3 Subject: History Complete coverage of the KS3 History course Clear and concise revision notes, plus seven practice opportunities for every topic:* quick tests to check... -
Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World by Catherine M. Cameron
RRP: £19.99£17.54In 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... -
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Professor James Walvin 9781472144331
RRP: £25.00£16.78A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Hero Classics) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054807Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press Ltd -
River Sing Me Home: 'The strength of Rachel’s maternal love is a miracle' The Times by Eleanor Shearer
RRP: £18.99£9.54A mother can never be free until she finds her children... The Good Morning America Book Club Pick February 2023 is a soaring novel inspired by true events.'A strong and beautiful novel that stares into the face of brutality and the heart of love'... -
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
RRP: £9.99£6.70In 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 of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby's first... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £20.00£14.69*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To... -
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken 9781399412841
RRP: £14.99£11.75'Master biographer Jonathan Aitken is in fine form, sympathetic, insightful, scholarly and vivid, and his book, like its subject, must be rated unobtrusively spectacular.' J. I. Packer '...meticulously researched...[Aiken] writes beautifully and... -
Britain's War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navy s West Africa Squadron, 1807 1867 by Anthony Sullivan 9781399000017
RRP: £14.99£14.29Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across... -
Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth
RRP: £7.99£5.79'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now'A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the... -
The Story of Afro Hair by K. N. Chimbiri 9780702307416
RRP: £9.99£6.41Explore the incredible history of Afro hair. The Story of Afro Hair celebrates the fashion and styles of Afro hair over the last 5,000 years. From plaits to the Gibson Girl, cornrows to dreadlocks, the hi-top fade to funki dreds, The Story of Afro Hair... -
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis 9781403945518
RRP: £27.99£25.65This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored... -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance by Jake Subryan Richards 9781781301234
RRP: £25.00£18.88An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least Britain, colonised the Americas and transported over 12.5 million people from sub-Saharan Africa as... -
Map of a Plantation by Jenny Mitchell 9781912876464
RRP: £11.00£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912876464Author Jenny MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Indigo Dreams PublishingPublisher Indigo Dreams PublishingWeight(grams) 138g -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi 9780691160979
RRP: £30.00£23.69It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary,... -
Slaves among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking by Monique Villa
RRP: £18.99£14.32The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking. Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share how they fell victim to traffickers and how their bodies... -
Mary Prince (reloaded look) by E. L. Norry 9780702313820
RRP: £6.99£4.64My Story: Mary Prince - the thrilling story of the former slave and abolitionist. Born in enslavement in Bermuda, Mary Prince travelled to England, escaped slavery and became a prominent abolitionist whose life ... -
The Slave Trade Hugh Thomas 9780753820568
RRP: £20.00£14.35The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historianThe Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried... -
The Slave Trade in Africa: An Ongoing Holocaust by Simon Webb
RRP: £20.00£14.29Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of African leaders? Slavery was a common practice in Africa long before the... -
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns 9780399590870
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590870Author Rachel L. SwarnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Glasgow, the Clyde and Slavery D. P. 9781840339604
RRP: £14.95£13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339604Author D. P.Format PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800 by Alan Taylor 9780142002100
RRP: £16.99£12.28AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North... -
A Brief History of Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire Roy Moxham 9781845297473
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Absorbing and sometimes shocking' - Literary Review'A masterful historical study' - The Good Book GuideBehind the wholesome image of the world's most popular drink lies a strangely murky and often violent past. From its first discovery to the present... -
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles 9781800818200
RRP: £25.00£16.13LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' Sunday Times 'A remarkable book' New York... -
Wake by Rebecca Hall
RRP: £20.00£15.01'A must-read graphic history. . . an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future' Guardian'Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the...