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  • Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

    by Leslie M. Harris, Daina Ramey Berry, Jonathan M. Bryant, Bobby J. Donaldson, Jacqueline Jones, Timothy James Lockley, Susan Eva O'Donovan, Janice Sumler-Edmond, Jeffrey Young0, James A. McMillin1 ...
    Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city’s founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Black History: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.This e-book is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of African Americans.Know your stuff: read about Black History in just one hour. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

    by Toby Green ...
    Series Book 118 - African Studies
    The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Slavery And Freedom

    An Interpretation of the Old South

    by James Oakes ...
    This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology. ... Read more

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  • Daughters of the Trade

    Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

    by Pernille Ipsen ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Tales from the Haunted South

    Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

    by Tiya Miles ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of “ghost tours,” frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color

    by Hank Trent ...
    Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unexpected double life: that of a white slave trader married to a free black woman. In The Secret Life of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850

    by Richard B. Allen ...
    Series series Indian Ocean Studies Series
    Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Chocolate Islands

    Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa

    by Catherine Higgs ...
    In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • From Peace to Freedom

    by Brycchan Carey ...
    In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends, Brycchan Carey shows how the Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade.Through meticulous examination of the earliest writings of the Friends, including journals and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Big Roles Slaves Played in the Ancient African Society - History Books Grade 3 | Children's History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that slaves played a big role in the ancient African society? On initial thought, you might not think much about them because they are mainly serving rich families. But if you read this history book and really understand what they do, you will begin to appreciate their roles in society. Written for third graders, this book will prove to be a light and refreshing read. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD