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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $6.60
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Olaudah Equiano
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.362092
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Publication Date: 2003-05-27
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766, and his life afterward as a leading and respected figure in the antislavery movement in England. A spirited autobiography, a tale of spiritual quest and fulfillment, and a sophisticated treatise on religion, politics, and economics, The Interesting Narrative is a work of enduring literary and historical value.
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Sale: $9.86
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kenneth S. Greenberg
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Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 1996-02-15
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Reading Level: 148
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Description: This textbook offers the complete text of the actual confessions of Nat Turner, the Virginia slave preacher who in 1831 led the bloodiest slave revolt in US history. An introduction provides the historical context for the revolt and allows students to consider problems suggested by the document. Additional sources include Southern editorials, which give students a sense of contemporary white reaction to slave uprisings. The volume also includes questions to consider.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $8.73
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Deborah Gray White
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975
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Publication Date: 1999-02
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with the realities of their lives. Above all, this groundbreaking study shows us how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South-their heroic struggle to gain their rights, hold their families together, resist economic and sexual oppression, and maintain their sense of womanhood against all odds.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.23
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edmund S. Morgan
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.502
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Publication Date: 2003-10
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: "If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. With a new introduction. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award.
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Price: $10.00
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Sale: $2.35
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frederick Douglass
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 326.0924
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Publication Date: 1982-08-26
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Presents the memoirs of the famed abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the North after years of enslavement and who became a champion of human rights.
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Price: $5.99
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Sale: $2.51
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Manufacturer: Avon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Melton A. Mclaurin
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Publisher: Avon
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Dewey Decimal Number: 345.7302523
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Publication Date: 1999-02-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Celia was an ordinary slave--until she struck back at her abusive master and became the defendant in a landmark trial that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South's "Peculiar Institution."
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $6.89
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Manufacturer: Anchor
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jacqueline L. Tobin::Raymond G. Dobard
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Publisher: Anchor
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Edition: 1st Anchor Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7115
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Publication Date: 2000-01-18
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: When quiltmaker Ozella McDaniels told Jacqueline Tobin of the Underground Railroad Quilt Code, it sparked Tobin to place the tale within the history of the Underground Railroad. Hidden in Plain View documents Tobin and Raymond Dobard's journey of discovery, linking Ozella's stories to other forms of hidden communication from history books, codes, and songs. Each quilt, which could be laid out to air without arousing suspicion, gave slaves directions for their escape. Ozella tells Tobin how quilt patterns like the wagon wheel, log cabin, and shoofly signaled slaves how and when to prepare for their journey. Stitching and knots created maps, showing slaves the way to safety. The authors construct history around Ozella's story, finding evidence in cultural artifacts like slave narratives, folk songs, spirituals, documented slave codes, and children's' stories. Tobin and Dobard write that "from the time of slavery until today, secrecy was one way the black community could protect itself. If the white man didn't know what was going on, he couldn't seek reprisals." Hidden in Plain View is a multilayered and unique piece of scholarship, oral history, and cultural exploration that reveals slaves as deliberate agents in their own quest for freedom even as it shows that history can sometimes be found where you least expect it. --Amy Wan
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.86
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Brion Davis
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2008-04-18
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in this definitive account of New World slavery.
The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more. But though centered on the United States, the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of American slavery that reaches back to ancient foundations and also traces the long evolution of anti-black racism in European thought. Equally important, it combines the subjects of slavery and abolitionism as very few books do, and it connects the actual life of slaves with the crucial place of slavery in American politics, stressing that slavery was integral to America's success as a nation--not a marginal enterprise.
A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage offers a compelling portrait of the dark side of the American dream.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $3.68
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edward Ball
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.79150099
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Publication Date: 1998-12-29
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: Writer Edward Ball opens Slaves in the Family with an anecdote: "My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves. 'There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family,' he would say. 'Religion, sex, death, money and the Negroes.'" Ball himself seemed happy enough to avoid these touchy issues until an invitation to a family reunion in South Carolina piqued his interest in his family's extensive plantation and slave-holding past. He realized that he had a very clear idea of who his white ancestors were--their names, who their children and children's children were, even portraits and photographs--but he had only a murky vision of the black people who supported their livelihood and were such an intimate part of their daily lives; he knew neither their names nor what happened to them and their descendents after they were freed following the Civil War. So he embarked on a journey to uncover the history of the Balls and the black families with whom their lives were inextricably intertwined, as well as the less tangible resonance of slavery in both sets of families. From plantation records, interviews with descendents of both the Balls and their slaves, and travels to Africa and the American South, Ball has constructed a story of the riches and squalor, violence and insurrection--the pride and shame--that make up the history and legacy of slavery in America.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.19
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Manufacturer: NYU Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Don Jordan::Michael Walsh
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Publisher: NYU Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.36209730903
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Publication Date: 2008-03-08
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: "This vividly written book tells the tale from both sides of the Atlanticâ¦meticulously source and footnoted—but is never dry or academic...Jordan and Walsh offer an explanation of how the structures of slavery—black or white—were entwined in the roots of American society. They refrain from drawing links to today, except to remind readers that there are probably tens of millions of Americans who are descended from white slaves without even knowing it."
—New York Times Book Review
ÂWith information gleaned from contemporary letters, journals and court archives, White Cargo is packed with proof that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery were, for centuries, also inflicted on whites.Â
ÂDaily Mail ÂAn eye-opening and heart-rending story.Â
ÂThe Times (London) White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in BritainÂs American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from LondonÂs streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide Âbreeders for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock. Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface.
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