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Addy's Surpriseby Connie Porter, Melodye Rosales, Dahl TaylorISBN 1562470795 (1-56247-079-5)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Addy's Surprise'Book summary:Knowing that Christmas will be hard without the rest of her family, Addy sets out to earn money to give her mother a special Christmas gift, but after discovering the plight of newly freed slaves, she decides to give her money to the Freedman's Fund. [via]
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Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminismby Bell HooksISBN 089608129X (0-89608-129-X)
Softcover, South End Pr
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"Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."-The Village Voice
"This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."-Sojourner
"[Ain't I a Woman]should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change."-Library Journal
"One of the twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years."-Publishers Weekly
"I met a young sister who was a feminist, and she gave me a book called Ain't I a Woman by a talented, beautiful sister named bell hooks-and it changed my life. It changed my whole perspective of myself as a woman."-Jada Pinkett-Smith
At nineteen, bell hooks began writing the book that forever changed the course of feminist thought. Ain't I a Woman remains a classic analysis of the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism.
bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. The Atlantic Monthly celebrates her as one of our nation's leading public intellectuals. [via]More editions of Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism:
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All Souls' Risingby Madison Smartt BellISBN 1400076536 (1-4000-7653-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Souls' Rising'Book summary:In his breathtaking and powerful novel that garnered nominations for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Madison Smartt Bell leaves the dark contemporary world he has so brilliantly made his own in nine previously acclaimed novels and short story collections, such as Save Me, Joe Louis. Now he turns to the past and brings viscerally to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. The result is an explosive, epic historical novel of astonishing depth and range, catapulting Bell into the ranks of the finest living authors. [via]
Altaby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0756402573 (0-7564-0257-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alta'Book summary:[via]In the second novel in national best-selling legend Mercedes Lackey's richly-conceived new Joust series, the dragonrider Vetch escapes to Alta, the subjugated land of his birth. There, he hopes to teach his people to raise and train dragons-and build an army that will liberate his homeland.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittmanby Ernest J. GainesISBN 0881035629 (0-88103-562-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The moving, fictional account of one African-American woman's lifelong struggle against racism. [via]
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Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slavesby Belinda HurmenceISBN 089587069X (0-89587-069-X)
Softcover, John F Blair Pub
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroadby Ann HagedornISBN 0684870665 (0-684-87066-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black ReconstructionISBN 0714616575 (0-7146-1657-5)
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Black Reconstruction in Americaby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0689708203 (0-689-70820-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in Americaby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0684826348 (0-684-82634-8)
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Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880by W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering LewisISBN 0684856573 (0-684-85657-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Rememberby James MellonISBN 1555842100 (1-55584-210-0)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember, an Oral Historyby James MellonISBN 0802138683 (0-8021-3868-3)
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Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazilby Robert Edgar ConradISBN 0691101531 (0-691-10153-1)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804by Laurent DuboisISBN 0807855367 (0-8078-5536-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804'Book summary:The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights.
But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti.
The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights. [via]
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Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830by Sylvia R. Frey, Betty WoodISBN 0807846813 (0-8078-4681-3)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830'Book summary:The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred. Using an extraordinary array of archival sources, Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood chart the course of religious conversion from the transference of traditional African religions to the New World through the growth of Protestant Christianity in the American South and British Caribbean up to 1830.
