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“robert harms”

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  • The Diligent

    A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade

    by Robert Harms ...
    The groundbreaking history of the Atlantic slave trade, winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and the J. Russell Major Prize.In The Diligent, acclaimed historian Robert Harms reveals the complex workings of the slave trade by drawing on the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand to recreate the macabre journey of a French slave ship.The Diligent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Land of Tears

    The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

    by Robert Harms ...
    A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial AfricaIn just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Slave

    My True Story

    by Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis ...
    Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan's capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

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  • John Brown, Abolitionist

    The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

    by David S. Reynolds ...
    An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him ... Read more

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  • Frederick Douglass in Ireland

    by Laurence Fenton ...
    'When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, 'we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friendship right here in Dublin with your great liberator, Daniel O'Connell.' Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland in the summer ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.' Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

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  • Daughters of the Trade

    Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

    by Pernille Ipsen ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold ... Read more

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  • The Dawn of Detroit

    A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

    by Tiya Miles ...
    **Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Merle Curti Social History AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Cundill History Prize**A New York Times Editor’s Choice selection**“If ... Read more

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  • The Fearless Benjamin Lay

    The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his ... Read more

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  • History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Volumes 1 & 2 (Illustrated)

    by George W. Williams ...
    Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition to slavery was rooted in deeply held religious beliefs. Quakers formed a significant part of ... Read more

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