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Breaking the Maafa Chain by Anni Domingo
RRP: $12.89$9.17Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative businessNineteenth century-Two sisters, Fatmata and Salimatu, are... -
Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Nicholas Radburn 9780300257618
RRP: $32.25$26.99A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade "This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave... -
Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina by Judkin Browning 9781469613703
RRP: $38.64$37.69In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighbouring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided... -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Collins Classics) by Olaudah Equiano 9780008619954
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. But is not the slave trade entirely a war with the heart of man? ... -
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
RRP: $21.92$19.18Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian... -
The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery by Noel Rae 9781468315134
RRP: $51.60$31.51Apologies 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 -
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History by Norman Davies
RRP: $24.50$17.56Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and ... -
Fallen Idols: A short history of the world in twelve statues by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: $25.80$16.90Books 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... -
A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic by William Melvin Kelley
RRP: $14.18$9.55'More than lives up to the hype' Observer'Set to become a publishing sensation' Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row'An astounding achievement' Sunday Times'The lost giant of American literature' New YorkerJune, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of... -
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown 9780674260290
$24.03Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Elsa Goveia Book PrizeWinner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book PrizeWinner of the Harriet... -
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 9780393340662
RRP: $19.34$15.80Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie
RRP: $12.89$10.54The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who... -
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora by Stephanie E. Smallwood
RRP: $30.90$24.69This 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... -
A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin
RRP: $12.89$9.17As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against... -
Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire by Christine Walker 9781469658797
RRP: $38.64$36.89Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the... -
Slavery and Islam by Jonathan A.C. Brown
RRP: $25.80$24.26What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority... -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: $12.89$9.17'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga Olaudah Equiano 9781529371864
RRP: $12.89$8.77Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave owning power. It remains as powerful today as it was when first published in 1789.It tells the story of... -
Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival Mende Nazer 9781844081165
RRP: $14.18$9.55Mende 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... -
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance by Stella Dadzie 9781788738842
RRP: $19.34$13.89Enslaved 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... -
Slavery in Early Mediaeval England from the Reign of Alfred until the Twelfth Century by David A. E. Pelteret 9780851158297
RRP: $38.69$28.11"At last a major topic in early medieval English history has found its author, who deals with it comprehensively and systematically."ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW "A landmark teatment...immensely enriches the debate about early medieval working... -
The Invention of the White Race: Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen
$26.30On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then,... -
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth by Clyde W. Ford
RRP: $16.76$10.94"Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood and Sweat is a myth-busting work of genius that will... -
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide by Hilary McD. Beckles 9789766402686
$55.13Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement... -
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 9780140447507
RRP: $12.89$11.92Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His "Thoughts... -
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 by Robin Blackburn 9781804293416
RRP: $45.15$37.38The Age of Revolution (1776-1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a 'Second Slavery' surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a system of financial credit that leveraged the value of the... -
Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica Catherine Johnson (Author) 9781782692799
RRP: $10.31$6.751720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop of British soldiers through the thick trees towards the river. They are hunting slaves who have escaped from the brutal plantations. Their mission: to find... -
Greek Slavery by Deborah Kamen 9783110637595
RRP: $32.25$23.16Slavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable... -
Ghana: A Political and Social History by Jeffrey Ahlman 9780755601561
RRP: $28.37$23.72Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century... -
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 by Richard S. Dunn 9780807848777
RRP: $55.41$51.41First 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... -
The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
RRP: $12.89$9.38'Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women' Guardian'Jackie Kay's work, formally expansive and inclusive . . . is always about the opening up of our notions of identity' Ali Smith,... -
The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean by Nick Nesbitt 9780813947099
$38.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947099Author Nick NesbittFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith 9781250003836
$15.60"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the... -
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney
RRP: $28.38$22.39The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the... -
The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade by A. E. Rooks
RRP: $32.25$21.92**Longlisted for the Mountbatten Maritime Media Awards 2022**A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.Initially a slaving... -
Autobiography of a slave - Autobiografia de un Esclavo by Juan Francisco Manzano 9780814325384
RRP: $34.77$33.48This sombre biography of an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's slave society, is presented in both Spanish and English. There is an introduction which sets the text in its historical and... -
American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction by Heather Andrea Williams 9780199922680
RRP: $11.60$8.32Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars 9781620974599
RRP: $36.11$24.05Winner 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... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780486419312
RRP: $5.15$4.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419312Author Harriet JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill
RRP: $21.87$17.87"Impressive...[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and producers in a global economy in ways that reverberate to this day."-Wall Street Journal"Everill...