Category - History
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The African Experience in Spanish America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /This pioneering book, a founding text of African diaspora studies, continues to hold a prominent place in any bibliography of its field and remai...
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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned th...
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Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through t...
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Indian Slavery in Colonial America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colon...
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accompl...
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Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"Deftly uses the available parish registers to document the stages of the coming of African men and women to Puerto Rico in the eighteenth centur...
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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction...
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Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeas...
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA breathtakingly o...
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A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $13.80 - Original price $13.80Original price $13.80$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /2020 Reprint of the 1857 Edition. This edition edited by James Howard and illustrated by Mary Sloan. Early in the year 1854 the author, a young N...
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Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecede...
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWi...
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICESAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE RECOMMENDED BOOKWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the s...
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among...
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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E....
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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban...
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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their ma...
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A Providence Jour...
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice—and reparations Born into slavery, Henri...
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Slavery: A World History
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although ...
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American Slavery, American Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable."—New York Times Book Review In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen ...
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Masterly.”—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcu...
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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti Award“McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and roma...
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Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity, and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco f...
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