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  • Modern Slavery

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, Alex Kent Williamson ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises facing us today. Only a handful of slaves are reached and freed each year, but the authors offer hope for the future with a global blueprint that ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Modern Slavery

    An Audio Guide

    by Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, Alex Kent Williamson ...
    Narrated by Andrea Powell ...
    Series series Bolinda Beginner Guides

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    Written by the world’s leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner’s Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises facing us today. Only a handful of slaves are reached and freed each year, but the authors offer hope for the future with a global blueprint that ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Slave Ship

    A Human History

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the dark depths of slave ships in the 18th century.In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. With meticulous detail, Rediker uncovers the harsh ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Slave Trade

    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade.Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history.Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Slave Narratives (LOA #114)

    James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary traditionNo literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • New England Bound

    Slavery and Colonization in Early America

    by Wendy Warren ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryA New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA Providence Journal Best Book of the YearWinner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for Social HistoryFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize"This book is an original achievem... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Between Slavery and Capitalism

    The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South

    by Martin Ruef ...
    An in-depth examination of the economic and social transition from slavery to capitalism during ReconstructionAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Slave and Citizen

    by Frank Tannenbaum ...
    Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer legal or even major social disabilities on account of color, and that a long history of acceptance ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

    by David Brion Davis ...
    David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and the second volume of a proposed trilogy, is a truly monumental work of historical scholarship ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Children in Slavery through the Ages

    Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller ...
    Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Logbooks

    Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory

    by Anne Farrow ...
    Series series The Driftless Connecticut Series
    In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut's slave trade and question ... Read more

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  • Negro Orators and Their Orations

    With linked Table of Contents

    Edited by Carter G. Woodson ...
    In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form. No effort has been made to improve the English. Published in this form, then, these orations will be of value not only to persons studying the development of the Negro in his use of a modern idiom but also in the study of the history of the race. It is in this spirit that these ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus