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  • My Marathon

    Reflections on a Gold Medal Life

    by Frank Shorter, John Brant ...
    My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life is a revealing memoir by Frank Shorter, the father of American distance running. After winning the 1969 NCAA title in the 10,000 meters during his senior year at Yale, Shorter went on to win a staggering 24 national titles on track, road, and cross-country courses, but it was in the marathon that Shorter achieved his greatest fame and recognition.At ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Appleton Estate

    Appleton Estate: From the Dickenson Family to the Campari Group: A Short History

    by Verene Shepherd, Ahmed Reid, Gabrielle Hemmings, John Shorter ...
    This brief history of Appleton Estate traces the ownership pattern of the property, from the land grant to Francis Dickinson, through William Hill, Alexander McDowell Nathan, Cecil Lindo and his brothers and heirs, down to J. Wray & Nephew Ltd and its present-day owners, the Campari Group of Italy. The book is a mere snippet of the vast history of the home of Jamaica’s famous rum brand that is ... Read more

    $14.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Never Caught

    The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

    by Erica Armstrong Dunbar ...
    A National Book Award FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeA startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Albion's Seed:Four British Folkways in America

    Four British Folkways in America

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Series series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Underground Railroad

    Next Stop, Toronto!

    by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost ...
    "The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black history in Canada. They also give surprising and detailed information to enrich the understanding of ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Slave Empire

    How Slavery Built Modern Britain

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'The EconomistThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than ... ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • White Debt

    The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

    by Thomas Harding ...
    When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people in 1823, the largest in the British Empire and a key trigger in the abolition of slavery. Charting the dramatic build-up to this ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Black Loyalists

    Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

    by Ruth Holmes Whithead ...
    "Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history." —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My NameIn an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire

    Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

    by Trevor Burnard ...
    Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain’s largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.Thistlewood’s diary, ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage

    Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967

    Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, Frederick H. Armstrong ...
    Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected articles have, for the most part, never been surpassed by more recent research and offer a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, and more, providing unique insights into the abundance of African ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Benjamin Franklin in London

    The British Life of America's Founding Father

    by George Goodwin ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    An "enthralling" chronicle of the nearly two decades the statesman, scientist, inventor, and Founding Father spent in the British imperial capital (BBC Radio 4, Book of the Week).For more than a fifth of his life, Benjamin Franklin lived in London. He dined with prime ministers, members of parliament, even kings, as well as with Britain's most esteemed intellectuals—including David Hume, Joseph ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One More River to Cross

    by Bryan Prince ...
    In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus