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  • Anna Murray Douglass

    Biography of a Revolutionary

    by Celeste-Marie Bernier ...
    Working with family descendants and based on thirty years of research digging through public and private archives, Celeste-Marie Bernier presents the first standalone biography of Anna Murray Douglass, wife and co-revolutionary of Frederick Douglass, honoring her history-making role as a campaigner, liberator, and freedom-fighter.Anna Murray Douglass was born legally free in Maryland to Mary and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Characters of Blood

    Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination

    by Celeste-Marie Bernier ...
    Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women—Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman—challenged the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Picturing Frederick Douglass

    An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

    by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Kenneth B. Morris Jr ...
    Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeA landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery

    Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman ...
    In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth century American and European images of African Americans, art installations, photography, literature ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing

    Edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier ...
    Series series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

    $217.49 USD

  • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

    Written by Himself

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.' First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was said to me, "Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; 'tis not best that you seem too learned."' Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818-95), a man who was born into slavery in Maryland and who went on to become the most famous antislavery author, orator, philosopher, essaysist, historian, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Bound for the Promised Land

    Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

    by Kate Clifford Larson ...
    The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review).Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Denmark Vesey’s Garden

    Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

    by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts ...
    **One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor“A fascinating and important new historical study.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies.”—Civil War TimesThe stunning, groundb... ... Read more

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  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Wilma King ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Closer to Freedom

    Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

    by Stephanie M. H. Camp ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Within the Plantation Household

    Black and White Women of the Old South

    by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD