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  • Plantation Kingdom

    The American South and Its Global Commodities

    by Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, Barbara M. Hahn ...
    Series series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
    How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • New York Burning

    Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” —The New Yorker“A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Amistad Rebellion

    An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    **"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for—and won—their freedom.”—The Philadelphia TribuneA unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue—from the award-winning author of The Slave Ship**In this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

    by Leonard L. Richards ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

    The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

    by Daina Ramey Berry ...
    This “must-read for anyone interested in understanding American history” reframes how we think about slavery, reparations, 19th-century medical education—and the value of life and death (Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton).“A brilliant resurrection of the forgotten people who gave their lives to build our country.” —Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIn life and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow

    Three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors

    by Thomas Pellow ...
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from their homes and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Logbooks

    Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory

    by Anne Farrow ...
    Series series The Driftless Connecticut Series
    In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut's slave trade and question ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Debt

    The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752

    by William A. Pettigrew ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • No God But Gain

    The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

    by Stephen Chambers ...
    From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism on both sides of the Atlantic, despite numerous laws and treaties passed to curb the slave ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Slaves' Gamble

    Choosing Sides in the War of 1812

    by Gene Allen Smith ...
    A sweeping and original look at American slavery in the early nineteenth century that reveals the gamble slaves had to take to surviveImages of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and the political vicissitudes of the young nation offered ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion

    by Christopher Michael Curtis ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's postcolonial political culture. The book explains how the traditional ... Read more

    $30.39 USD