The Slave`s Cause – A History of Abolition

Toward Nuclear Abolition presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the arms race and prevent nuclear war. Examini...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

Reducere. Violent mobs, racial unrest, attacks on the press--it's the fall of 1835 and the streets of Boston are filled with bankers, merchants and other gen...

Not Made by Slaves describes the efforts of early-nineteenth-century businesses to end plantation slavery by promoting commerce in "legitimate" goo...

DescriptionA lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fiction...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart--the first in two decades--uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurat...

Their short stories and poems sit alongside first-hand accounts of slavery from freed slaves, making a fascinating and absorbing collection that re...

Explore How the Slaves Freed Themselves in the Haitian RevolutionThe Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion that began in 1791 in the French colo...

In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide has opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a har...

Reducere. Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, m...

Reducere. This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with ...

The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life...

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...

A new history of the abolition of the British slave tradePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): David RichardsonIllustration(s): 1 b-w illus.Nu...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Linda HirshmanNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 238 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1850 Charleston, South Carolina, brutality and cruelty simmer just under the genteel surface of Southern society. Beautiful and heads...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1850 Charleston, South Carolina, brutality and cruelty simmer just under the genteel surface of Southern society. Beautiful and heads...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuou...

Reducere. "This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712"--P. 7].

Reducere. "This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712"--P. 7].

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It is cert...

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. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It has often been said t...

Reducere. In the classic The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, sets out to persuade his audience of the ...

Reducere. Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering experiences in her life when she was separated fro...

Reducere. "I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, I h...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

Explores the body as a map of consciousness, where physical symptoms reflect stresses on our minds, emotions, and Higher Self - Offers a comprehens...

Reducere. James Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the seventeen sl...

Reducere. DescriptionJames Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the s...

Reducere. DescriptionSolomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground...

'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Willie Lynch"The Willie Lynch Letter" written by Willie Lynch is widely considered to be one of the top 100 most controvers...

A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders In the context of ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the New World, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: The Americas: A Cap...

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

Reducere. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

Reducere. "This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arran...

Reducere. "This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arran...

The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women--with an introduction by Ti...

A New York Times bestselling author reveals the story of a nearly forgotten moment in American history, when mass violence was not an aberration, b...

Reducere. Who were the first American Slaves? More importantly, who started slavery? Know the answers to these interesting questions and more by going over t...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave, published i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings ...

Reducere. Masterly. Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus R...

When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it chang...

Reducere. "The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave" is a 1831 autobiography of Mary Prince (1788-1833), a British abolitionist and autobiographer. B...