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Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /One of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the “Bes...
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Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designe...
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Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, s...
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Child: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist - A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book - A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white ...
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Cherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident,...
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Charlotte, North Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Join authors Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers as they celebrate the rich history of the black community in Charlotte, North...
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Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the Frenc...
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Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in up...
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Breath of the Song: New and Selected Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.Product DetailsISB...
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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advert...
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Black Like Me
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH "One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down...
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Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans...
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Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown.Black beauty...
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but neverthel...
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African Americans of Tampa, Florida (Images of 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| /Tampa has a fascinating past that has been wonderfully documented with one exception: African Americans. This culturally rich community is virtua...
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African Americans in Tangipahoa & St. Helena Parishes
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tangipahoa and St. Helena are two of the eight Florida Parishes in southeast Louisiana. In 1810, St. Helena Parish was founded, and Tangipahoa Pari...
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African Americans in Boyle County
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /African Americans have lived in Boyle County, Kentucky, since the first settlement of the area in 1775. Mostly enslaved, by the Civil War, the coun...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.This collection brings together nearly three decades o...
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A Tour on the Underground Railroad Along the Ohio River
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana ...
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A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Author Tony Kail traces Memphis's colorful Hoodoo heritage from the arrival of Africans in Shelby County to the growth of conjure culture in juke...
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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781665905145 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 06-13-2023 Pages: 384
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A Guidebook to Virginia's African American Historical Markers
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Virginia encompasses "this nation's longest continuous experience of Afro-American life and culture," esteemed scholar Armstead L. Robinson has wri...
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A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to ...
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Black Folktales of the Muscle Shoals - Slavery to Success
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Most Black folks had never traveled many miles from the area where they were born, but after the Civil War, others moved to northern cities seeking...
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