Come Shouting to Zion depicts religious transformation as a complex reciprocal movement involving black and white Christians. It highlights the role of African American preachers in the conversion process and demonstrates the extent to which African American women were responsible for developing distinctive ritual patterns of worship and divergent moral values within the black spiritual community. Finally, the book sheds light on the ways in which, by serving as a channel for the assimilation of Western culture into the slave quarters, Protestant Christianity helped transform Africans into African Americans. [via]
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A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian Southby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0820320463 (0-8203-2046-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Corregidoraby Gayl JonesISBN 0807063150 (0-8070-6315-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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The Dark Ages: Life in the United States, 1945-1960by Marty JezerISBN 0896081281 (0-89608-128-1)
Hardcover, Pluto Press
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Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits And the Struggle for the Constitutionby Lawrence GoldstoneISBN 0802714609 (0-8027-1460-9)
Hardcover, Walker & Co
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Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802by Douglas R. EgertonISBN 0807844225 (0-8078-4422-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802'Book summary:Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; and the second, called the 'Easter Plot,' instigated in 1802 by one of his followers. Although Gabriel has frequently been portrayed as a messianic, Samson-like figure, Egerton shows that he was a literate and highly skilled blacksmith whose primary goal was to destroy the economic hegemony of the 'merchants,' the only whites he ever identified as his enemies. According to Egerton, the social, political, and economic disorder of the Revolutionary era weakened some of the harsh controls that held slavery in place during colonial times. Emboldened by these conditions, a small number of literate slavesmost of them highly skilled artisansplanned an armed insurrection aimed at destroying slavery in Virginia. The intricate scheme failed, as did the Easter Plot that stemmed from it, and Gabriel and many of his followers were hanged. By placing the revolts within the broader context of the volatile political currents of the day, Egerton challenges the conventional understanding of race, class, and politics in the early days of the American republic. [via]
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Grant: A Biographyby William S. McFeelyISBN 0945707150 (0-945707-15-0)
Hardcover, Amer Political Biography Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grant: A Biography'Book summary:"Combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages....Biography at its best." Marcus Cunliffe, The New York Times Book Review; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic Illustrations [via]More editions of Grant: A Biography:
Greek and Roman Slaveryby Thomas WiedemannISBN 0709903898 (0-7099-0389-8)
Softcover, Croom Helm
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0770428207 (0-7704-2820-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Christopher SergelISBN 0871290863 (0-87129-086-3)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0808510258 (0-8085-1025-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A guide to reading ""To Kill A Mockingbird"" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Joyce Milton, Harper LeeISBN 0812034465 (0-8120-3446-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Trainby Sharon Gayle, Felicia MarshallISBN 0689854803 (0-689-85480-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 1551113074 (1-55111-307-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. The book you hold in your hands -- Conrad's immortal HEART OF DARKNESS -- was the basis for the renowned film, APOCALYPSE NOW. [via]
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Heart Of Darkness And Selected Short Fictionby Joseph Conrad, George Stade, A. Michael Matin, Michael MatinISBN 1593080212 (1-59308-021-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart Of Darkness And Selected Short Fiction'Book summary:Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.One of the most haunting stories ever written, Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness follows Marlow, a riverboat captain, on a voyage into the African Congo at the height of European colonialism. Astounded by the brutal depravity he witnesses, Marlow becomes obsessed with meeting Kurtz, a famously idealistic and able man stationed farther along the river. What he finally discovers, however, is a horror beyond imagining. Heart of Darkness is widely regarded as a masterpiece for its vivid study of human nature and the greed and ruthlessness of imperialism.[via]
This collection also includes three of Conrads finest short stories: Youth, the authors largely autobiographical tale of a young mans ill-fated sea voyage, in which Marlow makes his first appearance, The Secret Sharer, and Amy Forster.Features a map of the Congo Free State.A. Michael Matin is a professor in the English Department of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He has published articles on various twentieth-century British and postcolonial writers.More editions of Heart Of Darkness And Selected Short Fiction:
History of Slaveryby Susanne EveretISBN 1555217680 (1-55521-768-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Books, Limited
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John Brownby W. E. B. Du Bois, John David SmithISBN 1563249715 (1-56324-971-5)
Hardcover, M E Sharpe Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Brown: A Biography'Book summary:A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.
In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand." DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is a neglected classic. [via]
John Brown: The Legend Revisitedby Merrill D. PetersonISBN 0813923085 (0-8139-2308-5)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Many Thousand Goneby Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, Diane DillonISBN 0679879366 (0-679-87936-6)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Harold BloomISBN 0791075699 (0-7910-7569-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Guides collection, presents concise critical excerpts from The Handmaid's Tale to provide a scholarly overview of the work. This comprehensive study guide also features "The Story Behind the Story," which details the conditions under which The Handmaid's Tale was written. This title also includes a short biography on Margaret Atwood and a descriptive list of characters. [via]
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 079105926X (0-7910-5926-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Atwood's best-known novel depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a futuristic society in which women have become property.
The title, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Margaret Atwood, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Twain'Book summary:Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air," said Twain--and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi" give way to the realism and often dark comedy of "Huckleberry Finn" and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece. [via]
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Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americasby Richard PriceISBN 0801854962 (0-8018-5496-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slaveryby Belinda HurmenceISBN 0895870398 (0-89587-039-8)
Softcover, John F Blair Pub
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Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacyby Eric FonerISBN 0807111899 (0-8071-1189-9)
Softcover, Louisiana State University Press
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Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlandsby J. William HarrisISBN 0807122653 (0-8071-2265-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 1582871523 (1-58287-152-3)
Hardcover, North Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her masters baby, and the clever Puddnhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twains darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as half melodramatic detective story, half bleak tragedy, noting that morally, it is one of the most honest books in our literature. Those Extraordinary Twins, the slapstick story that evolved into Puddnhead Wilson, provides a fascinating view of the authors process.
