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  • Two Nineteenth-Century Plays from Trinidad

    Martial Law in Trinidad and Past and Present

    Edited by Bridget Brereton, Lise Winer ...
    This fourth volume in the Caribbean Heritage series presents the texts of two short plays, first written in Trinidad in 1832 and 1852–53. The author of Martial Law in Trinidad was E.L. Joseph, an English-born long-time resident of Trinidad, who later published a novel, Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole, and the first history of the island. The author of Past and Present is not known, but ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    From the author of King Leopold's Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men—a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery—came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another ... Read more

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  • New York Burning

    Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” —The New Yorker“A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The History of Mary Prince

    A West Indian Slave

    by Mary Prince ...
    The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society, where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland ... Read more

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  • William Wells Brown: Clotel & Other Writings (LOA #247)

    Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave / Clotel; or, the President's Daughter / The American Fugitive in Europe / The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom

    by William Wells Brown ...
    A showcase of the extraordinary career America’s first Black novelist and pivotal figure in African American literature“It is difficult to imagine any one of his contemporaries who contributed as much or as richly to so many genres.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814–1884) refashioned himself first as an ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Record of a Trial for a Case of Murder, Committed by Two Slaves

    by Abner Cheney Goodell, Winter Fernwick ...
    The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman is a compact but revealing documentary study of an eighteenth-century Massachusetts criminal case: the poisoning of Captain Codman and the prosecution of enslaved people under the archaic doctrine of "petit treason." Written in an antiquarian-legal style, the work reconstructs indictments, proceedings, ... Read more

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  • Inseparable

    The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

    by Yunte Huang ...
    “An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and EveIn this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined lives of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874) a trenchant “comment on the times in which we live” (Wall Street Journal). ... Read more

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  • A Plea For Captain John Brown (Mobi Classics)

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860. Excerpted from Wikipedia, ... Read more

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  • Love Child

    A Genealogist's Guide to the Social History of Barbados

    by L.E. Salazar ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction. Take yourself on a journey to early Barbados, the place where many of the founding fathers of colonial America with thousands of settlers sojourned and catch a glimpse of early colonial life. If you like to think for yourself this book will be your compass as you uncover the secret connection of the people known as 'Red Legs' or Red Shanks in North America; and ... Read more

    $12.00 CAD

  • Slave Narrative Six Pack 4 (Annotated)

    The History of Mary Prince, William W. Brown, White Slavery, The Freedmen’s Book, Lucretia Mott and Lynch Law

    by Various Artists ...
    “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”- Marcus Garvey.Slave Narrative Six Pack 4 is a mixed bag of narratives, biographies and eye-witness accounts from ex-slaves and abolitionists:The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince.The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by William Wells Brown.White Slavery in the Barbary States ... Read more

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  • Blake; or, The Huts of America

    by Martin R. Delany ...
    An enslaved West Indian man travels the American South searching for his wife and raising a revolt in this classic American alternative history.Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Rebellion

    Eyewitness Accounts of Major Slave Revolts

    by Dr. Sujan Dass ...
    A collection of historical literature documenting major slave revolts and uprisings throughout the Americas.Who will tell the stories of those who refused to be slaves? The Atlantic slave trade transported millions of humans from the coasts of West Africa into the New World, stripping them of their dignity, freedom, language and culture. The accepted notion is that these Blacks willingly submitted ... Read more

    $11.21 CAD