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by Kwasi Konadu
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through...
The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures...
Fraternity
In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle • The Plain Dealer
The inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor**
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On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the...
Daughters of the Trade
Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women...
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The World the Slaves Made
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
This landmark history of slavery in the South—a winner of the Bancroft Prize—challenged conventional views of slaves by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society.
Rather than emphasizing the cruelty and degradation of slavery, historian...
by Harriet Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Tormented by her master, a young mother plots a daring escape, in this courageous and captivating slave narrative
When her mother dies, six-year-old slave girl Linda Brent is sent to the big house, where she grows up serving a gentle mistress who teaches her to read and write. But the mistress’s...
Freedom's Frontier
California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific...
The Other Slavery
The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
**“Long-awaited and important . . . No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A necessary work . . . [Reséndez’s] reportage will likely surprise you.”—NPR
“One of the most profound contributions...
Barracoon
The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
New York Times Bestseller • Amazon's Best History Book of the Year 201 • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s...
American Colonies
The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has...
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
**A New York Times Best Seller
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.**
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as...
America's Original Sin
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin.
"It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading...
Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man...