The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
By: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
4.20
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South …
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By: Brittney Cooper , None
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and … read more
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2. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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3. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
By: Judy Yung
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Format: 31 pages, Paperback
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4. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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5.00
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Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history i… read more
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5. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
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6. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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7. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
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8. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
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9. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
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10. Binti (Binti, #1)
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11. Lady Susan
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"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."-Jane Austen, Lady Susan
12. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
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4.00
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13. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
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3.95
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14. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
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Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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15. Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)
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3.20
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16. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
17. The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
By: Thavolia Glymph
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Last Cuentista
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4.07
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There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abu… read more
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19. Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
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3.80
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Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare.… read more
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20. The American Daughters
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3.61
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21. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
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4.43
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22. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
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4.46
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
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23. The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
By: Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
4.20
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
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24. Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide (Justice, Power, and Politics)
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4.07
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The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramaticall… read more
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25. Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
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4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculi… read more
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26. Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community (Volume 1) (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
By: Vanessa M. Holden
4.24
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27. At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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4.33
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28. Errand into the Wilderness
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3.78
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29. The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
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4.49
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30. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
By: Kathryn Gin Lum
4.32
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31. A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638–1865 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
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3.17
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Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual dem… read more
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