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A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is ke...
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A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyl...
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Abigail Field Mott's the Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano: A Scholarly Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition. In...
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (National Book Award Winner)
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three genera...
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Ballast
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /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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Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813913322 Media Type: Paperback(New Edition) Publisher: Museum of the Confederacy Publication Date: 04-29-1997 Pages: 2...
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African A...
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Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drives: On the Trails from Texas to Montana
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Dust and Determination After the Civil War, emancipated slaves who didn't want to pick cotton or operate an elevator headed west to find work and a...
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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentar...
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Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #10): A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Discover the story of the Haitian Revolution—the largest uprising of enslaved people in history—in this installment of the New York Times bestsel...
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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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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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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /What do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria. Formation: From ...
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Freewater
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Black ReadsSet against the backdrop of the American South, Freewater is a poignant tale of courage, survival and strength. Debut aut...
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Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible - certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape No...
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-wi...
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Hope's Path to Glory: The Story of a Family's Journey on the Overland Trail
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the author of Eliza's Freedom Road and Calico Girl comes a historical middle grade adventure about an enslaved girl's journey on the Overland ...
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Imperium in Imperio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics....
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In the True Blue's Wake: Slavery and Freedom Among the Families of Smithfield Plantation
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813947235 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 02-22-2022 Pages: 206 Product...
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Maryland Freedom Seekers on the Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Journey with the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad. Maryland was the starting point of many freedom seekers. They embarked on the perilous ...
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Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813196442 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Publication Date: 11-08-2022 Pages: 112 Product...
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Nightjohn
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /"To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what...
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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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