(Hardback)
By: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780940450790
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: The Library of America
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Born in slavery, Douglass, educated himself, escaped, and became one of the greatest leaders in American history. Here in one volume are his three autobiographical narratives: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); and Life and Times (1881).
(Paperback)
By: Professor James Walvin
ISBN: 9781472141439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resistance. In time, their defiance was to prove the crucial final factor in bringing down slavery itself.' James Walvin, in Freedom
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By: Jaco Jaques Boshoff
ISBN: 9781588346063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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By: Thomas Norman DeWolf
ISBN: 9780807014448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Hardback, Main)
By: Renay Richardson
ISBN: 9781800816220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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This is the history you're not taught in school: discover how the slave trade made modern Britain
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By: Saidiya Hartman
ISBN: 9781788168144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 22nd July 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past.
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By: Stephen Chambers
ISBN: 9781781689998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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The decisive role of the illegal slave trade in the making of the United States
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By: Daina Ramey Berry
ISBN: 9780807067147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Professor James Walvin
ISBN: 9781472141453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resistance. In time, their defiance was to prove the crucial final factor in bringing down slavery itself.' James Walvin, in Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt
(Hardback)
By: Hannah Durkin
ISBN: 9780008446512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.
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By: Julius S. Scott
ISBN: 9781788732482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Verso Books
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A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era
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By: Arthur T. Downey
ISBN: 9781442236615
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in modern history. The Creole Affair is just as importantly a story of diplomacy: of two extraordinary non-professional diplomats who cleverly resolved the tensions arising from this historic slave uprising that, had it been allowed to escalate, had the potential for catastrophe.
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By: Edward E. Baptist
ISBN: 9780465049660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2016
Publisher: Basic Books
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"In this assiduously researched and tightly argued volume, Baptist gives us what is by far the finest account of the deep interplay of the slave trade (especially within the nation's borders) and the development of the U.S. economy."-Bloomberg View, Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2014
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By: Mary Prince
ISBN: 9780140437492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mary Prince was a freed slave from Bermuda who achieved notoriety when she published her autobiography at a time when abolition debates were raging. This book details the ill-treatment she received by her various owners and her escape to England where she sought refuge with Christian missionaries.
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By: Olaudah Equiano
ISBN: 9780008619954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
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By: Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9780719563034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2008
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780753820568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian
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By: Professor James Walvin
ISBN: 9780712667630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807.
John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition.
(Hardback)
By: Siddharth Kara
ISBN: 9781529964325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2025
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Booker T. Washington
ISBN: 9780140390513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An autobiography that presents nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
(Hardback)
By: Venture Smith
ISBN: 9798888974513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Paperback)
By: Venture Smith
ISBN: 9781513284767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Hardback)
By: Josephine Brown
ISBN: 9798888973455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Paperback)
By: Josephine Brown
ISBN: 9781513278667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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"Biography of an American bondman by his daughter was first published in 1855."--Title page verso.
