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  • Justice for Ourselves

    Black Virginians Claim Their Freedom after Slavery

    by John G. Deal, Brent Tarter, Professor Marienne E. Julienne ...
    Series series The American South Series
    A new look at the Black Virginians who defined and realized their freedom after the collapse of slavery“Verily, the work does not end with the abolition of slavery,” wrote Frederick Douglass in 1862, “but only begins.” The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment altered a legal status; to make freedom a reality represented a different challenge altogether.Justice for Ourselves tells ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century

    by Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf, Don H. Doyle, Sally Hadden, Sonya Ramsey, Jennie Goloboy, Bruce W. Eelman, Amanda R. Mushal, Frank Towers, James Oakes, John G. Deal ...
    Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes—planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    How Great Leaders Think

    The Art of Reframing

    by Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal ...
    Narrated by Gregory St. John ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    Reframing Leadership translates Bolman s influential four-frame model of leadership and organizations developed in their bestselling Jossey-Bass Book, Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership, (over 300,000 copies sold in 4 editions) into a thought-provoking and practical guide for leaders in business and other organizations. This book will offer leaders a template and guide for ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Masterless Men

    Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

    by Keri Leigh Merritt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Emancipation Circuit

    Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

    by Thulani Davis ...
    In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South. Drawing on the practices of community they developed while enslaved, freedpeople built new settlements and created a network of circuits through which ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Educational Reconstruction

    African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890

    by Hilary N. Green ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.Hilary Green proposes a new chronology in understanding postwar African American education, examining how urban African ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    by Edward E Baptist ...
    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Charles Sumner

    Conscience of a Nation

    by Zaakir Tameez ...
    "A thorough recounting of the great legislator’s life and deed... unlikely to be bettered anytime soon... Tameez is expert at explaining Sumner’s legal thought... One cannot help wishing we had a Charles Sumner in Washington today."—The New York Times"An excellent book about the courageous Massachusetts senator... Drawing from hundreds of letters, articles and speeches, Mr. Tameez has created a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Democracy Betrayed

    The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy

    Edited by David S. Cecelski, Timothy B. Tyson ...
    At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery, and fraud to seize political power and disenfranchise black citizens. The most notorious episode of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South

    Central Georgia, 1800-1880

    by Joseph P. Reidy ...
    “Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps, Reidy has elaborated both the large and small narratives of this development, connecting global ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD