Slavery & Abolition of Slavery
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Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery
Katrina Dyonne ThompsonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced...
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Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery
Katrina Dyonne ThompsonCurrent price €94.49Original price €104.99In this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerce...
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Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
Professor Jennifer LofkrantzCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this...
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Whos Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
Harvard University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.Publishers WeeklyThe eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Whos...
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The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World
Katherine JohnstonCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguin...
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The New Race
Jade FergusonCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99William H.H. Johnson's The Life of Wm. H.H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black ...
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 18151860
Calvin SchermerhornCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99Calvin Schermerhorns provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate ...
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Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Peter WirzbickiCurrent price €77.39Original price €85.99How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slavery In Fighting for the Higher Law...
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Being Black: Rediscovering A Lost Identity
Ziri DafranchiCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
Indian Slavery in Colonial America
University of Nebraska PressCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbuss arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies...
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The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty
Mario NisbettCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Engaging the past, the present, and the future, The Workings of Diaspora: Jamaican Maroons and the Claims to Sovereignty shows how the lived experi...
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The Shadow that Lingers: What Slavery Teaches Us about Freedom
Allan D CooperCurrent price €98.99Original price €109.99Allan D. Cooper demonstrates how the resistance to slavery served to unveil the nature of freedom that made possible the abolition movement and ant...
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A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution
John D. GarrigusCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.Unearthing the progenitors ...
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Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters'' Escape from Nebraska Territory
Gail Shaffer BlankenauCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black womenCelia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twentyescaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls househ...
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Send Back the Money!: The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery
Iain WhyteCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church ...
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No Ruined Stone
Shara McCallumCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99In musical, evocative language, her poems imagine the what-if-that-almost-was of Scotlands best-loved Bard, following Robert Burns into the life he...
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Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations,...
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of America''s Fugitive Slaves
Eric FonerCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50When slavery was a routine part of life in America's South, a secret network of activists and escape routes enabled slaves to make their way to fre...
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Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Frances R. BotkinCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The fugitive slave known as Three-Fingered Jack terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans ...
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Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Frances R. BotkinCurrent price €133.19Original price €147.99The fugitive slave known as Three-Fingered Jack terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans ...
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Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts
C. L. R. JamesCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50In 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story o...
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Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom
Frederick KnightCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet Jacobs have written her r...
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The Words and Wares of David Drake: Revisiting I Made This Jar and the Legacy of Edgefield Pottery
University of South Carolina PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws pro...
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Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery: Iran''s Cinematic Archive
Parisa VaziriCurrent price €109.79Original price €121.99Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Sea c...
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The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Kevin KennyCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period betwee...
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Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History
David ScottCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...
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Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History
David ScottCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such histo...
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Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
Olukunle P. OwolabiCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. Th...
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Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean: A History of Enslavement and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into sla...
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Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic
Ana Lucia AraujoCurrent price €115.19Original price €127.99Current price €115.19Original price €127.99Save 10% -
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Hannah DurkinCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARYS BEST BOOKS ...
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Dominoes
Phoebe McIntoshCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99A warm, sweet love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy MARIAN KEYESWhen Layla and Andy first meet,...
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Race and Police: The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions
Ben BrucatoCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race...
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Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State
Corinne SchwarzCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Since the turn of the twentieth century, human trafficking has animated public discourses, policy debates, and moral panics in the United States. T...
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Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Sylviane A. DioufCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Alla...
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Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions
Charles ForsdickCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numero...
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