Zbirka: Suženjstvo in odprava suženjstva
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Scars on the Land(2022) SILKENAT, DAVID (SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.Vezava: Trda57,95 € -
Once We Were Slaves(2021) LEIBMAN, LAURA ARNOLD (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND HUMANITIES, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND HUMANITIES, REED COLLEGE)Vezava: Trda34,33 € -
American Slavery(2014) WILLIAMS, HEATHER ANDREA (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, CHAPEL HILL, NC, US)A concise history of slavery in America, including the daily life of American slaves, the laws that sought to legitimize white supremacy, the anti-slavery movement, and the abolition of slaveryVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Life of Olaudah Equiano(2000) EQUIANO, OLAUDAHThe journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy; his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, other adventures.Vezava: Mehka8,40 € -
White Fury(2018) PETLEY, CHRISTER (SENIOR LECTURER IN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON)The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire -- as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived.Vezava: Trda38,54 € -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(2015) JACOBS, HARRIETHarriet Jacobs's slave narrative is remarkable for its candid exposure of the sexual abuse suffered by slaves at the hands of their owners. Her sufferings, and eventual escape to the North, are described in vivid detail. This edition also includes her broVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Interesting Narrative(2018) EQUIANO, OLAUDAHThe Interesting Narrative is a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, published on the eve of the British abolition debate in 1789. The most important African autobiography of the 18th century, it recounts Equiano's adventures on land and sea. ThisVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Atlantic Wars(2020) PLANK, GEOFFREY (PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA)Atlantic Wars is the first work to comprehensively explore how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until the nineteenth century. It examines how armed conflict affected how and where people lived, who they associaVezava: Trda65,37 € -
Sweet Taste of Liberty(2019) MCDANIEL, W. CALEB (MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, MARY GIBBS JONES PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES, RICE UNIVERSITY)The extraordinary life of Henrietta Wood--a formerly enslaved woman sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage, and won.Vezava: Trda36,44 € -
Reconstruction(2020) GUELZO, ALLEN C. (HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND DIRECTOR OF CIVIL WAR ERA STUDIES, HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND DIRECTOR OF CIVIL WAR ERA STUDIES, GETTYSBURG COLLEGE)Allen C. Guelzo's Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction is a gracefully-written interpretation of Reconstruction as a spirited struggle to re-integrate the defeated Southern Confederacy into the American Union after the Civil War, to bring African AmeVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Truth About Modern Slavery(2021) KENWAY, EMILYAn expert's guide to ending modern slaveryVezava: Mehka33,97 € -
Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders(2021) EDWARDS, BERNARDThrilling naval action in the Atlantic against a ruthless enemy.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Oroonoko(2021) BEHN, APHRAFirst published in 1688, Oroonoko is a politically charged novella by the Restoration playwright and spy Aphra Behn, and is arguably one of the founding texts of the novel form. Purporting to chart the life of an African prince, Oroonoko, who is tricked iVezava: Mehka12,34 € -
How Sugar Corrupted the World(2019) WALVIN, PROFESSOR JAMESHow did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Short History of Transatlantic Slavery(2016) MORGAN, PROFESSOR KENNETH (BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON, UK)Vezava: Mehka26,72 € -
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery(2021) CROFTS, DANIEL W.In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the ""Great Emancipator"". Crofts argues that Lincoln no intention of being the ""Great Emancipator"" when he took ofVezava: Mehka72,14 € -
Breaking the Maafa Chain(2021) DOMINGO, ANNISalimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Now Sarah and Faith, will these once inseparable sisters survive the traumas of their enslavement without each other? Or are the burdens of the wicked systems of slaveVezava: Trda23,82 €
