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The Slave's Narrative
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 38.00This textbook has been designed to confront a central issue in the study of 19th-century Afro-American literature - the question of how to analyse and evaluate the autobiographical tradition of ex-slaves. more...
This Species of Property
Oxford University Press 1977; US$ 39.99Owens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and... more...
Inhuman Bondage
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 17.99Presenting a study of slavery in modern times, this book provides a global perspective on the subject with an emphasis on the United States. more...
Nat Turner
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 22.99Leader of an important slave rebellion, murderer of unarmed men and women, beacon of freedom, and religious fanatic - the contradictory figure of Nat Turner represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. This biography offers insight into the man, his rebellion, and his time. more...
In Search of the Promised Land
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 18.99Presented in a narrative format, this book tells the story of the Thomas-Rapier family of Nashville. It follows Sally Thomas and her sons James, Henry, and John to analyze the complex and ambiguous nature of slavery and freedom in the Old South. more...
Abolitions Public Sphere
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 75.00Robert Fanuzzi illustrates how the dissemination of abolitionist tracts served to create an ?imaginary public? that promoted and provoked the discussion of slavery. He critically examines the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and their massive abolition publicity campaign geared... more...
And the War Came
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 28.95In a lively narrative spiced with eye-witness accounts and letters from townsfolk and soldiers, North and South, and personal comments from slaves, an American drama unfolds. The debate over slavery in America began as early as the Jamestown Settlement, w more...
The Fires of Jubilee
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War. more...
Giants
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning Harvard University scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced new ideals of personal... more...
The Underground Railroad
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 35.00The transatlantic slave trade and the fugitive slave laws in the late 18th century led to a significant increase in the number of people seeking freedom. Runaway slaves were often aided in their escape by a growing network of people who saw slavery as morally reprehensible. This work explores this intriguing time in American history. more...









