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At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and th...
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African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with ...
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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound...
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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on Afri...
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Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilson's charge to make the world "safe for democracy" carried life-...
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Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a care...
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The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...
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David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in ...
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First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of F...
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North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international...
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Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...
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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the ...
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Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...
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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relatio...
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The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, t...
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...
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Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song'...
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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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