Published by Franklin Watts, 2000
ISBN 10: 0531116948 ISBN 13: 9780531116944
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Published by Enslow Pub Inc, 2004
ISBN 10: 0766021513 ISBN 13: 9780766021518
Seller: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.
library. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
Published by University Press of Mississippi, 1999
ISBN 10: 0878051813 ISBN 13: 9780878051816
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.
Published by Grove Press, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 0739456326 ISBN 13: 9780739456323
Paperback. Condition: As New. As New No names or other markings. Tight. "A rare achievement." Bookmarks Magazine offeres this review "The narrative functions well on two levels: it's both a riveting story and an intriguing history lesson, made more so with fine portraits of colorful characters (real people) and the society in which they lived. The author offers his own conclusion to the mystery, which some critics found shocking and one thought too pat to ring true. Regardless, this "diligent researcher and gifted storyteller" (Washington Post) has crafted an eye-opening portrait of a mysterious woman, and "tells her engrossing story with polish and verve, weaving history and mystery neatly together" (Miami Herald)." ; 8.20 X 5.40 X 0.80 inches; 268 pp pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0007192193 ISBN 13: 9780007192199
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From the author of Britons, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, and new ideas. Linda Colley's new book breaks the boundaries between biography, family stories and global history. This is a book about a world in a life. An individual lost to history, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-85) travelled farther, and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe, than the vast majority of men. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, she was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to carry out extensive overland explorations in eastern and southern India, journeying in each case in close companionship with an unmarried man. She spent time in some of the world's biggest ports and naval bases, Portsmouth, Menorca, Gibraltar, London, Rio de Janeiro, Calcutta and the Cape. She was damaged by the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War; and linked through her own migrations with voyages of circumnavigation, and as victim and owner, she was involved in three different systems of slavery. But hers is a broadly revealing, not simply an exceptional, life. Marsh's links to the Royal Navy, the East India Company, empire and international trade made these experiences possible. To this extent, her career illumines shifting patterns of British and Western power and overseas aggression. The swift onset of globalization occurring in her lifetime also ensured that her progress, relationships and beliefs were repeatedly shaped and deflected by people and events beyond Europe. While imperial players like Edmund Burke and Eyre Coote form a part of her story, so do African slave sailors, skilled Indian weavers and astronomers, ubiquitous Sephardi Jewish traders, and the great Moroccan Sultan, Sidi Muhammad, who schemed to entrap her. Many modern biographies remain constrained by a national framework, while global histories are generally impersonal. By contrast, in this dazzling and original book, Linda Colley moves repeatedly and questioningly between vast geo-political transformations and the intricate detail of individual lives. This is a global biography for our globalizing times. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Scribner Paperback Fiction, New York, NY, 1996
ISBN 10: 0684830973 ISBN 13: 9780684830971
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: slight spine lean; a touch of wear to the extremities; former owner's name at the front endpaper; binding secure; text clean. No longer pristine, but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 232pp. Trade Paperback. In Water from the Well, six short stories coil together, nestled in the spiral of a century of Southern history. On one level these could be the stories of any small town: the bit characters are universal-gossip mongers who know (or think they know) just about everything about each other. But on another level, these characters are uniquely Arkansan and their struggles pinned in place and time to the three generations who inherited the chaos and eventual resettling of the post-slavery era. "Red Sky at Night," is the story of a baseball game between the white men of Sugars Springs and the black men of Bethel. This story, set in 1905 serves as an introduction both to the characters and the tensions of the novel. "Red Sky at Dawn" is set a year later, and introduces the element of chaos in the form of a tornado that hits the town without warning. "Ransom Passing" explores the personal history of one ex-slave and then moves forward in time to his grandson's life. "Baby, Leaving," and "The Choosing of Little Jewel" demonstrate gender tensions among families of both races. Finally, "The Salvation of Cora Emery McRae" highlights religion's role in the South. Although the language is unmistakably Arkansan, Myra McLarey's voice is more fluid than the traditional women writers of the South. Think Alice Hoffman rather than Eudora Welty or Flannery O'Connor. While the depth of the characters and the vividly-painted context make this book a worthwhile read, it is the lyrical prose which makes it unforgettable. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated.
