Slavery
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Bury the Chains
by Adam Hochschild
From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This...
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Rough Crossings
by Simon Schama
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book and television series by Simon Schama. This gives an account of the history of thousands of enslaved African Americans who escaped to the British cause during the American War of Independence. It tells of the legal battles in England that established that slavery was not legally valid in England itself, how the British government offered freedom to enslaved African Americans if they would fight for the king.
The Problem Of Slavery In the Age Of Revolution 1770-1823
by David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis\'s books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis\'s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and the second volume of a proposed trilogy, is a truly monumental work of historical scholarship that first appeared in 1975 to critical acclaim both academic and literary. This reprint of that important...
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The Fires Of Jubilee
by Stephen B Oates
The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.
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Prison Life and Reflections
by Thompson, George
Full title: "Prison Life and Reflections; Or, A Narrative Of The Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, And Deliverance Of Alanson Work, James E. Burr And George Thompson, Who Suffered An Unjust And Cruel Imprisonment In Missouri Penitentiary, For Attempting To Aid Some Slaves To Liberty."
