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Harriet Tubman
Dundurn 2012; US$ 9.99Born in the United States and enslaved as a child, Harriet Tubman (circa 1820-1913) is one of the best-known figures connected to the Underground Railroad. Her success encouraged enslaved Africans to make the brave break for freedom and reinforced the belief held by abolitionists in the potential of black freedom and independence. more...
Slave Narratives after Slavery
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 26.99The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom... more...
White Cargo
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 12.00In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 300,000 people or more became slaves there in all but name. Urchins were swept up from London's streets to labour in the tobacco fields, brothels were raided to provide 'breeders' for Virginia and hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become chattels who could... more...
Stolen Childhood, Second Edition
Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 20.95One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition.... more...
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
LSU Press 2011; US$ 24.95Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809 -1877), a principle architect of the South?s ?Lost Cause? mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation?s leading and most controversial intellectuals. In "Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause" Terry A. Barnhart sheds new light on this provocative figure, his diverse interests,... more...
Frederick Douglass
Chicago Review Press 2000; US$ 28.00One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life?from the abolition of slavery to women?s rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black... more...
I Was Born a Slave
Chicago Review Press 1999; US$ 26.95Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant ?slave narratives.? They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings,... more...
Remembering Slavery
New Press, The 2011; US$ 19.95"A Best Book of the Year" ? Library Journal and Booklist Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writer's Project, this astonishing collection makes available in print the only known recordings of people who actually experienced slavery--recordings that had gathered... more...
Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement gained remarkable momentum due in large measure to the establishment of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the work carried out by one of its most important leaders, Theodore Dwight Weld. One of Weld's most significant accomplishments was the recruitment of a group of key abolitionist agents, known as... more...
Uncommon Ground
Smithsonian 2012; US$ 24.95Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society's prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that became... more...









