The Story of American Freedom, Paperback

From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family, Paperback - James H. Johnston

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

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Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America, Paperback - Peter H. Wood

72,99 RON 78,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionEngaging and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the history of slavery and the struggle for freedom before the United States ...

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The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom, Paperback - W. Cleon Skousen

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller.Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist:...

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American Warrior: The True Story of a Legendary Ranger, Paperback - Gary O'Neal

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Reducere. The epic story of one of America's greatest soldiers, Ranger Hall of Fame member Gary O'Neal, who served his country for forty yearsChief Warrant O...

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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, Paperback - Jean Stafford

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean...

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Tribute: Rush Limbaugh, Paperback - Don Smith

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Reducere. He was called "the most dangerous man in America" as well as "the leader of a vast Right-Wing Conspiracy." Politicians, pundits, and commentators a...

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Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West, Paperback - Joanne Wilke

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Reducere. In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on...

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The Black Russian, Paperback - Vladimir Alexandrov

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Reducere. The Black Russian is the incredible true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississipp...

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A Sojourner's Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World, Paperback - Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

69,99 RON

A Sojourner's Truth is an African American girl's journey from South Carolina to the United States Naval Academy, and then to her calling as an int...

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Radical Courage: How One Marine's Sacrifice Helped Change America, Paperback - Eric Alva

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Reducere. In Radical Courage, retired Marine Staff Sergeant Eric Alva shares his powerful story of coming out as a gay man in the armed forces, as well as hi...

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DK Life Stories: Harriet Tubman, Paperback - Kitson Jazynka

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Harriet Tubman, a fearless activist and abolitionist who helped free many slave...

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The Life and Times of Frank Balistrieri: The Last, Most Powerful Godfather of Milwaukee, Paperback - Zack Long

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Reducere. DescriptionWho was Frank Peter Balistrieri, the last and most power Godfather of the Milwaukee Mafia? Based on hundreds of FBI documents obtained b...

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After the Darkness: A Survivor's True Story of Childhood Incest, Rape, Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Her Ability to Overcome the Negative, Paperback -

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn "After the Darkness" Dr. Candace Nadine Breen, PhD, shares how she overcame childhood trauma, sexual abuse and rape to her present ro...

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The World of William Penn, Paperback - Genevieve Foster

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. In The World of William Penn Foster explores the wide sphere of the humble Quaker, William Penn. From the courtyards of the Sun King to the royal c...

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The Heroic Slave, Paperback - Frederick Douglass

12,99 RON

DescriptionFamed abolitionist Frederick Douglass based his only fictional work on the gripping true story of the biggest slave rebellion in U.S. hi...

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The Story of Alexander Hamilton: A Biography Book for New Readers, Paperback - Christine Platt

38,99 RON 41,99 RON

Reducere. Discover the life of Alexander Hamilton--a story about working hard, blazing trails, and fighting for freedom Alexander Hamilton became one of the ...

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The Concentration Camp: The True Story of a Belgian Teenager, Paperback - Vera Mertens

45,00 RON

Pierre grows up in a family still scarred by the Great War. When the Second World War breaks out, the Germans invade Belgium. Pierre's yearning for...

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Paperback - Ernest J. Gaines

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. ""Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for f...

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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz, Paperback - Amy Scholder

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine h...

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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates

107,99 RON

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

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I Held Lincoln: A Union Sailor's Journey Home, Paperback - Richard E. Quest

97,99 RON

Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824-1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was ...

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Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900, Paperback - Stephen A. Vincent

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming com...

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The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, Paperback - Harvey J. Kaye

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harvey J. KayeThe fascinating story of Franklin Roosevelt, the Greatest Generation, and the freedoms they won, is a "stirri...

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Bioshock: Rapture, Paperback - John Shirley

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Reducere. It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

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I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home, Paperback - Shoshana Johnson

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by cha...

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Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920-1945, Paperback - Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

364,99 RON

DescriptionLocal policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to ...

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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Paperback - Raymond Arsenault

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through t...

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Citizens Creek, Paperback - Lalita Tademy

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Cane River brings us the evocative story of a once-enslaved man who buys his free...

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Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Paperback - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. "My purpose, " Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha,...

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The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--And Changed the History of Free Speech in America, Paperback - Thomas Healy

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled ...

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A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom, Paperback - David Williams

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it Bottom-up history at its ver...

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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture, Paperback - Britt Rusert

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

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This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, Paperback - Daegan Miller

164,99 RON

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature, ...

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An American Possibility: Mike, Tell Us The Story About..., Paperback - Mike Maschmeier

106,99 RON

A sweet Cincinnati boy of the 1950s finds his American Possibility of freedom through an extensive variety of inventive exploits. Mike Maschmeier's...

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A War Too Far: A Vietnam War Novel, Paperback - David Lee Corley

94,99 RON

Everyone knows the end, but do you know the beginning? It was the war before the war. A time when America needed allies in Southeast Asia to defeat...

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Concealed, Paperback - Esther Amini

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the freewheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American-born daughter...

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Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma, Paperback - Karlyn Forner

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring a...

