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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Sean Kingsley 9781639364589
RRP: $29.23$18.25A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors. "For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced."-Samuel... -
Sugar: The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity by James Walvin
RRP: $21.43$14.43An '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... -
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson (Reisubok Sera Olafs Egilssonar): The story of the Barbary corsair raid on Iceland in 1627 by Karl Smari Hreinsson
RRP: $48.65$45.53In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in North Africa. Among those taken were the Lutheran minister Reverend Olafur Egilsson.Reverend Olafur (born in the... -
The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue by John Allembillah Azumah
RRP: $48.75$45.38Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from... -
The Underground Railroad by William Still 9781784287139
RRP: $13.63$9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784287139Author William StillFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales
RRP: $54.58$46.04A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old... -
Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 by Linda Colley
RRP: $37.03$32.19Ranging over a quarter of a millennium and four continents, Captives uncovers the experiences and writings of those tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence, but who got caught and caught out. Here are... -
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780674295452
RRP: $33.05$26.542023 PROSE Award in European History“An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.”—Washington Post“Reveals how prestigious natural scientists once sought physical... -
A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $23.38$16.77A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight... -
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
RRP: $37.03$26.54Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... -
Abolition!: The struggle to abolish slavery in the British colonies by Richard Reddie
RRP: $21.43$18.70The Anti-Slave Trade Act became law on 25th March 1807. It made the capture and transport of slaves by British subjects illegal. Slavery as such in the British Empire wasn't abolished until 1833. This book tells the story of the slave trade in the... -
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs
RRP: $48.65$43.93A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine.Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of... -
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard 9780814794623
RRP: $48.73$42.26Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been... -
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London by Simon Newman 9781912702930
$24.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Frederick Douglass Book Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781912702930Author Simon P. NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint University of London... -
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: $29.23$24.47The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He... -
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis 9780195339444
RRP: $36.06$28.02David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his... -
Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery by Carolyn Vellenga Berman 9780801443848
RRP: $105.30$91.24The character of the Creole woman-the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier-is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of... -
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: $33.13$29.27This epic work-named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times-tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third... -
Ignatius Sancho by Judy Hepburn 9781407199573
RRP: $13.63$9.05My Story: Ignatius Sancho is the extraordinary true story of a young boy's life: a slave, a servant, a business owner, a campaigner, a composer, a writer. Greenwich 1738, and eight-year-old Ignatius lives with three... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: $19.48$13.07Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to... -
In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86 by Douglas Hall 9789766400668
RRP: $56.45$48.73Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in 1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he kept a record of his daily activities and his observations of... -
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780753559550
RRP: $25.33$17.73#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 First Black Slave Society: Britain's Barbados, 1636-1876 by Hilary Beckles
RRP: $74.00$65.34In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century - the... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast - Shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize - Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize by Marjoleine Kars
RRP: $39.00$25.55Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' Washington Post '[An] epic history ... a sweeping, thoughtful narrative' Los Angeles Times On Sunday... -
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore Seth Rockman (Associate Professor of History, Brown University) 9780801890079
RRP: $51.68$43.08Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how... -
Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by ,Andres Resendez
RRP: $33.13$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544947108Author Andres ResendezFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 361gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
God's Politician: William Wilberforce's Struggle by Garth Lean 9780232526905
$32.51It is 200 years since the campaign led by William Wilberforce to abolish the slave trade reached its dramatic climax. One of the most deep-rooted convictions of our time is that there is little or nothing the individual can do to alter the events around... -
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy Angela Degruy 9780985217204
RRP: $38.90$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985217204Author Joy Angela DegruyFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Joy Degruy Publications IncPublisher Joy Degruy Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Black British History: New Perspectives by Hakim Adi
RRP: $44.83$39.21For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country's history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian's Wall to the Black British intellectuals who... -
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics by John Torpey
RRP: $54.58$47.07Making Whole What Has Been Smashed explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of... -
Slavery And Bristol G. M. Best 9781910089958
RRP: $38.98$29.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089958Author G. M. BestFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint New Room PublicationsPublisher Tangent Books -
Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide by Kevin Bales 9781851688159
RRP: $19.48$12.50Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises... -
Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Travis Glasson 9780190683016
RRP: $62.38$44.67Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and... -
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne
RRP: $42.88$37.42Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans... -
Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation Daina Ramey Berry 9780807067147
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807067147Author Daina Ramey BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento by Beatriz Nascimento 9780691241203
RRP: $48.75$38.20Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker... -
'Black but Human': Slavery and Visual Art in Hapsburg Spain by Prof Carmen Fracchia 9780198881063
RRP: $63.36$58.13'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens... -
The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of an American Ordeal by Theodore W Allen
RRP: $39.00$32.82When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the... -
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius Scott
RRP: $25.33$21.47The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English,... -
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by Katharine Gerbner
RRP: $46.78$40.64Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and...