Slavery Reader, Paperback - ***

Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - t...

Around 210 million children are still in slavery today. This groundbreaking book shows why they remain locked in slavery, the ways in which they ar...

Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts ...

Reducere. Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the ...

This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of...

Reducere. Psychological operations (PSYOPs) are the preferred method by which shadow men socially engineer the masses' consent on a myriad of important issue...

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass ignored his master's veto on black education and taught himself to read and write. Escaping to the Northern S...

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...

Reducere. Three years and 29 days prior to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a man branded "zealot", "fanatic" and "traitor" was hanged. John Brown and hi...

Reducere. PJ the Leprechaun evolved from my love and respect for Saint Patrick. After attending fifty years of Holyoke's famous Saint Patrick's parades and w...

Reducere. American Girl Addy(TM) fights for freedom during the Civil War in this all-new Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader that takes place in 1864--an...

Reducere. Unabridged English value reproduction of The Life of Olaudah Equiano. This classic is a must read because Olaudah writes as if the reader is right ...

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 1978, paleontologists in East Africa discovered the earliest evidence of our divergence from the apes: three pre-human footprints, striding away...

Reducere. Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and...

Reducere. Thoughts on People, Planet, & Profit is a collection of essays about responsible investing from the field's pioneer. It's also a book about hope. T...

Reducere. For the first time ever, this new book has allowed Harriet Tubman to speak for herself in her own unforgettable words of passion and faith. It is t...

Reducere. Celebrate 300 years of New Orleans history Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive...

Reducere. The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion--which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia--is known among school children an...

Reducere. DescriptionAs an unrelenting polemic of insurgent philosophical essays, aphoristic sketches and epistemological ruptures against the biopolitical p...

Reducere. Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government ...

Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeb...

Reducere. We Are Owed. is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces. Through poems ab...

Reducere. Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker PrizeThe New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIn her follow-up to Small Island, winner of the Whitbr...

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: John P. JacksonEditor: Nadine M. WeidmanSince the eighteenth century when natural historians created the idea of distinct r...

DescriptionLew Wallace's "Tale of the Christ" as told through the life of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish heir accused of attempting to assassinate a Roman...

Reducere. DescriptionGenesis, a book of wondrous stories, is also a profound exploration of the human condition. From Cain and Abel to Joseph and his brother...

1 Peter is a significant letter, seen by many scholars to be an ecumenical bridge and anchor. It is first and foremost about the transformative joy...

Reducere. We "Set the record straight" clearing beliefs that African Americans, genetic descendants of Ancient Kemet, lack history until the event of slavery...

Reducere. This harrowing true story of Solomon Northup was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave. In it, he takes the reader on an un...

In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of ...

Reducere. Beginning in 1760, this comprehensive history charts the growth and development of the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren church family up a...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in its fifth edition, this leading reader has been updated with new readings and visual sources. This edition includes an added fina...

Reducere. A galloping romp through the memories and stories of a man who has held a colorful relationship with Galveston Island since his very early years. F...

Reducere. "Abundance Creed is more than just a book of poetry; it explores the search for meaning in today's changing world. It is thought provoking and insp...

Reducere. **6 Stars. Best series of 2013** Hook Me Up Book Blog The highly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller: Tears of Tess. "All my life, I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harriet JacobsPortions of Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" first appeared serially in 1861 in the N...

Reducere. Winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Program Book Award. Contrary to simple textbook tales, the civil rights movement did not arise spontaneously in 1...

Reducere. In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African...

Reducere. Annals of the Famine in Ireland is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the effects and contributing causes of the Great Famine. B...

Reducere. Just when you get out...Former Chicago cop Jack Daniels thought she'd left her former life behind. She'd traded her badge for a toddler, and her li...

Reducere. At least 8, 000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. A few served together in Jewish companies while most fou...

Reducere. DescriptionRoland Allen discusses how to conducts successful missions, comparing his own church's methods with the historical descriptions of the f...

It's said that New Orleans' "culture doesn't come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets." It is a proud city with interwoven stories of...

Reducere. This teen and young reader book is a richly illustrated biography about Horace King. In 1807, King was born into slavery on a South Carolina planta...