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“peter hinks”

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  • Abolition and Antislavery

    A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

    Edited by Peter Hinks, John McKivigan ...
    The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life the key events, leading figures, and socioeconomic forces in the history of American antislavery, abolition, and emancipation.The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • The Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is a seminal work in the field of African American literature and a cornerstone in the study of race relations in the United States. Originally published in 1903, this book is a collection of essays that explores the complexities of being black in America, from the perspective of an African American intellectual and activist. At its core, The Souls of ... Read more

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  • American Slavery: History in an Hour

    by Kat Smutz ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.An important ... Read more

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  • Escape from Slavery

    The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity—and My Journey to Freedom in America

    by Francis Bok, Edward Tivnan ...
    A Sudanese man recounts his harrowing journey from child enslavement to escape and freedom in this "touching [and] inspirational" memoir ( The Boston Globe).May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan when Arab raiders on horseback burst into the quiet marketplace, murdering men and gathering the women and young children into a ... Read more

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  • Forever Free

    The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

    by Eric Foner ...
    From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War–a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today’s America.In Forever Free, Eric Foneroverturns numerous assumptions growing out of the traditional understanding of the period, ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of DNA

    Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

    by Alondra Nelson ...
    The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in AmericaWe know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as well as the second-most visited online category. This billion-dollar industry has spawned popular television ... Read more

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  • This Vast Southern Empire

    Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

    by Matthew Karp ...
    Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the ... 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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  • Daughters of the Trade

    Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast

    by Pernille Ipsen ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    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 who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold ... Read more

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  • American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (LOA #233)

    by Various ...
    For the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, here is a collection of writings that charts our nation’s long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil. It’s an inspiring moral and political struggle whose evolution parallels the story of America itself. To advance their cause, the opponents of slavery employed every available literary form: fiction and poetry, essay and ... Read more

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