Social Science - Slavery
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12 Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupSolomon Northup's memoir written in 1853 and now an award winning major motion picture. Mr. Northup recounts his powerful life story of being born a free man in New York, kidnapped and forced into slavery for twelve years and then freed and reunited with...
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A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American FamilyA Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned. Bruno,...
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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn SaidBorn to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling "the walls of his room with piteous...
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A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American RevolutionFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change our understanding of the American Revolution As the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded...
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A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military BasesIn 2020, a bipartisan act of Congress mandated changing the names of nine military bases previously named for Confederate soldiers. In 2025, the Trump administration bypassed the law to restore the Confederate names. This is the inspiring story behind the ten American heroes whose...
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A Slave No MoreSlave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of...
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
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American Negro Slave RevoltsYears ago, the controlling view held that the response of the slaves in the United States to their bondage "was one of passivity and docility". That opinion, so decisive a part of the chauvinism afflicting the nation, is shown to be false in this...
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American Slavery, American FreedomIn the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and equality. George Washington led Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. And they were...
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American Slavery: A Very Short IntroductionEuropeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins...
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AmistadThe 1839 Amistad revolt and the fate of the African slaves on board are well documented in books and in a blockbuster film. Michael Zeuske adds a new dimension to this history: the story of the people behind the Amistad. Based on his discovery...
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An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War SouthThe Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions...
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Atlantic CataclysmIn this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, Eltis offers compelling explanations of why the...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black CargoOne of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! - New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black CargoOne of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! - New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black CargoOne of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! - New York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of...
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Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White HouseBehind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant slave narratives. Author Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley writes about her teenage years, working as a...
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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American SouthFrom the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated...
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American HeroThe 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...
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Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science of Slave Psychology Paperback - By Alvin Morrow"First printing: August 2003; second printing: April 2004"--Colophon.Author: Alvin MorrowPublisher: Rising Sun PublicationsPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 113Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9780972035217
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