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    Seed Saviors: Cultivating Climate-Resilient Heirloom Varieties

    by Leonardo Mann ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Seed Saviors is a comprehensive guide to the importance of preserving heirloom and resilient plant varieties in the face of climate change. The book explores the vital role that seed saving plays in maintaining biodiversity, promoting food security, and adapting to shifting environmental conditions. Readers will learn practical techniques for ... Read more

    $5.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

    by Phil Phil Misevich, Dr Philip Morgan, Rik van Welie, Robert Goddard, Seymour Drescher, Stanley L. Engerman, Kristin Mann, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, David Richardson0, Jelmer Vos1, Leonardo Marques2, Olatunji Ojo3 ...
    Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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    "Dive into Freedom: The Compelling Narrative of Frederick Douglass" Embark on a riveting journey through the life of one of history's most inspiring figures. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" unveils a tale of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of freedom that will leave you captivated from the first page. Experience the joy of triumph over adversity, the surprise of unexpected ... Read more

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  • Black History: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.This e-book is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of African Americans.Know your stuff: read about Black History in just one hour. ... Read more

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner

    Enriched edition. Rebellion, Struggle, and Hope: A Tale of Brutality and Resistance in American Literature

    by Nat Turner, Penelope Hightower ...
    In "The Confessions of Nat Turner," the eponymous protagonist recounts the harrowing journey that culminated in the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. Written in a deeply confessional style, the text oscillates between a stark realism and poignant introspection, capturing the psychological turmoil of enslaved individuals and their struggle for dignity and autonomy. The narrative stands as both a ... Read more

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  • Transformations in Slavery

    A History of Slavery in Africa

    by Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    Series Book 117 - African Studies
    This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Conceiving Freedom

    Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

    by Camillia Cowling ...
    In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589

    by Toby Green ...
    Series Book 118 - African Studies
    The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a ... Read more

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  • Chica da Silva

    A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

    by Júnia Ferreira Furtado ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. ... Read more

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  • From Africa to Brazil

    Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830

    by Walter Hawthorne ...
    Series Book 113 - African Studies
    From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book ... Read more

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  • Children in Slavery through the Ages

    Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller ...
    Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among ... Read more

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