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Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall
$18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780849900419Author Ron HallFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm)... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: $19.34$14.13Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown 2020Winner of the American... -
Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840 by Larry E. Tise 9780820323961
$44.07Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery by Alex Renton
RRP: $14.18$9.44LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the... -
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal 9780674241657
RRP: $24.45$19.83A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity...But capitalism is not just about... -
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery by Thomas Harding
RRP: $14.18$9.55When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by... -
Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850 by Chris Evans
RRP: $19.34$15.04Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1660 and 1850. It casts... -
Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight by Stephanie Hepburn
RRP: $28.38$22.91This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical... -
The Adventures of Thomas Pellow: Three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors by Thomas Pellow 9780954598587
$13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954598587Author Thomas PellowFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Suffolk and Watt BooksPublisher Suffolk and Watt Books -
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White
RRP: $18.05$14.91Living 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... -
The Black History Truth: Argentina: Aqui no hay negroes - There are no Blacks here by Pamela Gayle 9781839755255
RRP: $31.61$24.38Argentina has spectacular natural wonders, exceptional landscapes and is a unique country but it is known as "The Whitest Nation in South America". Why is this? What is the truth of the popular phrase of "There Are No Black People Here"? What is the... -
Britain's Slavery Debt: Reparations Now! by Michael Banner 9780198889441
RRP: $19.34$16.89A concise, reasoned, practical case for why Britain should pay reparations for historic wrongs to present Caribbean inhabitants. Britain owes reparations to the Caribbean. The exploitation of generations of those trafficked from Africa, or born into... -
Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel by David Lester 9780807081792
RRP: $18.05$11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807081792Author David LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway
RRP: $25.79$21.18'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 Spite of Fortune: The Fabulous Story of an 18th-Century Heiress by Kishanda Fulford
RRP: $32.25$22.73This is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in... -
Slavery: A World History by Milton Meltzer 9780306805363
$37.28Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and declined in others, human bondage for profit has never been... -
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Classic Olaudah Equiano 9780857089137
RRP: $12.89$8.77DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and enlightened... -
Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom by Ilyon Woo 9781804183632
RRP: $21.92$15.17A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who... -
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk 9780571309696
RRP: $12.89$8.64Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction'Turkey's foremost novelist . . . A first-rate storyteller.' Times Literary Supplement'Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate.' Independent'One of... -
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
RRP: $14.18$10.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018A New York Times Notable Book of 2018Even the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against, if not love's bladeSizing up the heart's familiar... -
Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking and Slavery in Britain Today by Louise Hulland 9781913207182
RRP: $15.47$10.87136,000 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... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Enslaving Past by Alex Renton
RRP: $21.92$14.94LONGLISTED 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'... -
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and the Legacy of Slavery by Thomas Harding
RRP: $25.80$18.95When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain's role in slavery. It was... -
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara 9780231139618
$15.67Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of... -
Poetry of Haitian Independence by Doris Y. Kadish 9780300195590
$76.45At 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... -
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection Tom M. Devine 9781474408806
RRP: $28.37$23.18For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots, unlike the English, had any significant involvement in slavery... -
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface by Orlando Patterson
RRP: $27.03$22.29Winner 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... -
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis
RRP: $35.48$30.82A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award "A monumental chronicle of this... -
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin 9780008446512
RRP: $28.38$18.81GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARY'S BEST BOOKS BBC: BOOK HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2024 'GRIPPING' THE TIMES ... -
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton 9780316155946
RRP: $19.34$15.52One 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... -
Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery by Karina Williamson 9789766402082
RRP: $55.41$49.96Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. This work focuses on representations based principally on first-hand experience or observation of slavery... -
The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain Hester Grant 9781784707224
RRP: $14.18$10.02The enthralling story of an eighteenth-century family and their extraordinary achievements.Four brothers, three sisters. Brought up in a Northumberland rectory and in the close of Durham Cathedral, the Sharps would achieve exalted positions at the heart... -
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Study Guide Revised by Joy a Degruy 9781615391080
RRP: $19.29$13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615391080Author Joy a DegruyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Joy Degruy Publications IncPublisher Joy Degruy Publications IncWeight(grams) 216g -
Empire's Crossroads: A New History of the Caribbean by Carrie Gibson
RRP: $16.76$11.95In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the... -
Flags on the Bayou James Lee Burke (Author) 9781398715509
RRP: $28.38$16.38In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on.Wade Lufkin is a man without a country or a cause - an idle spectator since New Orleans surrendered, he now paints at his uncle's... -
Slavery: Scotland and Jamacia by Kate Phillips
RRP: $15.47$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910022559Author Kate PhillipsImprint Luath Press LtdPublisher Luath Press Ltd -
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
RRP: $16.76$11.73Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life... -
The Abolitions of Slavery: From the L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848 Marcel Dorigny 9781571814326
RRP: $36.06$29.13These papers are intended to demonstrate the complexity of the historical processes leading up to the abolition of slavery in 1793-1794, and again in 1848, given that Bonaparte had restored the former colonial regime in 1802. Those processes include the... -
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
RRP: $25.80$18.50A TOP TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Astonishing... A great work infused with love and honesty' Alice Walker, author of The Color... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $25.80$18.95**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative...