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  • A Hudson Valley Reckoning

    Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family

    A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned.Bruno, who grew up in New York's Hudson Valley knowing little about her Dutch heritage, was shaken when a historian ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

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    An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

    par Ilyon Woo ...
    Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography“A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Slave No More

    Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

    par David W. Blight ...
    The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation.Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American history—the firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Stolen Childhood

    Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

    par Wilma King ...
    Collections series Blacks in the Diaspora
    An updated edition of the classic study that took "an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery" ( The Washington Post Book World).One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship ... En savoir plus

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  • Travels with George

    In Search of Washington and His Legacy

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick—a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement.” —The Boston GlobeDoes George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington’s unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, which were now an ... En savoir plus

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  • Forbidden Fruit

    Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

    par Betty DeRamus ...
    Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together**—**and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

    par Alfred F. Young ...
    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... En savoir plus

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  • Help Me to Find My People

    The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

    Collections series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, ... En savoir plus

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  • One More River to Cross

    par Bryan Prince ...
    In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was able to make a daring escape to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania. His biggest error was ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

    The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative

    WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYAMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYA groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a forward by Henry Louis Gates Jr.In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantat... ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • What Is the Declaration of Independence?

    Illustré par Jerry Hoare ...
    Collections series What Was?
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Step back in time to the creation of America’s founding document with this fascinating history for young readers, part of the beloved What Was? series. The perfect way to celebrate the U.S.A.’s 250th anniversary!On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously well into the night. He was drafting the Declaration of ... En savoir plus

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  • Runaway Slaves

    Rebels on the Plantation

    From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations ... En savoir plus

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