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Cincinnati
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fascinating images of Cincinnati's African-American heritage.Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was incorporated as a town in 1802....
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Charlotte, North Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Join authors Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers as they celebrate the rich history of the black community in Charlotte, North...
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Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Examines the evolution of black nationalist thought from its earliest proto-nationalistic phase in the 1700s to the Garvey movement in the 1920sR...
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Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to...
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Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of ...
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Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, s...
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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $94.99 - Original price $94.99Original price $94.99$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blend...
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Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitc...
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Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality After World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitc...
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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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Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designe...
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50Original price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, ...
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Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi—the southern state wi...
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Like the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home , Ever Is a Long Time captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern tow...
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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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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected f...
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Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest...
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Better Homes of South Bend, Indiana: An American Story of Courage
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781467118651 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: History Press The Publication Date: 09-07-2015 Pages: 144 Product Dimensions...
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Freedom Dreams (TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION): The Black Radical Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and thei...
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Black ReadsA travelogue, a history, a quest, a warning and a call for a reckoning that the history of slavery is the history of our c...
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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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