Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, Paperback - Deborah Willis

Reducere. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we reall...

Reducere. The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event On November ...

Reducere. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many Af...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved receive...

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Kris ManjapraIllustration(s): 1x8pp mono insetNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 24...

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the n...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Reducere. In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the righ...

Presents an important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities. Issues of religion an...

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolitionPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Matt SandlerNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2020Dimensions:...

Reducere. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery, " the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Allison PageIllustration(s): 3 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimens...

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate arm...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available agai...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Presents the survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. This book offers examples from the 'abode of Islam', from the Philippines to Senegal and from...

Reducere. The modern historical theory of slavery is that white men brought Africans to the Western hemisphere, where they were sold for profit and put to wo...

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Collection: Writing HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 38Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horn...

Presents an account of the Atlantic slave trade which helps us to understand the rise and fall of one of the most shameful chapters in British hist...

Reducere. The abolitions of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the first dramatic blow...

Reducere. Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to ...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe case of James Somerset, an escaped slave, in June of 1772 in London's Westminster Hall was a decisive turning point in human history...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining templ...

Reducere. This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

Vega Jane and the End of Time (previously published in the USA as The Stars Below) is the fourth and stunning final instalment in master storytelle...

Reducere. "Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these ...

Reducere. Fiction. An unnamed narrator returns to her ancestral home in an environmentally depleted harbor city with a baby in her care. She has escaped from...

Reducere. Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the tru...

Reducere. DescriptionThe third book in the funny and joyful series Katherine Applegate has called "tender and important, " by National Book Award finalist El...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political or...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain...

'Anyone who enjoys mythology will find much to love in Pegasus and the Flame. Kate O'Hearn serves up a winning mix of modern adventure and classic ...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the cha...

This comprehensive, highly illustrated new study examines Titian's long career and varied output. Tom Nichols argues that Titian's works were self-...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807....

Reducere. Explore How the Slaves Freed Themselves in the Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion that began in 1791 in the French col...

Reducere. In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to ...