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I Called Him Necktie, Paperback - Milena Michiko Flasar

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Reducere. ``The best of the best from this year's bountiful harvest of uncommonly strong offerings ... Deeply original.`` --O, The Oprah Magazine``Milena Mic...

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Desert Dust: One Man's Passion to Uncover the True Story Behind an Iconic American Photograph, Paperback - Paul W. Papa

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. TWO MEN-A WILD STALLION-A PHOTOGRAPH THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES FOREVERON THE MORNING OF JULY 12, 1945, as residents of Rawlins, Wyoming were waking ...

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Silver Rights, Paperback - Constance Curry

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. "THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION." --Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping fa...

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A Little History of the United States, Paperback - James West Davidson

81,99 RON

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages How did a land and people of such immen...

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Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

125,99 RON

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

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Living with No Excuses: The Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier, Paperback - Noah Galloway

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. Military hero and beloved Dancing with the Stars alum Noah Galloway shares his life story, and how losing his arm and leg in combat forced him to r...

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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom, Paperback - John F. Baker

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook. When he learned that two...

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Southern Pacific Daylight Steam Locomotive (Traintech), Paperback - Kenneth G. Johnsen

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. Southern Pacific Daylight Steam Locomotives covers the Daylight's inception and glory years, the Warbaby era, the Western Pacific versions, the Ame...

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The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Paperback - Sam Greenlee

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the...

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Freedom's Pen: A Story Based on the Life of Freed Slave and Author Phillis Wheatley, Paperback - Wendy Lawton

54,99 RON 58,99 RON

Reducere. 1761--Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Gambia and brought to America as a slave. But she did...

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From There to Here: A Journey from the Grip of Communism to America's Freedoms and Opportunities, Paperback - Herman Haenert

71,99 RON

DescriptionFrom There to Here is the life story of Herman Haenert, an American citizen who spent his youth in Germany first under Nazi and then Com...

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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success, Paperback - Phil Jackson

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. The inside story of one of basketball's most legendary and game-changing figures A New York Times bestseller During his storied career as head coac...

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Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice, Paperback - Bryan Stevenson

55,99 RON 59,99 RON

Reducere. The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime ...

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Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy, Paperback - Emma Christopher

194,99 RON

By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summ...

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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice, Paperback - Bryan Stevenson

56,99 RON

DescriptionThe young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--soon to be both a major motion picture starring Mi...

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The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Paperback - Harriet Ann Jacobs

155,99 RON

DescriptionNot only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War, Incidents in the Life of a Slav...

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The PowerBook, Paperback - Jeanette Winterson

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Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry, Oranges are Not th...

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The Story of Harriet Tubman: A Biography Book for New Readers, Paperback - Christine, Ma Platt

37,99 RON 40,99 RON

Reducere. Discover the life of Harriet Tubman--a story about courage, bravery, and freedomHarriet Tubman became a celebrated leader in the fight to free peop...

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Leap of Faith: Quit Your Job and Live on a Boat, Paperback - Ed Robinson

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. There are many of us who dream about selling all our stuff, quitting our jobs, and running away to Paradise. This is a story about one couple who m...

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Susanna's Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War, Paperback - Libby McNamee

79,99 RON 85,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionTHE REVOLUTION RESTS IN HER HANDS As the former Colonies struggle for freedom, the American Revolution is in the hands of a brave and re...

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Rescue Heart: A Love Story, Paperback - Tane McClure Arendts

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. The dog let out a slight whimper as he scanned all around him."He's not here. I promise." Nina tried to comfort him.Nina could almost see his heart...

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Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It, Paperback - David M. Robertson

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if ...

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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy, Paperback - Kent Nerburn

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, an...

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Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers, Paperback - Elaine Mokhtefi

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DescriptionA fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politicsFollowing the Algerian war ...

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Adventurous Lady: Margaret Brent of Maryland, Paperback - Dorothy Grant

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. This is the story of the brilliant and tempestuous Margaret Brent who played a leading role in Maryland colonial affairs. In 1633 she invested in t...

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Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971, Paperback - Martin Deppe

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PU...

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Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World, Paperback - Jon F. Sensbach

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon F. SensbachRebecca's Revival is the remarkable story of a Caribbean woman--a slave turned evangelist--who helped inspir...

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Island Queen, Paperback - Vanessa Riley

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Reducere. "Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!"--Chane...

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Dimiter, Paperback - William Peter Blatty

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter, a ri...

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Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio, Paperback - Gary Kornblith

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberli...

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The Coquette: Or, the History of Eliza Wharton, Paperback - Hannah Webster Foster

26,99 RON 28,99 RON

Reducere. The demise of a respectable but unloved fianc introduces a sudden and intoxicating freedom into Eliza Wharton's life. Two new beaus vie for her att...

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Maria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice, Paperback - Kathleen Weiler

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Maria Baldwin (1856--1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New ...

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Find The Wind's Eye, Paperback - Alton Fletcher

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. In 1854 Boston, Third Lieutenant Andrew Gunn of the United States Revenue Cutter Service questions the President's direct order to extradite a fugi...

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