Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight f...
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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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Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark ...
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Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This engaging history overturns the conventional wisdom about the Second Amendment--showing that the right to bear arms was not about protecting li...
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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1785, an African American woman, Elizabeth, was sold to her fifth enslaver. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of her first enslaver, w...
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /It’s the New “Big Lie” According the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independ...
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times' infamous "1619 Project," labeling America as little more than a failed state based on...
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Black Sam Fraunces: A Revolutionary War Spy
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This book is a compelling saga of an ordinary man doing extraordinary things that helped forge our nation's history.This deeply researched book sha...
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Negro in the American Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans ...
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in N...
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Heir Through Hope: Thomas Jefferson's Lifelong Investment in William Short
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and William Short, the eldest son of an established Virginia family and relative of Martha Jefferson, beg...
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Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this fo...
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What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The legacy of the slave family haunts the status of black Americans in modern U.S. society. Stereotypes that first entered the popular imagination ...
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /George Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon's enslaved work...
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781250321732 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Picador USA Publication Date: 03-05-2024 Pages: 512 Product Dimensions: 8.25...
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued . . . The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is [. . .] historical biography at its bes...
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Black Writers of the Founding Era (Loa #366): A Library of America Anthology
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A radical new vision of the nation's founding era and a major act of historical recovery Featuring more than 100 writers, this groundbreaking antho...
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Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slaveryOn July 2, 1822, Denmark ...
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