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A History of Negro Slavery in New York
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780815628941 Media Type: Paperback(1 PBK ED) Publisher: Syracuse University Press Publication Date: 05-01-2001 Pages: 232 ...
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A Tour on the Underground Railroad Along the Ohio River
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana ...
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Abina and the Important Men
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association—and widely acclaimed by educators and students—Abina and the I...
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Abolitionists of South Central Pennsylvania
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Experience the history of the antislavery movement in South Central Pennsylvania, a hotspot for both slave catchers and abolitionists alike.Author ...
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but neverthel...
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American Slaves Tell Their Stories: Six Interviews
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /This collection of enthralling personal narratives vivifies life during and just after the era of slavery in the United States. First published 2...
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A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A ...
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer...
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Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injust...
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, litera...
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Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this “historical, litera...
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Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground...
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American Slavery: 1619-1877 (10th Anniversary Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The single best short survey in America, now updated.Includes a New Preface and AfterwardIn terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Ko...
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Bes...
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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Bes...
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American Slavery as It Is: Selections from the Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The stories of hundreds of African Americans who lived in bondage are preserved in this powerful 1839 chronicle. Compiled by a prominent abolitioni...
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Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic por...
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Eclipsed (Revised TCG Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“Soul-searing...Eclipsed shines with a compassion that makes us see beyond the suffering to the indomitable humanity of its characters.” Charles ...
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Black Bondage in the North
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780815628934 Media Type: Paperback(New Edition) Publisher: Syracuse University Press Publication Date: 11-01-2001 Pages: 2...
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award...
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Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Still in his twenties but already famous for his fiery orations and controversial autobiography, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass traveled t...
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Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped f...
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New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659-2000s
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities wer...
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Plantations, Slavery and Freedom on Maryland's Eastern Shore
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The riveting, heart wrenching story of slave traders and abolitionists, kidnappers and freedmen, cruelty and courage on Maryland's eastern shore.Af...
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