The text for this Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the 1894 first American edition. [via]More editions of Pudd'Nhead Wilson:
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The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary Warby Thomas J. DilorenzoISBN 0761526463 (0-7615-2646-3)
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedomby Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Marc FavreauISBN 1565845870 (1-56584-587-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom'Book summary:Millions of Americans have read works of literature, from The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass to Beloved that attempt to portray life under slavery. But only a few people alive today have heard the actual voices of men and women who experienced those dark days firsthand. Now, for the first time, historic recordings of former slaves recounting their own experiences of slavery are made available to the American public in Remembering Slavery. Early in the 1930s, interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project combed the South in search of former slaves. The interviewers spoke with hundreds of elderly people about their experiences in slavery and preserved the voices of some on primitive recording devices. The recordings were placed in the Library of Congress and have never been heard by the wider public. Now, remastered using state-of-the-art equipment, the recordings offer the only known opportunity to hear the voices of former slaves. This groundbreaking book-and-tape package of interviews and transcripts includes more than a dozen of the only known original recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement. They remember relationships between master and slave; survival techniques in the face of hardship; family life, marriage, and childhood under slavery; experiences behind Confederate and Union lines during the Civil War; and, finally, the coming of freedom. Dramatic readings by prominent African Americans of untaped interviews complement the incomparable recordings, to create a full, firsthand picture of African American life before Emancipation. The reading and the primary source recordings edited by Smithsonian Productions will be broadcast nationally on public radio in the fall of 1998. [via]
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Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuriesby Orlando PattersonISBN 158243039X (1-58243-039-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries'Book summary:In the first essay, Patterson analyzes the very latest survey data to delineate the different attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women, dissecting both the external and internal causes for the great disparities he finds.In the second essay, Patterson focuses on the lynching of Afro-American boys and men during the decades after Reconstruction, particularly on the substantial number of cases that constituted apparent ritual human sacrifice. As no one has done before, Patterson reveals how the complex interplay between Christian sacrificial symbolism and the deep recesses of post-bellum Southern culture resulted in some of the most shameful, barbaric events in American history.The third essay brings us into the late twentieth century, with an investigation of the various images of Afro-American men portrayed by the media. From the demigod (Michael Jordan) to the demon (Colin Ferguson) to the demigod-turned-demon (O. J. Simpson) and the crossers of racial and gender boundaries (Michael Jackson and Dennis Rodman)all contribute to the cultural complications of our contemporary society.Rituals of Blood advances Pattersons new model of ethnic relations that opens American society to a new and freer dialogue.[via]More editions of Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries:
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolutionby Alfred Blumrosen, Ruth G. Blumrosen, Eleanor Holmes NortonISBN 1402206976 (1-4022-0697-6)
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Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838by Barbara BushISBN 085255057X (0-85255-057-X)
Softcover, Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean)
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Slavery in Ancient Greeceby Yvon Garlan, Janet LloydISBN 0801495040 (0-8014-9504-0)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0771052340 (0-7710-5234-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:Harold Bloom's introduction questions whether Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that will endure or has had popularity merely as a time. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Novel Units Inc. StaffISBN 1561373079 (1-56137-307-9)
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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planterby Theodore Rosengarten, Thomas Benjamin Chaplin, Susan W. WalkerISBN 0688054129 (0-688-05412-9)
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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter With the Journal of Thomas B. Chaplinby Theodore RosengartenISBN 0688116094 (0-688-11609-4)
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Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilsonby Mark TwainISBN 1420925342 (1-4209-2534-2)
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When Slavery was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the Causes of the Civil Warby John Patrick DalyISBN 0813190932 (0-8131-9093-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretationby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0819562041 (0-8195-6204-1)
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The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginiaby Mechal SobelISBN 0691006083 (0-691-00608-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia'Book summary:In the recent past, enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery, with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and with an almost totally new assessment of slave culture as Afro-American. Accompanying this new awareness of the African values brought into America, however, is an automatic assumption that white traditions influenced black ones. In this view, although the institution of slaver is seen as important, blacks are not generally treated as actors nor is their "divergent culture" seen as having had a wide-ranging effect on whites. Historians working in this area generally assume two social systems in America, one black and one white, and cultural divergence between slaves and masters.
It is the thesis of this book that blacks, Africans, and Afro-Americans, deeply influenced white's perceptions, values, and identity, and that although two world views existed, there was a deep symbiotic relatedness that must be explored if we are to understand either or both of them. This exploration raises many questions and suggests many possibilities and probabilities, but it also establishes how thoroughly whites and blacks intermixed within the system of slavery and how extensive was the resulting cultural interaction.
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