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  • Crossroads of Freedom

    Slaves and Freed People in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1910

    by Walter Fraga ...
    Translated by Mary Ann Mahony ...
    By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History—Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    A National Book Award winnerThe New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.**“An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America.” -**Washington PostSome Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Essential Writings

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Frederick Douglass was born in 1817 and lived for ten years as a slave upon a Maryland plantation. Then he was bought by a Baltimore shipbuilder. He learned to read, and, being attracted by "The Lady of the Lake," when he escaped in 1838 and went disguised as a sailor to New Bedford, Mass., he adopted the name Douglas (spelling it with two s's, however). He lived for several years in New Bedford, ... Read more

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  • Life and Death in the Andes

    On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries

    by Kim MacQuarrie ...
    “A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains.The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eber Pettit ...
    True stories drawn from the inspirational and heartrending history of the Underground RailroadIt is estimated that by 1850 over one hundred thousand slaves had escaped to freedom in the North via a network of safe houses and secret routes known collectively as the Underground Railroad. First published in 1879, Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad chronicles the perilous journeys and ... Read more

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  • The Book of Emma Reyes

    A Memoir

    by Emma Reyes ...
    Translated by Daniel Alarcón ...
    **“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York TimesA literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood**This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by ... Read more

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  • Paisanos

    The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face of Latin America

    by Tim Fanning ...
    The epic story of the forgotten Irish men and women who changed the face of Latin America forever.In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the ... Read more

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  • Chronicle of the Murdered House

    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    by Lúcio Cardoso ...
    This never-before-translated classic of Brazilian, and gay, literature is a Faulknerian saga depicting the unraveling of a traditional patriarchal family. ... Read more

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  • Punishment in Paradise

    Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony

    by Peter M. Beattie ...
    Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil ... Read more

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  • A Will to Be Free

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent men who rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. Up from ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Slavery Unseen

    Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

    by Lamonte Aidoo ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage

    Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito

    by Sherwin K. Bryant ...
    In this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia — Spain’s Kingdom of Quito — Sherwin Bryant argues that the most fundamental dimension of slavery was governance and the extension of imperial power. Bryant shows that enslaved black captives were foundational to sixteenth-century royal claims on the Americas and elemental to the process of Spanish colonization. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD