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  • The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810

    Vermonters have always been proud that their state was the first to outlaw slavery in its constitution--but is that what really happened?"The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont explodes this myth, demonstrating conclusively that the enslavement of people of color under various guises persisted in the state for another thirty years," attests Joanne Pope Melish, Associate Professor of History, ... Read more

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  • Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes

    Series series Studies in Atlantic Canada History
    This important booksheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives.Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individuals mentioned come from various points of origin, including Africa, the West Indies, the ... Read more

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  • Blacks on the Border

    The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815–1860

    Following the American Revolution, free black communities and enslaved African Americans increasingly struggled to reconcile their African heritage with their American home. This struggle resulted in tens of thousands of African Americans seeking new homes in areas as diverse as Haiti and Nova Scotia. Black refugees arrived in Nova Scotia after the War of 1812 with little in common but their ... Read more

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  • North to Bondage

    Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

    Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America.The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • In Search of Liberty

    African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

    Series Book 38 - Race in the Atlantic World
    In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and enfranchisement in the ... Read more

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  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Read more

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  • The Underground Railroad

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  • Never Caught

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

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  • What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of ... Read more

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