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  • The Black Joke

    The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade

    de A.E. Rooks ...
    A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave ... Leer más

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    The Black Joke

    One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade

    de A.E. Rooks ...
    Narrado por Leon Nixon ...

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    A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave ... Leer más

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  • The Blood of Emmett Till

    This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy ... Leer más

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  • Becoming Earth

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  • Ministry of Truth

    Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

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