1st American edition. 218pp, 8vo. Illustrated with drawings and b&w photos, references and index. Fine/VG. Hardcover in DJ. Book is crisp and tight, corners sharp, no markings. DJ has a trace of edge wear, white areas very lightly soiled. History o f the slave trade.
Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston., 1965
Seller: Eryops Books, Stephenville, TX, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover; light creasing of corners of covers and leaves; scattered underlining; o/w in good condition. Book.
Hardcover. Modern Carriculum Press. 1994. Cleveland, OH. Hardcover (issued without dust jacket). Quarto - large format. Like new. The only evidence of use is a 2-inch scratch to back cover. Profusely illustrated with color drawings, photographs, and maps. An excellent text for grade school children. Indexed, with 2-page glossary. 48 pages.
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 2000
Seller: Shadetree Rare Books, Chatham, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BRAND NEW BOOK--IN PRINT AT $28. Caryl Phillips explores the complex notion of what constitutes 'home'. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic slave trade, he undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with the dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.
Published by Ecco / HarperCollins, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 006053916X ISBN 13: 9780060539160
Seller: Books of the World, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First U.S. Edition. Ecco / HarperCollins, April 2006. First U.S. Edition / full number line. Fine book with pictorial cover in a Fine half jacket. Not from a library. As New but for a black remainder mark on the bottom edge. xiv + 478 pages. In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.
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Published by Chelsea House, 2006
ISBN 10: 0816061343 ISBN 13: 9780816061341
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Traces the history of the transatlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas. Former library book. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.
Published by History Today, Bracken House, London, 1976
Seller: Ray Dertz, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft Cover, Staple-bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 7¼"x9½"; (pages 697-766); Soft Pictorial Cover, staple-bound; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: Foreword: A Visit to Corfu; L Enfant and the Planning of Washington D. C. by Myrene Salmon; William of Malmesbury, Twelfth-century Historian by J. J. N. McGurk; Edmund Burkes Negro Code: Slavery and the Slave Trade by Robert W. Smith; The First Great Lady: Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle by Alan Haynes; Donatello in Perspective: the Chellini Madonna by Michael Greenhalgh; Haunted Acres: Visiting Battlefields by David Chandler; Bergen Op Zoom by Elka Schrijver; Book Reviews; Letters to the Editors; Notes on Further Reading.
Published by Free Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 0743290089 ISBN 13: 9780743290081
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated. To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch did for genocide, Skinner has now done for modern-day slavery. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, he has produced a vivid testament and moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time.There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. After spending four years visiting a dozen countries where slavery flourishes, Skinner tells the story, in gripping narrative style, of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime.Skinner infiltrates trafficking networks and slave sales on five continents, exposing a modern flesh trade never before portrayed in such proximity. From mega-harems in Dubai to illicit brothels in Bucharest, from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti, he explores the underside of a world we scarcely recognize as our own and lays bare a parallel universe where human beings are bought, sold, used, and discarded. He travels from the White House to war zones and immerses us in the political and flesh-and-blood battles on the front lines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement.At the heart of the story are the slaves themselves. Their stories are heartbreaking but, in the midst of tragedy, readers discover a quiet dignity that leads some slaves to resist and aspire to freedom. Despite being abandoned by the international community, despite suffering a crime so monstrous as to strip their awareness of their own humanity, somehow, some enslaved men regain their dignity, some enslaved women learn to trust men, and some enslaved children manage to be kids. Skinner bears witness for them, and for the millions who are held in the shadows.In so doing, he has written one of the most morally courageous books of our time, one that will long linger in the conscience of all who encounter it, and one that -- just perhaps -- may move the world to constructive action.
