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  • Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eber Pettit ...
    True stories drawn from the inspirational and heartrending history of the Underground RailroadIt is estimated that by 1850 over one hundred thousand slaves had escaped to freedom in the North via a network of safe houses and secret routes known collectively as the Underground Railroad. First published in 1879, Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad chronicles the perilous journeys and ... Read more

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  • The Black Presidency

    Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    A provocative and lively examination of the meaning of America's first black presidency, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop.Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama's identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race—as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon ... Read more

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  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Read more

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  • The Manor

    Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

    by Mac Griswold ...
    Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island ... Read more

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  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Sidney Wilfred Mintz ...
    This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.From the Trade Paperback edition. ... Read more

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  • This Vast Southern Empire

    Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

    by Matthew Karp ...
    Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the ... Read more

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  • Inheriting the Trade

    A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History

    by Thomas Norman DeWolf ...
    A trailblazing memoir about one family’s quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliationIn 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    by Júnia Ferreira Furtado ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

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  • Between Slavery and Capitalism

    The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South

    by Martin Ruef ...
    An in-depth examination of the economic and social transition from slavery to capitalism during ReconstructionAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities ... Read more

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  • The Fearless Benjamin Lay

    The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his ... Read more

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  • The African Diaspora

    Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization

    by Professor Toyin Falola ...
    The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in ... Read more

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  • The Ruling Race

    by James Oakes ...
    This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they ... Read more

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