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)
By: Tamika Y. Nunley
4.33
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C.…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
By: Stephanie McCurry
3.99
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by wh… read more
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3. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more
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4. Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
By: Deborah Gray White
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed role… read more
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5. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Talitha L Leflouria , Talitha L. LeFlouria
4.25
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available f… read more
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6. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
By: Adam Rothman
3.72
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the w… read more
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7. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
By: Charles M. Payne
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South… read more
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8. A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
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9. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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10. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By: Christopher R. Browning
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more
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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
11. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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12. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
By: Woody Holton
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Hol… read more
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13. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
By: None
3.71
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trad… read more
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14. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Saidiya Hartman
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath… read more
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15. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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16. Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
By: Annelise Orleck
3.94
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
In "Storming Caesars Palace," historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group o… read more
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17. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
By: Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Menhas been recognized as … read more
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18. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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19. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
20. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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21. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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22. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship
By: Christopher James Bonner
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and comprehensive history of black citizenship in the nineteenth century Citizenship … read more
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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
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South … read more
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24. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
By: LaShawn Harris
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique nic… read more
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"I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-b…"-LaShawn Harris, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)
25. 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
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turn… read more
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26. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
By: Donna Murch
4.30
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) s… read more
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27. The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
By: Manisha Sinha
4.19
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha… read more
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28. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
By: Davarian L. Baldwin
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migra… read more
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29. 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)
By: Tamika Y. Nunley
4.33
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C.… read more
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30. The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
By: Jenifer L. Barclay
4.49
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery… read more
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31. Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
By: Michael D. Hattem
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish politic… read more
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