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by Robert William Fogel  Publisher Comments Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery.... (read more)  List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David (edt) Northrup Publisher Comments A volume in the "Problems in World History" series, this book features a variety of secondary-source essays that are carefully edited for both content and length, making this single volume a convenient alternative to course packets or multiple monographs.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip D. Morgan Publisher Comments On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas M. Shapiro Publisher Comments Shapiro, the author of "Black Wealth/White Wealth," blends personal stories, interviews, empirical data, and analysis to illuminate how family assets produce dramatic consequences in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W. E. B. Dubois Publisher Comments One of the most influential and widely read texts in all of African American letters and history, The Souls of Black Folk combines some of the most enduring reflections on black identity, the meaning of emancipation,and Afican American culture. This new... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Harms 
Publisher Comments Yale historian Harms ("Games Against Nature") explores the global scope of an odious industry by tracking the slave ship "Diligent, " which sailed from Vannes, France, in 1731. Using First Lt. Robert Durand's journal, Harms fleshes out the multinational... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $11.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michele Wallace Publisher Comments The latest publication in the award-winning Discussions in Contemporary Culture series, Black Popular Culture gathers together an extraordinary array of critics, scholars, and cultural producers. 30 essays explore and debate current directions in film... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David B. Davis Publisher Comments David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize... (read more) List Price $41.25 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by B.a. Botkin Publisher Comments In the 1930's, the last decade when many men and women who were born under slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.still lived, the New Deal's Federal Writing Project made an extraordinary and important decision. It sent interviewers to ask... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of Babel John McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. In Authentically Black McWhorter argues that... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Bailey Publisher Comments It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Joyner Publisher Comments Reconstructs daily life in a Lowcountry slave community.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John W. Blassingame Publisher Comments Between the covers of Slave Testimony readers will find the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mende Nazer Publisher Comments Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Woody Campbell Synopsis For many years, I have been troubled because we as Black Americans of African descentwhose ancestors had not immigrated willingly to Americahave been unable to settle on a definitive identity. Who are we? Who decided that we were African Americans? As... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jill Nelson Publisher Comments The author of the acclaimed bestseller "Volunteer Slavery" bluntly addresses the needs of the "two most loathed groups in America"--blacks and females.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Romare Bearden Publisher Comments A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $36.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Jennings Publisher Comments This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in key urban centers. Collectively the essays examine the particular status of relations between these groups, the reasons... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wyatt Tee Walker Publisher Comments Traces the musical expressions of the black religious tradition from its ancestral roots to its influence upon the black religious experience today.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Samella Lewis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-338) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.45 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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