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  • Working on the Dock of the Bay

    Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port

    by Michael D. Thompson ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    An examination of the role and struggles of enslaved dockworkers prior to emancipationWorking on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers—black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant—in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the groundwork for ... Read more

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  • The First Tycoon

    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by T.J. Stiles ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    by Jacqueline L. Tobin ...
    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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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

    $12.39 USD

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  • Complicity

    How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

    by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank ...
    A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery“The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco ChronicleThe North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

    by Alfred F. Young ...
    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage

    Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967

    Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, Frederick H. Armstrong ...
    Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, and more, providing unique insights into the abundance of African ... Read more

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  • Desperate Sons

    Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War

    by Les Standiford ...
    A groundbreaking narrative—a historical political thriller—that explores the role of a group of grassroots radicals in the American Revolution—"Fresh, fascinating, and compulsively readable. This book is a veritable treat for Revolutionary War buffs" (Jay Winik, New York Times– bestselling author of April 1865 and The Great Upheaval ).<p... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • One More River to Cross

    by Bryan Prince ...
    In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was ... Read more

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  • Rebels Rising

    Cities and the American Revolution

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work, historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Signing Their Lives Away

    The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

    by Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese ...
    Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic document—and the many strange fates that awaited them. Some prospered and rose to the highest levels of United States government, while others had their homes and farms seized by British soldiers. Signer George Wythe was poisoned by his nephew; Button ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Rest I Will Kill

    William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave

    by Brian McGinty ...
    A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring—and long-forgotten—heroes of the Civil War.Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back into New York’s frenzied harbor with the ship's black steward, William Tillman, at the helm. While the story of that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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