The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery, Paperback - James Walvin

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 ...

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

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....

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Professor James Walvi...

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

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonpla...

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...

'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resista...

Reducere. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa its...

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

How is Britain enacting colonialism at home?

An intriguing, first-of-its-kind cultural history of the turn of the 1960s

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

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...

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

The emergence of slavery in the District of Columbia profoundly transformed constitutional interpretation. Gilhooley's account of this interaction,...

Police shootings and incarceration inequalities are two examples of the legacy of slavery in the US and UK. Offering a criminological exploration o...

Reducere. DescriptionStacy was shot in the face - twice - and left to die. The first time the killer thought he had succeeded, and he left 15-year-old Stacy ...

The military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of 500 or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply d...

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...

DescriptionThe definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican studentsOn September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinap...

This is the remarkable untold story of a group of men and women in the West Riding of Yorkshire who for nearly a century between 1776 and 1865 foug...

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...

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Reducere. In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood. Hundreds of people were killed...

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

Reducere. An unabridged edition with all fifteen chapters and footnotes, to include: Author's Foreword - THE LAW - Imagining Creates Reality - Dwell Therein ...

The Law and The Promise by Neville - "When man solves the mystery of imagining, he will have discovered the secret of causation, and that is: Imagi...

Reducere. Young Bol Gai Deng (bowl guy) lived in a peaceful Dinka village in southern Sudan-until the night his whole world changed forever. In a government-...

DescriptionIn May 1870, seven members of the Marshall family, including three small children, were found brutally murdered in their home in Denham,...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive book on presidential impeachment and how it should be used todayTo End a Presidency is the definitive book on presidentia...

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 ...

Reducere. The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGint...

Giles Terera's powerful debut play about Olaudah Equiano and the historical movement to abolish slavery - a timely response to the social upheaval ...

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

Reducere. The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as...

The mesmerising story of the eighteenth-century financier of genius who rose from humble Scottish origins to control of the purse-strings of the mo...

A concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century.Illustrations: 40 integrated ...

Surely the disciples must have been in shock after hearing of the horrendous things that Jesus told them would happen.I can picture them silently s...

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to sus...

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...

The most comprehensive biographical study of the Cawnpore Massacre ever compiled. Details the lives and biographical background of many of the peop...

'Send back the Money!' throws light upon nineteenth-century culture, British and American Abolitionists, and ecclesiastical politics.