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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest ...
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Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in V...
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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...
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This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US nati...
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This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US nati...
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The Yellow House (2019 National Book Award Winner)
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning ne...
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The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor action spawned an epic tragedy.On November 23, 1887, white vigilantes ...
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The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus: Race and Representation in the Pelican State
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Since the creation of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus in 1977, the number of black lawmakers in the Louisiana legislature has increased; how...
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded aft...
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors f...
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The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and blac...
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The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Picking up where other scholarship has left off, this book seeks to fill the historical gaps and promote the lost voices of the Underground Railroa...
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The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from ...
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The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, 1819-1919
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Although it occurred nearly a century ago, the Elaine Massacre of 1919 remains the subject of intense inquiry as historians try to answer a multitu...
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Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Seen on the roadways of Charleston County and in museums and galleries worldwide, handmade sweetgrass baskets have been crafted in the Christ Chu...
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Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Men and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderst...
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Stories of Struggle: The Clash Over Civil Rights in South Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781643364629 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Publication Date: 08-01-2023 Pages: 376
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Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...
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Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865
HardcoverOriginal price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /"The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others w...
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Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A unique graphic history of one of the most controversial legal decisions of all time—with 118 powerful linoleum prints In 1931, nine black youth...
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Savannah, Georgia (Black America Series)
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Pioneering African-American families, spanning generations from slavery to freedom, enrich Savannah's collective history. Men and women such as A...
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Richmond's First African Baptist Church
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /First African Baptist Church has served the Richmond community since 1780, proving to be a pillar of strength for African Americans in the former C...
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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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Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South: African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780807180402 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: LSU Press Publication Date: 10-18-2023 Pages: 252