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  • For a Great and Grand Purpose

    The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905

    by Canter Brown Jr., Larry E. Rivers ...
    Series series The History of African American Religions
    The story of a church that became influential within the Black community in Florida after the Civil WarThis history of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church in Florida tells how dedicated members of one of the oldest and most prominent black religious institutions created a forceful presence within the African-American community—against innumerable odds and constant challenges.The ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church

    by Kevin Sack ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack“A masterpiece . . . a dense, rich, captivating narrative, featuring vivid prose . . . expansive, inspiring ... Read more

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  • The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots

    A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

    by John Swanson Jacobs ...
    Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography.For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost ... Read more

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  • Forged in Faith

    How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation 1607-1776

    by Rod Gragg ...
    The true drama of how faith motivated America’s Founding Fathers, influenced the Declaration of Independence and inspired the birth of the nation.This fascinating history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers leading up to and encompassing the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview ... Read more

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  • To Drink from the Well

    The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University

    by Geeta N. Kapur ...
    Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of North Carolina.The University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the US, with the cornerstone for the first dormitory, Old East, laid in 1793. At that ceremony, the enslaved people ... Read more

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  • A Fluid Frontier

    Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland

    Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Veta Smith Tucker ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    New research on the long, shared struggle for freedom by people of African descent in the Detroit River borderland from a uniquely bi-national perspective.As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a ... Read more

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  • Mary Ball Washington

    The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother

    by Craig Shirley ...
    The Mother of the Father of our Country.Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington's first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother.Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington was entrenched in the Old World ways of her ancestors, dismissing the American experiment even as her son led ... Read more

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  • The Stained Glass Window

    A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958

    by David Levering Lewis ...
    **A Top 100 Book by the Schomburg Library“At once narrative history, family chronicle and personal memoir… [a] luminous work of investigation and introspection.” -Wall Street JournalNational Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis’s own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story**Sitting beneath a stained glass ... Read more

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  • Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

    The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia

    by Bruce E. Stewart ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    A "masterly study" of how the business of homemade liquor shaped the history and culture of a region ( Journal of American History).Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol—an integral part ... Read more

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  • The Black Washingtonians

    The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology

    by The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture ...
    The Black WashingtoniansTHE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGYA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and picturesFrom the Smithsonian Institution's renowned Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture comes this elegantly illustrated, beautifully written, fact-filled history of the African Americans who have lived, worked, struggled, ... Read more

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  • A Rumor of Black Lutherans

    The Formation of Black Leadership in Early American Lutheranism

    by James R. Thomas ...
    The history of Lutheran engagement in the Black context in the United States is regrettably thin. The book helps Lutherans in the US and other students of American history to assemble a complete account of the role of early American Lutherans in higher education among African Americans.The book does so by tracing the stories of ten remarkable African Americans from their encounters with Lutherans ... Read more

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  • Tasting Freedom

    Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America

    by Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin ...
    Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia’s best black baseball team, a teacher at the city’s finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer—one who risked his life a century before Selma and ... Read more

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