Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
by Melvin Patrick Ely




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Thomas Jefferson condemned slavery but denied that whites and liberated blacks could live together in harmony. Jefferson’s young cousin Richard Randolph and ninety African Americans set out to prove the sage of Monticello wrong. When Randolph died... (read more)

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Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
by Jasmine Guy


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Before becoming one of the most well-known members of the Black Power movement, Alice Faye Williams was not unlike any other poor, African American girl growing up in the impoverished South. But when her family moved to New York during the radical... (read more)

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Not a Genuine Black Man: Or How I Learned to Be Black in the Lily-White Suburbs
by Brian Copeland


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Based on the longest-running one-man show in San Francisco history — now coming to Off-Broadway — a hilarious, poignant, and disarming memoir of growing up black in an all-white suburb. In 1972, when Brian Copeland was eight, his family... (read more)

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The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by Adeleke Adeeko


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How the slave rebellion haunts the black imagination.... (read more)

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Looking for Mr. Gilbert: The Reimagined Life of an African American
by John Mitchell


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Thirty years ago in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over two thousand antique glass plate negatives. He was told that the photographs had been taken by nineteenth-century ornithologist and conservationist... (read more)

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New Studies in the History of American Slavery
by Edward E Baptist


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A May 2002 conference at the University of Washington generated so much interest, that a second was held in May 2003 at Rutgers to continue the discussion. A selection of 10 essays by US historians from the two gatherings look at gender and slavery... (read more)

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Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
by James T. Campbell and David Levering Lewis


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Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage," but there is also a rich and little... (read more)

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Righteous Riches: The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion
by Milmon F Harrison


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Many people believe that God offers not only eternal joy in the hereafter but also material blessings in the here and now. In "Righteous Riches, " Milmon F. Harrison examines an independent, non-denominational Christian movement that preaches the so... (read more)

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Come Hell Or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
by Michael Eric Dyson


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Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim, Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. He warns that society must acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering... (read more)

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The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)
by Walter C Rucker


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The River Flows On is an impressively broad study of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of... (read more)

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No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark
by Ronald Porambo


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"Probably the most moving and instructive book yet written on any of the bloody civil disturbances of the sixties."-The New Yorker The definitive account of the buildup, chaos, and aftermath of one of the worst urban riots in US history: the 1967 Newark... (read more)

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Harriet Jacobs: A Life
by Jean Fagan Yellin


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Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spent hiding in her grandmother's attic from her sexually... (read more)

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Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915
by Louis R Harlan


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The first volume of Louis R. Harlan's biography of Booker T. Washington was published to wide acclaim and won the 1973 Bancroft Prize. This, the second volume, completes one of the most significant biographies of this generation. Booker T. Washington... (read more)

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Civil Rights: An A-To-Z Reference of the Movement That Changed America (Africana)
by Kwame Anthon Appiah


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American history saw a dramatic change with the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now this landmark era is brought to life in a compelling new reference work that provides a complete background of the civil... (read more)

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Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr (Nabat)
by James Carr


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"When I was nine years old I burned down my school." James Carr started fighting when he was very young, and never gave up. A child prodigy of crime in the streets of the L.A. ghettos and scourge of half a dozen boys' homes, his career in armed robbery... (read more)

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Raising Black Boys
by Jawanza Kunjufu


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Geared towards African American parents, this handbook offers more than 100 tips on successfully guiding boys into manhood and helping them avoid common pitfalls. By understanding the detrimental impact that peer pressure, rap music, and television have... (read more)

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Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations
by Roy L Brooks


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Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgiveness shifts the focus of the issue from the backward... (read more)

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The Price of Racial Reconciliation (Politics of Race and Ethnicity)
by Ronald Walters


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“In The Price of Racial Reconciliation, Ronald Walters offers an abundance of riches. This book provides an extraordinarily comprehensive and persuasive set of arguments for reparations, and will be the lens through which meaningful opportunities... (read more)

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