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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /New York Times Bestseller The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Notes From Black ReadsA historical document that is a must read, Frederick Douglass’ personal account is powerful and impressive. Douglass, who ...
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Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of th...
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuver...
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No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rheto...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis. A masterpiece of African American literature, Fre...
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North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communitie...
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On Juneteenth
HardcoverOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021New York Times Bestseller Best Books of the Year • Washingt...
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Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteent...
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for bl...
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compellin...
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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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Cincinnati's Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Cincinnati played a large part in creatng a refuge for escaped salaves and in the Underground Railroad movement.Nearly a century after the American...
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Progress Compromised: Social Movements and the Individual in African American Postmodern Fiction
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In Progress Compromised, John L. Glenn examines how African American literature engages in debates about the political and cultural tensions promp...
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Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era t...
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Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the time, Penny M. Von Eschen offers a vivid portr...
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Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America?In the country's founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which ...
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Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America?In the country's founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which ...
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Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks’s 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what b...
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Reframing Randolph: Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph
HardcoverOriginal price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was a...
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1998, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpt...
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work - Non-FictionA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The YearWith journalistic skill, heart, and ho...
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