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Published by Cornell University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0801474388 ISBN 13: 9780801474385
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains ninety-five narratives by slaves and former slaves from around the globe.Told in the words of slaves themselves, the narratives movingly and eloquently chronicle the horrors of contemporary slavery, the process of becoming free, and the challenges faced by former slaves as they build a life in freedom. An editors' introduction lays out the historical, economic, and political background to modern slavery, the literary tradition of the slave narrative, and a variety of ways we can all help end slavery today. Halting the contemporary slave trade is one of the great human-rights issues of our time. But just as slavery is not over, neither is the will to achieve freedom, "plead" the cause of liberation, and advocate abolition. Putting the slave's voice back at the heart of the abolitionist movement, To Plead Our Own Cause gives occasion for both action and hope.
Published by Univ Pr of Mississippi, 1984
ISBN 10: 0878051805 ISBN 13: 9780878051809
Seller: Booketeria Inc., San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. Ex-library copy in clear plastic covering. world hist.
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Published by National Historical Society, Gettysburg, PA, 1983
Seller: Sessions Book Sales, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Soft Cover. Condition: Good. A six page article included in the Jan. 1983 issue of American History Illustrated. Slave trader Nathaniel Gordon, from Maine, was the only person convicted for violating the United States Slave Trade Act. Some pen underlining. Magazine Article.
Published by The Jenkins Company. 0
Seller: Eryops Books, Stephenville, TX, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcovers; light creasing of edges of wraps and leaves; o/w in good condition. Book.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. BX2 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. Stated first American edition with no additional printings indicated on the copyright page. A tight, clean, sound copy in black and white photo illustrated green and white cloth covered boards with minor overall shelf wear plus there is a patch of surface damage (about 0.5"x0.5") on the front board cover from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there is also some tape staining on the front and back free endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the front board surface, front fixed endpaper, front and back free endpapers, and table of contents page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. This is a title in the publisher's Young Historian Book series. This is a young adult nonfiction book on the history of African nationalism. With maps by Colin Judge. Illustrated with black and white photographs. List of important dates, suggestions for further reading, indexed, 128p. Size: 6.25"x8.75". Ex-Library.
Published by University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1985
ISBN 10: 0252013050 ISBN 13: 9780252013058
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. xxii, 345, (3) pp. Fourth printing. Previous owner name marked out on the upper and lower page edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
Published by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois, 1969
Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 8vo. 177 page's indexed. Soft cover bound in grey wrappers. Moderate wear to the binding, which is still sound. Front hinge is rubbed and scuffed on the right side of the spine near the headcap. Early owner's bookplate (George Breathett) on the inside of the front cover and signature on the half title. Text is sound and clean.
Published by Princeton University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0691116520 ISBN 13: 9780691116525
Seller: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn\'t racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particularly susceptible to virulent racism? What do apartheid South Africa, Nazi Germany, and the American South under Jim Crow have in common? How did the Holocaust advance civil rights in the United States?With a rare blend of learning, economy, and cutting insight, George Fredrickson surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to the present. Beginning with the medieval antisemitism that put Jews beyond the pale of humanity, he traces the spread of racist thinking in the wake of European expansionism and the beginnings of the African slave trade. And he examines how the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century romantic nationalism created a new intellectual context for debates over slavery and Jewish emancipation.Fredrickson then makes the first sustained comparison between the color-coded racism of nineteenth-century America and the antisemitic racism that appeared in Germany around the same time. He finds similarity enough to justify the common label but also major differences in the nature and functions of the stereotypes invoked. The book concludes with a provocative account of the rise and decline of the twentieth century\'s overtly racist regimes--the Jim Crow South, Nazi Germany, and apartheid South Africa--in the context of world historical developments.This illuminating work is the first to treat racism across such a sweep of history and geography. It is distinguished not only by its original comparison of modern racism\'s two most significant varieties--white supremacy and antisemitism--but also by its eminent readability.
