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Celia, A Slave
Melton A. Mclaurin
Avon
Avon
Celia was an ordinary slave--until she struck back at her abusive master and became the defendant in a landmark trial that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South's "Peculiar Institution."
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Olaudah Equiano
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age...
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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Deborah Gray White
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't...
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American Slavery, American Freedom
Edmund S. Morgan
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom , a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of...
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
David Brion Davis
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in this definitive account of New...
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The Interesting Narrative in the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Norton Critical Editions)
Olaudah Equiano
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
Olaudiah Equiano's 1789 narrative tells the remarkable story of his childhood in Africa, his kidnapping and subsequent years as a slave and seaman, and his eventual road to freedom in the Caribbean and in England. The text reprinted here is that of...
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Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
Jacqueline L. Tobin, Raymond G. Dobard
Anchor
Anchor
When quiltmaker Ozella McDaniels told Jacqueline Tobin of the Underground Railroad Quilt Code, it sparked Tobin to place the tale within the history of the Underground Railroad. Hidden in Plain View documents Tobin and Raymond Dobard's journey of...
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Nell Irvin Painter
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
Though she was born into slavery and subjected to physical and sexual abuse by her owners, Sojourner Truth, who eventually fled the South for the promise of the North, came to represent the power of individual strength and perseverance. She...
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