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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: Mehka53,13 € -
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: Trda138,63 € -
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: Mehka43,16 € -
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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: Trda35,05 € -
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: Mehka45,62 € -
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom(2006) FINSETH, IAN FREDERICK,SIEBERT, WILBUR HENRYVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Work, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania(2018) WILEY, KATHERINE A.Vezava: Mehka32,07 € -
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians(2020) PARRY, H. G.A genre-defying tale of magic, revolution and the struggle for freedom - perfect for readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(2015) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKAn autobiography of author who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He describes his life as a slave - the cruelty he suffered at the hands of plantation owners; his struggles to educate himself in a world where slaves are deliberately kept ignorantVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough(2021) SCARBOROUGH, WILLIAM SANDERSTraces Scarborough’s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African AmericVezava: Mehka44,47 € -
Question of Freedom(2022) THOMAS, WILLIAM G.The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American historyVezava: Mehka38,02 € -
Black Atlantic(2022) GILROY, PAULTimely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernityVezava: Mehka20,07 € -
Woman's Labour(2021) COLLIER, MARYWhen Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour was published in 1730, it was a sensation - but Mary Collier was astounded to read Duck's dismissal of women, and she penned a stinging riposte, which reframed Duck's relation of harvest-time toil from a woman's pVezava: Mehka12,34 € -
Phillis Wheatley(2020) WHEATLEY, PHILLISThese poems are from the first book of poetry published by an African-American author. Phillis was brought to Massachusetts as a slave and sold to the Wheatley family, where she threw herself into education; soon she was writing verse of such a high calibVezava: Mehka13,89 €
