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by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.
More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Rites of August First
Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, "August...
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Interest in Denmark Vesey: Following the Dylann Roof shooting in Charleston, interest in Denmark Vesey has surged, with major pieces covering his life in Time Magazine, USA Today, NPR, The New Yorker, Slate, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines.
Platform: Authors have...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery but would become...
Sundown Towns
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Sales of S&S paperback edition: The New Press has taken paperback rights back from S&S, who sold over fifteen thousand copies.
New Preface: Updates the conversation in light of the Trump presidency and the re-remembering of slavery and the civil war that the national reckoning with...
by Heidi Holland
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Despite the African National Congress being at the height of its powers, its future is today less certain than at any time in its long history. In the past, the liberation movement went through two huge transformations with remarkable agility; the first at the instigation of the hot-headed young rebel,...
Stay Silent
A Refugee's Escape from Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Paola Gomez’s childhood in an abusive home led her to dedicate her life to providing shelter for women and children in crisis. But when standing up against those responsible for the murder of a street child led to death threats against her and her family, she knew she was in trouble. After a brutal...
by Marie Treps
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Maudits mots ou l’inventaire raisonné des mots irraisonnables, les insultes racistes. Des plus insignifiantes aux plus outrageantes. Citations à l’appui, puisées dans les textes anciens ou contemporains, elles sont toujours révélatrices de l’esprit du temps.
Comment ces désignations injurieuses...
by Beryl Crosher-Segers
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Courage to Love in the Shadow of Hate.
A Darker Shade of Pale tells of Beryl Crosher-Segers' family and community life in apartheid-era South Africa.
With a piercing narrative, she details the injustices, humiliation and challenges she faced under the brutal reign of the National Party....
Ants Among Elephants
An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017
"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since...
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...
The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
As might be expected from this fiercely provocative writer, David Mamet’s interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internalized that hatred. Using...
Embodied Avatars
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance
Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture
Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt...
Watercolours
A Story from Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
A many-layered work of historical reportage, Watercolours draws on the real life story of Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009), a Czech-American artist of Jewish ancestry, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz, and whose story came to light in the late 1990s. It was at this time that Gottliebova attempted...