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  • Freedom by a Thread
    Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery ...
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    36,71 €

  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
    Gelien Matthews
    In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery ag...
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    38,24 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out
    Julia C Paulk
    Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out: Nonfiction Narratives of Cuban Slavery by Cuban and US Writers is a critical exploration of how nineteenth-century nonfiction texts--written by authors from both Cuba and the United States--documented, rationalized, and contested the institution of slavery in Cuba. Though separated by language and national identity, both countries shared found...
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    142,39 €

  • Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out
    Julia C Paulk
    Cuban Slavery from the Inside Out: Nonfiction Narratives of Cuban Slavery by Cuban and US Writers is a critical exploration of how nineteenth-century nonfiction texts--written by authors from both Cuba and the United States--documented, rationalized, and contested the institution of slavery in Cuba. Though separated by language and national identity, both countries shared found...
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    42,99 €

  • Baquaqua
    Carmen J. Jiménez
    ’Baquaqua: una voz desde las profundidades de la diáspora africana y la resistencia a la esclavitud,’ edición bilingüe de la biografía de Baquaqua brings to life the extraordinary testimony of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, an enslaved African man whose life spanned multiple continents and systems of bondage. Born in present-day Benin, Baquaqua was abducted into slavery in Africa, s...
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    79,21 €

  • John Brown in New York
    Sandra Weber
    An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story of sublime scenery and human rights concentrates on John’s relationships with his family and ...
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    154,21 €

  • John Brown in New York
    Sandra Weber
    An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favorite place, the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. This intertwining story of sublime scenery and human rights concentrates on John’s relationships with his family and ...
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    29,18 €

  • We Are Still Maroon
    Lennox Browne
    We Are Still Maroon: The Spirit of Freedom Across the Americas is a powerful narrative history that explores the courage, resilience, and cultural strength of African descendants who refused to live in bondage. Across the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and the United States, Maroon communities rose in hidden mountains, deep forests, and coastal marshes, fighting for...
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    11,43 €

  • A Precarious Balance
    Antwain K. Hunter
    Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed, possessed, and used firearms—both legal and otherwise—and how the state and white people responded. North Carolinians, whether free or enslaved, Black or white, had different stakes on the issue, all of which impacted the reality of Black people’s gun ...
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    126,77 €

  • A Precarious Balance
    Antwain K. Hunter
    Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed, possessed, and used firearms—both legal and otherwise—and how the state and white people responded. North Carolinians, whether free or enslaved, Black or white, had different stakes on the issue, all of which impacted the reality of Black people’s gun ...
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    41,83 €

  • Atlantic Cataclysm
    David Eltis
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    45,91 €

  • The Future Of The Colored Race In America
    William Aikman
    The future of the colored race in America examines the social, political, and moral dimensions of emancipation and the status of African Americans during the Civil War era. The book explores the historical foundations of slavery and its profound effects on both the enslaved and the wider society, emphasizing the intertwined concepts of liberty, justice, and human dignity. Aikma...
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    9,60 €

  • The New Slavery
    Kate Transchel
    Although slavery is illegal in all countries and banned by international law, there are an estimated 40 million slaves in the world today. A significant percentage of people trafficked into modern slavery come from Russia and the post-Soviet countries. In this book, interviews and first-person testimonials illuminate the stories of millions of Eastern Europeans who have been tr...
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    57,34 €

  • Plantation Knowledge
    The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge.Few institutions feature as prominently in contemporary notions of colonialism, racism, and environmental degradation as the modern plantation. The racialized plantations of the Atlantic World loom large in the public imagination, namely those of the British Caribbean and the US So...
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    167,10 €

  • Counting the Cost of Freedom
    Amanda Laury Kleintop
    During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy’s defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition’s costs during Reconstruction. As Amand...
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    126,93 €

  • Counting the Cost of Freedom
    Amanda Laury Kleintop
    During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the Confederacy’s defeat, white Southerners demanded federal compensation for the financial value of formerly enslaved people and fought for other policies that would recognize abolition’s costs during Reconstruction. As Amand...
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    38,07 €

  • The Slavery Question
    John Lawrence
    The slavery question is a historical examination of the moral, political, and religious dimensions of slavery in the United States. With direct focus on the suffering of millions of enslaved individuals, the text delivers a forceful critique of slavery as an institution that defies ethical standards and endangers national integrity. The book aims to provoke the conscience of it...
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    11,76 €

  • Racial Segregation and Eugenical Science Between the Wars
    Michael L. Blakey
    This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience. ...
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    96,32 €

  • Racial Segregation and Eugenical Science Between the Wars
    Michael L. Blakey
    This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience. ...
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    266,76 €

  • The Rise, Progress, And Phases Of Human Slavery
    James Bronterre O’Brien
    The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery is a historical account examining the origins and development of slavery throughout history. It explores the various forms slavery has taken and how it continues to manifest in different societies, often disguised under legal and social systems. The work highlights the ongoing plight of the working classes, portraying them as a mo...
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    13,04 €

  • 1619
    Stephen Hanks
    In the 1600’s and thereafter, thousands were kidnapped from the Kongo. One area bordering Kongo was a cartographic region known as 'The Land of the Jews.' Were people living there sold into slavery? And who were the enslaved taken from West Africa? On this journey, history & prophecy will be examined, which will cause us to view the events of 1619 through another lens - a redem...
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    34,82 €

  • Lucky Valley
    Catherine Hall
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    44,87 €

  • A Decade Of Negro Extension Work, 1914-1924
    O. B. Martin
    Unlock a forgotten chapter of history with 'A Decade of Negro Extension Work, 1914-1924' by O. B. Martin, a compelling narrative that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions. This collector’s item is not just a reprint; it’s a cultural treasure that offers a profound glimpse into the transformative efforts of African American communit...
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    12,54 €

  • Beyond the antislavery haven
    Ellie Bird
    This book challenges the idealised narrative of Canada as an antislavery haven for self-liberated people to explore Canada’s complicated relationship with slavery. Examining advertisements, abolitionist texts and narratives about slavery in Canadian newspapers and the texts that were printed alongside them, it shows how Canadian readers and enslavers developed an image of thems...
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    157,64 €

  • The Field of Human Trafficking
    Jennifer Bossard
    This volume cover topics such as trafficking in higher education, trafficking of men, and trafficking terminology among others. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of criminology and criminal justice. ...
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    83,71 €

  • The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, with Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons
    William C. Nell
    By: William C. Nell, Pub. 1855, reprinted 2025, 412 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-621-5.  For those forgotten African American patriots who fought for independence during the Revolutionary War, the author tries to correct this oversight in US History by bring these individuals to light. He identifies many of these soldiers and also discusses their participation du...
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    45,38 €

  • Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation
    Raphael Sassower
    Offering a detailed analysis of the essential role enslavement played in the success of the British and American capitalism, Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation describes the logic of dividuation, a logic that veils its motives and practices with ever cleverer myths. ...
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    267,83 €

  • Black Ivory
    Pearson / R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
    'Black Ivory' by R. M. Ballantyne plunges readers into the heart of 19th-century Africa, exploring the brutal realities of the slave trade. This historical fiction, categorized as a boys’ adventure story, offers a glimpse into a dark chapter of history. Ballantyne’s narrative provides a classic example of juvenile fiction centered on action and adventure, while simultaneously t...
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    35,64 €


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