Stephen Wright
Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. Thus follows a childhood limned with fugitive slaves moving through ... [... more]
Random House |
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of ...
Lamin Sanneh writes another brilliant work: I have now read more than 5 of Lamin Sanneh's books and many of his published article's. Being a student of his at Yale, I was fortunate enough to learn side by side with a legend in the field of African [... more]
CDN$24.58
Amazon CA |
Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
 From Amazon.com: William Lee Miller's Lincoln's Virtues is less an "event" chronology than the tracing of the moral and ethical core of Abraham Lincoln's beliefs, what Miller calls the man's "unintended preparation for greatness." [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
Book of Negroes
Outstanding!: The actual Book of Negroes is an amazing historical document (a British military ledger) that contains the names and descriptions of 3,000 men, women, and children who served or were supported by the British during the American [... more]
CDN$24.95
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The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
An entertaining book that is sometimes implausible: The mystery in this novel centers around antique quilts and a 100+ year old journal that may hold the key to these quilts. A stranger (Margaret) brings Sylvia (a quilter who lives at Elm Creek Manor in [... more]
CDN$31.00
Amazon CA |
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
From Amazon.com: Runaway Slaves is yet another masterpiece from the esteemed African American historian John Hope Franklin, author of the influential From Slavery to Freedom. Along with history professor Loren Schweninger, Franklin examines the often [... more]
CDN$26.95
Amazon CA |
Bound for Canaan CD: The Underground Railroad and the ...
All aboard...: In honour of Juneteenth, I turned my attention to writing a book I received several months ago, and have slowly read through. The slow reading was deliberate - given my usual pattern of needing to read books for classes I'm either taking [... more]
CDN$42.50
Amazon CA |
Story Of American Freedom
From Amazon.com: Freedom, Eric Foner writes, is "the oldest of clichés and the most modern of aspirations." But what does it mean to be free? For the people of the United States, the concept of "freedom"--and its counterpart, & [... more]
CDN$22.50
Amazon CA |
The New Abolitionists: Neoslave Narratives and ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 365.9730922 EAN: 9780791464861 ISBN: 0791464865 Number Of Pages: 337 Publication Date: 2005-07 [... more]
CDN$29.05
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Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 364 EAN: 9780976707011 ISBN: 0976707012 Number Of Pages: 220 Publication Date: 2005-12 [... more]
CDN$20.83
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The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro ...
Author: James M. McPherson Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780691005553 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0691005559 Number Of Pages: 486 Publication Date: 1967-04-01 [... more]
CDN$42.14
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the ...
The Land of Canaan: In this harrowing tale of terror, resistance, love, and emancipation Archeologist Karolyn Smardz Frost has brought to life the stories of fugitive slaves Thornton Blackburn and his wife Lucie Blackburn in their journey to Canada in [... more]
CDN$18.75
Amazon CA |
