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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...
A Death in Texas
A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2003
An extraordinary account of how a small Texas town struggled to come to grips with its racist past in the aftermath of the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr.
On June 7, 1998, a forty-nine-year-old black man named James Byrd, Jr., was chained to the bumper of a truck and dragged three miles down...
One Righteous Man
Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Book Award
Winner of the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction
A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department’s first black officer.
When...
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...
by W.E.B Du Bois, Vann R. Newkirk II, Steve Prince
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Restless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American consciousness. Reconsidered for the era of Obama, Trump, and Black Lives Matter, the new edition includes...
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...
by George W. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition...
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...
Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion...
South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras
Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras is an anthology of the most enduring and important scholarly articles about the Civil War and Reconstruction era published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. Past officers of the South Carolina...