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  • If We Must Die

    Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Eric Robert Taylor ...
    Series series Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
    If We Must Die examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly challenging the prevailing thesis that such resistance was infrequent or insignificant. As Eric Robert Taylor shows, though most revolts were crushed quickly, others raged on for hours, days, or weeks, and, occasionally, the Africans captured the vessel and returned ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Barbary Pirates 15th-17th Centuries

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 213 - Elite
    For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean.They made forays far into the Atlantic, preying on the shipping and coastal settlements across Christian Europe, ranging from Greece to West Africa and the British Isles. In the absence of organized European navies they seldom faced serious ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

    The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

    by Gerald Horne ...
    Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the structural origins of American "looting"Virtually no part of the modern United States—the economy, education, constitutional law, religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Life and History of William ONeal; or The Man Who Sold His Wife (Illustrated Edition)

    by William O’Neal ...
    Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition to slavery was rooted in deeply held religious beliefs. Quakers formed a significant part of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Lincoln's Hundred Days

    The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union

    by Louis P. Masur ...
    Lincoln’s Hundred Days tells the story of the period between September 22, 1862, when Lincoln issued his preliminary Proclamation, and January 1, 1863, when he signed the significantly altered decree. As battlefield deaths mounted and debate raged, Lincoln hesitated, calculated, prayed, and reckoned with the anxieties and expectations of millions. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • I Freed Myself

    African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era

    by David Williams ...
    For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Precolonial State in West Africa

    Building Power in Dahomey

    by J. Cameron Monroe ...
    This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Beyond the Rope

    The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory

    by Karlos K. Hill ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Beyond the Rope is an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Whereas African Americans are typically framed as victims of white lynch mob violence in both scholarly and public discourses, Karlos K. Hill reveals that in the late nineteenth and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Finding Charity's Folk

    Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland

    by Jessica Millward ...
    Series Book 25 - Race in the Atlantic World
    Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • From Peace to Freedom

    by Brycchan Carey ...
    In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends, Brycchan Carey shows how the Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade.Through meticulous examination of the earliest writings of the Friends, including journals and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807

    by Justin Roberts ...
    This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Shifting Loyalties

    The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina

    by Judkin Browning ...
    In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring 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 allegiances, Judkin Browning offers new insights into the effects of war on southerners and the nature of civil-military relations under long-term ... Read more

    $18.99 USD