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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. Miller ...
    The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-ReedWith the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination—and conscience—once again.No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. Miller ...
    "A Best Book of the Year" —Library Journal and BooklistUsing excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writer's Project, this astonishing collection makes available in print the only known recordings of people who actually experienced slavery--recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

    by Solomon Northup, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueenNew York Times bestseller**“I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank’s Diary, only published nearly a hundred years before. . . . The book blew [my] mind: the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Making of African America

    The Four Great Migrations

    by Ira Berlin ...
    A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuriesFour great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Generations of Captivity

    A History of African-American Slaves

    by Ira Berlin ...
    Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later.Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Long Emancipation

    The Demise of Slavery in the United States

    by Ira Berlin ...
    Series Book 14 - The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
    Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Twelve Years a Slave

    by Solomon Northup, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueenPerhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Many Thousands Gone

    The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

    by Ira Berlin ...
    Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Slaves' Economy

    Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

    by Ira Berlin, Philip D. Morgan ...
    Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy. ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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  • American Grammar

    Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation

    by Jarvis R. Givens ...
    A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few institutions are as pivotal in shaping our lives ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Talking with Bears

    Conversations with Charlie Russell

    by G. A. Bradshaw ...
    **"Extraordinary . . . [this] series of true stories about the authentic nature of bears reveals them as the sensitive and intelligent beings they are." ―Carl Safina, New York Times–bestselling author of Becoming Wild and Beyond WordsGrizzly bears have long been feared as unpredictable and dangerous. But one man, Charlie Russell, was key in breaking down the myths and helping save these ... Read more

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