‘Malleable at the European Will’: British Discourse on Slavery (1784–1824) and the Image of Africans

by Helmut Meier

<p>Helmut Meier‘s study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784–1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on the slave trade and slavery as such. Starting from the premise that, at the threshold from the

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A Curse upon the Nation

Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World

by Kay Wright Lewis

<p>From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a ...

ISBN: 9780820351261

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A Fluid Frontier

Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland

by Karolyn Smardz Frost

As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a ...

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A Union Indivisible

Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South

by Michael D. Robinson

<p>Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of

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Abolition and Antislavery: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

by Peter Hinks & John McKivigan

<p>The struggle to abolish human slavery is one of the most important reform campaigns in history. The eventual success of this decades-long struggle serves as an inspiring example that even the most deeply rooted social wrongs can be corrected.

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Abolitionizing Missouri

German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America

by Kristen Layne Anderson

<p>Historians have long known that German immigrants provided much of the support for emancipation in southern Border States. Kristen Layne Anderson's Abolitionizing Missouri, however, is the first analysis of the reasons behind that opposition ...

ISBN: 9780807161975

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Addresses of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

<p>Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand. Collected here are ten of Frederick Douglass' addresses. And while it is impossible to hear ...

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African American Heritage Anthology #1

Ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right

by Frederick Douglass

<p>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 ...

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African American Heritage Anthology #2

Featuring Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Nella Larsen, Mary Prince, and W. E. B. Du Bois

by Booker T. Washington

<p>This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series. 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 ...

ISBN: 9781515416975

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Africans in the Old South

by Randy J. Sparks

<p>The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, yet most of its stories are lost. Randy Sparks examines the few remaining reconstructed experiences of West Africans who lived in the South between 1740 and 1860. Their ...

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Aiming for Pensacola

by Matthew J. Clavin

<p>Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad. Matthew Clavin recovers the story of fugitive slaves who sought freedom by paradoxically sojourning deeper into the ...

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American Notes

by Charles Dickens

In 1842 Charles Dickens travelled to America. He wrote this travelogue of his experiences there, which is presented as much as a critique of the country as a tourist’s account. In particular, Dickens criticises the continued presence of the ...

ISBN: 9781781663592

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American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832-1863

by Peter O'Connor

<p>In <em>American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832–1863</em>, Peter O’Connor uses an innovative interdisciplinary approach to provide a corrective to simplified interpretations of British attitudes towards the United States during the ...

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American Slave Coast

A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

by Ned Sublette & Constance Sublette

<p>A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the ...

ISBN: 9781613748237

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American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies: A Reference Guide

A Reference Guide

by Kerry Walters

<p>Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861.</p> <ul> <li></li> <li></li> <li>Offers an overview of American ...

ISBN: 9781610696609

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Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic

by Keri J. Sansevere, Michael J. Gall, Ross Thomas Rava & others

<p><em><strong>A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title</strong></em></p> <p><strong>New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the ...

ISBN: 9780817391508

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Army Life in a Black Regiment

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

<p>Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. ...

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Beyond Freedom

Disrupting the History of Emancipation

by Brenda Stevenson, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton & others

<p>This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during ...

ISBN: 9780820351476

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Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation

by Flavio Gomes, Giovana Xavier & Juliana Barreto Farias

<p>This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south ...

ISBN: 9781937306557

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Blind No More

African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War

by Jonathan Daniel Wells & Sarah Gardner

<p>With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre–Civil War political culture, <em>Blind No More</em> sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states ...

ISBN: 9780820354842

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