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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction...
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape--2,000 square miles of undeve...
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Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, countless slaves from culturally diverse communities in the Indian subcontinent and Southeas...
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The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /For every gallon of ink that has been spilt on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its consequences, only one very small drop has been spent on th...
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA breathtakingly o...
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryWinner of the Joan Kelly Memorial PrizeWinner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWi...
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among...
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The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in cr...
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Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E....
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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban...
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Masterly.”—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcu...
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Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and th...
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Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity, and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco f...
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, E...
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner of the American Book Award Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award Winner of the James ...
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into sl...
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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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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized the...
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The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sour...
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Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of...
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Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Contents List of Illustrations xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xxvii Part I. "Men of Stone and of Iron" The African Slave Trade 1.1. The Beg...
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $47.50 - Original price $47.50Original price $47.50$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native America...
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Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /At the start of the American War of Independence, Great Britain dominated overseas commerce and was the leading slave-trading nation in the world. ...
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on th...
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