Overview :A documentary of the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies through the years of post-Civil War Reconstruct... Read More
Overview :In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Wor... Read More
Overview :The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundat... Read More
Overview :Ruth Heller's prose and pictures are the perfect means for discovering the variety of oviparous animals and their unique ways of laying eggs... Read More
Overview :"Human trafficking is not an issue of the left or right, blue states or red states, but a great moral tragedy we can unite to stop . . . Not... Read More
Overview :Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book ... Read More
Overview :Follow two abolitionists who fought one of the most shockingly persistent evils of the world: human trafficking and sexual exploitation of s... Read More
Overview :David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history ... Read More
Overview :Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells... Read More
Overview :In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human... Read More
Overview :In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and ch... Read More
Overview :Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social insti... Read More
Overview :One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching ac... Read More
Overview :Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives survivin... Read More
Overview :How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first legal institutions, and who served in them? A... Read More
Overview :Called one of the best books of the year by The Economist, the London Times, and Publishers Weekly, this is the gripping history of Cape Coa... Read More
Overview :This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Explorin... Read More