Seller: Postcard Finder, Norwich, United Kingdom
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Fine. zx465 Antique 1900s colour postcard of this politically incorrect painting from history unused and great condition.
Published by Penguin Classics, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 014039012X ISBN 13: 9780140390124
Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Softcover, 159 pp. This edition edited and with an Introduction by Houston A. Baker, Jr. Mild wear, no spine creases, no owner names or gift notes, text is age-toned otherwise unmarked. Originally published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the famous abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838. The Introduction discusses the slave narrative as a distinct American literary genre.
Published by Knopf, 2016
ISBN 10: 1101947136 ISBN 13: 9781101947135
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book PrizeA New York Times 2016 Notable BookOne of Oprahs 10 Favorite Books of 2016NPR's Debut Novel of the YearOne of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016, Winner of 2017 PEN Hemingway award for debut fiction.Homegoing is an inspiration. -Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castles dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coasts booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effias descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
Published by Beacon Press, 2012
ISBN 10: 0807014419 ISBN 13: 9780807014417
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Two people-a black woman and a white man-confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-onWe embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing is unacceptable.Sharon Leslie Morgan, a black woman from Chicagos South Side avoids white people; they scare her. Despite her trepidation, Morgan, a descendent of slaves on both sides of her family, began a journey toward racial reconciliation with Thomas Norman DeWolf, a white man from rural Oregon who descends from the largest slave-trading dynasty in US history. Over a three-year period, the pair traveled thousands of miles, both overseas and through twenty-seven states, visiting ancestral towns, courthouses, cemeteries, plantations, antebellum mansions, and historic sites. They spent time with one anothers families and friends and engaged in deep conversations about how the lingering trauma of slavery shaped their lives.Gather at the Table is the chronicle of DeWolf and Morgans journey. Arduous and at times uncomfortable, it lays bare the unhealed wounds of slavery. As DeWolf and Morgan demonstrate, before we can overcome racism we must first acknowledge and understand the damage inherited from the past-which invariably involves confronting painful truths. The result is a revelatory testament to the possibilities that open up when people commit to truth, justice, and reconciliation. DeWolf and Morgan offer readers an inspiring vision and a powerful model for healing individuals and communities.
Published by Burd Street Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1572492740 ISBN 13: 9781572492745
Seller: Gene Sperry Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Schwartz, Carol C., Burd Street Press (PA), 2002, c2002, 1st Edition, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine (as new), 195 pp with appendices, 8vo, ISBN: 1572492740, 'Reuben was mustered into the United States Army on December 29, 1863. Reuben Bibb fought to save his country and to free all enslaved African Americans', U.S Civil War, Military History; Biography, Slavery.
Published by BlueBridge, 2007
ISBN 10: 1933346051 ISBN 13: 9781933346052
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The grim history of the slave trade from Africa is one that has had an impact on generations of people all over the world. While much of the initial voyage and inhumane treatment of slavery has been historically analyzed, there has been little written on the several forts and castles along the coast of Ghana that were used as slave holding facilities. This book focuses primarily on Cape Coast Castle, the African headquarters of the British slave trade from 1664 to 1807, through which countless men, women, and children were sold as slaves and carried away on slave ships, often to North America. It tells the story of the people who lived, worked, or were imprisoned within its walls, as well as the construction and upkeep of the building, the arrivals and departures of ships, the negotiations with local African leaders, and the deadly diseases inside.
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Published by Sutton Publishing., 2005
ISBN 10: 0750934905 ISBN 13: 9780750934909
Seller: Eryops Books, Stephenville, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. HARDCOVER; in fine condition with dustjacket. Book.
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Published by Nonsuch Publishing, Ltd., United Kingdom, 2005
ISBN 10: 1845880374 ISBN 13: 9781845880378
Seller: Eryops Books, Stephenville, TX, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Softcovers; in fine condition. Book.