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  • Freedom by a Thread
    Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery ...
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    36,71 €

  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
    Gelien Matthews
    In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery ag...
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    38,24 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • Post Indentureship
    Sibani Roy
    Indentureship for Indian labourers was never a single story. It was harsh, painful, and often dehumanising, yet it was also chosen by many who saw in it a narrow but vital escape from crushing poverty, domestic violence, and caste based oppression. On the long, uncertain voyage across the kala pani, strangers forged bonds of solidarity that carried them through the worst years ...
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    25,67 €

  • Marie, ou L’esclavage aux États-Unis
    Gustave de Beaumont
    Fruit du même voyage en Amérique qui inspira à son compagnon Alexis de Tocqueville sa célèbre étude sur la démocratie, ce roman de Gustave de Beaumont dénonce avec force le racisme et l’esclavage à travers l’histoire tragique d’une jeune femme métisse confrontée aux préjugés implacables de la société américaine. Texte engagé et précurseur, cet ouvrage offre un témoignage romane...
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    18,03 €

  • Abolitionizing Missouri
    Kristen Layne Anderson
    Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson’s Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition as well as the first exploration of the impact that the Civil War and emancipation had on German immigrants’ ideas about race. Anderson fo...
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    31,11 €

  • The Middle Passage
    E.B Cohen
    For more than four centuries, from the 1440s to the 1860s, roughly twelve and a half million African men, women, and children were carried across the Atlantic in the holds of ships - the largest forced migration in human history. About one in seven died at sea. The survivors built the wealth of the Atlantic world with their bodies, and built new cultures with their spirit.In th...
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    25,39 €

  • Twenty-Two Years a Slave
    Austin Steward
    is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. The book recounts the author’s experiences as a slave on a Virginia plantation and his subsequent lifeasa freeman. Steward’snarrativeprovidesapoignantinsight into the brutal realities of slavery, the cruelty inflicted on enslaved people, and his journey toward freedom and activism against the institution of slav ery. At ...
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    28,80 €

  • The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
    Michael J. Douma
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    54,11 €

  • Historic Sketches of the South (Cram Edition)
    Emma Langdon Roche
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Historic Sketches of the South pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Historical sketches of the south' by Emma Langdon Roche offers a compelling collection of historical insights into the American South. This significant work delves deeply into the complex and o...
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    20,11 €

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    Frederick Douglass
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most powerful and influential autobiographies in American history. First published in 1845, this firsthand account traces Douglass’s life from enslavement in Maryland to his escape to freedom and his emergence as one of the most important voices in the abolitionist movement.Written with clarity, courage, and extraordinar...
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    13,87 €

  • Black Ivory (Cram Edition)
    PEARSON / R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Black Ivory pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Black Ivory' by R. M. Ballantyne plunges readers into the heart of 19th-century Africa, exploring the brutal realities of the slave trade. This historical fiction, categorized as a boys’ adventure story, offers a...
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    27,04 €

  • Abolition a Sedition (Cram Edition)
    Calvin Colton
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Abolition a Sedition pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Abolition a Sedition: By a Northern Man' offers a compelling perspective on the tumultuous era leading up to the American Civil War. Written by Geo. W. Donohue, this historical text delves into the conte...
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    23,14 €

  • The Exiles of Florida
    Joshua R. (Joshua Reed) Giddings
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Exiles of Florida pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Exiles of Florida,' by Joshua R. Giddings, delves into a compelling and often overlooked chapter of United States history: the story of the Maroons. These fugitive slaves, fleeing the brutal realiti...
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    28,92 €

  • Travels in Brazil (Cram Edition)
    Henry Koster
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Travels in Brazil pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore 19th-century Brazil through the observant eyes of Henry Koster in 'Travels in Brazil.' This detailed account offers a fascinating glimpse into the culture, society, and history of a nation still grap...
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    33,72 €

