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Best Seller | {Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 438 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back [1853]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more | $37.34 $23.09 FREE shipping go to store |
The national bestseller about the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history - a band of Kentucky farmers descended from Prohibition-era moonshiners. Tracked down by the Law their leader was finally captured in 2017 and brought to... more | go to store |
Using the experiences of her own family of freed slaves the author looks at relations between plantation owners and their slaves after emancipation how African Americans made a new life as employees and landowners as Piedmont Virginia entered the... more | go to store |
As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War former slaves struggled to secure their liberty reconstitute their families and create the institutions befitting a free people. This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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A cross-section of life on the colonial frontier this collection focuses on the interdependence of the main groups (including traders farmers merchants Indians women and slaves) in the pre-Revolutionary War decades. CONDITION – USED: Books sold... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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An important collection of 10 essays on the almost totally neglected subject of the freedman in North and South American slave societies... All of these essays furnish important insights into our understanding of racism and slave societies in the... more | $8.93 $7.19 FREE shipping go to store |
American civil war. Memories of incidents connected with the Rebellion including the proposition made in November 1861 when Gen. J. Cochrane advocated the arming of the slaves is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879.... more | $18.50 $17.50 go to store |
Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution: Eight Cases 1848-1856 (Paperback) This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a more perfect union --still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive... more | go to store |
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African American Dance: An Illustrated History (Paperback) Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions but not without culture. The fascinating elements of African life manifested themselves richly in the New World and among the most lasting and influential of these was the art... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Throughout the 18th century of enormous changes in America and challenges no single description captured the majority of the new country s inhabitants no one lifestyle embraced the typical American. Rich or poor native or immigrant slave or free... more | $11.53 $10.02 FREE shipping go to store |
Paying Freedom s Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD... more | $8.18 $6.15 FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Atlas of African-American History Hardcover James Ciment With authoritative text and a wealth of colour maps and illustrations this volume details the cultural historical political and social histories and experiences of African Americans. The book covers such areas as the slave trade the American Civil... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Early American Studies: The World Colonization Made (Hardcover) According to accepted historical wisdom the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS) founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in... more | $46.63 $42.99 FREE shipping go to store |
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Pre-Owned The Rebellious Slave : The Image of Nat Turner in American Memory 9780618104482 In the most famous & bloody slave rebellion in American history Nat Turner a black preacher & self-styled prophet from Southampton County Virginia led a ragtag army of men on a twenty-four-hour rampage that left fifty-seven white people dead & a... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Campus History: Winston-Salem State University (Paperback) One of the hardest-fought victories during the Civil War the emancipation of slaves proved only to be an initial step for American blacks to enjoy this country s prized freedom. Enduring Reconstruction-era governments Jim Crow laws and unimaginable... more | FREE shipping go to store |
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Pre-Owned Runaway Slaves : Rebels on the Plantation 9780195084498 This is a precedent-breaking book on slave resistance and runaway slaves in the American South before the Civil War. The book s thesis is that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has usually been attributed and specifically... more | FREE shipping go to store |
American Negro Slave Revolts (Paperback) Years ago the controlling view held that the response of the slaves in the United States to their bondage was one of passivity and docility . That opinion so decisive a part of the chauvinism afflicting the nation is shown to be false in this book... more | go to store |
Pre-Owned The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island (Paperback) 1250050200 Mac Griswold s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small through fortunes won and lost through histories bright and sinister--and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a... more | $10.55 $7.75 FREE shipping go to store |
Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power even as it insulated slave owners from contemplating the moral implications of owning human beings.... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Slavery in the United States 9780816081158 Examines numerous controversies related to the history of slavery including slavery and the American Revolution the Constitution and Bible as pro- or antislavery documents the transatlantic slave trade colonization of free blacks abolition slave... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The distinction among slaves is as marked as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem to be beneath them in point of character color condition or the superior importance of their... more | $30.39 $27.38 FREE shipping go to store |
A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Policing Cinema : Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America (Edition 1) (Paperback) White slave films dramas documenting sex scandals filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson D.W. Griffith s The Birth of a Nation--all became objects of public concern after 1906 when the proliferation of... more | go to store |
In one of his most important books the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States the Caribbean and Brazil placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favored these... more | go to store |
The slave power: its character career and probable designs - Being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American Contest is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on... more | go to store |
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Pre-Owned Slaves to Soldiers : African-American Fighting Men in the Civil War 9780531202524 CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | FREE shipping go to store |
American History Timeline: Begin Working The Dry Diggings: American History Film (Paperback) What little the Bonners possess is on two carts. Winter is coming and they need shelter and supplies. Old friends who have established a bakery tell them of a derelict ship where they can perhaps salvage materials. With Jubal a runaway slave and a... more | go to store |
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