27 books in Social Science - Slavery
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The Ruling Race
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $16.99
This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much... Read more >
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $16.99
This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much... Read more >
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Slavery And Freedom
An Interpretation of the Old South
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $10.99
This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise... Read more >
An Interpretation of the Old South
Written by James Oakes
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $10.99
This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise... Read more >
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Snow-Storm in August
The Struggle for American Freedom and Washington's Race Riot of 1835
Written by Jefferson Morley
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
The Struggle for American Freedom and Washington's Race Riot of 1835
Written by Jefferson Morley
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first time. Among the enslaved was nineteen-year-old Arthur Bowen, who stumbled home drunkenly one night, picked up an axe, and threatened his owner, respected socialite Anna Thornton...
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Gather at the Table
The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf and Sharon Morgan
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $25.95
Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on
“We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing... Read more >
The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf and Sharon Morgan
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $25.95
Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on
“We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Gather at the Table
The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf and Sharon Morgan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $25.95
Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on
“We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing... Read more >
The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf and Sharon Morgan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $25.95
Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on
“We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Slave and Citizen
Written by Frank Tannenbaum
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99
Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do... Read more >
Written by Frank Tannenbaum
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $9.99
Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Long Walk to Freedom
Runaway Slave Narratives
Edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $28.95
In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and... Read more >
Runaway Slave Narratives
Edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $28.95
In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Long Walk to Freedom
Runaway Slave Narratives
Edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $28.95
In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often... Read more >
Runaway Slave Narratives
Edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $28.95
In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Snow-Storm in August
Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Written by Jefferson Morley
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $28.95
Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Written by Jefferson Morley
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $28.95
A 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...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Snow-Storm in August
Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Written by Jefferson Morley
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Written by Jefferson Morley
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
A 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...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Black Majority
Written by Peter Wood
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $12.99
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well... Read more >
Written by Peter Wood
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $12.99
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well... Read more >
Uncommon Ground
Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
Written by Leland Ferguson
Format: eBook, 232 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $24.95
Winner 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 colonial... Read more >
Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
Written by Leland Ferguson
Format: eBook, 232 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $24.95
Winner 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 colonial... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Santeria
African Spirits in America
Written by Joseph M. Murphy
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2011
Price: $20.00
Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santería community of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful analysis of this African/Cuban religion. He... Read more >
African Spirits in America
Written by Joseph M. Murphy
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2011
Price: $20.00
Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santería community of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful analysis of this African/Cuban religion. He... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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1861
The Civil War Awakening
Written by Adam Goodheart
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $28.95
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.
1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to... Read more >
The Civil War Awakening
Written by Adam Goodheart
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $28.95
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.
1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
1861
The Civil War Awakening
Written by Adam Goodheart
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.
1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to... Read more >
The Civil War Awakening
Written by Adam Goodheart
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.
1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Kindred
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2009
Price: $24.95
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2009
Price: $24.95
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Inheriting the Trade
A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $17.00
In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—from New England to... Read more >
A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $17.00
In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—from New England to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Inheriting the Trade
A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $17.00
In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—from New England to... Read more >
A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading
Written by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $17.00
In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—from New England to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Epic Journeys of Freedom
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Written by Cassandra Pybus
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2007
Price: $18.00
During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled from their masters to find freedom with the British. Having emancipated themselves--and with rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears--these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their lives.
This alternative narrative includes the stories... Read more >
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Written by Cassandra Pybus
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2007
Price: $18.00
During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled from their masters to find freedom with the British. Having emancipated themselves--and with rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears--these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their lives.
This alternative narrative includes the stories... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Sounds of Slavery
Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Written by Shane White and Graham White
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $21.00
Read more >
Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Written by Shane White and Graham White
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2006
Price: $21.00
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Epic Journeys of Freedom
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Written by Cassandra Pybus
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can... Read more >
Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
Written by Cassandra Pybus
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Written by Anne Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2006
Price: $23.00
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor
For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of... Read more >
Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Written by Anne Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2006
Price: $23.00
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor
For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Sounds of Slavery
Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Written by Shane White and Graham White
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $15.95
Read more >
Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Written by Shane White and Graham White
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $15.95
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Written by Anne Bailey
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 2, 2005
Price: $23.00
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor
For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of... Read more >
Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Written by Anne Bailey
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 2, 2005
Price: $23.00
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor
For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Uncommon Ground
Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
Written by Leland Ferguson
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2004
Price: $24.95
Winner 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 colonial... Read more >
Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
Written by Leland Ferguson
Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2004
Price: $24.95
Winner 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 colonial... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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