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by Dr. Eric R. Jackson, Richard Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement,...
by Tom Calarco
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy--so much so that some historians have even doubted its importance. After decades of research, Tom Calarco recounts his experiences compiling evidence to give credence to the legend's oral history...
Slave
My True Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.
Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived...
Troubled Refuge
Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.
Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the...
Manifiesto mexicano
Cómo perdimos el rumbo y cómo recuperarlo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Una lectura obligada para ciudadanos críticos y propositivos.
Este es un libro lleno de rabia y amor perro por el México maltrecho que debemos rescatar. Es una crónica del hartazgo, del enojo con la cleptocracia que se rota en el poder, con los privilegios inmerecidos de los cómodamente...
John Brown, Abolitionist
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist...
A Social History of the American Negro
Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes.
CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE COMING OF NEGROES TO AMERICA CHAPTER II THE NEGRO IN THE COLONIES CHAPTER III THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA CHAPTER IV THE NEW WEST, THE SOUTH, AND THE WEST INDIES CHAPTER V INDIAN AND NEGRO CHAPTER VI EARLY...
Ship of Death
A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship’s fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London.
Milliken's Bend
A Civil War Battle in History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
At Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, a Union force composed predominantly of former slaves met their Confederate adversaries in one of the bloodiest engagements of the war. This small yet important fight received some initial widespread attention but soon drifted into obscurity. In Milliken's Bend, Linda...
by John F. Hume
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A fascinating and comprehensive look at the history of those men and women that advocated the abolition of African slavery, as well as those that fought the system by, for example, running the Underground Railroad.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
A Library of America Paperback Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
One of the greatest works of American autobiography, in a definitive Library of America text: Published seven years after his escape from slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) is a powerful account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture...
The Long Walk to Freedom
Runaway Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
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...
The Greatest Works of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, Darkwater, The Conservation of Races, The Economic Revolution in the South, Religion in the South, The Black North…
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate...
by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's 1918 historical treatise, “American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime”. Although Phillips displays what we would now consider to be unrepentant racism in this...