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Snow-Storm in August
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00A gripping narrative history of the explosive events that drew together Francis Scott Key, Andrew Jackson, and an 18-year-old slave on trial for attempted murder. In 1835, the city of Washington pulsed with change. As newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, free blacks outnumbered slaves for the first time. Radical notions of abolishing... more...
Sold Down the River
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 29.95In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich and powerful slave societies, the United States... more...
Slavery and the American South
University Press of Mississippi 2003; US$ 50.00AMERICAN HISTORY -- African American --> In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1970s it was the subject of the first Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi.... more...
Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010
Liverpool University Press 2012; US$ 60.00This collection of essays is the first serious attempt to conceptualise the transplantation of English migrants and culture in the New World as a Diaspora. more...
The Underground Railroad
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 58.00Full of true stories more dramatic than any fiction, The Underground Railroad: A Reference Guide offers a fresh, revealing look at the efforts of hundreds of dedicated persons?white and black, men and women, from all walks of life?to help slave fugitives find freedom in the decades leading up to the Civil War. more...
Help Me to Find My People
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 30.00After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during... more...
John Brown Still Lives!
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 30.00From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists... more...
The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 33.95A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional... more...
Sweet Chariot
The University of North Carolina Press 1996; US$ 28.95Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed through the years. Her book, based on massive... more...
The Pearl
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 36.95In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington.... more...









