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 €98.30Original price €112.99In 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 €87.11Original price €98.99Examines 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 €32.85Original price €36.50In 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 €41.39Original price €45.99In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political p...
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A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbuss First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean
Al M. RoccaCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbuss first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history. It provides a detailed day...
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A Historical Geography of Christopher Columbuss First Voyage and his Interactions with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean
Al M. RoccaCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbuss first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history. It provides a detailed day...
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Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833
Richard C. MaguireCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99What were the lives of Africans in provincial England like during the early modern period? How, where, and when did they arrive in rural counties? ...
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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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Understanding 19th-Century Slave Narratives
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Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters'' Escape from Nebraska Territory
Gail Shaffer BlankenauCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99In 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 €25.65Original price €28.50'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 €14.44Original 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 €23.85Original price €26.50When 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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Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom
Frederick KnightCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Would 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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