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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'A remarkable book' - Jennifer Szalai, The New...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'An...
The Long Song: Now A Major BBC Drama
Now a major BBC TV drama, starring Tamara Lawrance, Lenny Henry and Hayley Atwell.A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'An...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest...
Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War and Emancipation
While slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In Challenges on the Emmaus...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Author: Angela SainiFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 220g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023...
The Slave Trade
Author: James WalvinFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 490g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011The 16th-century Spanish and Portuguese explorers who went to Africa in search of gold...
A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World, 1830-1910
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
In the Upper Country: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024
Author: Kai Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10...
Breaking the Maafa Chain
Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
Flags on the Bayou
Author: James Lee Burke (Author)Format: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 227g, 320 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a...
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
Author: Kristen Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the...
American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
Author: Roberto Saba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the...
Blackbeard's Treasure
Author: Iszi Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Book Band: Dark Red (ideal for ages 10+) A riveting pirate tale set in the eighteenth century during the golden age...
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
Author: Ben Okri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships - a world of art and artists, lovers,...
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Author: Sarah Churchwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture...
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
Author: David R Roediger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 An enduring history of how race and class came together to mark the course of the antebellum US and our...
Flags on the Bayou
Author: James Lee Burke (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil...
Flags on the Bayou
Author: James Lee Burke (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil...
Mary Prince (reloaded look)
Author: E. L. Norry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 My Story: Mary Prince - the thrilling story of the former slave and abolitionist. Born in enslavement in Bermuda, Mary...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
Author: Clyde W. Ford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to...