Category - Social Science
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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected f...
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To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the Wh...
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn's The Other Civil War offers the historian and activi...
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The Negro in the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"The Civil War was a revolution in many ways," writes Benjamin Quarles in this renowned work. "But on one point there is common agreement: without ...
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved peopleWinner of the 2015 Avery O. Cra...
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Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail, mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau, w...
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American histor...
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Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina—one Af...
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Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Paul Polgar recovers the racially inclusive vision of America's first abolition movement. In showcasing the activities of the Pennsylvania Abolit...
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuver...
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Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...
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The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiersThough both the Union and Confederate ar...
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy i
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America ...
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1998, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpt...
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo his...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Notes From Black ReadsA historical document that is a must read, Frederick Douglass’ personal account is powerful and impressive. Douglass, who ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Special Bicentennial Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This International best seller is the dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, first published in 1845, when its author had j...
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Composite Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /"The voice of civilization speaks an unmistakable language against the isolation of families, nations and races, and pleads for composite nationali...
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 - May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist,...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederi...
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Mes années d'esclavage et de liberté
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Prenez une carte d'Amérique, États-Unis. Cherchez l'État de Maryland; vous trouverez, près d'Easton, comté de Talbot, un petit district maigrement...
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Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mr
PaperbackOriginal price $10.50 - Original price $10.50Original price $10.50$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /"Behind the Scenes" is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for...
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Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Preacher, teacher, and postmistress, Charlotte Levy Riley was born into slavery but became a popular evangelist after emancipation. Although severa...
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Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author's great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in ...
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