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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...
Slave Rebellions
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...
The Slave Trade
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 35.00The transatlantic slave trade forcibly brought thousands of Africans to the Americas. In doing so, it impacted peoples and cultures across the globe. The legacy of the slave trade has had lasting effects on the American culture for generations. This work explores this intriguing time in American history. more...
Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World
Liverpool University Press 2007; US$ 65.00Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World takes as its subject the effect of extra-territorial sites - Ireland, Haiti, Egypt - on Frederick Douglasss writing, self-construction, national, class and racial identity, and status as representative US American man. This innovative book will be of interest to those working in the fields of history,... more...
Against Slavery
Penguin Group Inc. 2000; US$ 17.00Assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade. Features William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."?Amazon.com. more...
North Carolina Slave Narratives
The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 31.95The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth... more...
Masterful Women
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 73.50Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, slaveholding... more...
Runaway Slaves
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 18.99Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Dissidents in the Conscript Army. Day to Day Resistance. Hired Slave Dissatisfaction. Open Defiance. Slaves and Overseers. Conspiracies. The Pride of Dissidence. 2. On the Run. Death of the Master. The Plantation Household. Opportunity. Assisted by Whites. Dissatisfaction of Hired Slaves. Merely To Be Free. Cruel and Unusual... more...
Passionate Liberator
Oxford University Press, USA 1982; US$ 26.99Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy Religious conversion, his entry into the World of reform, and finally, his rejection of public life. more...
American Taxation, American Slavery
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way. Rather than parsing the ideological pronouncements of charismatic slaveholders, it examines the concrete policy decisions... more...









