Zbirka: Suženjstvo in odprava suženjstva
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Mary Prince (reloaded look)(2022) NORRY, E. L.My Story: Mary Prince is the incredible true story of the first Blackwoman and former slave to have her life story printed in theUnited Kingdom.Vezava: Mehka9,80 € -
Toussaint Louverture(2012) JAMES, C. L. R.A new critical edition of Toussaint Louverture, the play written by the Trinidadian intellectual and activist C. L. R. James in 1934, performed at London's Westminster Theatre in 1936, and then presumed lost until its rediscovery in 2005.Vezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Being Property Once Myself(2022) BENNETT, JOSHUAThroughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and other black writers, delving into the literary imagination and etVezava: Mehka26,99 € -
Specters of the Atlantic(2005) BAUCOM, IANCultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernityVezava: Mehka44,89 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics)(2014) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKDetails the life of the author from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man whoVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
The Light of Truth (Penguin Classics)(2014) WELLS, IDAThrough brilliant social analysis, the author exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic progress in the southern USA. This book tells her story.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)(2003) EQUIANO, OLAUDAHRecounts the kidnapping of the author in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy for ten years, and his life after he bought his freedom in 1766, growing to become one of the foremost figures of the anti-slavery movementVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Half Has Never Been Told(2016) BAPTIST, EDWARD E."In this assiduously researched and tightly argued volume, Baptist gives us what is by far the finest account of the deep interplay of the slave trade (especially within the nation's borders) and the development of the U.S. economy."-Bloomberg View, Top TVezava: Mehka27,08 € -
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Hell Without Fires(2021) PIERCE, YOLANDAExamines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a ‘New Jerusalem’, a place tVezava: Mehka49,81 € -
Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom(2019) DELLE, JAMES A.Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, James Delle presents the first overview of archaeological research on the topic in this book, debunking the notion that thVezava: Trda129,97 € -
Slave-Trader's Letter-Book(2019) JORDAN, JIMThis was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar’s letters from the 1850s,Vezava: Mehka33,09 € -
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1619 Project(2021) HANNAH-JONES, NIKOLE,THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINEA dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia beariVezava: Trda41,58 € -
American Slavery(1995) KOLCHIN, PETERBeginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, the book chronologically documents the historical evolution of slavery in the USAVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Concise History of the Caribbean(2021) HIGMAN, B. W. (AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, CANBERRA)A comprehensive narrative, tracing the economic, social and political history of the islands of the Caribbean from the earliest times to the present. Patterns of colonisation and the development of slave societies are linked to the ethnic and cultural feaVezava: Mehka47,52 €
