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Negro Church in America : the Black Church Since Frazier (74 Edition) by Edward F. Frazier Publisher Comments Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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David Walker's Appeal To the Coloured Citizens of the World (00 Edition) by Peter P. Hinks Publisher Comments In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America’s most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection (Dover Thrift Editions) by Norman R. (edt) Yetman Publisher Comments More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - Trade Paper
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (2ND 08 Edition) by Herbert S. Klein Publisher Comments A leading authority on Latin American slavery has produced a major and original work on the subject. Covering not only Spanish but also Portuguese and French regions, and encompassing the latest research on the plantation system as well as on mining and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Atlantic Politics : Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool (00 Edition) by William E. Nelson Publisher Comments This first comprehensive comparative study of Black politics focuses on American and British settings -- Boston and Liverpool. The author argues that Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic face a host of social, economic, and political... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Two Princes of Calabar : an Eighteenth-century Atlantic Odyssey (04 Edition) by Randy J. Sparks Publisher Comments In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, Anniversary Edition by Charles Joyner Synopsis A new edition of the classic study of slave life in the American... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Purchasing Power : Black Kids and American Consumer Culture (01 Edition) by Elizabeth M. Chin Publisher Comments What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Birth of African-american Culture : an Anthropological Perspective (92 Edition) by Sidney W. Mintz Publisher Comments This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together With a Preamble, To the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, To T by David Walker Publisher Comments David Walker's Appeal is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century. Startling in its intensity, unrelenting in its attacks on slavery and white racism, it alarmed... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Name of Elijah - PB (Black Religion & Culture) by Mattias Gardell Publisher Comments In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Atlantic Slave Trade by Philip D Curtin Publisher Comments Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New York Burning : Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-century Manhattan (05 Edition) by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of "The Name of War" comes a gripping, illuminating account of an alleged 18th-century slave conspiracy to destroy New York City.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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African American Lives by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments This package contains the following components: -0201794896: African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume II -020179487X: African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume... (read more) List Price $106.00 Your price: $80.00 Used - Trade Paper
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African-amer. Perspectives on Biomed... (92 Edition) by Flack Book News Annotation A dialogue between African, Afro-American, and European perspectives on biomedical ethics, as the beginnings of breaking the monopoly of European philosophy on a subject that affects people from all backgrounds. The 17 papers and responses to papers... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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African American Lives by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments This package contains the following components: -0201794896: African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume II -020179487X: African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume... (read more) List Price $99.40 Your price: $80.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal: an African-american Anthology (2ND 09 Edition) by Manning Marable Synopsis One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries.... (read more) List Price $56.75 Your price: $36.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bulletproof Diva by Lisa Jones Publisher Comments In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit : Womanist Wordings on God and Creation (98 Edition) by Karen Baker-fletcher Publisher Comments Karen Baker-Fletcher here seeks to recover and renew that strong historic tie of black peoples to the land, sometimes broken by migration and urbanization. Cultivating the ecological side of black womanism, she combines a keen awareness of environmental... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M. H. Camp Publisher Comments "Deepens our understanding of resistance as both an individual and collective endeavor. [Camp] argues forcefully. . . . Intriguing and interesting." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This slim volume makes a substantial and often ingenious... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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