BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories
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Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my...
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, E...
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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times Editors' Choice Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize “Absorbing.… Segregation is not on...
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Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803-1805
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize On October 31, 1803, the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a reef a few miles outside...
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle (Loa #376): Part One 1876 - 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice ...
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Priz...
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African Abolitionist T. J. Alexander on the Ohio and Indiana Underground Railroads
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /This book examines Thornton J. Alexander, who was a station manager and conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Indiana. The authors exam...
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Liminal Whiteness in Early Us Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. In a Cri...
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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers ...
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Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonis...
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Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This engaging history overturns the conventional wisdom about the Second Amendment--showing that the right to bear arms was not about protecting li...
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Ballast
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife ...
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The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, i...
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The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, i...
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Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ance...
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Yosemite Stage Driver: The Life and Times of George Monroe and His Family
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One glorious week in Yosemite, stage driver George Monroe shared his bench with Ulysses S. Grant. The backstory, told here for the first time, reve...
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation's history!"- Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Nort...
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation's history!"- Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Nort...
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An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements cate...
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The Barbary Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First Overseas Wars Conducted by the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Discover the captivating history of the first American wars in Africa!In this book, you'll learn about the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1805 and 1815, t...
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All Rights for All: Working for Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /My dad was born in London. My grandparents were English and they became citizens. Their British outlook on life didn't match my mother's Brooklyn I...
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans: Revised and Updated Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Published in Boston in 1833, Lydia Maria Child's An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans provided the abolitionist movement ...
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My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders an...
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Ticktock Banneker's Clock
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Throughout his life, Benjamin Banneker was known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, just to name a few pursuits. Bu...
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