Category - Social Science
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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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Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elit...
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Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era t...
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An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827-1830, Volume 81: Three French Accounts
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In 1827 six Osage people--four men and two women--traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three s...
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Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's stu...
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The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered: William Johnson and Black Masculinity in the Antebellum South
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780807179949 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Publication Date: 08-30-2023 Pages: 264
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American Uprising
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"Breathtaking. [Rasmussen's] scholarly detective work reveals a fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance, but it also tells us something abo...
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Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic por...
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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweepi...
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00Original price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History—the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history"A rich, roili...
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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), t...
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Black Abolitionists
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /While much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored...
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Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /John Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figure. Here are two classic studies by a pioneer in African American studies, one about the plac...
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Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Winner of: - The Black Caucus of the American Library Association Nonfiction Book Award- The Tampa Bay Historical Society's D. B. McKay Award- The ...
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby...
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Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Em...
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplis...
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.This...
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Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bul...
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A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government offic...
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From Cochise to Geronimo, 268: The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874-1886
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations w...
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Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground...
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Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 editi...
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Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, dis...
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