Bryan Prince
The extraordinary story of one couple's determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from ... [... more]
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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
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Michel Foucault
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body ... [... more]
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Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate ...
Author: Judith Wellman Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 326.809747609034 EAN: 9780815337928 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0815337922 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2000-12-07 [... more]
CDN$114.60
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Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen
From Amazon.com: An impressive feat of detective work lies behind this portrait of Shadrach Minkins, the first black man arrested in New England under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Minkins had escaped from slavery in Virginia and come to Boston, where [... more]
CDN$30.10
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: The True Story of Two ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7115 EAN: 9780374164812 ISBN: 0374164819 Number Of Pages: 480 [... more]
CDN$28.87
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Excellent Documentary Resource for Women's History: Fanny Kemble Butler was a remarkable woman. In a time, circumstance, and place which precluded her following her life's dream, she settled down into marriage with Pierce Butler, who had adamantly and [... more]
CDN$20.79
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Almanac African American Heritage: Chronicle
Explores dozens of black trail blazers over the centuries: The Almanac Of African American Heritage features people, places, times and events which shaped black culture and is written by four Afro-American professionals of education and counseling. From [... more]
CDN$29.99
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Harriet Tubman
strong endearing biography: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM is a superb account of the American "Black Moses", Harriet Tubman. The book actually opens with Ms. Tubman's last major public endeavor surprisingly (at least to this author) occurring in 1908 [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Radical And The Republican
Author: James Oakes Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 973.71140922 EAN: 9780393061949 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0393061949 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2006-12-26 Release Date: 2006-12-26 [... more]
CDN$33.50
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Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and ...
Author: Anne Farrow Author: Joel Lang Author: Jenifer Frank Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 306.3620973 EAN: 9780345467829 ISBN: 0345467825 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: 2005-09-27 Release Date: 2005-09-27 [... more]
CDN$35.95
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Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and ...
Author: Anne Farrow Author: Joel Lang Author: Jenifer Frank Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780345467836 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0345467833 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: 2006-08-15 Release Date: 2006-08-15 [... more]
CDN$21.00
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