West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, Hardcover - Kevin Waite

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Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevi...

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

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Kevin RobertsonIllustration(s): 100 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

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Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

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DescriptionAn incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Ro...

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Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions...

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It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

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Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Anthony KaldellisIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 324Collection: Suppleme...