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Black and British: A Forgotten History
A Waterstones History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark...
Capitalism and Slavery
The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
The Gulag Archipelago
'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons,...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and wasted by the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile....
The Water Dancer: The New York Times Bestseller
The highly anticipated debut novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of We Were Eight Years in Power - a story of bondage, freedom, and love Every slave plantation is a...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in...
Beloved
A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' - Washington Post '[An] epic history ......
Praise Song For The Butterflies
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a powerful, well-researched, fictional account exploring the trokosi tradition for the curious and the open-minded.Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in...
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth
In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery and its many afterlives. By turning critical attention...
Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story
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The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. `Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given...
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the...
The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade
Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare,...
Africa Squadron: the U.S. Navy and the slave trade, 1842-1861
Presents the history of the US Navy's Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty years' time the squadron proved...
Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum
Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this...
River Sing Me Home: A powerful, uplifting novel of a remarkable
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A mother can never be free until she finds her children... The Good Morning America Book Club Pick February 2023 is a soaring novel inspired by true events.'A strong and...
Flags on the Bayou
In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on.Wade Lufkin is a man without a country or...
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History
A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day. In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery...
Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History
Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History tells the fascinating story of...
God's Ghostwriters
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
God's Ghostwriters
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has...
River Sing Me Home: A powerful, uplifting novel of a remarkable
Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and sacrifice, this novel...
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...
Flags on the Bayou
A novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana, as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in...
River Sing Me Home: A powerful, uplifting novel of a remarkable
Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and sacrifice, this novel...
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...
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...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By...
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...
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...
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
Author: Anni Domingo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 472 Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to...
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,...
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...
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...
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...