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Human Trafficking, Human Misery
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 45.00Virtually all countries in the world are affected by the scourge of human trafficking, either as a source, transit, or destination country, or combination thereof. While countries have long focused on international trafficking, internal movement and exploitation within countries may be even more prevalent than trans-border trafficking. Patterns of... more...
Amazing Grace
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 10.99Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave... more...
Transformations in Slavery
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 26.00A history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. more...
White Gold
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006; US$ 7.99The true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. France,... more...
The Gladiator
Da Capo Press 2008; US$ 15.00Take "a lively, voyeuristic glimpse into the ancient world" of the gladiator (Publishers Weekly) more...
Slave and Citizen
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 19.00Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer legal or even major social disabilities on account... more...
Agency of the Enslaved
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 64.99In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World , D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley explores the importance of the agency displayed by enslaved people and argues that this formed the real basis... more...
Questioning Slavery
Routledge 1996; US$ 39.95Surveying the key questions of slavery, this book traces the arguments which have surrounded its history in recent years. A wide-ranging thematic organisation covers racial, economic, political, social, cultural, gender and colonial dimensions. more...