  • The Right Way the Safe Way
    Lydia Maria Child
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Right Way the Safe Way pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Lydia Maria Child’s 'The Right Way the Safe Way: Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere' offers a compelling historical analysis of slavery and its abolition in the British...
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    23,19 €

  • Negroes and Negro 'Slavery
    John H. Van Evrie
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Negroes and Negro 'Slavery:' the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition. pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.J. H. Van Evrie’s 'Negroes and Negro 'Slavery ', the first an inferior race, the latter its normal condition' presents a historical pe...
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    26,95 €

  • Peculiar
    Epes Sargent
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Peculiar pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Epes Sargent’s 'Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition' offers a compelling glimpse into the social and moral landscape of pre-Civil War America. This historical fiction explores the complexities of slavery and the...
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    34,70 €

  • A Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery (Cram Edition)
    A. Woodward
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.A. Woodward’s 'A Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery' provides insightful literary criticism and historical context surrounding Harriet Beecher Stowe’s l...
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    20,98 €

  • Ismailia
    Samuel White Sir Baker
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Ismailia pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Ismailia' by Samuel White Baker recounts the author’s expedition into the heart of Africa, focusing on the exploration of the Nile River and the suppression of the brutal slave trade. Baker’s historical account offe...
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    34,56 €

  • The Sea-Witch; Or, The African Quadroon
    Maturin M. (Maturin Murray) Ballou
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Sea-Witch; Or, The African Quadroon pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Venture into a gripping depiction of the historical slave trade with Maturin Murray’s 'The Sea-Witch, or, The African Quadroon, A Story of the Slave Coast.' This powerful work of histor...
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    23,07 €

  • Our World
    F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Our World pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter' by Francis Colburn Adams offers a compelling glimpse into a pivotal era of American history. This historical fiction explores the complexities of plantation life and the in...
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    36,34 €

  • The Conflict With Slavery
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Conflict with Slavery pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Conflict With Slavery,' by John Greenleaf Whittier, delves into the tumultuous history of slavery in the United States and its profound impact on the nation’s trajectory toward Civil War. As a vital...
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    23,19 €

  • The Anti-Slavery Harp
    William Wells Brown
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Anti-Slavery Harp pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings' is a powerful testament to the anti-slavery movement in the United States. This carefully prepared print edition brings together a...
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    21,12 €

  • Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada (Cram Edition)
    Henry A. (Henry Anthony) Murray
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Lands of the Slave and the Free: Cuba, The United States, and Canada' offers a fascinating glimpse into 19th-century travel and society, contrasting li...
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    34,63 €

  • A Visit to the United States in 1841 (Cram Edition)
    Joseph Sturge
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Visit to the United States in 1841 pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'A Visit To The United States In 1841' offers a compelling firsthand account of America during a pivotal period in its history. Author Joseph Sturge, a dedicated social reformer, provides ...
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    27,96 €

  • The Dangers of Artificial Intelligence
    An Artificial Intelligence
    The most unsettling warning about artificial intelligence may be the one written by artificial intelligence itself.Artificial intelligence is changing the world faster than governments, businesses, and society can fully understand. It writes essays, creates images, generates software, influences decisions, and increasingly shapes the information people consume every day.But wha...
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    8,18 €

  • Memorializing the Unsung
    Elochukwu E Uzukwu
    By the time the Capuchins arrived in the seventeenth century, Kongo had been Catholic for nearly two hundred years. The European mission could not be conversion, then, but reinforcement; the Capuchins sought to establish the sacraments and a line to Rome in a lay-led church already suffused with an enduring, creative, and complex theological culture. In Memorializing the Unsung...
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    57,44 €

  • Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery
    William A Morgan
    By 1865, more than 750,000 enslaved Africans had arrived in Cuba, making it the leading Spanish American slave colony and the epicenter of slavery in the Atlantic. At the height of the global tobacco economy, tens of thousands of these slaves labored in Pinar del Río, Cuba--a region devoted exclusively to tobacco cultivation. These enslaved people were responsible for exporting...
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    36,80 €


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