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Sugar, Slavery, and Society
UPF 2000; US$ 44.95In the literary works analyzed, the theme of resistance to the vagaries of the sugar plantation system that sought to dehumanize the workers stands out-resistance both by the enslaved and the indentured, by male and female. With regard to the enduring legacies of the sugar plantation system, this study highlights class formation and domination, the... more...
Broken Shackles
Dundurn 2007; US$ 16.95First published in 1889 under a pseudonym, this unique book documents the flight to Canada from the perspective of a fugitive slave from Maryland. more...
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky
LSU Press 2010; US$ 16.95In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try to escape. He joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master?s surname (Parker), renamed himself... more...
Places of the Underground Railroad
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 85.00No one knows where the term "Underground Railroad" originated, but the loose network that helped countless slaves to freedom was certainly no myth. Through its offices, slaves were able to find their way to the northern United States, Canada, and even to Mexico, often traveling thousands of miles as "conductors" facilitated their journeys from station... more...
Black Odyssey
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 18.00This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally... more...
Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labor' in mid-nineteenth-century America. more...
Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 32.00This is a far-ranging study which contextualises both the historical figure of Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography as a created work of art. more...
Beyond Slavery
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 30.00This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy. more...
Dismantling Black Manhood
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 158.00This book examines the social, economic, and cultural factors that have produced the current crisis in African American masculinity, tracing the development of concepts of manhood from pre-colonial West Africa through the Emancipation Proclamation in America. The study begins with an exploration of the cultural context of manhood and the social development... more...
Frederick Douglass
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 35.00Frederick Douglass was a champion of freedom who stood up for what he believed. He attended the Seneca Falls Convention and became an early supporter of women's right to vote. He led the recruiting effort for the 54th Massachusetts, the first all-black Union combat unit in the Civil War, and he founded The North Star, the second black newspaper published... more...









