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  • Escape from Slavery

    The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity—and My Journey to Freedom in America

    de Francis Bok, Edward Tivnan ...
    A Sudanese man recounts his harrowing journey from child enslavement to escape and freedom in this "touching [and] inspirational" memoir ( The Boston Globe).May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and gathering the women and young children into a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    de Ibram X. Kendi ...
    A National Book Award winnerThe New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.**“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -**Washington PostSome Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—... ... Leer más

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  • What Are You Doing Here?

    A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

    de Laina Dawes ...
    In her nuanced, extremely perceptive book, Laina Dawes champions the liberating possibilities of metal while questioning the color-blindness of the metal world, celebrating the role of black women in creating rock music, examining the reaction of the black community to black punks and metalheads, and sorting out the gender issues that complicate sisterhood in a male-dominated sphere. Her ... Leer más

    $8.95 USD

  • The History of Mary Prince

    A West Indian Slave

    de Mary Prince ...
    The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society, where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Victoria's Children of the Dark

    The Women and Children who Built Her Underground

    de Alan Gallop ...
    Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution. Following the real fortunes of seven-year-old Joey Burkinshaw and his family, Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding the 1838 Husker Pit disaster at Silkstone, ... Leer más

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  • Viola Desmond’s Canada

    A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land

    de Graham Reynolds ...
    Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction! The Miramichi Reader’s best non-fiction book of 2016In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.Most Canadians are ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Frederick Douglass in Ireland

    de Laurence Fenton ...
    'When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, 'we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friendship right here in Dublin with your great liberator, Daniel O'Connell.' Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland in the summer ... Leer más

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  • North to Bondage

    Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

    de Harvey Amani Whitfield ...
    Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America.The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Magazine Articles of Frederick Douglass

    de Frederick Douglass ...
    Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass' magazine articles: "My Escape from Slavery" and "Reconstruction," as well as his address "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery." These pieces show Douglass at his rhetorical best. Important reading for anyone wanting more after reading his Autobiographies. ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • A Joosr Guide to… The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

    de Joosr ...
    In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.Henrietta Lacks lived an unremarkable life, but ... Leer más

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  • Lincoln's Hundred Days

    The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Africans in the Old South

    Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World

    de Randy J. Sparks ...
    The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed critical to understanding the trade in all its breadth and variety. Randy J. Sparks examines the experiences of a range of West Africans who lived in the American South between 1740 and ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD