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  • New Directions in Slavery Studies

    Commodification, Community, and Comparison

    by Enrico Dal Lago, Calvin Schermerhorn, Karen Ryder, Damian Pargas, Bonnie Martin, Anthony Kaye, Mariana Dantas, John Davies, Kenneth Greenberg, Kathleen Hilliard ...
    In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline’s major themes—commodification, community, and comparison—and indicating paths for future inquiry.New Directions in Slavery Studies addresses the various ways in which the institution of slavery reduced human beings to a form of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Slave Ship

    A Human History

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the dark depths of slave ships in the 18th century.In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. With meticulous detail, Rediker uncovers the harsh ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Roll, Jordan, Roll

    The World the Slaves Made

    by Eugene D. Genovese ...
    A testament to the power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression, this landmark history of slavery in the South challenged conventional views by illuminating the many forms of resistance to dehumanization that developed in slave society.Displaying keen insight into the minds of both enslaved persons and slaveholders, historian Eugene Genovese investigates the ways that enslaved ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Birth of African-American Culture

    An Anthropological Perspective

    by Sidney Wilfred Mintz ...
    This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.From the Trade Paperback edition. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • White Slavery In Colonial America

    by Chris Masterson ...
    Is there a conspiracy to suppress over 150-years of American history? In the time that preceded the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, an entire class of people from Europe to the American colonies have all but vanished. They were kidnapped, put in chains, transported, auctioned, torn from their families, whipped, tarred, beat to death, malnourished and worked until they dropped dead (literally).Contrary ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade

    Edited by James Sidbury, Matt D. Childs, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though Africans continued to be exchanged as chattel, urban frontiers allowed a number of enslaved blacks to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Nat Turner

    A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory

    Edited by Kenneth S. Greenberg ...
    Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women and children, an inspired religious leader, a fanatic--this puzzling figure represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. And yet we do not know what he looked like, where he is buried, or even ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Fatal Self-Deception

    Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South

    by Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...
    Slaveholders were preoccupied with presenting slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution in which the planter took care of his family and slaves were content with their fate. In this book, Eugene D. Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discuss how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized this romanticized version of life on the plantation. Slaveholders' paternalism had little to do with ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Lincoln's Gamble

    The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War

    by Todd Brewster ...
    “A masterful psychological portrait” (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, doing precisely that. In ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • African American Heritage Super Pack #1

    Courage and Perseverance

    by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Linda Brent, Solomon Northup, James Weldon Johnson, Carter Godwin Woodson, Nella Larsen ...
    The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right. These books shed light on a proud people who have been mistreated for hundreds of years, a people who ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Haunted South

    Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

    by Tiya Miles ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of “ghost tours,” frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Brethren by Nature

    New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery

    by Margaret Ellen Newell ...
    Newell has done an excellent job of combing through court records correspondence and other materials to reconstruct details large and small and to uncover the stories of enslaved people and their enslavers... [A] testament to her careful scholarship and indeed a central part of the story of Indian slavery in New England.— Daniel K. Richter â• New England QuarterlyIn Brethren by Nature, Margaret ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD