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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition - by Manisha Sinha

£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780300227116 | ISBN 10: 0300227116

A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as b ... more
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The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition - by Frederick Douglass; Edited by R.S. Levine, J. Stauffer, and J.R. McKivigan

£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300184624 | ISBN 10: 030018462x

First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washingto ... more
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African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement - by Vincent J. Intondi

£17.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780804792752 | ISBN 10: 0804792755

Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first c ... more
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Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. - by Clayborne Carson

£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781137278937 | ISBN 10: 1137278935

On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation�s capital for the March on Washington. That day Clayborne Carson, a 19-year-old black student from a working-class family in New Mexico who had hitched a ride to Washing ... more
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Call Mr. Robeson - by Tayo Aluko

£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780957679252 | ISBN 10: 0957679254

They say I'm meddling in the foreign affairs of the United States Government. Now, that's too bad, 'cause I'm going to have to continue to meddle... Paul Robeson is a world famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the yea ... more
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Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination - by Celeste-Marie Bernier

£35.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780813933245 | ISBN 10: 0813933242

Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six i ... more
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Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry - by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey (Editors)

£18.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780801474316 | ISBN 10: 0801474310

Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Se ... more
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - by Simon Schama

£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536079 | ISBN 10: 0099536072

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-te ... more
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Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia - by William J. Switala

£13.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780811731430 | ISBN 10: 081173143x

This book presents detailed maps that trace the routes runaway slaves followed. It explores the impact of geography, transportation, free blacks, and members of religious congregations on the Underground Railroad. Switala focuses on the escaped-slave ... more
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Black Boy - by Richard Wright

£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780099285069 | ISBN 10: 0099285061

First published in 1945, Black Boy remains one of the most moving and shaming records ever written of life under a system only one step from slavery. At four years of age, the young Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at ... more
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Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. - by Clayborne Carson

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Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination - by Celeste-Marie Bernier

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