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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
Booksplease Price: $13.38LONGLISTED 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 defensive national conversation about slavery/race'... -
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.53In 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... -
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates Des Ekin 9781847171047
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $23.16In 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... -
The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $31.48'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, Guardian In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail... -
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780753559550
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.00#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 present.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The... -
The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam by Webb, Simon 9781526797094
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.00A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa... -
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55There 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 caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts<BR> by C. L. R. James 9780822353140
Booksplease Price: $37.78In 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... -
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.52This 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 own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of... -
Fallen Idols: A short history of the world in twelve statues by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.51Books 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 about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy... -
Black Redcoats: The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814-1816 by Matthew Taylor 9781399034012
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.30During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States. The richest parts of the United States were slave-states, and thousands of enslaved African Americans fled to British forces in what was to... -
Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship that Fought for Emancipation Stephen Taylor 9780300263992
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.57The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter-which brings new insights into Britain's involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltimore clipper and renamed her the Black Joke. Assigned to... -
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World by Katie Donington 9781526157515
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $55.59Moving 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 Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World Kehinde Andrews 9780141992389
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.78'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,... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 9780374531157
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $26.33Apologies 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 Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch 9789562916554
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789562916554Author Willie LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.com -
Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment Under Colonialism by Mark W Hauser
Booksplease Price: $50.69How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island," was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth... -
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55The 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 with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen... -
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles 9781800818217
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.90SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED 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... -
The Sweetness of Water: Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Nathan Harris 9781472274410
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and... -
Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking and Slavery in Britain Today by Louise Hulland 9781913207182
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $16.13136,000 people in the UK are in some form of slavery. This is big business, generating more than GBP120 billion annually for criminal organisations across the world. Stolen Lives examines trafficking and slavery in Britain, hearing from those on... -
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $22.03William 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... -
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface by Orlando Patterson
Booksplease Price: $36.08Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science AssociationIn a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the... -
A Brief History of Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire Roy Moxham 9781845297473
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00'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... -
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton 9780316155946
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $28.12One 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 books for young readers, is here revealed for the first... -
Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bandele 9780241562697
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.21'A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieYoruba Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther's miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting'Run, Ajayi, run!'The day the Malian slave... -
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood
Booksplease Price: $40.19This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the... -
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Colonialism, Conquest, and the Crop That Revived Slavery in Africa by Jori Lewis
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $31.14Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman PrizeA stunning work of popular history-the story of how a crop transformed the history of slavery"A complex story crossing time and oceans" (National... -
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Professor James Walvin 9781472144331
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $32.63A 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... -
The Axe Laid To The Root: The Story of Robert Wedderburn by Martin Hoyles 9781870518987
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870518987Author Martin HoylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 224g -
The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible: Select Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands by Joseph B Lumpkin 9781936533800
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $73.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936533800Author Joseph B LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Fifth EstatePublisher Fifth EstateWeight(grams) 1320gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie 9781788738842
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.79Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. Yet from their dusty footprints and the umpteen small clues they left for us to unravel, there's no question that they earned their place in history. Pick any... -
The Story of Afro Hair by K. N. Chimbiri 9780702307416
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.92Explore 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... -
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
Booksplease Price: $46.24Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War Received historical... -
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 by Richard S. Dunn 9780807848777
Booksplease Price: $71.59First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society... -
Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival Mende Nazer 9781844081165
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende was them. She... -
Mary Prince (reloaded look) by E. L. Norry 9780702313820
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.24My 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 ... -
This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.58*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]... -
Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity by James Walvin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World... -
Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made. Alex von Tunzelmann 9781472281913
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55'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,...