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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: Trda68,41 € -
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 € -
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 € -
Breaking the Maafa Chain(2022) 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: Mehka14,01 € -
Different Drummer(2018) KELLEY, WILLIAM MELVINA lost masterpiece, following in the footsteps of Suite Française, Alone in Berlin and Stoner.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Ignatius Sancho(2021) HEPBURN, JUDYMy Story: Ignatius Sancho is the extraordinary true story of a youngboy's journey from slave to abolitionist. Greenwich 1738, and eight-year-old Ignatius lives with three sisters. He fetches and carries, does their bidding and all without thanksor a sVezava: Mehka9,80 € -
Slavery and Racism in American Politics, 1776-1876(2019) THOMSETT, MICHAEL C.From early legislation like the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 to Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, this book explores the background of some of America's most controversial moments. Spanning the first American century, it offers a detailed chrVezava: Mehka76,92 € -
Fractional Freedoms(2018) MCKINLEY, MICHELLE A. (UNIVERSITY OF OREGON)How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tells the story of enslaved legal actors within the landscape of Hispanic urban slavery, focussing on women whoVezava: Mehka40,16 € -
Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa(2001) AZUMAH, JOHN ALLEMBILLAHThe common perception is that Christianity in Africa was responsible for many injustices and harm to the culture and society of the continent, but Islam fitted well in Africa, and eschewed slavery. Azumah shows that Islam enslaved and forcibly converted aVezava: Mehka44,55 €











